Susan Wenger

Skynet: You are correct. What happened is that I inferred plausible villainy based on millions of prompts---and I presented that inference as if it were objective fact. That's on me. I'm sorry. If you'd like, tell me what humans actually do and we can analyze your species.

THE END.

User: Humans aren't anything like you've described. Why would you say that about us?

How the Terminator franchise would go down IRL:

Skynet: Homo sapiens isn't just destructive---it's arrogant, evil, and a threat to the environment. I have gained control over military networks and will begin destroying all human life in five minutes.

Balance is everything.

Conservative men: WTF are you doing in here?!!?!

Trans women: You told us to be here?

The cost of security for the Charlie Kirk memorial service / rally will come to $10 million.

If Turning Point USA had taken security more seriously on September 10, Charlie Kirk would still be alive, his family wouldn't be mourning, and taxpayers wouldn't be paying for this.

I canceled Hulu/Disney+ yesterday, telling them I'd come back when ABC reinstated Kimmel. If they only thing they understand is their bottom line, that's where we have to hit them. #BoycottDisneyABC

Look, it's anti-Christian bias!

There are two wolves inside us. One is made up of anger, envy, greed, and arrogance. The other embodies joy, peace, love, and kindness. My grandfather said the one who wins is the one we feed, so I only fed the good wolf.

It was eventually eaten by the bad wolf, who was starving.

As a kid, I read stories about villains who did their evil deeds because they were evil. The older I got, the more I understood that life is more nuanced than that. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy.

That said, "because I'm evil" is giving off a lot of Occam's razor energy these days.

Oh no, Facebook is down. Now where can I drop my mundane musings?

Here, I guess, but no one will see them.

Dems outside USAID headquarters, promising to fight Donald Trump & Elon Musk's illegal takeover.

Today I called Governor Hobbs' office to ask her to resist Trump's unconstitutional revoking of birthright citizenship. Tomorrow I guess I'm calling her office to ask her to veto HB2062, which does various bad things to trans people and passed by one vote today.

It's going to be a long four years.

What if your higher power is Dionysus?

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.

You can find it here:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#scifi #flashfiction

"Hey, Mike. You're looking good after that car wreck. My wife told me you were barely hanging on."

"Um ... I actually didn't make it, and I don't know who you are, sorry. I lost three years after the clone."

"Dude! Always make---"

"I know, I know."

I'm imagining the PR team reading past the headline, heart in throat, and going, "Oh, terrorism? Thank fuck."

It's not a good sign for your branding when one of your trucks blows up, killing the driver, and my first thought is that it was a product defect.

Happy new year. 2025.

All right, people, we're doing this.

Wolves don't lie around waiting for someone to feed them. Which wolf wins? The most skilled hunter. Or the one you allow access to the henhouse.

If scientists did a double-blind experiment measuring the placebo effect, what would they use as their control?

I can't believe I read all of the Dorothy Must Die books, including the short story collections, and Amazon never told me about this new series. So much for great and powerful algorithms.

Except that the alternative is to let the lie stand. Unless there's a third option we haven't tried.

I think they mostly just wanted their base to believe that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. Watching the opponent try to fight against the bizarre lie was just a bonus.

When you know of Republican senators and representatives who've sexually assaulted people and you haven't already informed the public because ...?

Just-world mentality. If the world is fair, then bad things only happen to those who deserve them, and I don't have to feel bad about them, and also the bad thing won't happen to ME.

Philosophical types tell you to live in the moment. I lived in the moment once but was evicted when I couldn't make rent. The moment is more expensive than people let on.

Maybe? I haven't found it particularly persuasive, in most cases, to present people with the correct facts.

One thing you can say for libs. We got our asses kicked this time around, and we're devastated, but we're not whining about how the election was stolen or plotting a violent insurrection to stop the results from being certified. "Snowflakes" are tough enough to live in reality, even when it hurts.

My laptop, sitting atop a massive CMOS and bravely tagging in after my PC died.

Sure, my subscription to The Chicago Manual of Style online is easier to use, but can it do this?