Bonus info: the alien-looking creature on the right is his girlfriend.

The Sorcerer’s Heir by Paula Volsky. Cover art was by James Warhola. It’s the second book in a trilogy from the late ‘80s.

I have this book and that’s her son

Get Kali out of the Chad tier, please.

The entirety of bbno$ can only be pronounced if you already know it’s “baby no money” or whatever. When you replace an existing s with a dollar sign, it’s usually (not always) pronounced the same as it had been.

It’s just pronounced like an s.

This reminds me of a gag in a music video where someone called Ke$ha “Kay - dollar sign - hah”

“Micro$oft”

I thought that until I was downvoted a bit back for calling them “M$” in reply to someone’s post about how they don’t want to switch to 11. I can’t imagine where that’s coming from, but it was a good few accounts.

I was told it came across as “unserious” and childish. I think it’s neither: I’m adamant that M$ is garbage and I’m quite serious about the advice I had given in my post to prioritize getting off of 10 before the hackers manage to find something worth exploiting.

M$ managed to make hating on them uncool somehow. Boggles my mind.

They didn’t spend eight years in moneybags medical school to be Mx/Mr/Ms/Mrs, thankyouverymuch

BlueSky login wall. Please use screenshots.

This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on, but here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre): Bara is distinct from yaoi, a genre of Japanese media focusing on homoerotic relationships between male characters that historically has been created by and for women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys’_love: The term yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/ ⓘ YAH-oi; Japanese: やおい [jaꜜo.i]) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of dōjinshi (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi(“no climax, no point, no meaning”), where it was used in a self-deprecating manner to refer to amateur fan works that focused on sex to the exclusion of plot and character development, and that often parodied mainstream manga and anime by depicting male characters from popular series in sexual scenarios. “Boys’ love” was later adopted by Japanese publications in the 1990s as an umbrella term for male–male romance media marketed to women.

So it depends on where you look.

Afaik, Anne Rice was not trans. Many women identify with gay men in my experience. Her writing was very typical of women writing men.

Her writing doesn’t represent the bara-type content shown in the second panel of the post, and to that point, your counterpoint is to the graphic in the post rather than to me.

The picture in “gay mens yaoi” is characteristic of bara, for which there is already a term. I was just pointing that out. I wasn’t picking a fight.

Yaoi is generally by women. That’s part of the definition.

When it looks like that second panel, it isn’t yaoi, it’s bara (at least in English).

“Gay men yaoi” as shown is known as “bara”.

Still a very accurate graphic.

Edited for clarity.

Killed by code capitalism.

FIFT

An interesting but frustrating read. I agree with the complaints, but lament the lack of concrete plans to fix any of it. One wonders if we’re all waiting for someone else to create the vision.

Edit: here’s one: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf

I think they threw it behind a login wall because it was getting hit so hard.

Original url: https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf

All instances of the link in public either reroute to the main NANDA page or have been replaced by the access form to request access to the research.

I think that lead author Aditya Challapally may still have an industry job and I wonder if his employer (M$) objected.