meeting a lesbian couple: "so which of you is going to lose the time war"

“If you live long enough you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learned to navigate as you enter adulthood and then that world slips away from you by degrees. And after a while, there’s nothing left of it but you’re still here.” Loved Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

No gods, no masters, friends. Especially the gods that the billionaire class are building so that they might become our masters. Not those, most of all. We do not want your AI god, silly tech bros! Begone! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-vall...

Silicon Valley’s Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion

The tech world’s obsession with artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

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"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Short Helpful Guide for Democratic Party Voters: if somebody says "males in female sports," they are saying the slur

👨‍⚖️ TL;DR: AI doesn't need to write high-quality books for non-AI book writers to get hurt. Cheap books at massive volume are enough and they've cut what the average human-written book earns in most genres and pushed human titles down the bestseller ranks. (10/n)

I do not want to read EVER about people who worked for ICE and are now sad about it. I won't do it. if they truly feel sorry, let them atone on their own, but I'm only reading the interviews and stories about the ones deported, the people they have disappeared, the ones harmed.

Great clause. The big 5 are pushing back on clauses against AI in marketing and publicity.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w ago

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan. Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent

Trevon Logan@trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since the video is self explanatory they are moving to a discussion of tone. They do this while refusing to admit that Tommy is a conservative operative, and in no way an “innocuous person at the town hall.” These are deeply and fundamentally unserious people.

Useless car, and useless trillionaires trillionaire-ing.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social · 2w ago

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

Rec'd some great books to my 8th graders today, including: 🐉The Story of Owen 👠Dorothy Must Die 📒The Field Guide to the North American Teenager 💮Bittersweet in the Hollow 💀The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker 💘You Can Go Your Own Way 🚀Illuminae 👑The Merciful Crow 🧟‍♂️Forrest of Hands and Teeth ⚖️Internment

Greg Andree@gregandree71.bsky.social · last mo.

Rec'd some great books to my 8th graders today, including: ⏰The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 🐍A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger 👀Creep by Lygia Day Peñaflor 🤖Zed Moonstein Makes A Friend by Lance Rubin 💀Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet 👻Not Quite A Ghost by Anne Ursu

Hard agree. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s because Meta sued the author and got a gag order that prevents her from saying a single word about her own book. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to human rights and democracies the world over, including ours. It is vitally important you know how and why.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Never been a better time to read Careless People by former Meta senior executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, which — among many, many revelations — reveals that Facebook promoted the European far right in the mid-2010s as a gambit against post-Snowden privacy regulations.

I am a child of the 1970s, and the Bad News Bears used Bizet's Carmen as its soundtrack, and that Habenera hits me just right. youtu.be/rdqJs5-N1-A?...

BAD NEWS BEARS | Official Trailer | Paramount Movies

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

name your fav classical music song.

I think the thing that radicalized me was when I was in drama as a kid and another kid fell off the stage and broke her leg, and spent the next half hour trying to convince the adults in the room not to call the ambulance because she couldnt afford it

Rec'd some great books to my 8th graders today, including: 🐉The Story of Owen 👠Dorothy Must Die 📒The Field Guide to the North American Teenager 💮Bittersweet in the Hollow 💀The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker 💘You Can Go Your Own Way 🚀Illuminae 👑The Merciful Crow 🧟‍♂️Forrest of Hands and Teeth ⚖️Internment

Greg Andree@gregandree71.bsky.social · last mo.

Rec'd some great books to my 8th graders today, including: ⏰The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 🐍A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger 👀Creep by Lygia Day Peñaflor 🤖Zed Moonstein Makes A Friend by Lance Rubin 💀Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet 👻Not Quite A Ghost by Anne Ursu

We had an assembly run by guidance last week, and they made a video using an AI person, and the 8th grade kids started yelling “AI! AI! Boooooooo!” It was nice.

Joanne Nelson@joannenelson.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to report that “That’s so AI” is the go-to insult among my 7th grade students.

“If you live long enough you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learned to navigate as you enter adulthood and then that world slips away from you by degrees. And after a while, there’s nothing left of it but you’re still here.” Loved Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

just rewatched Jennifer's Body, directed by Karyn Kusama. My favorite demon-possession-by-inept-pop-band horror movie. Fuck Low Shoulder, those guys are the worst.

Megan Fox Smiles in Jennifer's Body Scene

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Rec'd some great books to my 8th graders today, including: ⏰The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 🐍A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger 👀Creep by Lygia Day Peñaflor 🤖Zed Moonstein Makes A Friend by Lance Rubin 💀Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet 👻Not Quite A Ghost by Anne Ursu

Greg Andree@gregandree71.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rec'ing some great books to my 8th graders today, including: ⚽️ Furia @yamilesmendez.bsky.social 🏀 Rez Ball by Byron Graves @byrongraves.bsky.social 🦄 The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School @sonidoreyes.bsky.social 🔪 Plain Kate @erinbowbooks.bsky.social

Happy first day of Fall, beautiful people. It's finally a sweater day in New England.

Linus Writes to Great Pumpkin with PSL

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Happy first day of Fall, beautiful people. It's finally a sweater day in New England.

Linus Writes to Great Pumpkin with PSL

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A typical morning at the Anthropic head office

Person: I believe Republicans are mere months away from systematically murdering me and everyone I care about. Me: Well, vote for Democrats then. Person: HOW DARE YOU, I HATE THEM, I HATE YOU, YOU BOOTLICKING SHITLIB, AAAAAAAAAAUGH (pees self in anger)

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror@danacorn.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s also kind of fascinating how someone can believe Democrats and Republicans are the same, and also Republicans are going to kill us all, at the same time.

“On the one hand, the Republican Party is uniformly and openly eliminationist toward us. On the other hand, some 80 year old back bench deep-red-state legislator with a D after his name said something ignorant. So both parties are exactly the same. I am a very serious person.”

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last mo.

I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️@mrsceltics.bsky.social · last mo.

Polymarket partner LeBron James continuing to promote gambling 🤢

Wishing a peaceful Yom Kippur to all my friends, g’mar tov.

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.

Tangent to this, but it's bonkers to me that Biden was -24 on the economy in 2022. The fact that US economic fallout from covid was orders of magnitude less than other countries AND he started major invst in EV/solar mfg just didn't matter to people who were pissed about covid prices.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last mo.

The number that should worry Trump the most: Americans say his policies have hurt rather than helped the economy, 26/55. -29. That’s worse Biden in Sep 2022 (-24). And a stunning turn from this time in 2018, when Trump was 41/26, or net +15 and seen as *helping* the economy.

If you see this, post your favorite Disney character. (my little ASD queen, the character where I've been most seen. Love you, Lilo.)

Lilo Pelekai: Leave Me Alone to Die

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈@anuncivilphd.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, post your favorite Disney character.