Genuinely lovely to get to read people talking about an artist they love because they got a big award rather than because they died
October 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Genuinely lovely to get to read people talking about an artist they love because they got a big award rather than because they died
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There are no machine made clothes, all clothes require human hands & labor.
As we can sadly already see in fanfic (why?!), AI slop is awful even at tropey fiction, bc like clothing fiction requires human labor (+ romance is NOT the only type of formulaic fiction !)
Oldest misogynistic book opinion.
As we can sadly already see in fanfic (why?!), AI slop is awful even at tropey fiction, bc like clothing fiction requires human labor (+ romance is NOT the only type of formulaic fiction !)
Oldest misogynistic book opinion.
What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!
September 30, 2026 at 9:22 PM
There are no machine made clothes, all clothes require human hands & labor.
As we can sadly already see in fanfic (why?!), AI slop is awful even at tropey fiction, bc like clothing fiction requires human labor (+ romance is NOT the only type of formulaic fiction !)
Oldest misogynistic book opinion.
As we can sadly already see in fanfic (why?!), AI slop is awful even at tropey fiction, bc like clothing fiction requires human labor (+ romance is NOT the only type of formulaic fiction !)
Oldest misogynistic book opinion.
It turns out the actual unintended negative side effect of raising the minimum wage is that rent goes up, so whatever it is you can’t really live on it. A room in a shared house in Seattle is a steal at $1000/month
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
www.seattletimes.com
September 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
It turns out the actual unintended negative side effect of raising the minimum wage is that rent goes up, so whatever it is you can’t really live on it. A room in a shared house in Seattle is a steal at $1000/month
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This is a great chance to get some of my favorite sci-fi novels and stories and help the writer out directly at the same time.
September 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is a great chance to get some of my favorite sci-fi novels and stories and help the writer out directly at the same time.
She’s being so good and brave at the vet today, its already officially on her chart how sweet she is, a good grade in cat that is normal and possible to achieve (she has to go regularly now for management of multiple low grade issues)
September 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
She’s being so good and brave at the vet today, its already officially on her chart how sweet she is, a good grade in cat that is normal and possible to achieve (she has to go regularly now for management of multiple low grade issues)
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The real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg)
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September 19, 2026 at 1:35 AM
The real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes
5 separate cis men recommended me this story back in the days when I was into HP fic. Fanfic by the technical definition, read only by people who did not read fanfic and produced outside our community and practices
Sure, I may have had a cringe Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy fanfic phase but at least I never got into Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a fic so cursed that now the entire AI industry is involved in a sex/death cult based on it
September 16, 2026 at 5:34 AM
5 separate cis men recommended me this story back in the days when I was into HP fic. Fanfic by the technical definition, read only by people who did not read fanfic and produced outside our community and practices
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LLMs do not have the ability to make conclusions. It emulates this by being trained on huge datasets to develop weights for tokens in context. It does not think or understand what it is doing, it simply outputs the most probable next token in context. Agents working together is also nothing new.
September 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM
LLMs do not have the ability to make conclusions. It emulates this by being trained on huge datasets to develop weights for tokens in context. It does not think or understand what it is doing, it simply outputs the most probable next token in context. Agents working together is also nothing new.
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Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks.
Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers!
boycottstarbucks.net
Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers!
boycottstarbucks.net
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
boycottstarbucks.net
September 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
If you didn’t already go to Starbucks, there’s no point “boycotting” Starbucks. A boycott only works to the extent that it impacts the bottom line, *and* that the target believes you’ll start spending money again once the boycott is over. Otherwise they have no reason to do what the union wants.
also when there's a boycott on we really don't have to do the whole "I didn't like their stuff anyway" thing. that is Facebook thread behavior. just be in solidarity with the union it's so easy!
September 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
If you didn’t already go to Starbucks, there’s no point “boycotting” Starbucks. A boycott only works to the extent that it impacts the bottom line, *and* that the target believes you’ll start spending money again once the boycott is over. Otherwise they have no reason to do what the union wants.
Every time I fly I think about the time when I ordered from
Starbucks right after my plane landed so it would be ready when I got off and yet we still can’t get good health care or homes for everyone
Starbucks right after my plane landed so it would be ready when I got off and yet we still can’t get good health care or homes for everyone
August 29, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Every time I fly I think about the time when I ordered from
Starbucks right after my plane landed so it would be ready when I got off and yet we still can’t get good health care or homes for everyone
Starbucks right after my plane landed so it would be ready when I got off and yet we still can’t get good health care or homes for everyone
Underused argument against eugenics: look what we’ve done to dogs
August 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Underused argument against eugenics: look what we’ve done to dogs
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I think of it a little differently. As in, reforms simply do not happen in the absence of (fears of) an uprising.
To be at all successful, reformists require radical movements. Radical movements do not need reformists (esp those unable to strategise, who always punch down and left).
To be at all successful, reformists require radical movements. Radical movements do not need reformists (esp those unable to strategise, who always punch down and left).
I have constructed a very simple and badly formatted flowchart so that liberals can understand the position of leftists on the Democratic party
August 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I think of it a little differently. As in, reforms simply do not happen in the absence of (fears of) an uprising.
To be at all successful, reformists require radical movements. Radical movements do not need reformists (esp those unable to strategise, who always punch down and left).
To be at all successful, reformists require radical movements. Radical movements do not need reformists (esp those unable to strategise, who always punch down and left).
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people love to leave out that you can’t really do serious harm reduction without also housing people
wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles
almost like we should call things…basic..needs…
wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles
almost like we should call things…basic..needs…
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
www.theatlantic.com
August 1, 2026 at 8:38 PM
people love to leave out that you can’t really do serious harm reduction without also housing people
wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles
almost like we should call things…basic..needs…
wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles
almost like we should call things…basic..needs…
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The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia.
In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
August 1, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia.
In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
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I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.
August 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.
As a human who is subjected to a lot of AI text at work and who read the cookware post, it was definitely at least partly AI written. The standard LLM tone it uses doesn‘t match the subject matter and is not how a journalist, professional or not, would write about this stuff (sounds like a marketer)
People have been talking up the new newsletter Worse on Purpose, which exposes corporate consolidation and enshittification. It's very appealing, but as I write at Cup of Coffee today, the vibes are way off and I think people should be wary. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
July 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
As a human who is subjected to a lot of AI text at work and who read the cookware post, it was definitely at least partly AI written. The standard LLM tone it uses doesn‘t match the subject matter and is not how a journalist, professional or not, would write about this stuff (sounds like a marketer)
Failing to keep up with the harvest situation
July 30, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Failing to keep up with the harvest situation
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I think what’s really at stake is that there are vast swaths of sexual life in which women have sex that they don’t want, with men who know their opportunity to avoid or decline it has been curtailed, and men are outraged that this sex, which they feel they are entitled to, is being called “rape.”
July 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I think what’s really at stake is that there are vast swaths of sexual life in which women have sex that they don’t want, with men who know their opportunity to avoid or decline it has been curtailed, and men are outraged that this sex, which they feel they are entitled to, is being called “rape.”
Christopher Nolan is truly the filmmaker of our “Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny” era bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
bloodknife.com
July 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Christopher Nolan is truly the filmmaker of our “Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny” era bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...
I recently learned that Washington State was originally going to be called Columbia but they didn’t want to be confused with the District of Columbia so chose Washington instead. Epic own goal honestly
July 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I recently learned that Washington State was originally going to be called Columbia but they didn’t want to be confused with the District of Columbia so chose Washington instead. Epic own goal honestly
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Given how often this has been shared, perhaps many people are unaware that this is a fan-made poster: www.reddit.com/r/grssk/comm...
You can see several of the official posters (none of which do this) on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt3376...
You can see several of the official posters (none of which do this) on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt3376...
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language.
Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
July 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Given how often this has been shared, perhaps many people are unaware that this is a fan-made poster: www.reddit.com/r/grssk/comm...
You can see several of the official posters (none of which do this) on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt3376...
You can see several of the official posters (none of which do this) on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt3376...
Settlers: “look at all these huge trees! We can make so much money from cutting them down!”
Later: “nice place to build a house”
Later: “we’re running out of trees, better plant some, that will fix it”
Later: “I can’t believe climate change burned down this neighborhood/‘forest’ of baby trees”
Later: “nice place to build a house”
Later: “we’re running out of trees, better plant some, that will fix it”
Later: “I can’t believe climate change burned down this neighborhood/‘forest’ of baby trees”
July 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Settlers: “look at all these huge trees! We can make so much money from cutting them down!”
Later: “nice place to build a house”
Later: “we’re running out of trees, better plant some, that will fix it”
Later: “I can’t believe climate change burned down this neighborhood/‘forest’ of baby trees”
Later: “nice place to build a house”
Later: “we’re running out of trees, better plant some, that will fix it”
Later: “I can’t believe climate change burned down this neighborhood/‘forest’ of baby trees”
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Scrapers are destroying the open internet
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
lwn.net
July 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Scrapers are destroying the open internet
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I've been looking at AI in fic spaces since these tools were released to the public, and it's not surprising that HR—huge numbers of new readers & writers in fandom, a promise of Manacled-like deals in the air—was where this melted down. @kaytiburt.bsky.social does a fantastic job reporting this:
Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning
A controversial anonymous document exposing Claude remnants in fics has collided with a fandom culture of production at hyper-speed.
fansplaining.com
July 8, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I've been looking at AI in fic spaces since these tools were released to the public, and it's not surprising that HR—huge numbers of new readers & writers in fandom, a promise of Manacled-like deals in the air—was where this melted down. @kaytiburt.bsky.social does a fantastic job reporting this: