Notices by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez (glecharles@zirk.us)

I remember #NaNoWriMo's innocent early days of simply cranking out a terrible first draft without your internal editor interfering, and then watched in disappointment over the years as it became institutionalized and started taking itself way too $eriou$ly.

This latest misstep isn't terribly $urpri$ing, and they surely won't be the last arts organization to make a tone deaf decision related to "AI" non$en$e.

#cmonson #WritingCommunity

https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/

@FlashMobOfOne 💯 Although as I note, FPS' have been making me queasy the past few years. That may or may not be age-related, but it's happened!

I am by most definitions an Adult Gamer, but I'm starting to feel a little like Murtagh: maybe I'm getting a little too old for this shit?

#gaming

https://loudpoet.com/2024/08/14/am-i-too-old-for-playing-games/

How long will it take to reveal the backroom deals that were made for Hochul to justify her last-second, "Midtown diner" flip-flop on congestion pricing?

The cops angle is tempting (many of them live in NJ, along with the Mayor) but that wasn't enough for her to not wholeheartedly support it to begin with, so there must be some dirt involved.

#TheWaronCars #cmonson

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-congestion-pricing-hochul-subway-56c1661a9c1f83c69af644e02f49b9d1

Rebel Moon. 😐

I'm not mad that I watched it, but I am mad that it exists. Not a single original idea, terrible writing, terrible acting, terrible choreography, weak VFX — but Netflix gave Snyder a ton of money to make it while a dozen debut filmmakers could have made a dozen better movies for the same amount of money.

#cmonson

"We need to seize the means of computation, and that means ejecting all of these interlopers, and relocating it back into the personal domain we control." Danny O'Brien, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

h/t @mmasnick

#decentralization #technology #SocialReboot

https://ffdweb.org/digest/terminal-values-cognitive-liberty/

This post seems to have hit a nerve, getting more traffic than my little blog has seen in years. Most of it seems to be coming from Hacker News, which is definitely NOT my crowd, along with a couple of troll comments I can cheerfully mark as spam and move on. Blogs FTW!

"One year later, the problem with social media is clear: PEBKAC"

Thoughts on social media post-Twitter, with a shout-out to @mmasnick

#SocialReboot #Xodus

https://loudpoet.com/2023/12/02/one-year-later-the-problem-with-social-media-is-clear-pebkac/

Kudos to the organizations who stepped up to fight #HB900 instead of complying with fascism for financial gain.

Hopefully publishers and librarians will remember who was ready to sell them out and take their business elsewhere in the future.

#BookBans #libraries #publishing

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/93089-judge-blocks-texas-book-ban-law.html