Christina Vodka

@cwodtke.bsky.social

Followers

135

Following

Posts

Contains multitudes.

Posts Replies Media

If you haven't read this, I'm jealous because I'd love to wipe my memory so I could experience it again for the first time it's SO LOVELY www.amazon.com/dp/B004J4WKT...

The Night Circus: A Novel - Kindle edition by Morgenstern, Erin. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.www.amazon.com The Night Circus: A Novel - Kindle edition by Morgenstern, Erin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Night Circus: A Novel.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Today, Google's new AI-powered search told me that AI can have sex with another AI by using robots with "self-warming genitals."

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

🤡🚗

NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn obtained this statement from Scarlett Johansson regarding OpenAI's ChatGPT voice that sounds like her role from the 2013 movie "Her"

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Always accept the compliment.

Temu and ChatGPT have a lot in common. Dali would have enjoyed living now.

I notice I gesture a lot when looking for a word while writing. Anyone else?

I follow a lot of writers and illustrators... I love the mix!

Bluesky is becoming a home for product minds. Here are top minds, active on Bluesky now. @cwodtke.bsky.social @mikalfm.bsky.social (me!) @ctodd.bsky.social @steveportigal.bsky.social @indiyoung.bsky.social @joe.mr @dolsen.bsky.social Who do you follow? Re-post & reply w/ recommendation

@ctodd.bsky.social How do you like this? typeshare.co/home Looks like a medium-meets-notion.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

At least 29 times since the ’70s, men have been sentenced to death in the U.S. in cases where prosecutors were accused of presenting competing versions of the truth. www.propublica.org/article/what...

What Happens When Prosecutors Offer Opposing Versions of the Truth?www.propublica.org An unusual recent court decision offered harsh criticism of a behavior that has left dozens of men condemned to death since the 1970s, spotlighting cases where prosecutors offered claims that contradi...

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

diane, it’s twin peaks day

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Camestros and Heather Rose Jones have compiled a LENGTHY analysis of the statistical shenanigans which continue to be Really Damn Broken. 2023’s Hugos continue to be not good, not valid, and largely nonsensical.

This graph shows how distorted the Hugo 2023 numbers are

andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-... "Dishwashers achieved perfection, and it was no longer possible to improve them. One would, naively, think of this as an accomplishment. But how is a company supposed to make more profit than last year? By any means necessary, of course."

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/w...

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dashwww.anildash.com A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

A haunted house, but all the ghosts keep saying “Oh wow you’re an artist? I can’t even draw a stick figure!”

A haunted house, but it's just people pitching you their ideas when they find out you're a writer.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

what a dang day please enjoy new tingler POUNDED BY THE ACHES AND PAINS I GET AFTER DOING A SIMPLE PHYSICAL TASK THAT I WOULDN’T EVEN THINK TWICE ABOUT DOING WHEN I WAS YOUNGER out now on amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJG2HT7G/ and true buckaroo tier patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle

Wow, this post by Bill Willingham is pretty mind blowing... billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham... Also I grew up DC, and this makes me very sad.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Not sure who needs to see this but probably all of us this fine Monday September 11 morning

That Big Poll Showing Trump and Biden Are Evenly Matched? Trump Helped Pay for It.newrepublic.com The Wall Street Journal poll is being cited in all the mainstream media outlets, with no caveat that Donald Trump’s Super PAC paid one of the pollsters.

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.” ― Alan Moore

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Punctuation!

My kid told me "No one calls exclamation marks 'bang,' mom." "Well I do." I said "They're groovy." I got full eyeroll.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

A fun game you can play is invent the evolutionary reason why aliens have body parts the concept artist just added as decoration. For example, I like to imagine Darth Maul’s horns are for cracking open crabs and mollusks against rocks

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

someone on twitter said that the fae and ai imagery could be spotted in similar ways, and I'm losing my mind over how weird this is

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

Word. People are like "here's a tool to see who has blocked you and what mute lists you're on!" and I'm all "I would rather scoop my eyes out of my head and swallow them whole than look at that"

i am extremely online by every possible measure and I’d still rather eat a bucket of yellowjackets than look at granular data on who doesn’t like me

This is scary shit

Quick question how does Mark Zuckerberg still have all of his limbs

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

More spot-on brilliance from @rubenbolling.bsky.social

A woman cleans up a farm.

Three men spend the weekend fishing.

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

NEW: Judge Kaplan denies Donald Trump's motion for a new trial in the concluded E. Jean Carroll case and confirms that the jury found that Trump did in fact "rape" Carroll in the way laypeople understand the word. ⚖️ Full opinion: https://tinyurl.com/5n7rzwdm

Reposted by

Christina Vodka

From rapid cooling body bags to 'prescriptions' for AC, doctors prepare for a future of extreme heat. As extreme temperatures become more common, our health care systems need to treat it like the public health emergency it is. [read]