Cliff Jones Jr.

Holy shit, it's not that hard to let your kids know gay people exist. Watching Owl House with my little one, I wanted to make sure she understood that sometimes boys like each other like that and sometimes girls do. She already knew. Easy!

Except that by then AI tools will be expensive, so only rich people will be able to use them to do things like get a degree and do their job. So it's just more class warfare really.

All I know so far is "2027." 🤷‍♂️

You could just ask a chatbot to grade their papers. And generate your lessons for you. The whole teaching/learning interaction could be between chatbots. Everyone could save time and effort and just not do anything. What a time to be alive!

You could just ask a chatbot to grade their papers. And generate your lessons for you. The whole teaching/learning interaction could be between chatbots. Everyone could save time and effort and just not do anything. What a time to be alive!

Number one, baby! #fiction #books #booksky #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #scienceFiction #weirdFiction #horror #dreampunk #speculativeFiction #shortFiction #shortStories

Lots of chatbots have been saying things to that effect, and lots of people have been ignoring it. It's like liquor commercials telling people to "drink responsibly."

The social "bubble" is real and powerful. I think it actually took the internet a while to catch up to replicating what people have had going in the real world for generations: Ideas and attitudes are contagious, and changing them is painful, so folks mostly remain where they are.

YouTube video by Jeff Rosenstock - Topic To Be a Ghost...

This song came out ten years ago, but it feels like it was written for this moment right now.

"You've got power when they're not expecting anything... They can't stop the things that they refuse to see."

#JeffRosenstock #music #punkMusic #noKings ❌👑

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel A former House Republican claims that in 2015, Markwayne Mullin – then a congressman – took photos of himself putting his finger up the noses of...

This guy. This is the guy we need to bring back the decorum and class we've been missing in this administration.

Adult adolescent Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.

Right, so basically like what happened with Elon Musk. He stopped being in the news so much and went back to actively destroying the world from the shadows.

So long, Kristi Noem!

I'm sure a guy named "Markwayne" is just what DHS needs to turn things around and bring some civility back to—never mind, I can't keep going with this bit. I'm tired. 🫩

No joke, I get so much important news from Simpsons memes like this.

Yeah, they're brutal. They hunt monkeys in packs.

Ahahaha, I loved Raccacoonie!

Please read my #dreampunk novella DRECK.

cliffjonesjr.com/dreck

@jeffnoon.bsky.social called it "A brilliant exploration of technology’s strange new borderlands." And that guy knows genre-blending creepiness! (Vurt, anyone?)

#HorrorWritersChat

I imagined a disembodied set of eyes on me as I carried the dripping garbage sack across the parking lot. After tossing it into the apartment dumpster, I turned to see a raccoon in my path, standing on its hind legs. It nibbled on something it held in its tiny hands: a human ear.

#HorrorWritersChat

I've always been worried about encountering wildcats in the woods, but in a horror story, it would actually be terrifying to notice a chimp staring at you and just casually following you. It would seem cool at first until you remember they can be absolute monsters.

#HorrorWritersChat

I've really enjoyed @sgj.bsky.social's use of elk and @stephenking.bsky.social's use of spiders, but I'll have to go fully cosmic horror and say some form of jellyfish. It's disgusting and scary and beautiful and utterly unknowable psychologically.

#HorrorWritersChat

I write weird fiction and dreampunk mostly. My work doesn't usually fit neatly into the Horror section, but there's a certain level of existential horror that's pretty much always present.

I tend to write about the deep, dark, spooky woods, which is where I played as a kid.

#HorrorWritersChat

The main cast of The Flintstones lined up smiling: Dino, Pebbles, Wilma, Fred, Barney, Betty, and Bam-Bam.

"Interbreeding between Neanderthals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neanderthals and female humans, a new study suggests."

The Flintstones actually got this right! 😳

www.scientificamerican.com/article/male...

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

22 with the skin of a 50-year-old. Boy does not moisturize.

Right! Any teacher who tells the students not to use AI better not be putting those students' papers through an "AI checker" because THAT'S FUCKING AI!

This is the Dick-ass future Republicans want.

What?

What are you snickering about?

Philip K Dick ass future

A still frim The Simpsons showing a homemade newspaper that says "The Flanders Press. Extra Extra! Trump Smells."

Let's see, what's in the news today?

#Simpsons #memes #SimpsonsMemes #Trump #noKings ❌👑

A graphic that compares the logo for AI product Claude with Kurt Vonnegut's depiction of an asshole from Breakfast of Champions. They are very similar.

I can't be the first to notice that the Claude logo looks exactly how Vonnegut drew an asshole for Breakfast of Champions. This is either intetional or an accident. Either way a good argument for hiring humanities majors.

Thanks for making me miss the fabulous showcases on today’s Price is Right, you fucking Cheeto!