Kristine Smith

If you wanted one headline to explain what happened to us, this might do it: trying to make bank off a ten percent chance of killing us all

Sign this Authors Guild petition against the Australian government allowing AI to legally scrape books — any books, your books, even if they’re not Australian authorsguild.org/news/austral...

Educational thread 🪡

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

"The list of operational failures could go on. The point is that, for all his money and bloodthirsty ambition, Luckey is probably the last guy you want overseeing your high-school robotics team — let alone a first-of-its-kind biotech company dedicated to breeding mutant wardogs."

"We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest."

A very vocal subset of leftists has argued, in every election since 2016, that people who want more progressive policy should withhold their votes from Democrats. Such people do not have your best interests at heart. Or even their own. Vote blue and ignore anyone who tells you not to.

"Mississippi election officials have made changes to more than 100 polling places ahead of the general election." Well, of course they did. Can't have folks getting all uppity, now can we? www.mississippifreepress.org/see-which-mi...

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It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

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...

Matsumoto Masaru (Japanese, born 1943) Autumn Leaves [Kōyō], circa 1960s Woodblock print in colors

The lady's name is Deb and she owns a bar in Brooklyn!

You need this this morning, you really do.

Digging through the series so I can determine how old a character would be in Chaos and am reminded once again that EXACT NUMBERS ARE BAD. Found a different oopsie along the way. A throwaway line. It will get fixed eventually.

disable Ebay's opt-in training their AI on your data. Preferences->Account->AI Training preferences

Cleaned off other side of desk. I now have room to take notes on printed-out ms. Now ignoring the floor.

I've cleaned off half my desk, and the sight of bare desktop makes me unaccountably happy. ::keeps back turned towards other half of desk::

The tragedy of the boom and bust cycle is that you are not allowed to say "this is a boom and bust cycle" during the boom part, even if it is obvious. Meanwhile the people who were saying "this boom will last forever" will now smoothly pivot to "the bubble has popped, like I always said it would"

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

I think it’s even worse than this. This often means, “after I deduct expenditures *and savings* from my cash flow, my cash flow is net zero.”

Someone just left this sweet kitten on my doorstep, but I'm allergic! 😭 Does anyone in Brooklyn want to foster a kitten? Seems to be about 4 months old, clean and well-cared for, and very docile.

The “mass shooting” in Erie, PA was in fact a family annihilation event. A 45-year-old man with a registered firearm killed his entire family, including babies and a pregnant woman.

"It’s as if MRM would have the entire SF/F genre believe their company is somehow facing an intractable problem that every other genre magazine strangely avoids by using industry-standard contacts."

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

If you’re living your life vicariously through me, sorry about that.

Ukraine’s strike on Russia’s Yandex data centers appears to have rendered fascists sock puppets silent in several countries.😂🙏

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

“An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness.”

Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, New York Fed says - CNBC stocks.apple.com/AKlmxZVbnRVi...

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

“Meet Me In Another Life” by jaymeblaschke.substack.com/p/meet-me-in...

I retweeted it earlier, but realised a bit of quote context might be useful: Excellent comedian (have seen/listened before!) and well worth an evening of your life! National tour, and tour dates are on her site.

Interesting case of fraud by making automated songs then automated accounts to stream them, pocketing $8M in revenue. Few/no real listeners were diverted to listen to the GenAI songs, but the funds he pocketed drank from a zero sum revenue pool that meant real musicians were paid less.

I'm sooooo tired of people acting like politics is this thing that is external to us that we can, somehow, opt out of. Literally everything is political and politics is an extension of who we are as well as the mechanism through which we create society based on who we are and what we value.

Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-i...

Tying health insurance to employment makes workers easier to exploit, bc when you get fired you don’t just lose your job, you might also die or go bankrupt…

“Before teaching young men how to run the world, teach them what to do when the world is one room, one woman, one terrible thing happening, and nobody wants to be the first man to ruin the evening.”

So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.

BOOK DAY!! Yes, #Booksky and #WriterSky, it's HORNGARD's BookDay AND my proof that it's possible to come back from a serious cumulative-over-time-multiple-concussion traumatic brain injury. So many decisions long before (and not counting the bad ones that ensured injuries) made recovery possible.