Brian McNett

As to implications, it would only matter if it became a trend. Then it would indicate an erosion of the Tories standing as a major political party, as they’d be polling more in line with the Monster Raving Looney Party. Embarrassing.

I just did some minimal research, so I’m no expert, but to stand for election in the UK, a candidate must make a £500 deposit (someone else can make it on their behalf).

If you fail to win a minimum number of votes (2%) you lose your deposit. In this case, 1700 votes. Conservatives won just 706.

Playing early access WoW:Midnight, and while the void may be ravenously hungry, it does understand narrative pacing.

Also: LOTHRAXION, NO!

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I saw this, and thought to myself "I want to be one of the cool kids! I need to subscribe." I go to YouTube, but I'm already subscribed. You mean to tell me all this time I was one of the cool kids and didn't know it?

I have One Fish, Two Fish MEMORIZED.

Having not owned a car or driven in years, I have missed this development.

I’m going to continue to happily miss out.

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Either one of those would be an absolute banger.

Yeah, that was a thing. So glad it didn’t last.

The rain is the best part!

AI chipmaker Nvidia reported $120 billion in profits over the last year, in part thanks to Big Tech’s massive data centers.

Meanwhile, monthly electricity costs have skyrocketed by as much as 267% in areas near data centers.

Big Tech barons are getting rich while everyone else pays the price.

I know, right?

Okay, it’s a follower dungeon and technically you’re not hurting anyone’s feelings, but I’m on a RP server and I RP even the solo content. For me, this is morally wrong. My guildies say my play style is “immersive.” I take it as a compliment.

Looking back and realizing that I started writing PROFESSIONALLY in my late twenties… nearly forty years ago. Yes, I took a detour for about 16 years where I did network security/abuse, but despite my sparse publication history, holy crap I’ve been at this for a hot minute.

Anthropic’s showdown with the US Department of War may literally mean life or death—for all of us Why the showdown between Anthropic, a major developer of artificial intelligence models, and the US Department of War lead to existential-level catastrophe.

Pete Hegseth playing tough guy with AI companies. What could possibly go wrong? thebulletin.org/2026/02/anth...

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

Relatable. Can confirm my own experience with incandescent rage over my entirely justified “ungrammatical” commas. I will issue the angriest STET you’ve ever seen. Authorial voice, damnit! Authorial. Voice.

I are propheshunul writor.

Editors are nonetheless PRICELESS.

“Yes, I KNOW that comma is technically “ungrammatical.” I want the reader to pause on that word! STET STET STET something something authorial voice, STET STET. Did you try reading it aloud?”

But being perfectly honest, I’d be lost without good editors. You are awesome.

“Free humans from the burden of academic labor?” He means thinking. He definitely means free humans from thinking.

Not saying it not a scam, but even if he was earnest, it’s still bad.

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"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop"

I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics:

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Other creators are not your competition. They’re your colleagues. Art is huge.

I really don’t understand why this should be controversial. If you are kind to your peers, they will remember your kindness. They’ll probably tell others how kind you are. People will remember and want to work with you.

jesus

lol I don't like any of this shit one fuckin iota

Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Thymine (sometimes Uracil)

Water. Earth. Fire. Air.

Long ago, the four character classes lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire class attacked

I barely interact with anyone on Facebook at all these days, but FB just awarded me a badge as a @gailsimone.bsky.social "SuperFan."

Yeah, Facebook. Right.

This is both darkly humorous and filled with tragic irony. Also weird that the whole Yudkowsky AI cult turns up in the attempts to "moderate" the behaviors of a purely stochastic system running up against the LLM version of a stack overflow.

"Number of tokens used" can be as simple as "this file is bigger than the LLM can process," or "this request is too complex and requires more tokens than this model's limit." This is not the behavior of an "intelligence." It is the limit of a purely stochastic process.