"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

Musk: joyce carol oates? she a very meana lady!
Musk: she usa too many semicolons!
Mortal Kombat Announcer: FINISH HIM
Oates: i hear you have a cool daughter
Oates: a normal dad would be very proud
Mortal Kombat Announcer: FATALITY

being mean in a funny way is not the same thing as satire.

I realize this is pedantic, but also, FFS.

Musk: so what you think now? i'ma pretty smart, eh?
King:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Poe:
Mary Shelley: finish him, joyce
Musk: now waita you a minute
Joyce Carol Oates: [unsheathing katana]

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

It gets very hard to talk about someone like Steven Pinker and how wrong his ideas are without talking about how bad of a person he is. Normally if those things get muddled in a debate it's considered poor form, but he just has bad sociopolitical views that cause his bad conjectures

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I am so bad at picking favorites. I keep thinking of more authors I want to put on the list.

Annalee Newitz
Charlie Jane Anders
Barbara Hambly

And that doesn't even touch the comics writers - that would have to be a whole other list.

"I would but I can't hear you over the huge stack of assumptions your statement is based on?"

JJ Abrams figured this out years ago. Easy!

Here we go again. If anyone wants to hear from an expert on trial by combat, you know who to DM.

*calls the jazz police*

I know Cohen said it was a terrorist song, but it does predate the actual bombing by 5 years or so?

As Leonard Cohen said "they sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within"