We’ve been warning for years that this is where AI was leading: mass surveillance, automated bombings, the imprisonment of freethinkers. It’s urgent that we collectively boycott OpenAI and ChatGPT. They are building the engines of our oppression.
You could post an unattributed passage from Mrs. Dalloway or Omemsetter’s Luck here and some Good Prose Arbiter would still say it’s “artless dreck” and “onanistic purple prose.”
There’s no formal training for writing literature & I don’t think it can be written as a hobby.
First you have to catch on by reading widely & intensively, then you have to write & discard 100 pages to purge yourself of cliches & ready-made phrases, and then you can begin.
spitting on the grave of fanon--that's what this is. butler the great post-structuralist advancer of nonviolence who condemned even the violence of shutting down milo at Berkeley in 2017--nevermind her both-sidsing after oct 7. not that anyone should expect more of the institutions distributing these awards. putting money in the pockets of those who will not only do nothing revolutionary, but who will also do their best to stop others from doing anything revolutionary--that's what you can expect from these institutions.
whenever you criticize the endless stream of slop books, someone will say, "at least people are reading." are they? is that reading? is scrolling on twitter reading? Is texting a friend or looking at an IKEA manual reading? Is functional illiteracy really the goal here?
The Liberal Party under Leila's chairmanship has become the true democratic socialist party, and the party claiming to be democratic socialist has become more liberal than the liberal party.
We're glad to struggle with you, Manay Leila 💛
this getting (and still getting) an insane engagement should be enough qualifications for them to be in a bl
so I'm calling for CASTING DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS I NEED U TO FEED MY FAMISHED ASS I BEG OF U
MARX LITERALMENTE HABLA DE ESTO AL INICIO DEL CAPITAL, Y CÓMO EN UN MUNDO IDEAL LA AUTOMATIZACIÓN REDUCIRÍA EL LABOR HUMANO Y NOS REGALARÍA TIEMPO PARA HACER OTRAS COSAS, PERO EL CAPITALISMO QUIERE QUE CON LA TECNOLOGÍA PRODUZCAS EL TRIPLE.