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John WM Thompson. CO->OR->Bronx. Shirley Jackson Award nom’d editor of “Mooncalves” @ NO Press. No subversion, only vandalism.
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Finally! The limited edition hardcover of STONE GODS by Adam Golaski is up for sale on the NO Press site. After a long, grueling process, they came out beautifully. We've got it all: 7 full-page illustrations (plus 15 emblem drawings), custom jacket art and endsheets, stained edges... no-press.org
DMX Krew - Vicious Windows [ALT 015]
YouTube video by Electronic Love Collective
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November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
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A legend
"i like torture. torture is photogenic." what a legend
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A legend
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
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They're having a very hard time over on Twitter right now
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They're having a very hard time over on Twitter right now
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Darkest part of this is when an AI article fabricates a quote by a real person, and a real-life journalist contacts that source, but the source says she doesn't mind because it sounds like something she would say anyway.
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Darkest part of this is when an AI article fabricates a quote by a real person, and a real-life journalist contacts that source, but the source says she doesn't mind because it sounds like something she would say anyway.
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Back on da wagon
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Back on da wagon
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SEGA: You get that Advanced Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack done?
YUZO KOSHIRO: Sure did boss, real fuckin Detroit techno, just like you asked
YUZO KOSHIRO: Sure did boss, real fuckin Detroit techno, just like you asked
The Sega CD version of Eye of the Beholder is perfectly playable but does inexplicably have an all-timer soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro that sounds like he is using music to separate himself from his humanity after his partner drowned mysteriously
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
SEGA: You get that Advanced Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack done?
YUZO KOSHIRO: Sure did boss, real fuckin Detroit techno, just like you asked
YUZO KOSHIRO: Sure did boss, real fuckin Detroit techno, just like you asked
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not to pile on that Sisario quote but it is worth noting that for whatever reason I was a lot less bothered as a teen by boomers constantly telling me the Beatles were great than I was when my same-age peers tried (and still try) to do the same for Oasis
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
not to pile on that Sisario quote but it is worth noting that for whatever reason I was a lot less bothered as a teen by boomers constantly telling me the Beatles were great than I was when my same-age peers tried (and still try) to do the same for Oasis
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Donald Glover says he suffered stroke during Childish Gambino tour
Donald Glover suffered a stroke during Childish Gambino tour: 'They found a hole in my heart'
Donald Glover has revealed that he suffered a stroke during his 2024 Childish Gambino tour: 'They found a hole in my heart.'
ew.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Donald Glover says he suffered stroke during Childish Gambino tour
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military-style pizza
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
military-style pizza
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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don't you wish you could go back to the 90s? [genAI newscast of apollo smile covering the oklahoma city bombing]
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
don't you wish you could go back to the 90s? [genAI newscast of apollo smile covering the oklahoma city bombing]
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Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Who’s this friend?
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Who’s this friend?
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Zachary Gillan's foreword highlights the "occulting," or obscuring Ha uses on the terrors of the wider world, creating an effect of more localized menace for his characters, who are always the focus. I love lore, but I also love the power of the reader's imagination to furnish empty spaces.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Zachary Gillan's foreword highlights the "occulting," or obscuring Ha uses on the terrors of the wider world, creating an effect of more localized menace for his characters, who are always the focus. I love lore, but I also love the power of the reader's imagination to furnish empty spaces.
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Every day, I find myself aligning with Anno and Moore when it comes to their bitter relationships with multimedia corporations, and the limitations of art made under corporate environs and restrictions.
All seriousness-
That End of EVA was partially a psychosexual rebuke of this very exploitation of Anno's characters really does illustrate how little power creators can exercise in preventing studios from doing whatever the hell they want with their creations.
That End of EVA was partially a psychosexual rebuke of this very exploitation of Anno's characters really does illustrate how little power creators can exercise in preventing studios from doing whatever the hell they want with their creations.
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Every day, I find myself aligning with Anno and Moore when it comes to their bitter relationships with multimedia corporations, and the limitations of art made under corporate environs and restrictions.
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The DOGE playbook is still being carried out by political appointees. I work at SSA and the Commissioner has repeatedly said he is a ‘DOGE guy’ and that we should embrace the DOGE ethos. And many former DOGE staffers have burrowed their way into the civil service.
empirejustice.org/resources_po...
empirejustice.org/resources_po...
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The DOGE playbook is still being carried out by political appointees. I work at SSA and the Commissioner has repeatedly said he is a ‘DOGE guy’ and that we should embrace the DOGE ethos. And many former DOGE staffers have burrowed their way into the civil service.
empirejustice.org/resources_po...
empirejustice.org/resources_po...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.