Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary
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Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
With this technology, Elon Musk could theoretically not have to pay anyone to level up his Path of Exile and Diablo characters! It's all according to keikaku...
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
With this technology, Elon Musk could theoretically not have to pay anyone to level up his Path of Exile and Diablo characters! It's all according to keikaku...
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i miss when this guy was the only LLM
a man in a suit is holding a pink object
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a pink object
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
i miss when this guy was the only LLM
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The crazy thing is they never even gave the new kids a chance to fail. We have to date never seen an Avengers team of Simu Liu, Brie Larson, Don Cheadle and whoever else people/characters. They've gone on no adventures, they've been administrative place-holders!
January 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The crazy thing is they never even gave the new kids a chance to fail. We have to date never seen an Avengers team of Simu Liu, Brie Larson, Don Cheadle and whoever else people/characters. They've gone on no adventures, they've been administrative place-holders!
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"It's for an audience that doesn't exist anymore by virtue of aging out and moving on and the kidz rightly paint the MCU as middle age core as New Balance sneakers and we bet the farm on Stars of Tomorrow like Simu Liu and Kit Harrington and oh god it's getting so cold and so dark..."
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"It's for an audience that doesn't exist anymore by virtue of aging out and moving on and the kidz rightly paint the MCU as middle age core as New Balance sneakers and we bet the farm on Stars of Tomorrow like Simu Liu and Kit Harrington and oh god it's getting so cold and so dark..."
The biggest problem this stupid movie has is that for a project from a boastfully interconnected operation, nearly nothing goes into it from the previous 17 films and various streaming odds and ends. It wants to speed run Endgame energy but its tapping into cinema memories from BEFORE Endgame.
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
The biggest problem this stupid movie has is that for a project from a boastfully interconnected operation, nearly nothing goes into it from the previous 17 films and various streaming odds and ends. It wants to speed run Endgame energy but its tapping into cinema memories from BEFORE Endgame.
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never forget if you die in bluesky you die in real life
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
never forget if you die in bluesky you die in real life
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
"I promise to be good in 2026."
January 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
"I promise to be good in 2026."
If Marvel had any stones and wasn't owned by Disney, they could have made posts across their social media featuring Tony Stark saying "Listen, I'm not perfect but this guy fucking sucks ass, please never compare him to me again"
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025
- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions
none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions
none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
mashable.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
If Marvel had any stones and wasn't owned by Disney, they could have made posts across their social media featuring Tony Stark saying "Listen, I'm not perfect but this guy fucking sucks ass, please never compare him to me again"
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
This. No tier list exists to objectively rank *how* one obtains information and news. I grew up on dirty newspapers and lived in a three channel city, but I don't think reading print and having consolidated broadcast avenues is better or worse than what we have now. It's just different.
i grew up in a "no TV" household which meant that my parents exclusively got the news from reading the newspaper. when i went to college & moved out, i got my news from reading blogs and watching The Daily Show every night. would we say that what i was doing is "better"? i don't know that it was.
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This. No tier list exists to objectively rank *how* one obtains information and news. I grew up on dirty newspapers and lived in a three channel city, but I don't think reading print and having consolidated broadcast avenues is better or worse than what we have now. It's just different.
What do you mean his name is Bob **PEAK**
December 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
What do you mean his name is Bob **PEAK**
Trying to negotiate a retaining fee for next year's worth of tech, geek and gaming coverage and the editor asks, "How much do you want for this?" and honesty I hate when they don't just make you an offer. I mean if I were to be honest I'd be like, "How about everything you've got?"
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Trying to negotiate a retaining fee for next year's worth of tech, geek and gaming coverage and the editor asks, "How much do you want for this?" and honesty I hate when they don't just make you an offer. I mean if I were to be honest I'd be like, "How about everything you've got?"
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"The existing power structures, which just so happen to benefit me, can not be torn down by force, but by convincing me that they are not good and just and natural, which they clearly are, and not because they happen to benefit me."
December 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"The existing power structures, which just so happen to benefit me, can not be torn down by force, but by convincing me that they are not good and just and natural, which they clearly are, and not because they happen to benefit me."
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This is exactly the racist perspective: any awareness of racism is performative shouting, the solution isn’t restructuring institutional power but persuading them, giving them veto over all remedy and casting blame for any failure not their recalcitrance but our insufficient persuasiveness.
December 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is exactly the racist perspective: any awareness of racism is performative shouting, the solution isn’t restructuring institutional power but persuading them, giving them veto over all remedy and casting blame for any failure not their recalcitrance but our insufficient persuasiveness.
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I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.
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The cohort of pop stars who do (sometimes perplexingly) giant numbers and never go away aren't monoculture pop stars but whoever was big in the early 2010s just before digital downloads died. Millennials's college years, not their childhoods and teens, most of which phased out
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The cohort of pop stars who do (sometimes perplexingly) giant numbers and never go away aren't monoculture pop stars but whoever was big in the early 2010s just before digital downloads died. Millennials's college years, not their childhoods and teens, most of which phased out
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the “avatar has no cultural relevance” shit is boring and played out, but so is the backlash “avatar is the savior of the dying hollywood blockbuster” shit. lot of hyperbole in both directions for what’s ultimately mcu movies for cinephiles who are too proud to admit they aren’t above it
December 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
the “avatar has no cultural relevance” shit is boring and played out, but so is the backlash “avatar is the savior of the dying hollywood blockbuster” shit. lot of hyperbole in both directions for what’s ultimately mcu movies for cinephiles who are too proud to admit they aren’t above it