Mastodawn

Big shout to tech, old and new, that don't have AI, or make it easy to disable (so far):
Paper books
My ancient MacBook
CachyOS
Firefox (and Floorp)
LibreOffice
Vinyl Records
Notepad++
Scrivener
Pen & Paper
The cave in the forest (not the one that smells like rotting flesh)

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦19h ago

This is so far out of hand.
Everything doesn't need AI. But it's everywhere I turn: Windows, browsers, phones, cameras, cars, JIRA, GitHub and the constant vibe coded pull requests, TV's, GPU filters, support agents, BOOKS?!?!? ART?!?!?! social media.

It's everywhere. I'm tired of turning it off.

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Dec 29

The r/Fantasy 2025 Holiday Mega Sale is on!
You can buy ebooks from over 600 authors (including me) for $0.99 with donations going to the Mary Cariola Children's Center.

I'm donating 100% of my earnings for all of December (regardless of format or sale status).

#books #sale
https://megasale.yrliu.com/

r/fantasy MegaSale 2025

The 2025 r/fantasy MegaSale. Dec 26-27. All books free or 99 cents. Money going to charity for each sale or download. Brought to you by Wraithmarked Creative and Space Wizard Science Fantasy.

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Nov 7

You ever get stuck thinking about how you normally don't think about where your tongue rests in your mouth?

Yeah... That.

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Oct 24

Nothing quite like dusting off decades old html knowledge to hand craft a "pretty" error page. All because it needs to fit within 4kb and the marketing team's software can't barf out less than 160kb.
#DayJob

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Oct 2

Scalzi Oct 2

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag

To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…

Whatever

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Sep 12, 2025

Sargoth Sep 12, 2025

WHAT DO WE WANT
people being nice to each other in low-stakes situations
WHEN DO WE WANT IT
ideally every day, as an ambient thing that just happens

Show thread

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Aug 28, 2025

Just got it again in the next ad break!!! It looks like the tools are there to solve this?!? Why aren't they being used?

Can anyone recommend some good ad blockers for Android and iOS?

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Aug 28, 2025

This scam is showing up everywhere. It’s a deepfake of Canada's PM Carney.
This BS is why people want to use ad blockers. If #Google / #YouTube can’t effectively block scam ads, why should we be required to watch them?

The #Enshitification continues.

Alex Pierce 🇨🇦Aug 22, 2025

@Brendan @alexpierce That seems plausible. They'd have to build Walker retrieval into their training... like a job.

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