Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her)
@lizmonster.bsky.social
Some SF hack. Not your NPC. Trans rights are human rights, now and always.
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gently used dipshit tax
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
gently used dipshit tax
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I am working on the exact contract terms but I'm basically going to say that if you make art for me you can still sell it. The stuff about comic artists recently is just too much. Need to iron out the language for comics but stickers etc is easy. Idk. You made it. Make more $ from it.
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am working on the exact contract terms but I'm basically going to say that if you make art for me you can still sell it. The stuff about comic artists recently is just too much. Need to iron out the language for comics but stickers etc is easy. Idk. You made it. Make more $ from it.
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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I really, really hate that AI and the people running AI have gotten away with theft on such a grand scale. They're stealing the work and futures from hundreds of thousands of people, and they're laughing while they do it. It's gross.
December 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I really, really hate that AI and the people running AI have gotten away with theft on such a grand scale. They're stealing the work and futures from hundreds of thousands of people, and they're laughing while they do it. It's gross.
Sure, why not: the whole thing is a grift anyway.
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Sure, why not: the whole thing is a grift anyway.
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"Asked whether rightsholders could elect to withdraw from the program, Iraheta wrote, 'To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out.'" (via @mollytempleton.com)
Kindle's New "Ask this Book" Uses Generative AI to Create An In-Book Chatbot - Without Permission or Rights - Publishers Lunch
Authors have been fighting diligently to limit the encroachment of generative AI in courts and in contracts and now there is a new front in those battles as Amazon has quietly helped themselves to tho...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Asked whether rightsholders could elect to withdraw from the program, Iraheta wrote, 'To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out.'" (via @mollytempleton.com)
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
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On the one hand, I’m obviously happy that many of the writers I know (and less humbly, myself) sell a lot better than this in a first week. On the other hand, how much she got paid as an advance would probably make me kick a hole in the universe.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On the one hand, I’m obviously happy that many of the writers I know (and less humbly, myself) sell a lot better than this in a first week. On the other hand, how much she got paid as an advance would probably make me kick a hole in the universe.
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Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
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December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
What's so interesting is that this is entirely counter to my own experience. Dems are far too conservative. They're Reagan Republicans who happen to be (weakly) pro-choice.
Turns out I didn't get conservative as I got older. Maybe because I lived in the world and saw what conservatism did to it.
Turns out I didn't get conservative as I got older. Maybe because I lived in the world and saw what conservatism did to it.
Democrats crushed this year’s special elections. But voters still think the party’s too liberal and out of touch. On our podcast, strategist Simon Bazelon shares advice with @anne-s-kim.bsky.social on what to fix––and the data to back it up.
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Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What's so interesting is that this is entirely counter to my own experience. Dems are far too conservative. They're Reagan Republicans who happen to be (weakly) pro-choice.
Turns out I didn't get conservative as I got older. Maybe because I lived in the world and saw what conservatism did to it.
Turns out I didn't get conservative as I got older. Maybe because I lived in the world and saw what conservatism did to it.
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Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.
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I mean, you can see why people would like that experience, sure. But yikes that is a terrible system to put in place or even remotely condone.
1) Risks of misinfo are huge
2) Systemic risk of motivating less & less resources to real care.
1) Risks of misinfo are huge
2) Systemic risk of motivating less & less resources to real care.
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I mean, you can see why people would like that experience, sure. But yikes that is a terrible system to put in place or even remotely condone.
1) Risks of misinfo are huge
2) Systemic risk of motivating less & less resources to real care.
1) Risks of misinfo are huge
2) Systemic risk of motivating less & less resources to real care.
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Republicans could stop your healthcare costs from doubling TODAY. There’s absolutely nothing stopping them.
They rushed through their Big Ugly Bill to give billionaires a massive tax cut, but now that working people are about to suffer, they’re dragging their feet.
They rushed through their Big Ugly Bill to give billionaires a massive tax cut, but now that working people are about to suffer, they’re dragging their feet.
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Republicans could stop your healthcare costs from doubling TODAY. There’s absolutely nothing stopping them.
They rushed through their Big Ugly Bill to give billionaires a massive tax cut, but now that working people are about to suffer, they’re dragging their feet.
They rushed through their Big Ugly Bill to give billionaires a massive tax cut, but now that working people are about to suffer, they’re dragging their feet.
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
If I'd had to rely on breastfeeding, my daughter would have died.
This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If I'd had to rely on breastfeeding, my daughter would have died.
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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Style guide:
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Style guide:
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
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it’s just undeniable that trump wants everyone to live in a hell where you can’t tell whats real
BREAKING: Trump says he will sign an executive order this week that will limit states’ ability to regulate AI.
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
it’s just undeniable that trump wants everyone to live in a hell where you can’t tell whats real
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I hate the new trend to send emails because you were on someone's website.
If I wanted to be perceived I would shop in person.
If I wanted to be perceived I would shop in person.
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I hate the new trend to send emails because you were on someone's website.
If I wanted to be perceived I would shop in person.
If I wanted to be perceived I would shop in person.
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Not to be salty on a Saturday, but just listened to a podcast with a very famous SFF author exploring books he's loved & been inspired by. He said a couple of times how very widely he reads...
...Folks, among the dozens he mentioned? ZERO women authors.
...Folks, among the dozens he mentioned? ZERO women authors.
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not to be salty on a Saturday, but just listened to a podcast with a very famous SFF author exploring books he's loved & been inspired by. He said a couple of times how very widely he reads...
...Folks, among the dozens he mentioned? ZERO women authors.
...Folks, among the dozens he mentioned? ZERO women authors.