Finished the last interlude today at 5:21. That is a wrap: Wind and Truth, Book five of the Stormlight Archive, is finished. Tomorrow morning, I'll hand it off to the proofreading and copyediting team. 491k words. The first file I have in my folder for this was dated March 2021, though active writing started about a year after that. So two years and a few months spent working on this full time, with another year of working on the outline. Feeling great about this final version! See you all December 6th. The book, finally, is DONE.
The 1st person to die because of Full Self Driving in a Tesla was a Tesla employee and Elon fanboy who insisted on FSD even though his wife found it stressful and his friend who survived the fatal crash said it was erratic. Elon is obviously lying because he has every reason to.
AI is not a “tool” it’s a weapon. And it’s currently being deployed en masse against the work force and labor class for the sole benefit of capitalists and the owner class.
Time to become unsponsorable
VPNs are useless for 99.9% of people and streaming services are starting to not allow you to use them. They do not make your connection more "secure", they only mask the IP address you're connecting from.
And many of them keep logs anyway,
"Woman I," acrylic & colored pencil on watercolor paper, 16x20", 2023 (NFS).
❄️🐆✨ New painting that was completed for a very kind and patient private collector.
I rarely visit DeviantArt these days since it's flooded with AI stuff. But something made me go there today and what do I see on the home page? This AI shit. Looks strangely familiar.
A thread of the most common issues I see in the portfolio of students and people looking to get their first position in the games industry, based on hundreds of portfolio reviews I've given. Hopefully sharing this will help!