haylie swenson

The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were

stollen

And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.

The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

The Brutalist Duo’s Next Film Has ‘Zero AI’ Mona Fastvold says it “was not required for” The Testament of Ann Lee after previously fielding backlash.

I will never get over how mad I was when I found out The Brutalist used AI after I already saw it. I'm cautiously optimistic about The Testament of Ann Lee but disappointed that the creators still don't seem to understand why using AI 'creatively' sucks and is bad! www.vulture.com/article/brut...

I’m Being Driven Insane by Wicked: For Good’s Sex Cardigan Help.

I enjoyed this article before, but now that I’ve actually seen Wicked this feels like Important Journalism™️ www.vulture.com/article/im-b...

Leaked photo of the scarecrow in the new wicked movie from TikTok. His face has a burlap texture. It cannot hurt you even though it seems like it

Photo of a burlap background with text “Burlap - Free Textures / PowerPoint Templates”

Who wore it better? #WickedForGood

I feel like this cat would make an excellent tattoo

if your significant other ever catches you looking at them and says "what?", replying "A Cat May Look Upon a King" is an excellent rejoinder

I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?

Also never not thinking about Wolf Hall

An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.

The backstory to the Tom Holland lip sync is such a repudiation of slop. So much human effort and skill and *rights clearing* went into creating something so many people love.

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I edited out everything but the bamboo paragraphs.

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Hold up

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

The joy of finally finding the right paint after months of sample hell versus the mortifying ordeal of it having a goofy name

A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

don't get distracted, every time Epstein comes up this ends up happening "well what about Democrats?" "oh let me expand at length about how much I'd enjoy hypothetical Democrats being destroyed for being dirty pervs!"

the real answer is "well the Republican President IS in the files"

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.

Imagine if you gave every person on Earth $122,000. Then imagine them, every single living human, lining up to hand that wad of cash over to Elon Musk. That’s how much a trillion dollars is.

You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech

If you have a trillion dollars, and you are earning 5% annual dividends (10% is more realistic minimum) you are passively bringing in $135,000,000 per day.
Equivalent to an hourly wage of $25,000,000 per hour.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!

How Much Is a Trillion? The 2009 budget proposed by President Bush weighs in at $3.1 trillion. But just how big is a trillion, anyway? $1 trillion would be enough to buy about 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for every pers...

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