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Oh look, it's my first sword and sorcery story! And you can read it FOR FREE, right now, on this lovely Saturday! Monsters, hunters, old curses, broken vows, and a young man on his first quest. What more could you want? Welcome to August! swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/jubees-first...

Really disappointing. But also, yeah, they make them to be dopamine machines and addictive. That's the point. Keep you coming back to spend, spend, spend. Don't do AI, kids.

Downplay a book or movie: The Casual Acquaintanceship of the Ring

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. I know it's not 100% accurate, but it got plenty right, and for mythologizing the early days of NASA, no film did it better than The Right Stuff.

The Right Stuff Gordo CooperAlt: A clip from the movie The Right Stuff. In this scene, Gordo Cooper, played by actor Dennis Quaid, is in space for the first time and the sun is rising on his ship, shining a light into his capsule. Gordo in awe is saying "Oh Lord, what a heavenly light."static.klipy.com

This is just to say... I have participated in the discourse that was on the internet and which you were probably trying to avoid Forgive me they were obviously so wrong and I so right (no, I did not, just found this amusing and stuck in my head)

Sometimes, not weighing in on the discourse is the best discourse. You're not going to shift opinions, and people will just hate you for it. Type the spiel into a text document, then delete it later. That way you don't accidentally post it, but you "have your say" and lance the poisonous thoughts.

Absolutely agree with Chuck. And also, you can be authenticate just by being yourself, you don't need special "apps" for that. That's just the grifters breaking shit and then selling you a half-assed "solution" to the problems they made.

A nice "hold" notice for a Tuesday afternoon. Man, I hope you all get to see this one, it's the longest title I've ever used for a piece.

Did I mention we have our first anthology coming this fall? No? Well, it's now mentioned. With lovely cover art by Betidraws, it captures all 60 stories and 24 poems published in our first six issues. More information coming soon! (right after we finish getting issue 9 ready for 9/1 release).

Coming soon! Still have some final editing work to do, and then make decisions on how to handle print copies.

The Odyssey. Am I right? You know I am. I might see it. Maybe even in Imax. Mostly because of all the hype for/against. But hearing Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 1997 Hallmark channel two-part is the best adaptation, with its wonky green screen effects and Monty Python-level beards, is hilarious.

Just an FYI, donate to Paige if you can. She ran a great, grassroots campaign with no big donors, and paid the final cost for all her staff on her credit cards, which she now needs to pay off. Her progressive views have my support and I hope she runs again. www.gofundme.com/f/paige-loud

Donate to Help Me Continue Fighting for Maine, organized by Paige LoudMy name is Paige Loud. I recently ran for Congress in Maine's 2nd Congressional Distric… Paige Loud needs your support for Help Me Continue Fighting for Mainewww.gofundme.com

New anthology, whose this? My hard cover copy of "Trunk," from Metaphorosis publishing and edited by B. Morris Allen, has arrived. I really love when a story gets a print copy I can hold in my own two hands. Pre-order now. Releases on August 1st.

Welcome new followers! I'm not nearly as much the delightful raconteur as my joking post about the CyberEdsel would make me seem. But if you like thoughts about writing, music, anti-LLM, pop culture takes five years behind the moment, and politics, consider me seen. And if you don't, well...

That feeling when you forgot you posted a half-assed joke and, when you log back in a half hour later, you see an avalanche of notices.

Man's Cringe Fake SmileAlt: Ted Lasso turns with a blank look, then grimaces.static.klipy.com

So, we can call it the CyberEdsel now, right? finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive HistoryOne for the history books.finance.yahoo.com

Now I'm sidetracked by "Blood," the final album released under the This Mortal Coil group name. This one particularly haunts me. It's the poem "I Come and Stand at Every Door" by Nâzım Hikmet Ran put to music, sung by Deirdre and Louise Rutkowski. CW: child's death www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpH...

I Come And Stand At Every Door (Remastered)YouTube video by This Mortal Coil - Topicwww.youtube.com

After talking to the wife this morning about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (as one does), I've called for a Trollbreath Radio Friday and queued up, "I'm Your Fan," a collection of Leonard Cohen covers by various indie groups, including Nick. One of my fave albums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2X5...

01 The House Of Love / Who By FireYouTube video by thecatkeatonwww.youtube.com

Stop trying to make Summerween a thing, advertisers. Summerween is never going to be a thing (and apologies to anyone who celebrates it and have made it a thing, I'm specifically referring to marketing and advertising by retailers).

100% correct. The LLM was setup to try and break security, that's how it was programmed. It didn't "go rogue," it did what they had prompted it to do, after they had turned off the safeguards. OpenAI is trying to save face for their own cyber attack.