Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 8h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

I found a Rarity-84 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 938 points · 10 rare words. TOP 4% worldwide today. Only 4 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. playoutlier.com/s/2A3YYU

Not sure if this applies to comic storytelling, but there's a Canadian grant out there awarding 17k for emerging /traditional/ artists under the age of 42! Application deadline is August 28th: www.elizabethgreenshieldsfoundation.ca/en/apply

I feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · yesterday

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

I am sick of watching the most thought-free people on the planet dismantle everything that partially worked for the people while meanwhile folks like this look on and are like "oh tut tut our sacred institution of not letting poor people eat! how dare you threaten it!" but I am done ranting now.

I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 927 points · 10 rare words. TOP 7% worldwide today. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. playoutlier.com/s/BKXT9Q

love everything @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social writes, including her blog

Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Not going to indulge in child related discourse just want to say this is a fucking incredible photo and i will be tactically deploying it when i want to insult someone's taste for the foreseeable future

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2d ago

is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson

If you want to build better communication skills and, through them, better relationships there is such a simple exercise you can do: Before you speak to this person ask yourself "what is the purpose of what I'm about to say? What expectation do I hold about what it will produce?" Then compare after.

I distrust the media opinions of people who think games are pointless, music is just noise, or visual art has to resemble something real.

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The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

"haha thats so me" as I click each and every post while slowly the void consumes my soul

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Butterscotch Shenanigans@bscotch.net · 4d ago

🎉100,000 Steam Sales!!! 🎉 How Many Dudes, our silly roguelike autobattler born from the #gmtkjam crossed this milestone 50 hours after launch. Unreal and FAR beyond our expectations. HUGE thanks to everyone for playing! store.steampowered.com/app/3934270 #indiegame #gamedev

I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 907 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. playoutlier.com/s/QFRKQY

I’m going to tell y’all’s kids that this is Charlie Brown & Friends.

I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.

"You're always so precise and thorough in your explanations!" Thanks, it's

there’s, like, a lot of yall who think I’m talking about one specific guy here and it’s like no. this is a general problem. the guy you’re thinking of, that is just one guy among many guys

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d ago

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

The problem with using an LLM for some narrow use case where you think it’s actually appropriate is that you’re using it in the context of a UX system designed to make you expand your usage and change your views of what is “appropriate”

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The daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses?

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Nothing destroys credibility faster than saying “I asked chatGPT.” Oh you lack both imagination and work ethic? Good to know…

Jen Mercieca@jenmercieca.bsky.social · 5d ago

All y'all: AI search is not "research." Don't get it twisted, this confusion will make you foolish.

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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