The ballad of Steve jackson*…
it all began in ‘83
when Jackson was beefing
With Gygax and three
Columns in White Dwarf were writ
Twixt the Warhammer skirmish
Rules were first put to the quick
…

*no, not THAT Steve Jackson, you silly yanks. The one true Steve Jackson from Games Workshop

I can finally announce I have a story coming out in the Magazine of F&SF! It's called "From Hell's Heart I Reach to Thee," and I'm very pleased with it. That's the third time I've appeared in the magazine, can I call myself one of their writers now? =)

Ian McDonald's Luna Trilogy is a pretty powerful tale that covers a lot of technical details (across a large timeline) about how such an endeavor might look.
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More writers need to watch all the seasons of HOW IT'S MADE because they for whatever reason have NO idea how the world works, or how things work, or how things work in the world, and then it shows up in their fiction and makes me yell and swear and pace and weep and rend my clothes in despair.

Will the model actually accept and implement these instructions, or will it just blindly give you the words that seem to most often follow a prompt like this?

Great news, you'll never know!

The US government hounded #AaronSwartz to death with trumped up criminal charges for downloading academic articles to thumb drive. Now peoplecasually upload copyrighted academic journals into Big Tech's plagiarism machine. Monopoly protected e-journal companies losing out to big-tech monopolies.

Even more annoying is that the original poster is using the LLM to “wade through a mountain of papers for a systemic review”. Which means feeding a lot of academic material into the plagiarism machine that always lies, without the consent of the authors.

Good morning San Francisco

*googling* how to short ai

@celebrityhottub.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social you guys ever see the Simpsons where Bart, Milhouse, and Martin chip in to buy Radioactive Man No. 1?

Rest in power, Miss Major.

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This is fascist America, right now.
If you look away… if you pretend that everything is fine, the. You are part of the problem.
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Antifascists and atheists never treated Christians like this, but those Christian Identity fascists have been running around for decades telling everyone they’re “under attack.”

I work really hard every day not to be this guy:

[the teal team is playing the blue team]

MLB ON FOX: better play “back in black”

This is America. Masked men with guns kidnapping random people in the street after the masked men initiate a car accident.
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JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

It's 1982. Disney hopes TRON will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2010. Disney hopes TRON: LEGACY will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2025. Disney hopes TRON: ARES will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

Making people afraid of marginalized strangers, and avoiding cultivation of skepticism of state power essential to any meaningful democratic civic life, is one of the most dangerous aspects of so-called Abundance and other various corporate neo-liberal attempts to co-opt a coalition against fascism.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Good morning

It is bitter to know that a good chunk of people over there are certainly relieved that, as someone put it, they “dont have to pretend to care anymore.”