ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I had gotten to the point where I was posting only career news and updates on the former Twitter, but there's a point where not even that is tenable, and that point is today.

In retrospect, maybe when I got that popup box in 2010 saying "The thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created" I shouldn't have just clicked "OK"

ennui levels are holding at 56%

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AI is going just great
https://404media.co/users-cant-speak-to-viral-ai-girlfriend-carynai-because-ceo-is-in-jail/

#AI

Winter not quite here
The remnants of Fall remain:
Sound of rustling leaves.

#haiku #fall #leaves #nature #forest

I doubt there will ever be a political cartoon as accurate or timeless as this

Barbarity, Civilisation
René Georges Hermann-Paul (1899)

Studios: "This is our last best offer! Accept this or you get nothing!"

SAG-AFTRA: "Nah. We'll stay on strike."

Studios: "GEEZ! FINE! WE CAPITULATE!"

Unions work.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-tentative-deal-historic-strike-1235771894/

Unions work!

I've podcasted and written a lot about the Christian Right, but wait until you hear about TESCREALism, a new post-libertarian parareligion based on the very worst scifi

It's totally insane, but many of the world's richest people have bought into it. It's like Scientology for oligarchs, minus the centralization.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and many others seem to be devotees.

It's so weird that many people find it hard to believe. It is real though, and very wealthy. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-tescreal-the-new-techno-religion-thats/id1486920059?i=1000634602739

#WIPwednesday • I’ve almost finished the trigeminal nerve. Single strand chain stitch is slow. #SciArt #embroidery #VagusNerve

"boomer" vs "millennial" is no replacement for class analysis.

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day

It's NaNoWriMo month!
Despite being one of my favourite things, I guess I totally forgot about it.

NaNoWriMo is an *excellent* exercise for building writing muscles. Even just trying it is a great idea. I've "only" successfully finished it twice, but it's done me a ton of good.

Why not start now? Write 1500 words every day and you've got half a novel by the start of December… but remember: the practice is the reward, not the outcome.

https://nanowrimo.org/

#writing #nanowrimo

"Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." ―William Faulkner

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

A person on my feed boosted a post by @wardrup, and I watched this video as a result. I have to say that it is about as powerful a statement against Nazism as I can imagine. I have hundreds of neighbors, acquaintances & family that I wish could/would watch it. Perhaps one or two of them might wake up & understand that the path they have taken is flawed.

Here it is if you missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYn5t0tuuAk

When did we begin to call authoritarian announcements ... "rhetorics"?

"The former and possibly future commander in chief aspires to strongman power if he wins back the White House next year. He believes his authority would be absolute. He wants vengeance against his political enemies. He’d pose the greatest challenge to the rule of law and the Constitution in modern times, seek to crush press freedoms and gut the machinery of government.

None of this is speculation."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/trump-extreme-rhetoric-analysis/index.html

"Can I have one more of your stickers? I have a trans son"
How to make my day in one sentence #AgileTD
/cc @emilyk

The Supreme Court's new ethics code is a confession:

https://open.substack.com/pub/takebackthecourt/p/the-supreme-courts-new-ethics-code?r=27fvr9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web