Seeing some replies blaming "kids these days" and too few explicitly laying blame at the feet of the companies marketing these LLMs, the credulous & hollowed-out media, and the epistemological abyss that is the tech-enthusiast space.
These kids were *lied to* by people they were told to trust.
I love Junji Ito and all but I am begging anglophone comic retailers to pick up horror manga titles by someone other than him for once. Like, we don’t need less Junji Ito, but we can get more of some other guys in there too
It is possible I will be angry about what Amazon did to Comixology for the rest of my life. I read and discover so, so much less without that incredible website to browse. The kindle store version isn’t even “we have comixology at home,” it’s “you don’t get to have comixology, eat a dick”
If you find yourself turning away from the knowledge that Gaiman will have to be excised from the publishing world and from sff in particular, overwhelmed by the emotional and personal conflicts this could cause, you need to reexamine your values and the kind of world you want to help make.
Imagine being a trans women on HoloGrindr on Coruscant and you get messaged by Chaser Jar Jar. Meesa want youse little girlpenis in meesa cloaca right away. Yousa can dress like my daughter, okey-key?
I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
the one where rachel dons a crown of bone and heralds the coming of a new star, it grows ever larger until the sky is consumed by flames and the world knows everlasting day
Look, I’m just saying, if you’re gonna point & laugh at Trump’s bipedal livestock for parroting whatever obvious gibberish they’re fed—and you should!—don’t excuse spreading viral numbers equally pulled out of someone’s ass because, like, the vibe is right, man.
Things are very bad here but it's shocking how much worse they are in the UK. Every institution captured by Rowling-brained psychos totally indifferent to basic facts.
bsky.app/profile/andr...
Biden, the most milquetoast centrist imaginable, is still willing to make a simple statement like this which *not one* current UK party leader would make. Given how shit Biden is, I'm even more ashamed for my own country.
If I was going to write a Politics Book, it would be about this specific form of brainrot, the idea that you must have such complete dedication to abstract principles that you're a hypocrite for thinking that some politicians should go to prison and others shouldn't.
Meanwhile on twitter they're transvestigating the...
*checks notes*
wait no that can't be right...
*calls the editor-in-chief, a hushed but frustrated conversation ensues*
ahem, yes in fact I read that correctly they're transvestigating the pro-natalist couple that loves Elon and hits their kids
This man should be thrown from an airplane; at minimum, anyone writing anything about him should stress that he has shown himself before strangers to be a terrible parent with nothing of any value whatsoever to say about parenting
