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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Grammarly's new AI tools necromance famous dead authors, and "humanize" copy to make it sound less robotic. But it also failed to detect obvious plagiarism when @milesklee.bsky.social tried it: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

March 3rd: Primary Day in TX, NC, and AR!
TX: 7am-7pm
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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

We seem to have collectively decided, gradually and mostly out of apathy, that presidents can launch flagrantly unconstitutional wars of choice without congressional approval and there just won’t be any consequences. Would be nice if this is where we start reversing the trend.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off over the past two years, according to GDC.

As I get ready for GDC in just over a week, this weighs heavy. It’s such a dismal time for developers in an industry that continues to make more and more money. We just want the chance to make games and provide for our families.

variety.com/2026/gaming/...

"Whose career imploded during MeToo" is a weird fucking way to say "who was credibly accused of sexual assault, as well as physical and emotional abuse of women"

"Max Landis, who was credibly accused of rape by multiple women" would have worked.

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See what else sets this #ttrpg apart below!

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When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that?

And then they grew up to be even worse?

Text from section 6 of the ACLU filing in Doe & Doe v Kansas, the lawsuit seeking to overturn SB 244 in Kansas' state court. quote/ VI. Request for Relief WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs request that the Court: A. Issue a Declaratory Judgment that the Act is unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable; B. Grant a Temporary Restraining Order followed by Temporary Injunction without bond, and a Permanent Injunction restraining Defendants, their agents, and their successors in office from enforcing the Act; C. Grant such other and further relief as this Court deems just, proper, and equitable; including an award of costs and attorneys’ fees to Plaintiffs. /end quote. Note that subsection B asking the court to grant a temporary restraining order is surrounded by a purple box to highlight it.

FYI: The ACLU has already filed suit. I've been reading the filing & will be putting out an informational thread for non-lawyers later today. (The ACLU & local support orgs still need your $.)

In the meantime folks should know the ACLU and their co-counsel are pursuing an immediate injunction:

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."

This is my take as well.

There is no principled school of interpretation that decides the birthright case as anything other than yes, we have full birthright citizenship in this country.

Also, I am not 100% certain that this will happen and cannot declare that we are just waiting for the result.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

It is extremely NOT necessary for us to use authoritarian tactics to get rid of ICE. The only thing we need is democratic ones, which is why I need Democrats to actually commit to abolishing ICE.

I’m excited about my offsprings future law career and my past self is a bit horrified.

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Why we must be the ones who call for the dismantling of DHS and Trump's camps. Listen or watch the full episode of Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer where you get podcasts. TikTok video by degenerateartnews

"There are so many moving parts to the terror the government is unfolding that it's tough to keep up."

fter an hour and a half, it was over. I left the room and went back to my normal life, or what was left of it, letting the internet debate my character and performance in heated terms. There should be a better process for selecting senior government officials, but as long as this is the process we have, there will also be men and women willing to undertake it. The show must go on.

Jeremy Carl, the guy nominated to be State AAG based on his white nationalist beliefs, is whining that he had to answer questions to which he offered factually ridiculous responses.

spectator.com/article/thea...

Wednesday Season 3 Cast Adds Frequent Tim Burton Collaborator Winona Ryder - Reactor Beetlejuice! Beetleju—sorry, wrong collaboration

Everyone act surprised...Winona Ryder is joining Wednesday!

Monday Musings #140 🤬 Prepping on a Half Shell

Another nostalgia game is building.
TMNT & Other Strangeness is back on my desk. Prepping Wild Talents for Lifted and new tech at the IRL table.
50% funded and 5 days to go, Help me pull off an upset!

Good Monday, Gamers!
open.substack.com/pub/playfear... #ttrpg

Macho Bullshit

That was the definition I reached in early 2000 reading about fascist regimes for a decade

It is unfailingly accurate

We'll Find a Way Communities around the country are under attack. Minnestota's communities have continued to set an incredible example for the rest of us, demonstrating the power of uniting to protect our neighbors an...

She's got a foundation and she's raising money "to provide free legal assistance to those in detention" in Minnesota.

lookingoutfoundation.donorsupport.co/page/immandref

I wI wrote to the court in the Anthropic settlement and said, "if the attorneys get a percentage of the settlement, it should be a % of the settlement recovered, not the settlement negotiated, because Anthropic's final payment is in late 2027 and they might not be solvent then."

there is one striking parallel, though. note the phrase "we must do something useful with AI" -- like NFTs, LLMs are a solution looking for a problem. real progress identifies a need and then meets it, not the other way around.

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"I want to run a writing contest, but I can't fund it without charging entry fees."

*Ahem*

The desire to run a contest for writers should stem from an earnest, genuine desire to use *your* resources to introduce the world to new artists. Not a desire to use *artist* resources to pay your rent.

Horrible in general, but good for Talarico in particular. Why are they so scared of a youth pastor who says the minority America needs to worry about is the richest 1%?