Victoria Rose

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

YouTube video by Eddy Burback ChatGPT made me delusional

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

(on the right) Oh, we knew

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Thank you for this!

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Watch this clip from the grindhouse version of The Empire Strikes Back and just try to tell me it's not VASTLY superior to the legally available version????

Feels like a good moment to mention that I edit tattoos.

Before you get something permanently on your body, I will check to see if it says what you think it says, search for unintentional references, see if it looks like something else from a different angle, kerning...all of it.

#amediting

Are hornbills WAY BIGGER than you thought too?

Text on black background says: WE'RE NOT ANGRY. WE'RE JUST MAKING A POINT. 22 October is International Caps Lock Day. Typing etiquette usually discourages all‑caps messages because they can seem like shouting.

HEY! HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

Typing messages has become part of daily life. Unwritten etiquette urges senders to keep messages brief, respond promptly, and avoid all capitals, which can be interpreted as shouting.

LEARN MORE ABOUT TEXTING ETIQUETTE ➡️ w.wiki/FLhc

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Bright pink poster with crayon scrawled, then in large black writing: My Sincerity Will NOT Be Called Into Question. - Victoria Woodhull, Presidential Candidate, 1872 Background of a hang holding the poster, and a pretty mum garden.

Still using this damn sign.

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Actual Intelligence, always and forever!

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic The Hag by Robert Herrick (1648)

If anyone is planning to do the #AScareADay October challenge (a story or poem a day, curated by yours truly!)...

I've made a little recording of the first day's poem - Robert Herrick's 'The Hag'

A nice quick listen (for fun or for the challenge) - enjoy!

youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM

My HOA would be delighted I'm sure

I live within reasonable distance and am tempted.

Someone remind me to do this sometime.

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth:

Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Squidward Nooooooo

This appears to be an elaborate Baroque-style sculptural representation of an archangel, likely Saint Michael, defeating a demonic figure. The sculpture is mounted on an ornate gilded base and is displayed in a museum setting with white walls and other historical paintings visible in the background. The archangel is depicted with dramatic movement - wearing blue and red clothing with a winged form, wielding a sword, and standing triumphantly over a defeated demonic or serpentine figure. The sculpture shows incredible detail in the flowing drapery, musculature, and dynamic pose, characteristic of Baroque artistic style which emphasized dramatic movement and emotional intensity. The sculpture is placed on a white museum pedestal, with track lighting illuminating it from above, and other similarly styled paintings can be seen in the background, suggesting this is part of a larger exhibition of historical religious art.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil?

Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked

You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.

First koala chlamydia vaccine approved The disease has been plaguing the endangered marsupials since the 1990s.

I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment.

A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin.

It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas.

Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

HE WASN'T KIDDING

A very weird thing about being an editor is reading an extremely intense scene, then having to pause to double-check whether "arm holes" is one word or two.

One, for anyone interested. #amediting

Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.c... • 17h enshittification noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits ... Gold Yoshi @goldyoshi.bsky.social [Screenshot of the enshittification page on Merriam Websters website. It says where does enshittification come from and the entire page is covered in ads]

You will never guess where this is going.