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> "The eye-watery depths"

> "When even book publishing CEOs are championing the merits of AI at the expense of their own writers..."

So many folks bang on about plagiarism and copyright, but forget this second, VERY interesting bit: Publishers aren't your friend & AI is a stick they won't think twice about beating us with.

Breaking: The Darkness Returns WASHINGTON—With deep unease and outright horror haunting millions of Americans as a great shroud enveloped the land, late-breaking reports confirmed Monday that the darkness had returned. Bystanders f...

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

cartoon man HORRIBLY contorted in the shape of a 2

Brologue turns two. Two too many.

Two Years of Brologueing

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A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Twitch Twitch is the world

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nice ronks

Wish it was streamed, I woulda liked to have watched ur Kragg pop off...

Deleting English literature degrees would actually be a really interesting case study in whether the UK can destroy its own understanding of its own culture on an almost micro level. Worry not, sceptred isle, heir to Shakespeare, Byron, the Shelleys and Tolkien, you dont need to know who those are.

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Summary of comments:

(1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults

(2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc.

(3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes

It’s a labor issue.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Scene from Brass Eye of Chris Morris on left in grey suit reading a list out to a bearded man on right wearing sunglasses, tie and a dark suit (bushes in background).

"You're a promptophile, you're a slop badger, you're a parrot perv, you're a small LLM regarder, you're a bot botherer, you're the Crazy World of Sam Altman, you're a ChatGPT bottler, you're a grok rocketeer..."

"...Yes, well, it's just another form of racism"

We're all actors, asking that nebulous, all-seeing and unseeing mass of eyeballs, known as "The Audience," to PLEASE CLAP

This is why I was all pro-Mastodon when the X-odus happened. Mastodon felt actually open and Bluesky felt like a Twitter clone. But the onboarding and app experience was better here, so here is where people went.

Delusions of a Protocol On vaporware as an ideological product.

AT Proto has become a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.

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i just think he's neat

There are more disciplinary forces pushing on The Guy to maintain a good Mastodon instance than, say, Jay Graber's Bluesky. Or Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Or Elon Musk's X. Mastodon's meant to be a rabble; it's a feature, anyone with a little tinkering can spin up their own server.

Given the choice between centralised social media - colony organisms with arbitrary state-like power - and some guy with a Raspberry Pi in his basement, prepared to spew bile and/or delete his instance over the slightest transgression... as ridiculous as it is to say, I'm going with the guy

insane how MOTHERFUCKING GERSON BOOM showed up with a truth nuke vis-à-vis pre-war lore

I paid £16.75 for #Silksong, and it took me one step closer to Nirvana.

CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery

I Think I Get Silksong Now

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that song really is silking✨🐜
#silksong #hornet

Silksong is EXACTLY like Hollow Knight in this regard: in the end, there's no fucking point in using spells, just spam the nail. Maybe you've got to be a bit smarter in Silksong, show just a *scintilla* of brainpower; so what?

I can look past a lot of Silksong's difficulty, but losing all my shell shards after dying to a boss too many times is perhaps the most detestable gameplay loop I've experienced in a long time.

I *want* to use tools, yet they're bound to a resource obtained only through drudgery and grind. Curious!

so dogshit it KILLED my wonderful 'sludge gaming,' and from the ooze emerged wario baby

#WritersCoffeeClub 2/9: Describe your aesthetic.

At the moment: fantasy with a slight urban edge and satire; an assortment of preindustrial settings, but the odd contemporary trapping thrown here and there (e.g. the unironic use of "failson").

Conditional Whisky (And Its Portents)

ttar. a real pocket monster. simple as

'ABYSMAL DOGSHIT'

>first draft is a repetitive mess

they don't tell you the path to getting better makes you feel like you're so much worse