Frank
@francisowl.bsky.social
master grade gundam builder | apprentice dungeon master
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Did Ray Smuckles send this?
September 10, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Did Ray Smuckles send this?
I grew up in Springfield, Ohio and the Haitian community has done so much to revitalize that city that they deserve our respect and support. JD Vance can go jump in a lake of fuck.
September 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I grew up in Springfield, Ohio and the Haitian community has done so much to revitalize that city that they deserve our respect and support. JD Vance can go jump in a lake of fuck.
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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.
July 10, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.
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Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI
June 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI
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Moebius dressed as his character Azarch, photo by Jean Lariviere, 1985
May 8, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Moebius dressed as his character Azarch, photo by Jean Lariviere, 1985
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“‘Smoke’ was the perfect title for a movie written by the late Paul Auster. Not just because it's set in and around a Brooklyn cigar store but because the smoke has a shape that is ever-changing and ephemeral: within moments of creating it, it's gone.” www.rogerebert.com/mzs/smoke-bl...
May 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“‘Smoke’ was the perfect title for a movie written by the late Paul Auster. Not just because it's set in and around a Brooklyn cigar store but because the smoke has a shape that is ever-changing and ephemeral: within moments of creating it, it's gone.” www.rogerebert.com/mzs/smoke-bl...
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the future of the internet is enormous spaces containing nothing but ai’s screeching to each other getting increasingly sicker as they ingest more and more of their own waste while the humans slink off to cool dive bars to share things in peace and quiet
Breaking News: Meta will begin to incorporate its newest AI-powered assistant more comprehensively into Facebook, Instagram and other apps. The software will become practically omnipresent — inside the news feed, in search bars and in chats with friends.
Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2024 at 11:43 PM
the future of the internet is enormous spaces containing nothing but ai’s screeching to each other getting increasingly sicker as they ingest more and more of their own waste while the humans slink off to cool dive bars to share things in peace and quiet
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Just to circle the point law enforcement is a big reason why we don’t have stronger privacy protections in the US. A big part of what’s made our economy so scammy is the desire to keep multiple loopholes open for state surveillance.
"Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten of thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, is also offering the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website."
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages
404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.
www.404media.co
April 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Just to circle the point law enforcement is a big reason why we don’t have stronger privacy protections in the US. A big part of what’s made our economy so scammy is the desire to keep multiple loopholes open for state surveillance.
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Gentlemen what is stopping you from dressing like this?
February 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Gentlemen what is stopping you from dressing like this?
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I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...
If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
April 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...
If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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My hottest tech take is that what big tech has actually succeeded at more than anything is a complete outsourcing of any and all responsibility for their actions.
They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.
They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.
April 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
My hottest tech take is that what big tech has actually succeeded at more than anything is a complete outsourcing of any and all responsibility for their actions.
They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.
They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.
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It’s funny to know for certain that the last social media post ever written will just say “what was that”
April 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
It’s funny to know for certain that the last social media post ever written will just say “what was that”
Just felt an earthquake here in the Hudson Valley. I'm upstairs and felt like I was going to fall over. WTF.
April 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Just felt an earthquake here in the Hudson Valley. I'm upstairs and felt like I was going to fall over. WTF.
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AI (whether it's art, writing, narration, video, anything) is NOT inevitable. It's a grift and only people profiting from the grift push the inevitability line. Standing against it at every turn is the only ethical choice and it works.
March 27, 2024 at 8:56 AM
AI (whether it's art, writing, narration, video, anything) is NOT inevitable. It's a grift and only people profiting from the grift push the inevitability line. Standing against it at every turn is the only ethical choice and it works.
I've read a ton of great stories in Interzone over the years, and it's a pub well worth supporting. The world's just a better place when there are loads of SFF mags in it.
March 24, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I've read a ton of great stories in Interzone over the years, and it's a pub well worth supporting. The world's just a better place when there are loads of SFF mags in it.
absolute truth
March 23, 2024 at 3:43 PM
absolute truth
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BEWARE FAKE ECLIPSE GLASSES!
PoS people are out there selling garbage that will damage your eyes. The American Astronomical Society has a guide to good buying:
aas.org/press/americ...
PoS people are out there selling garbage that will damage your eyes. The American Astronomical Society has a guide to good buying:
aas.org/press/americ...
American Astronomical Society Warns of Counterfeit & Fake Eclipse Glasses | American Astronomical Society
With the April 8th North American total solar eclipse just over two weeks away, potentially unsafe eclipse glasses are polluting the marketplace. Buyer beware!
aas.org
March 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
BEWARE FAKE ECLIPSE GLASSES!
PoS people are out there selling garbage that will damage your eyes. The American Astronomical Society has a guide to good buying:
aas.org/press/americ...
PoS people are out there selling garbage that will damage your eyes. The American Astronomical Society has a guide to good buying:
aas.org/press/americ...
Instant pre-order. I loved wandering in these spaces when I lived in Austin.
I'm delighted to share the cover of my new book A Natural History of Empty Lots, now available for preorder—"a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society." www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
March 10, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Instant pre-order. I loved wandering in these spaces when I lived in Austin.
I’ve been reading Moby-Dick because I’m tired of lying about having read it and — good book, yeah — but I can’t help but hope for the crew of the Enterprise to roll up in a Bird-of-Prey whenever the Pequod kills a whale.
February 26, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I’ve been reading Moby-Dick because I’m tired of lying about having read it and — good book, yeah — but I can’t help but hope for the crew of the Enterprise to roll up in a Bird-of-Prey whenever the Pequod kills a whale.
As an anxious weirdo who has never figured out a comfortable way to approach social media, I appreciated this essay very much.
Lately there's been a lot of talk about the problems building a "personal brand" on social media. How do you promote yourself online without burning out?
I offer a few possibly helpful tips: buttondown.email/charliejane/...
I offer a few possibly helpful tips: buttondown.email/charliejane/...
How To Build Your Online "Brand" Without Burning Out
Recently, there's been a lot of talk about people, especially writers and other creative people, needing to have a "personal brand" on social media. This...
buttondown.email
February 14, 2024 at 6:31 PM
As an anxious weirdo who has never figured out a comfortable way to approach social media, I appreciated this essay very much.