The Meta-Author

Behold, at the horizon, it's the four horsemen of the apocalypse, coming to end the world and ... wait, why are y'all cheering? What do you mean "it's about time"? This is the end of the world, stop cheering damn it!

You have to hit that moving target, or just completely not include them in which case it reads as alt history, like writing a story set in a world without cellphones

It must really suck to be a scifi writer right now. Writing a story that in some way touches on AI? If they're perfectly human-equivalent intelligences it'll read as out of date, if they're dumb in a way that's surpassed by current gen frontier models at time of publication it'll read as out of date

So... a direct expansion of the program created under Biden which the Silicon Valley VC crowd led by Marc Andreessen declared a bigger tyranny that communism or fascism...

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

Just killed off one of my characters. Hope nobody minds. 👀 #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #booksky💙📚

Just saw a tiktok where a guy pronounces Andy Muschietti’s name so weird that it sounded like Eddie Machete. Which would be a great 🌶️ name.

Impossible to see if Twitter is down because downdetector is down too 😜 #cloudflare

They've only gone and done it 🤦‍♂️ Someone's typed google into google and broken the internet 😩 #cloudflare #internetdown

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down

gravy basket

There goes Cloudflare again Good luck, IT folks <3

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

Anyone seeing a Cloudflare outage atm?

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I find the hard vs soft magic system discussions boring. I choose a magic system that fits the current story and worldbuilding I'm working on, there's no more to it than that.

At Glacier National Park…

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

#reading #books #bookstore #escaperoom

my god he's perfect

I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

What is Trump even trying to say here? "The Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself. That‘s what they‘ve done. And really, it‘s been an amazing period of time."

If he passes another peaceful night the AFP will put his photo in black and white to reflect his long-term solidarity with the visually impaired

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

Poured one out for the homies who wanted a career in DVD menu design. Rest in peace.

Brendel, can we count on you to chip in $6?

Elon just filed his proposed second amended complaint, asking for "treble damages" for companies illegally [checks notes] not advertising on X... The level of entitlement is insane. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

never forget the most important food journalism of our time slate.com/human-intere...

Bullshit

reset button

This is why companies like Adobe pushed for SaaS years ago - a lot of people won't catch overcharges and/or won't take the time and effort to fix them. Cheating you is built in.

And I/Have become/Mumfortably Sonmb

I FOIA’d the FTC for consumer complaints about Truth Social and users are getting scammed out of so much money

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Confucius, as always radically understimating the scope of my revenge

Me, squinting: This is about the Old Testament curse

“You maniacs!” exclaims Charlton Heston’s character. “You blew it up! The national deficit, I mean, by transporting, at unknown but almost certainly ruinous expense, the Statue of Liberty to the Planet of the Apes!”

Him Upstairs is singing - in no way in time, tune or key - Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb', but replacing the titular lyric with 'and I have become Mumford & Son'. It is unclear how this aids the general effort. #notgettinginvolved #happyiliveinasplitlevel #bringbackanoldhashtag

Great advice! What are you working on, fellow creatives...? I'm finally writing my Arthurian novel, that I've been destined for since my early teens. (So, no pressure, then!)