the idea that every game should be a perpetual lotus-eater machine that entertains you forever sucks so bad. there's a whole world out there. go to a goddamn movie

I can absolutely guarantee this is 1000x more interesting than looking at someone's Spotify wrapped screenshots

Exactly.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

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Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be a small, woodland imp that lives between the blades and smokes a little pipe as I shelter from the sun

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

representation is important. thank you unicode team.

South by Southwest is like… what if we raged… for the machine?

Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.

Over 800 private jets were used to attend the Super Bowl.

1994: internet is ephemeral

2004: internet is forever

2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots

2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work