Elf Herself

"AIs don't talk like human beings." Duh. arxiv.org/html/2610.29...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I enjoyed World Fantasy Con, but I hate that so many conventions have moved to "let's put the whole schedule on an app where everything is gone a couple months after it ends." I wanted a copy to keep. I figured other people might like that too. #wfc2026 schedule PDF: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/enj7k...

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Atlas Games has indefinitely suspended direct physical sales to the EU and Brazil. Rising customs fees and strict cross-border packaging rules like the PPWR are rapidly making direct-to-consumer shipping unviable for tabletop publishers. www.geeknative.com/2... #TTRPG

hidden away in the closet, his portrait slowly becomes gayer and gayer

Yes, it has a character limit and this goes far beyond that. It's over 1300 words. You will lose brain cells if you read this. (Raw OCR output - I didn't proofread) sharetext.io/c5a5zd9y

For fuck’s sake

Good morning from William Burroughs. It's one week until Halloween.

I believe this is a Mac-only problem, but - if you're using the permanent version of Office 2021, you may need to go through some steps to keep it functioning. Do this BEFORE you make notable edits that need saving.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Incredible story. nymag.com/intelligence...

JAMES TALARICO STOP FUCKING TEXTING ME CHALLENGE!!!!

VICTORY! EFF, our co-counsel and our clients have won our lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. A judge agreed OPM violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the remedy at a later date.

"When idealism runs out, spite will keep you going until your wellspring of idealism can refill itself" is one of those things people don't appreciate enough, IMO

Fucking. Ouch.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

PG&E doesn't have the right not to provide service to random people in its area, nor to shut off their service based on what they're doing with their electricity as long as they're not breaking laws. They're also regulated on what they can charge and what services they can offer.

September 20 prices in my neighborhood (diesel has since dropped down to $7-something)

So it begins... mining.com.au/zambia-to-ac...

I really like the 50th Anniversary Re-Release 😂 pixels.com/featured/gon...

Now I know how Danny Torrence felt when he saw those twin little girls in a hotel hallway.

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

Food Safety has been in the news but was food really safer back in the day? https://youtube.com/shorts/v_c45nOwbUo #History

What's this? A Section 504 Sit-In movie? WITHOUT actors cripping up?? Be still my limping heart.

I voted! Hopefully this will reduce the number of "vote for meeeee" phone calls and texts, although I doubt it'll reduce the number of texts saying "Hi this is [famous candidate who has never heard of me]; I desperately need your $50 before midnight to defeat [that evil bastard]."

The "wizard problem" is not that the wizard can output damage better, it's that the wizard or cleric can do things to affect the state of play which the fighter or thief cannot while also being able to do what the fighter or thief can do just about as well as they can do it.

I'm officially "I need to learn to do some stretches every morning" years old.

Funny how the headline isn't "ICE agent shot after trespassing and attacking 72-year-old man & daughter." Ok, not funny. But if his job had been "teacher" or "barista," that's a lot closer to what the headline would've been.

There is a law about this sort of thing. substack.com/@keithdb80/n...

This is clearly not acceptable

At last, a real explanation for why washing machine minutes do not match up with real world minutes. youtube.com/shorts/GrjIR...

More Rights Grabs from Must Read Magazines writerbeware.blog/2026/10/09/m...

Poorly programmed Internet-of-Shitty-Things coffee machine floods home network with 100GB of local packets every day, slowing down every other device in the house. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

Fix the News now has a searchable archive that goes back to when they started in 2017 fixthenews.com/library

HELLO MY FELLOW CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS IT IS TIME TO ANNOY THE RURAL AREAS OF THE STATE AGAIN

Only 101 followers away from 1k! Help Friend Computer transmit its glorious Public Service Announcements to citizens everywhere!

Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment