Westin 🔜 GDC

This show is just about the only thing that approaches Star Trek’s rich blend of thinky and shooty (complimentary)

Seeing the Adobe buildings and booing out the window of my Lyft

Sitting here fretting about readers only wanting first person novels when the four short stories I’m about to send out to market are all first person…

Alright GDC, here I come.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Let he who is without podcast meat etc etc

This lingering post nasal drip cough: arguably worse than the cold/flu.

This AI consciousness discourse is drawing a pretty stark line in the sand when it comes to cognition and it’s not the one the AI bros think it is

Oh I think he knows what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/west...

Which is worse: the hollow man who believes nothing or the man who believes they must act hollow to win

It feels in hindsight like a hand-wavey thing that could only authentically exist in that era.

Wait did Cassie change her jacket? Am I to understand something has happened *between strips*?? Scott McCloud, help me.

Hopefully by end of the month on itch (I’ll be posting more about it)

Did I mention I made a game?

I know there are a lot of video games but I want to again say Absolum rules and the vibes are immaculate.

You can make up whatever story you want about your business if you cherry pick numbers and dates.

I still remember how crazy it sounded to my middle class morality when you first theorized they were just picking convenient four week periods. Welp!

This only works if it was a real 2FA code and not just 6 random numbers

Thank you for delivering this critical information

Their behavior is textbook enshittification, you’d need to go back to the creative suite era to find actual goodwill.

The complaint reads like a parody short story, it’s so good.

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

“AI won’t take your job, and actually, if someone is using AI for a job, you could probably take their job” futurism.com/artificial-i...

At this point, a writer who relies on AI tools is at serious risk of losing a job to a writer who doesn’t.

wait who is taking money to hock Tilly? Eline doesn’t have money, does she?

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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All that's really in this press release is the Dutch lady who made up Tilly has partnered with a social media manager. But the language makes it look like a Powerful Industry Executive is signing on. Nope. This is as serious as the AI "studios" that all offer AI filmmaking schools.

Just a reminder that when you're making things your brain literally has no ability to judge quality. You just have to keep going. I wrote this story a couple of years ago and I'd long considered it too long and clunky. It's back from the editor and it might now be my favorite story in the series. 🤷‍♂️

I am capable of writing a range of tones and genuinely enjoy some melancholy and angst, but I think I may be a "idiot narrators have stupid adventures" writing savant.

The prequel story set on the colony remains the most interesting thing in the franchise.

feels like a part of the Kelly operation has been fighting for this one for years and finally got the yes