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To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before.

Apple won’t stop you. It may scare you, cajole you, and hide the button that allows you to run that app in the basement in a disused lavatory behind a door with a sign on it that says “Beware of the Leopard,” but it will let you run it.

One of the Cepheids, a rather tall, sweet boy, had dressed up as a Sith lord, with a lightsaber made of parts he bought at an auto store. He made one for Wells too. “Which led to us actually starting to date,” Wilson says over tacos. “I always tell people we were brought together by the dark side of the Force.”

Wilson brings out a tray of tea and homemade shortbread—the Hobbiton vibe here is unreal.

At one point, they tell me they’re planning a big trip to Seattle for Worldcon, followed by a seven-day cruise in Alaska.

orry that this makes it very difficult to resist the inclination to centralize everything on a couple of big instances. And that inclination absolutely must be resisted. I would love to see a fediverse full of thousands of small instances of software platforms that are as easy to manage as a PHP web forum.

I worry that this makes it very difficult to resist the inclination to centralize everything on a couple of big instances. And that inclination absolutely must be resisted. I would love to see a fediverse full of thousands of small instances of software platforms that are as easy to manage as a PHP web forum.

Morally and creatively bankrupt people might excuse these stock footage montages by saying that the public doesn’t mind them, and can’t tell what’s real and what’s not.

There’s no file to open and edit. All the work has to be done on top of the Sora output as if it was photography, or as a total replacement. Maybe they can extract and change the color from the prior version.

All our stars start with small roles, and if those small roles are synthetic, how can we have stars? Do the bozos want to market synthetic stars? Good luck.

Either the romance will be hot and the world-building disappointing, or the elvish quest business will be top-notch and the smooching will be tepid.

Gaslamp means there are parasols at play.

It would take an entire library of PhD theses to properly explore the layers of sexism that female fantasy readers and writers have experienced over the last fifty plus years

We have swords on our t-shirts, and we’re not afraid of protagonists who know how to kiss.