Arinn Dembo
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Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Textile Artist, Anti-Fascist. Games: Homeworld, Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie, many others. Television: World Trigger, Metalions. Stories/poetry: F&SF, Weird Tales, many anthologies. Fibre Arts: Slan Baby.
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· Oct 25
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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Same problem in publishing and film.
Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.
People can't create like this.
We shouldn't have to create like this.
There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.
People can't create like this.
We shouldn't have to create like this.
There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
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Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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