Remarkable that "PhD level" super genius LLMs can't detect the sentiment my newsletter might have towards AI
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TFW you a coin a very specific word to describe a very specific thing in a major newspaper that academic researchers start using in published papers 4-5 years later without crediting or citing the journalist who coined it
I would like to launch a new "identity" vertical at a major magazine or newspaper called Straight Culture, and it would be about straight culture *braces for the deluge of editors sliding into my DMs*
Adding to the list of funerals I won't be attending
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayThe hill I will die on: You should be legally obliged to play Mr Brightside at your wedding | Amelia Tait
The thing where I tried doing video because I was like, "Well, maybe I'll actually enjoy this medium" and I hated it, and now it's like do I turn my thoughts into little carousels so that people can not sign up for my newsletter or ever read one of my books anyway? No lol
Alicia Kennedy@aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 2d agoI’ve started to physically cringe at the sight of an Instagram carousel and that’s the origin of the questions I’m asking here. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/thinking-p...
The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar
The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar
Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar
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This is a big part of why we should think hard before signal boosting bullshit
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d ago“Conservative” politics in America have simply become a competition for who can say the most outrageous and provocative shit, while successfully baiting more famous people into beefing with you publicly. It’s almost as if this is the logical outcome of nominating a Reality TV star for president.
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: *throws phone in the Thames from Waterloo Bridge, walks 15 minutes to The Seven Stars and hangs out with the black pub cat called The General*
“To choose software and have it fail is unfortunate; to be chained to it for sustenance and be unable to walk away is torture.” Incredible post by @papapishu.bsky.social that includes alternatives to consider. I’m trying to get away from Canva too. aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/
I Hate Adobe
Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.
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I have also spent years researching what it means to be alive (ie I have been alive for years)
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoI’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
Whenever someone asks me to help edit something, I have them explain it in their own words and then tell them to just write THAT down Instead, because it's much clearer and to the point.
Alastair Somerville@acuity.design · 7d agoAdobe Acrobat will deflate all those ballooned #GenAI PDF reports
The Atlantic is winning the old media category of bad headline writing
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6d agoCharli XCX has been known for making self-aware, cybernetic dance pop—the art-school take on Britney Spears—but her new album most flagrantly calls back to an entirely different influence, @skornhaber.bsky.social argues:
“For the wages of sin is death and…” I’m just going to interrupt you there to say this job isn’t for me but thank you for the opportunity
me, traveling: open to romance everywhere it might strike me home in Appalachia: arranging to drive 30 miles to the nearest hot person me, in London: *ugh they’re hot but they’re 2 miles away, no reply*
i made the mistake of logging on linkedin which prompted me to think about all the nice emails editors have sent me over the past decade that i've not screenshotted and posted to linkedin because while i am certainly unhinged i'm not that fucking cringe
Excellent demonstration of the drooling buffoonery that is TikTok after the Ellison makeover. bsky.app/profile/benc...
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7d agoTikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
I have the exact right opinion about The Odyssey...and I'll never tell 🤫😘
If you google "dog ate my homework," you'll get this "AI Overview" instructing you to first "check if any pieces are salvageable" and then "immediately email your teacher to explain what happened."
earnestly adore that we live in an era where you overhear strangers in cafes tell each other things like "i'm afraid i'm currently a low aura person"
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
people on LinkedIn: i am the founder and creative director of myself people on bluesky: i am, in fact, a cartoon
while i have no direct experience with this, we can all agree: the best way to manage your ADHD is to be rich; like you have zero issues with executive functioning when you hire a person to do that for you
PSA it is homophobic when a straight white lady assumes one queer must know another queer AND ALSO we already fucked after a march
While working at Google, Claire Stapleton cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then she lost faith in what the company was selling. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
How I Lost Faith in Google
While working at Google, Claire Stapleton cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then she lost faith in what the company was selling.
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