Victor Wolf
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Victor Wolf
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READER BEWARE 2025 by Reader Beware
READER BEWARE 5: DEATH OF THE EDITORS
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I got a story in here! It's about fingers. Go check it out, then read the other ones!
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Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
Season one of The Simpsons is amazing, I don't care what anybody says
January 16, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Season one of The Simpsons is amazing, I don't care what anybody says
Good-ass idea. In January 2020, the CDC said not a question of if, but when, COVID spreads in the US, and that citizens should prepare a weeks worth of food in case of quarantine. I thought the grocery store would be swamped. It was dead. Nobody gave a shit until basketball got shut down in March.
I think we are getting close to the point at which the athletes on Minnesota professional sports teams should start refusing to take the field/court/ice
Something has to be done to underscore the national emergency we are in, because I still do not think corporate media gets it
Something has to be done to underscore the national emergency we are in, because I still do not think corporate media gets it
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Good-ass idea. In January 2020, the CDC said not a question of if, but when, COVID spreads in the US, and that citizens should prepare a weeks worth of food in case of quarantine. I thought the grocery store would be swamped. It was dead. Nobody gave a shit until basketball got shut down in March.
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this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
There are no good wood processors (except focuswriter for drafting)
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 AM
There are no good wood processors (except focuswriter for drafting)
Happy January Basho Day to all who celebrate
sumo wrestlers in a ring with nhk world japan on the bottom
Alt: sumo wrestler blessing the dohyo with gnarly salt throw
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January 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Happy January Basho Day to all who celebrate
Would be curious to see a study in which a group of people (with a few minutes of training) try to spot AI writing/images, and their results are compared to AI detection tools. I'd be shocked if people weren't better at it.
AI detection tools that use AI to detect whether stuff is AI are, imo, a scam to get people who don't like AI to use AI. Sorry about that sentence lol. I am curious what other AI haters think about this though, especially teachers who find it useful.
January 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Would be curious to see a study in which a group of people (with a few minutes of training) try to spot AI writing/images, and their results are compared to AI detection tools. I'd be shocked if people weren't better at it.
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Meet Cute [1/3]
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Meet Cute [1/3]
AI detection tools that use AI to detect whether stuff is AI are, imo, a scam to get people who don't like AI to use AI. Sorry about that sentence lol. I am curious what other AI haters think about this though, especially teachers who find it useful.
January 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
AI detection tools that use AI to detect whether stuff is AI are, imo, a scam to get people who don't like AI to use AI. Sorry about that sentence lol. I am curious what other AI haters think about this though, especially teachers who find it useful.
Me 4 weeks ago: I'm gonna let myself jump around a few different projects at once for a change.
Me now: Choice paralysis thinking about several stories and a couple nonfiction things at once while also reading through a bad first draft of a novel and having ideas of how I could rewrite it and
Me now: Choice paralysis thinking about several stories and a couple nonfiction things at once while also reading through a bad first draft of a novel and having ideas of how I could rewrite it and
January 4, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Me 4 weeks ago: I'm gonna let myself jump around a few different projects at once for a change.
Me now: Choice paralysis thinking about several stories and a couple nonfiction things at once while also reading through a bad first draft of a novel and having ideas of how I could rewrite it and
Me now: Choice paralysis thinking about several stories and a couple nonfiction things at once while also reading through a bad first draft of a novel and having ideas of how I could rewrite it and
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Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Solidarity with the people of yet another country that my country has made unilateral unjust war on. What a long list, what a grotesquely revoltingly long list. Impeaching Trump is the bare minimum here man. Bare minimum of legal action required
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Solidarity with the people of yet another country that my country has made unilateral unjust war on. What a long list, what a grotesquely revoltingly long list. Impeaching Trump is the bare minimum here man. Bare minimum of legal action required
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absolution by jeff vandermeer is the linguistic equivalent of an obliterating blast of gamma radiation that permanently alters your DNA and the trajectory of your life 10/10
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
absolution by jeff vandermeer is the linguistic equivalent of an obliterating blast of gamma radiation that permanently alters your DNA and the trajectory of your life 10/10
Agree so much. Seriously pursuing writing at all is downstream from reading a lot. The more I read the more I want to write, then I write and want to read more. An extremely not-vicious cycle that in no way leads to AI use. Can't imagine sticking a shitty computer middle man in there. AI corrupts.
Look, this person doesn't understand what process is and how keeping it writer-based supports style and narrative, period. Thus, several things she suggests harmless if AI-driven are actually harmful. Also, the fallacy that AI is inevitable belies evidence of a bubble 1/2 file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Agree so much. Seriously pursuing writing at all is downstream from reading a lot. The more I read the more I want to write, then I write and want to read more. An extremely not-vicious cycle that in no way leads to AI use. Can't imagine sticking a shitty computer middle man in there. AI corrupts.
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Primary everyone. Yes, even your favorites if they're on the wrong side of this
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Primary everyone. Yes, even your favorites if they're on the wrong side of this
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painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago
Writing a piece about the disinformation in America as it relates to my local community fighting the data center they want to install here, and it's made me think of a Tim Rogers quote (Action Button Reviews on Youtube):
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Writing a piece about the disinformation in America as it relates to my local community fighting the data center they want to install here, and it's made me think of a Tim Rogers quote (Action Button Reviews on Youtube):
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
I wrote roughly 400 pages of fiction this year and read the most I ever have in my life and I still can't fucking spell disappeared correctly the first time I type it.
December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I wrote roughly 400 pages of fiction this year and read the most I ever have in my life and I still can't fucking spell disappeared correctly the first time I type it.
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When I write I am always fretting about my very frequent use of parentheticals and "[statement], but..." sentence structure. Just a result of the way I think/write or a bad habit I need to break? It's particularly egregious when I attempt non-fiction.
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
When I write I am always fretting about my very frequent use of parentheticals and "[statement], but..." sentence structure. Just a result of the way I think/write or a bad habit I need to break? It's particularly egregious when I attempt non-fiction.
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
The data center they're trying to build near me is being proposed by an unnamed, third-party developer who signed an NDA (likely in violation of Oklahoma open meetings law) with the mayor and city council, and it DOESN'T HAVE A PLANNED USE. Madness. Thankfully the community is pissed and organized.
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The data center they're trying to build near me is being proposed by an unnamed, third-party developer who signed an NDA (likely in violation of Oklahoma open meetings law) with the mayor and city council, and it DOESN'T HAVE A PLANNED USE. Madness. Thankfully the community is pissed and organized.
I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
Finally watched The Descent after 20 years of people telling me it was good/scary. It was both! Ending was amazing
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finally watched The Descent after 20 years of people telling me it was good/scary. It was both! Ending was amazing
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the electoral left needs to lean in heavy on anti ai and anti data center policy
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
the electoral left needs to lean in heavy on anti ai and anti data center policy