the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me
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.
