James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑

i was crying, missing a tooth, could not walk, had an eye swollen shut, & a broken nose, & the cop told me if i didn’t stop leaning on his car & getting blood on his shoes & his stuff he’d charge *me* with assault, so i stepped back & fell over & he laughed & no they never found the guys who did it.

ayo, if you write anything remotely horny, this affects you.

"Never use an adverb when you could use a more precise verb" is just... it's such. I don't know. I could have explained this better two or three years ago.

It's like a magic spell someone made up by codifying something that worked for them, without real reference to why it worked that time.

But sure it's the drag queens and trans women who are a danger to your children.

Case in point!

Amazing how a few transparent lies and a lot of transparent hate can bring about radical, harmful, victimising change when they have the right connections. And we just have to suffer the consequences.

Exactly. And at which point, everyone (in the society) changed their mind and accepted the weight of evidence. They didn't accuse Wegener of heresy and burn him at the stake, they worked on proving (or disproving) his theory, together as a body operating on a shared set of rules and principles...

He did it to Star Wars as well. Hyperspace seems to have become a wormhole not an expressway, not to mention the idea that many planets are all in the same system within sight of each other... 🙄

They usually have a display button that does bring up the time info, if not a counter on the actual player. The latter can be hard to read, as I found out yesterday...

Was it not? I thought it was science.

The fact that we no longer believe those things or state them as scientific fact is exactly the point. Science is a social process and is constantly evolving.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

I'm not seeing a lot of booksky talk about this, so let's go.

tl;dr: Audible, already paying us peanuts for audiobooks, are about to steal even more from authors to pay for all the free content they've started to offer.

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Lone voices pushing back: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here I am washing my face in cold water because it takes over 2 litres to get hot water to the sink - somebody should do something about that! But we've designed systems to be energy- rather than water-efficient, because it's cheaper. Might be different with electric heating...

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

A landscape in silhouette - black against an inky blue sky. We see the outline of a church tower in front of a river, with trees and a few houses. Overhead in the starry sky there is a meteor shower

The Night Sky, 1965
The #Perseids
Artist: Robert Ayton

All the classic BBC tropes here:
✅ complex issue presented as a difference of opinion btw politicians
✅ everything important only in terms of the fortunes of UK parties
✅ spectrum of acknowledged opinion from centre to far right
✅ numbers deployed to actively obscure real understanding of the issue

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering

Who could have predicted that harassment of cis women, who do not conform to feminine stereotypes, in public toilets and changing rooms would increase after the Supreme Court ruling?

Pretty much everyone who paused to consider it, that’s who.

Especially pops up in my brain this time of year.

I thought that was just an image their manager wanted but they didn't like?

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

I find Chronophoto fascinating, but it seems every time I think it's the 30s it's the 20s, and vice versa. And if I second-guess myself I still get it wrong...

I quite liked it, but it was often very literary when I saw it, and I could have done with a bit more SFF and other "genre" fiction to give some balance and broader appeal. Didn't watch religiously, though - maybe it's my fault it's cancelled!

Say it ain't so, Boo!

Who cares about books and readers when you can have viewers and streaming content. 🙄

K.J. Charles's review of The Black Coast (The God-King Chronicles, #1) Whacking great epic fantasy. There's a lot going on here--three major plotlines (of which two are very much setting up backstory and lining up the rest of the series), three very different cultures ma...

I read The Black Coast (The God-King Chronicles, #1) by Mike Brooks

Important update from ScoutsCymru regarding CRAI Scout Activity Park CRAI Scout Activity Park is an inclusive and welcoming campsite and activity centre in the South Wales Valleys offering a range of outdoor activities for youth and community groups. We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s who were leaving after visiting our activity centre and are working closely with the South Wales Police to address this situation. We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of everyone on site and will continue to take immediate and robust action against any behaviour that threatens this. END

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales

They were a group of Scouts from Scotland

Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences

Statement from Scouts Cymru

"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.