Madsen Pierce

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Ampullaceous [am-pyew-LEY-shus]
(adj.)
- Shaped like a flask or bladder.
- Resembling an ampulla.

Use:
“Three days after her mysterious disappearance, the persnickety grimalkin was found languidly grooming herself atop the ampullaceous urn that contained what was left of Great-Aunt Hilda.”

But they’re right that we need to regulate AI, if it truly is a thing and not just a huge fuckin boondoggle

Maybe a little too much corpo propaganda. There technophobic badguys are kind of an obvious tell. I wonder if there were some last minute script revisions

I really enjoyed Megan 2.0. It’s a tech-thriller that clowns on horror while the first one was a horror flick that clowned on tech. And I truly dig movies that don’t adhere to one genre

Watching Christine in preparation for my Metro: Otherscape one-shot on Thursday.
I think it’s gonna be somethin special

Powell's City of Books at Burnside: Portland Bookstore Shop at Powell's City of Books, the largest used & new bookstore in the world, occupying an entire city block in downtown Portland, OR, housing 1 million books.

On Saturday the 15th I'll be at @powells.bsky.social in Portland OR from about 7:30 until I run out of things to scribble in. This is another super-informal one (basically a stock signing with a few extra copies) so please preorder and please stop by. It's my first time ever in Portland!

OH, HEY WEST COAST FOLKS, SPEAKING OF THE BOOK

I should probably mention that release week (and a bit beyond) I'm going to be driving up and down the coast and stopping at numerous bookstores along the way. Please allow me a few moments of your time to tell you where I'm going to be...

Oh right! I need to finish that.

What are guys behind Scavenger’s Reign up to these days?

YouTube video by Charles Huettner Scavengers

And why not revisit the original 2016 short film that allowed Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner to realize their dream and delight us?

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Rewatching Scavengers Reign again. Such a cool show

Had a dream where i duelled Kanye w vorpal swords. He kept complaining to his second that i was cheating. What a lil bitch

Because let’s be honest: everyone knows climate change is real. Why do you think the Zucks and Bezoses of the world have been building isolated enclaves - fortresses basically? They’re going to run our planet into the ground and then divvy up the wreckage

I think maybe the billionaires are into fascism, AI, and robots because they plan on wiping out the poor folks and replacing us with automated systems utterly subservient to them. Sure, they start with certain groups, but it’s a pretty thin sliver of folks that check all the boxes for these pricks.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.

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@DHSGov account says "Ratio." They are QTing a post that I wrote (next picture reproduces in full) asking, with a fair amount of snark, why DHS was blaming Governor Pritzker for the Hanover Park PD having hiring someone who allegedly was a visa overstay. They post two headlines about an Illinois law which authorized noncitizens with valid work authorization to become cops.

The post that set this off, in which I too was QTing the DHS account. The DHS post about the Hanover Park PD incident reads as follows: ". @GovPritzker doesn’t just allow illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows them to work as sworn police officers. Radule Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S. working as a police officer for the Hanover Park Police Department earning a salary of $78,955. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces." My QT response to this was: "What the heck does Governor Pritzker have to do with a local police department hiring decision? Do the people running @DHSgov not even know the basics about how state governments work?"

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later).

With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

Happy No Kings Day, America. It couldn't happen at a better time.

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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

🎯

If Roco’s Basilisk is gonna get anyone, it’s gonna be the shithead billionaires who trotted out a clownshoe of a Large Language Model and dared call it AI.

DON'T OBEY Image of frog

Do not obey in advance: NoKings.org.

Hate to break it to you, oh-deliverers of tech gospel: AI came pre-shittified.

Feel better now. Reading helps

Depressed

Hurray! Good job everybody