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Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Financial Planner: leaving the water in the glass might seem safe, but due to the eroding effects of evaporation you'll lose drinking power over time. Investing in a diversified portfolio of beverages will...

Ian Danskin@innuendostudios.bsky.social · 2w ago

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Video Essayist: fractions, as a concept, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt, but did not reach Europe until the 17th century...

(AI actually has been used in science and medicine for decades and is incredibly good at doing things like finding cancer that can’t be seen with the human eye but that is a completely different type of AI then we’re all angry about it and we shouldn’t discuss them in the same conversations TBH)

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Talk to the people who would use this for dream use cases — the cancer scientists, the people who want to make material goods out of it — and they will tell you it’s either a marginally useful if unreliable trick or completely useless. It has produced 0% of the utopian products promised.

super mario sunshine is a video game that is unpolished, unfinished, and a complete waste of your time. it is a game that does not respect you as a player and crumbles under the weight of wait wh- what are you- w-wait, but, we're b-both girls- mm..mfffhh...

“I don’t know why you guys are still arguin’ over the knights identity- Toby’s practically been SCREAMIN’ the answer since Chapter 1. Trust me boys- Papyrus Knight. S’only thing that makes sense.”

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there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

If you followed or signal-boosted the claims a few weeks back by the historian who said the graphic novelist had done an unauthorized adaptation of her work on Charity & Sylvia, a lesbian couple from 19th c Vermont, please read this essay from someone who fact-checked these claims in detail.

thene@thene.bsky.social · 3w ago

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...