Art museum staff: do you have ANY IDEA what an all-hands-on-deck, everybody out of the building NOW level emergency the climate control malfunction in the beginning of The Thomas Crown Affair would have been?

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h ago

sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

I’m not sure what rock you have to live under to think people haven‘t been screaming about our First Nations not having clean water for ages now.

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 13h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

I am logged on for 2 hours to say I am appalled by what I read in the HWA newsletter. There are AI witch hunts ongoing where writers are being accused of using that garbage tech with no evidence. Telling ppl who use AI proudly to get out is not gatekeeping. Call out the writers and companies.

Hi Sephera! I understand how commercialised LLM-based text/image extruders (the "AI" you're talking about) work, and how they're trained I assume that means I'm alright to call you out for this particular bit of bad-faith grifting? P.S. other people also understand them. Might be a you problem

Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · 3h ago

i don't have anything clever to add about the hwa mess but i did peek over at the facebook wasteland where the author posted this, uh, defense. we're all bullies, because it's the wild west, and see we're all proving her point, and who really understands ai, fuckin magnets how do they work amirite?

If you need to not be alone at three in the morning you can almost certainly arrange it.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Me: I accept... Wait, my cat. I'm bringing my cat. The Fae: Uh... okay? The bargain is struck! Me: Good! So, let's cut out the intrigue and get to the part where I need to duel someone. The Fae: What the fuck... Me: I've read enough romantasy to know that's what's going to happen here.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

That HWA pro-AI lady has an AI-powered "writing coach" app she just launched and lol btw I will be your writing coach for free with no AI! Here: Turn off Bsky, you creep closer to death every day so WORK ON YOUR BOOK NOW--the discourse will still be here in the morning. You're welcome! 🥰

"writers deserve to get paid, but not cover artists or video editors, and it's fine if instead of writing they use the theft machine because I'm equivocating genAI LLMs with all machine learning."

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

My personal rule is that if a person’s foremost issue with any given community is “division,” what follows is typically a defense of the status quo and a call to concede to its demands.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

fwiw: receipts on receipts "Studies have found that individual thermal receipts can contain BPA that is 250 to 1,000 times greater than the amount in a can of food."

BPA and BPS in thermal paper

Thermal paper is thin with a slick feel or sheen finish and discolors easily when scratched.

pca.state.mn.us

How do i turn off the thing telling me when people liked somethong without me asking?

Logging on

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 need to go work on my draft before I start writing an essay about how exactly Jennings is continuing to fuck up.

All that was obnoxious enough, but then apparently this made him some kind of right-wing hero for a day, and he doesn't seem to really understand why: they loved to see him punching down at us. Nope, he just saw his name alongside nazi propaganda and didn't like it. Or maybe his publicist didn't.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

I couldn't resist going to find it since it's also one of my faves

Reversing the Enlightenment to own the libs.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

This is why shutting these things isn't good enough. They must be completely dismantled.

MinnPost@minnpost.bsky.social · yesterday

Prison industry giant CoreCivic announced Monday that it has finalized a five-year federal contract to reopen a long-shuttered prison in Appleton that will now hold immigrant detainees.

Youtube, not content to send me endless terrible book opinions, has discovered I'm a goth and started sending me all the Azrael Abysses of the world and I can't help but watch them be wrong.

"I ACCEPT HARDER!!" I shout, voice muffled through a face stuffed full of faerie wine, faerie bread, and anything that looks even remotely like a pomegranate

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

Missouri friends: tomorrow is Election Day and I'm sure you already know to vote NO on amendments 4 and 5 to preserve our citizen-led ballot measure process and prevent a huge statewide sales tax hike, but please also vote YES on 1 to preserve an existing tax for parks and conservation too!

Literally the best chocolate cake I've ever had is the $5 bundt cake from Aldi.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

Furries are an indicator species. If they start disappearing, your online ecosystem is not healthy.

Well! That wasn't our usual mystery boom. Did a perseid land on the truck eating bridge? Wtf?

can we help my pal Karen? she needs to get somewhere cool & quiet & get something to eat. this is going to be a very hot week in Vancouver

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d ago

I just woke up. I slept maybe 20 mins Could people chip in so I can go in a/c place and food. not feeling best E-transfer : thefool.ward@gmail.com I am currently the owner of 3$

If you want to hear what the wind chimes sound like—personally I love it, it’s not “tuned” in the way manufactured chimes are but it’s really lovely (This one is still available for purchase!) www.etsy.com/listing/4534...

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d ago

We’re in Lughnasadh season, the year is slowly waning, so between now and the 23rd, all physical items are 25% off! I got fossil + driftwood wind chimes, tumbled quartzite jewelry, individual stones, and more, with more listings to be added in the next few days tarotdruid.etsy.com

Oh hey fellow makers, this is VERY cool looking. Don’t have to go down with the Etsy ship! fybe.art

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Olivia reads the verge interview so you don't have to! It's... not great.

Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, so Verge is very intentionally rage baiting folks by specifically taking a clip out that sounds like the CEO wants to add nazis. Someone else said it was really about sports. I'm reading through the touch edited transcript verge offers below their post to see which.

The 1950 Ray Bradbury story "There Will Be Soft Rains" is about life after the nuclear holocaust. As a reddit post pointed out, it is set far in the future: Aug. 4, 2026 - tomorrow. www.reddit.com/r/books/comm...

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