Is there a way to check if you’re in Grammarly’s “expert review” system without creating a Grammarly account?
Because (a) fuck Grammarly, and (b) fuck Grammarly.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
"oh look at me, I'm Ben McKenzie, I was in the OC and then I got a degree in economics and crypto is a scam but no one was doing anything about it so I made a documentary also I’m married to Morena Baccarin" man good for you
When you learn how hard it is to get people to come to three consecutive organizing meetings, you tend to spout off less about things.
nominative determinism hall of fame
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
This has 100% happened. The DOGE boys have an unmonitored, unsecured Signal chat where they make their plans and openly exchange data that are completely illegal for them to have viewed, let alone exfiltrated.
The chances of being struck by a meteorite are low, but never zero.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/s...
Deeply @mementomorty.bsky.social coded
"What if every npc was a fully functional chatbot" is the game equivalent to asking in a movie "what if you could move the camera wherever you wanted"; it sounds so cool until you realize there is a crucial intent to the limits, and you will quickly lose the plot if you toss that by the wayside.
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
The best advice I have for writers is: the harder you try to impress people with your prose, the worse your prose will be. Sit down and try to communicate honestly, you will find the places for your flourishes and metaphors that actually serve greater meaning rather than your own ego.
buddy every fucking day
A somewhat well known account on here has disappeared, and now I'm a bit concerned for their wellbeing.
how thinking about lower decks got me feeling
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
The bond market is souring on SoftBank fast, which may be an early indicator that the "creatively financed" datacenter boom (which Softbank bet on heavily) is starting to bust.
om.co/2026/03/09/t...
"Everyone thinks they have a strategy—until a new great idea somehow makes its way onto the list."
samgerstenzang.substack.com/p/summoning-...
Yeah, some real antisemitism lurking there.
"Everyone thinks they have a strategy—until a new great idea somehow makes its way onto the list."
samgerstenzang.substack.com/p/summoning-...
These are the people who say everyone should be able to own an AR-15 in case they need to oppose a tyrannical state.
The Wizard Lady did kind of a reverse Star Trek, using fantasy tropes to disguise some racist stereotypes. She was clearly anti-classism but the heroes had to be white English folk.
That national politicians fiddle at the margins (which affects people on the margins) but never upset the applecart is a large part of what frustrated median voters and got Trump elected.
That Trump shoved a burning KKK cross into the applecart pisses most of them off, but the frustration remains.
"This is the echo chamber I like best" said in far more self-aggrandizing tech jargon
I talk to people outside.
While this is blatantly true, I'm more curious about what low-information swing voters think, because they are the ones consultants are *actually* targeting with their moderation advice. They just cloak it in "this is where the base is" jargon rather than say the quiet part out loud.
This seems less surprising than the Reactionary Star Trek Fan phenomenon, which may be the all-time leader in Missing The Point of Media You Love.
also i hate to tell u but reading doesn't actually make you a better person? like i think engaging with art can increase your faculty of empathy but reading the brothers karamazov doesn't actually make you, like, superior? ive read it and didn't get a +2 to my WIS stat
It really seems like this is just a ploy for the general election and he'll keep caucusing with Republicans and be funded by the NRCC.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
