Andrea Phillips

Happy book day to me! After going out of print a few years ago when Fireside Fiction closed its doors, today my book about a wiki where your edits come true is available again! This thread will have links for where you can buy it. Obviously Amazon www.amazon.com/Revision-And...

BREAKING NEWS the car that has been sitting in front of my house since April is *gone*

The Bioware we loved was already gone, this is just a formality

My fig tree has many many figs on it but none of them are ripe yet somehow? :(

You know, I actually don't want Trump to die in the next month specifically due to the risk that voters will think, "Great, the problem is gone now, it's safe to vote for Republicans again!"

"Discord would like to receive keystrokes from any application" aw HELL no

I just put Liquid IV in my wine Let's all not interrogate what this says about me

Don’t look now but the car that’s been parked in front of my house since April has *its hood up*

Always amazed at the balls of a college hitting you up for donations while you are still actively paying tuition for an enrolled student

Okay but what if this is the stimulus needed to create Roko's Basilisk and without it you're getting in its way and will be punished? WHAT THEN, ALTMAN?

You really shouldn't be mean to Claude, but it's not because Claude's feelings will get hurt, it's because you're shaping how your brain behaves around real people also

This is great in theory but I'm catching a lot of places where the pinyin is VERY CLEARLY not what the audio said :|

This is brilliant and I'm furious about it

My current earworm is, for some reason, a very loud rendition of '99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall' Send help

"This is not a place of honor, but it could be a place of hope". I remixed Warde's "This Is Printing-Office" & Sandia Labs' nuclear waste report (italics) w/my own critical tech text. From my 🎨 archive & press: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin...

Our friends at Apex launched their own Kickstarter today, and to celebrate the occasion, we did an "interview war" between both editors-in-chief—i.e., they interviewed each other. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

Whoa trying to reschedule an Apple Genius Bar appointment and the link is 403 Forbidden O_o

My workout app has a "Butt Wellness" workout and I really do not know how to feel about this

I hate when an artsy name for a color swatch is a real thing that absolutely is not that color

You might think the biggest scourge facing the games industry is genAI but it's *actually* overpaid corporate executives who are ONLY able to recognize the art through their own small-minded, narrowly-focused understanding of how regular people perceive the world.

"How can I spend more time off my phone..." No. Wrong goal. Maximize the handheld Skinner Box time. Explore the other worlds than these.

The question keeping my kid up last night: if Hotel California is a Yelp review with a guitar solo... how many stars?

I got carded to buy creatine at Whole Foods???

I just found an old note where handwriting recognition saw my "Week of May 24" and turned it to "Weep o'slay 24" Now I have to write a horror franchise, right?

I wonder how many of the 25+ nail salons in my town of 30K people are fronts for money laundering

I really want to know how many cliffs there are in China such that "falling off a cliff" is such a common trope

This post right here is gonna be a banger for the ages, I feel it in my bones

Why do tarot decks have such embarrassing names

New post going up soon, this one on why Google sucks now. Maybe you subscribe? buttondown.com/secretworks

I just remembered that in the OG Dracula, Halloween goes by and nothing at all happens, and I'm mad about it all over again

What are your favorite news sites now, and why?