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Patrick O'Duffy

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I used to write things. Maybe I will again.

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Kate Cuthbert's avatar Kate Cuthbert @katydidinoz.bsky.social
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Publishing a book? Want to? I'm running a day course for Writers Victoria next month about the before, during, and after process of the commercial publishing model! I will offer tips and insider info, and answer all the questions I can. More info here: writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/ev...

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Alex de Campi's avatar Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social
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When someone talks about whether you can separate someone from their work, I know the someone they’re talking about is a white man. Marginalized creators (including young women who are that man’s victims) are never allowed to have their work considered apart from their marginalization.

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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…as a foreigner, it took me a minute to work out what was happening here.

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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It doesn't know anything, it's just loud and threatening and crapping everywhere, and absolutely nothing good can come of it for either you or (especially) the chips

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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Meeting JK Rowling to discuss trans rights is like meeting a seagull to discuss chips

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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Yeah, we got boosted in December and caught it in May, right on the cusp of boosting again. Which not only makes me worry about the tailing off of the booster’s power, but about not being able to get another one now until November.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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oh god, BATALTRO fucking ate my brain and then kept eating it I'm playing it right noooooowwwwww

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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for a moment I thought you said 'Sprouse to Astonish' and got very excited about a possible upcoming podcast guest

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Django Wexler's avatar Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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I knew of the BANNED shirt but didn’t know you were the artist!

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danielleri's avatar danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social
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In true late capitalism fashion, AI might cause the end of the world… not because it turned us all into paperclips, but because it was the only thing billionaires wanted to fund so it goes up so fast and sucks so much power that we die of slow, boring, preventable climate crisis instead

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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This is a Scrooge that has Seen Some Shit.

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G. Willow Wilson's avatar G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me
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You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“The forced implementation of AI into applications is meant not to make them easier to use but to break our resistance; “AI” not only requires and rationalizes far more intensive surveillance of users, it takes users’ agency away on principle and tries to sell us that submission as convenience.”

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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Last leg of this year’s US trip. Heading back to Oz on Thursday!

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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Yeah, it was pretty fun. Between this and Ready or Not, the filmmakers are really carving out a niche in the ‘assholes explore messily inside a mansion’ space

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Mx. Fee's avatar Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social
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Transphobes going after cis people is the very predictable outcome of them being allowed to carry on the way they have, being allowed to influence policy and sporting body decisions. When you believe trans women aren't women, no women are women 🤷

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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈's avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Reminder that now, as our voices are being silenced, it is more important than ever to read and share queer and especially trans stories. Here's a thread of trans authors, many of them indie, sharing their writings. Please consider supporting AND READING as many as you can.

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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Maybe it’s just the art Laws was making for his YKing expansion. He was pursuing that as a personal project of sorts.

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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oh NO Very disappointed to hear that about Pelgrane.

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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The bipartisan world, the conflict-free world which squishy centrists crave like techbros crave AI, that older Dems who are still in power still believe in, has been dead for 20 years. And the illusion they needed to keep the status quo has reached a sanity-shattering level of absurdity.

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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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*tiptoes over, sets this down, scurries back into deep cave*

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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I’m sure this is fine. <coughs up own spleen>

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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I really enjoyed the playtest and I’m keen to dig more into it!

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Wes Cowley's avatar Wes Cowley @wes.wordsbywes.ink
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This morning, I opened a PDF to find Adobe Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. That led to a rabbit hole of finding all the places Acrobat’s AI Assistant has to be turned off. Here they are: www.wordsbywes.ink/a...

#LLMs #AmEditing

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Patrick O'Duffy's avatar Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social
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Very fair! Totally understandable! NEVER come to Australia!

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