That seemed intentional to me - because in the book, the inner monologue of Murderbot constantly describes them as messy and stupid, and you see them from their pov rather than the third person as in the show. I thought it was a good compromise!
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That seemed intentional to me - because in the book, the inner monologue of Murderbot constantly describes them as messy and stupid, and you see them from their pov rather than the third person as in the show. I thought it was a good compromise!
You've also been creating! Does not matter if it was the same genre or something opposite. Now you've exposed your brain to both sides - artist and consumer. You've trained yourself to see these things even more!
I am not saying you are wrong! But it is difficult to quantify this feeling because we learn more each year, and that is why things seem repeatable on their own, regardless.
Not arguing, just a note. Consider this: you have been spending more relative time with media than 10 years ago unless you were hiding somewhere. Which would make you now more knowledgeable and able to see more connections where previously you've missed them.
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
and they wonder why we don’t Google anymore.
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A wonderfully utopian best-possible outcome to the current US political crisis. A shame it seems implausibly unlikely … https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115131363081725280
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Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
Seems lotta folks thought ive calling them morons for not using what they do not have and got upset. Which is also very american! I was just observing that this would be really silly to do _here_, as we have trains everywhere.
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But why would you need a car in the city? You have tram, trolley, bus, subway, light rail, right? Right?..
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
Very american! BTW, do these trucks transfer people? In vertical or horizontal stacks? I jest! Please do not take offense. My initial post was about americann-nes of the thing and about personal transport, not the trucking hauling and other heavy weight transporting. Which trains are good at as well
Again, there are reasons why you may need to haul hay bails through the sticks. They are valid here as well! What is not sensible though is to look at extreme ranges for general use. Like daily or weekly commute, that kind of thing, because you have that covered.
I still think this is very "american", and it does not make sense to me there are basically no trains roaming this vastness. I get it there are reasons, and challenges, but at least some of them seem... cultural? Denial? "We do not need trains! This is the way!".
I think that post hit all the wrong buttons, and I apologise for that! What I meant was something that I would tell a friend here, in UA, like "just take the bloody train and stop this nonsense about driving". Should have worded that differently, my bad!
Yeah, and that is why I've said it is a very american thing! I do think if you measure everything in 8h drives you have a good basis for railroad, and you will no longer need these long drives. But here is here and there is there, and might not make sense
Exactly! Train is boring, but at least if you fall asleep there you are stil getting somewhere, and not flying off the road. But if you have no other option... what can you do? I can also you horror stories about train system here! Still better than a car or a bus though.
Nw! I think this is an example of what @scalzi.com describes as the failure mode of clever. And it was not that big of pile in, kinda fun one as it may. Only blocked a couple of ppl!
Of course, it is more complex. It always is! Still, it is such a shame because it feels like a match made in heaven, where railroads would greatly enhance lives for everyone.
Maybe to put it this way: wanting an option to be able to drive 4000 miles and needing it are very different things. Wanting it daily(ish) is strange, and the reasons for it seem very "american". Also - I do not think you can fit more than a bail into the car the original topic mentioned!
Sorry it came out that way, and apologies! I meant that as something I would say to someone here, where there is almost always such an option. My bad!
Sometimes it almost seems like it is a part of identity? "We do not need trains! We have cars! This is the way!" I think I get the "car" part, but lack of railroad is baffling to a point where it seems cultural.
Thanks for the reply, and I am sorry if I came out mean! I did intend it as a bit of a jab, but I did not expect how much pain it caused people. Apologies for that! But isn't this still very "american" with all this extreme range driving and lack of railroad?
No one should go by bus. It is a form of torture and should be banned. I do think that driving a car for hours and hours is almost as bad, though.
Не маю персонального досвіду, тому не можу порівняти! Наскільки близько до верхнього бокового біля туалету?
Yep, and that is why I say it is very american! I wanted to point out that this would be silly to do here - why drive all that distance when you can hop on a train? Sorry if that came out mean, it was not my intention!
...yeeees, so why not build railroads all over the place instead of driving cars for days? This seems very "american" to me! Forgive me if I seem to be mean, I am not trying that. Just an observation from here, where it would be silly not to take the train. If you have that option.
I mean, of course not, but that's the point of it being american, isn't it? Driving even 200+ km makes me screaming internally, and i do not get why you would want to do it for days non stop, unless you have no other option.
Yes! Which is wild, confusing, and very american, isn't it? What i was trying to say "why would you think of driving that distance here, in Ukraine, when you have an option of taking a train?" Seems many thought I was being mean. I was not, and apologies for that!
I am sorry about that. I also was not trying to be mean and bring up bad memories. Apologies! I had some horrible experiences with trains as well, but compared to a long bus or car drives - maybe not the same level of bad.
Sure, but the original post was about long-range vehicles. I do not mean that it is always a good option or even a good one - there is no one size fits everyone - but if you have to drive 200km+ every day, that sounds... sad? And very american! "Drive a tin can for days instead of relaxing in one!"
Sorry that went out that way! I was not trying to be mean - ironic, perhaps - this is what I would've said here to a friend, not to someone who actually does not have access to, well, trains. Apologies for that jab being too much of a pain!
Sorry it went out that way! I was meaning here, not there. Of course, it does not make sense when you do not have a well maintained railway. There is a jab there, but I see I've miscalculated how much it will hurt. Was not trying to be mean there, apologies!
Easy! You build a station nearby! Sorry, I am being silly here. Still, this is what I was getting at - very "american"! Lack of trains seems a part of the package. But what makes sense here might not make sense there, and I am not trying to judge, just to observe. Maaaaybe with a bit of irony.
That's why I do not get it! Driving instead of laying up tracks, getting on the train, and relaxing during the trip! It's long and boring, but for sure beats up days and days of driving!
Yep, I was getting at that this very american, and not that this is the holy grail. There are reasons why it is silly here and why it is not silly there, but many of those still ... bizarre to other parts of the world!
At least someone gets that I was jabbing a bit! What I was pointing at was this is very american to me (because other countries have trains for long travels), but a lot of people got really upset about that. I'm not sure if It was unfortunate wording or mention of trains.
That is why I was saying this is very american! I sure do not get it, but hey, what silly here might not be silly there and vice versa? And the other very american thing is that many people took it too close to the heart and as an insult to them (and not to my fellow ukrainians, who do have trains)
Look, my intent was an observation of amercan-nes, maybe with a little jab about taking a train instead of driving for a day or two. Sorry, and apologies if that was insulting.
My intent was an observation that this is very american. What is silly here is not silly there, and while there is a jab about trains, I thought it was not actually insulting. For this, I apologise, as I did not mean it that way.
Sorry mate, gl in next life! In all seriousness, I wanted to point out that it is very American. Here, your first and second choice is the train. You can drive if you need it, but why would you want it as a first option?!
Well, yeah. Again, to me, this seems very american, isn't it? In most cases, here you would go by train, and you can drive if needed. It's just that most people would not. Making roads bigger and better helps, but is not going to change that.
To be frank, this seems veeeery american. I am in Ukraine, and even with the war, you can drive for more than a 1k km... BUT NOONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND DOES THAT USE A GODDAMN TRAIN U MORON or something like that.
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
I miss having core texts in the same way I miss having only 2 tv shows on at 8pm on a Thursday night. It was wonderful because we all had something similar to talk about. It was also awful for same reason. I, too, am overwhelmed by mass of content. But what we had was very muted, from specific POV
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
Related (or maybe the same) is that "I'm going to trick the reader haha" is not a good path to reader investment, but "I am going to delight the reader, haha!" is. They look the same on the surface but they're not. I always advise being generous to readers, not adversarial.
(Spoiler, there are no rules. And this example is one illustration of why I really really foam at the mouth when people say there are rules--because accepting them as rules, one reads through a frame that then obscures so much cool work. Also you've tied your hands together, as a writer.)
Surely you'd be better to people than current overlords
LOL remembering the person who, when Provenance had been out less than a week, emailed me to let me know it was RIDDLED with typos, "he" had been turned to "e" and he had spent hours finding someone at Amazon who would take it down because that level of bad editing was just wrong and embarrassing.
...and same as the gun on the wall, she wears THE dress in act III?
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The "libgen" database, which Anthropic used, currently lists over 1600 titles of mine across multiple languages, so, uh, yeah
А як же ш кутюр'є?
In Japan, August 21 is known as Bunny Day because 8 (ba), 2 (ni), and 1 (i) form the word 'banii' (bunny). #バニーの日 #furry #RabbitEars #art #motorcycle
When I was a child, my mother called me a marekat Now I'm grown up, that's why I'm A MAREKAT
Hell this morning has another deeply surprised soul
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
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To me, this number seems too low.
Там місцевий аналог Брюса Лі спав на цвяхах, казав, що це корисно
Пригадав поліцейську академію
So you are that eldritch tentacle guy that sleeps too much?
I'm pretty sure, it is not a new idea, but as I was waiting for the bus, it suddenly struck me: LLMs (falsely called "ai") are a cargo cult. Some people dropped a few boxes with apparently magic qualities on this planet, and we're increasingly rebuilding all our civilisation around them.
i submitted my feedback to the google form. you should too. let them know these guidelines are vague, unclear, and conflate fictional media with real life abuse.
HEY Do you want to save PORN from being kicked off this platform?? Go tell them your grievances then! Bluesky is built off the backs of queers, furries, POC, and sex workers alike WE were the first to join the site back when it was invite only, and WE should have a say in whether we belong!
Make sure to contact your reps, EU folks ‼️ Let’s show them that we won’t tolerate this invasion of our privacy, our human right!!!! 😤
To mark the launch of GPT-5, and the fresh wave of people talking about this technology as if it's capable of thinking like human and even if it's not, it will be soon and it's inevitable and it's not actually stealing people's work, it's just learning like a human. Here's why it's none of that.
Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website
I have gone ahead and written up a more organized piece about why I think recommending decades-old genre "classics" to young people new to the space is not, shall we say, a great thing to do whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/11/p...
For the folks suggesting I'm promoting science fiction works from this millennium because I want an extra sale or two 1. I assure you I am doing fine, thanks for your concern 2. Otherwise FUCK YES support currently living/working writers please and thank you, they need to eat and live in a house
This this I would add: When you are old, do not finish with your multi-volume epic. Pick smaller projects, that you know you can finish in the time remaining to you. https://dice.camp/@FredKiesche/115009755382851615
I need folks to know "classics are classic for a reason" re: creative work is not the great argument you think it is, mostly because it leaves entirely unexamined the *reasons* some things persist in culture, of which "quality," subjective in any event, is only one reason and often not the main one.
I hope she is also Eldritch and all of thath ia ia cthulhu fhtagn
"Ha, ha! You buffoon! You servile halfwit! Don't you see, all agriculture shall be performed with the wondrous STEAM ENGINE in another five years! Mark my words!" — an old friend of mine totally not talking about AI. Honest.
(Also too many people who are happy offering a shitty product as long as it allows them to fire their workers, who are expensive and want to do things like eat and sleep and see their families)
weird people with magic powers in a forest and cultists carrying this giant egg and then someone being turned into a surfboard and then thrust into a lake that was boiling oil and I was "my god I have to see this film it's insane" and friends...?
Grounded xkcd.com/3124/
![Comic. [airplane connected to airport terminal by jet bridge] VOICE FROM PLANE: This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid3ylnjltbkgiwjwfod36vafod3nlat3bjbjqiwtt4z3zkuerxxqq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Every time these AI evangelists open their mouths, they reveal how utterly incompetent they are at life. Just completely useless people, unable to function as adults in the most rudimentary ways.
A perfect encapsulation of what I simply _do not comprehend_ with a lot of (supposed) AI use cases: Surely it takes you _longer_ to _explain_ to the AI what you want it to do, then to just do it yourself manually (for instance in this case, simply typing "hey babe, 15 minutes late, love u")???
Did you intentionally omit "bee" so our hive-minded overlord would not notice?
Mastercard insists it has not "required restrictions of any" game on Steam or itch.io, but Valve claims otherwise www.eurogamer.net/mastercard-i...
Of note: NCOSE is what they started calling themselves after a rebrand. Before that they were the openly evangelical Christian watchdog group Morality in Media. They've intentionally branded themselves in a way that seems, at a glance, more professional and less extreme.
Ну там можливо що усі очікують на рецесію попит післякрвідний спав, весь світ напруження від війни і тому виробники вирішили, що чорний, сірий та хакі - на часі. А можливо щось інше і так співпало!
Коли наче завжди мріяла бути ельфом, але з віком концепція другого сніданку стала якось привабливіше 😅
Мені казали, що з туристичним одягом така ж біда в цьому сезоні.
Wow. CBC just covered the Steam / itchio situation. DONT STOP CALLING MASTERCARD, VISA, PAYPAL, STRIPE www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/s...
A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
So pissed at Visa stonewalling me. Next time I call, I’ll complain about the rude and poor service and that I just wanted to buy a book online (aka pdf on itchio without saying itchio) Visa and anybody else has no legal authority to stop me from buying anything that isn’t illegal.
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