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Oh that's entirely plausible.

The apps?

Not school children.

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here

www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Corporations like Netflix and HBO are going to buy and trade back catalogs of our most important art like they're Pokémon cards just so they can keep upping the price on streaming services, jam more ads into them, and use the library to make AI slop. Piracy is a more valid moral choice than ever.

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and (as others have said) it is definitely a Problematic Fave, but ... good lord did Lewis have his finger on the pulse of this kind of theo-technofacist bullshit

"It's a remarkable record" 😅

not me, Hillary Clinton; *i* was manipulated by a Palestinian colleague (living in the US) telling our team (in a zoom meeting) about how her *entire extended family* was killed in an apartment building bombing the night before!

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it's the Torment Nexus joke except like, we found the actual motherfucking book

Stands to reason!

Happy spotify wrapped day to all who celebrate. @emhahee.bsky.social once again in my top 2, I am begging you to put more songs out 😅

Few have ever done it like Clive

Twenty years after we read it together (I a teenager), my mom STILL occasionally delivers parts of that soliloquy 😭❤️

do (and i cannot stress this enough) it

how much do we trust our VPNs to hide the source of the upload?

it's got everything! institutionalized Christian misogyny! technofascists! Merlin!

I *do* like That Hideous Strength, and holy shit it's so often on my mind the last ten (and especially five) years.

it's ... truly astounding. One of them (might have been Altman? don't remember 100%) even made some comment about nature/animals that was so directly parallel to Filostrato's "art birds" that I almost couldn't believe he wasn't ACTUALLY REFERENCING That Hideous Strength.

What Zoe says here is important: if you're extending sympathy to the student here, what good is that doing for the student and their academic future? This person is a psych major, presumably wanting to go into therapy. If you're not able to think well, how are you gonna help people with their needs?

I’m going to throw nuance on nuance here.
Not all sincerely-held religious beliefs have a place in the marketplace of ideas. Some of them are offensive and should be called out as such.
HOWEVER, these are bad faith actors pushing these offensive ideas, with aims that must be recognized

Even better: Would you want Sam Altman in your house with a loaded gun?

an ill portent

(here for it though)

This is insane shit. Yesterday when I saw that Open AI response to the suicide was to victim blame, I really thought that would be the lowest shit. But here, Google acknowledges AI is bad for kids but FUCK IT deal with it, parents. Trash company. They don't need to do this shit.

No contract, no coffee.

We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?

have i had better pumpkin pies?

yeah

did they cost more than $6 to make, and take waaaaaaaaay longer to make than a trip to costco?

yeah