Mastodawn

"dürfen" so Sätze in Erzählprosa stehen? ja klar. im echten Leben fallen sie auch ständig.

aber wenns die Katze witzig findet und die Hauptfigur auch nicht schlimm UND der Autor wohl auch v.a. clever? 🚮

ich lese grade LitRPG-Romane für Deutschlandfunk Kultur - doch der in Deutschland erfolgreichste Titel?

dass "Dungeon Crawler Carl" kein Publikum verdient, war mir klar, als er Goblins erst mit 10jährigen Jungs vergleicht und dann klar wird "Aber ihm machts schon auch irgendwie Spaß, sie totzutreten."

dann kam die "Comic-Con für Behinderte":

Stefan Mesch 2h ago

Stuart Langridge 2d ago

because I hate you all, I curse you with the new and terrible knowledge of https://100jumps.org

100 Jumps

Hold to charge, release to jump. Land on 100 platforms to win — but one miss and it's over. How many attempts will it take you?

Stefan Mesch 17h ago

MikeDunnAuthor 18h ago

"Biological Women" implies existence of
Chemical women
Nuclear women
Guerilla women
And women of Mass Destruction

Stefan Mesch 1d ago

Robin Bird 1d ago

#booksky folks: Is putting "a novel" on the cover of books next to the title something that's come back into fashion? I seem to be noticing it a lot lately. An interesting stylistic quirk i always associate with older books.

Stefan Mesch 1d ago

3d ago

The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights

Stefan Mesch 1d ago

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊1d ago

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Stefan Mesch 1d ago