Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention, but I don't know if I've ever heard anybody under, say, forty use the term "user-friendly." I just don't think it's a standard part of how we talk about technology anymore.

Teaching doctors about smoking is a moral imperative. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking the tobacco industry's money or doing nothing!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

This Thursday, 7:30pm Central Time: I'm told "Ghosts" will be the first piece of the night! Gender Fucked is offering livestreaming on their YouTube if you want to tune in! (I'd encourage you to still buy a ticket to support them even if the livestream is public on their YouTube)

Big Dyke Energy@azurebitch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last year a trans playwright reached out and asked about doing a short 10-minute stage adaptation of my story "Ghosts" for a trans playwright festival in Chicago Turns out it'll be happening this August! www.genderfucked.org/trans-scribe...

It's day 1 of the 2026 @goldencrownls.bsky.social Orlando conference and here is the Book-A-Day Giveaway WORD OF THE DAY!! 📚 🖊️ 📆 Follow all the rules and be the 1st to tell me the word today to win the featured book prize below. #giveaway #sapphicfiction #wlw #GCLS2026

I’m super proud of this book and grateful to everyone at Tachyon Publications. Letters from an Imaginary Country and the longest story in the collection, “The Secret Diary of Mina Harker,” which I wrote for the collection, are both finalists for the World Fantasy Award. :)

The technology has only been in the wider commercial sphere for a couple of years? If you genuinely believe people have completely lost the ability to function independently of it already, that’s more an indictment than an endorsement.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h 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.

By the logic in this quote, your pet could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party and nobody would know. I swear, can't any of these people hold two thoughts in their head at a time??

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

I present as masculine, and the indicators that I'm nonbinary aren't always obvious and yet being interrupted by cisgender men with way fewer accomplishments so they can explain something in my field to me is an incredibly frequent experience. I wonder if I give off some subtle not-a-man pheromone.

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

I don't remember exactly when I became vegetarian. I remember that it was August, because a restaurant in town with northeast origins was having their annual amazing prices on lobster, and lobster was the last meat I ate. I remember my kids were in high school. So August, but 2016 or 15 or 14? <1/9>

This thread is amazing.

Alison Robin@alisonrobin.com · 2d ago

The only people funding Antarctic expeditions anymore are private investors from old money who belong to weird social societies. These rich guys are just obsessed with recreating some expedition from the 30's that only found a couple fossils. I don't get it.

It has come to my attention that a whole bunch of people are fretting over casting a vote in the poetry category of @thehugoawards.bsky.social this year because they feel somehow unqualified. So I have decided to write up a handy guide for how to assess which poems are worthy of your vote.

nobody is ever beating Barack Obama in a “broke the worst half of America’s brains” competition but I’m impressed that Anthony Fauci is emerging as the LeBron to his MJ

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Laine Perez@laineelise.bsky.social · 6d ago

Just finished reading this story by @labyrinthrat.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com. Loved absolutely everything about it, especially the protagonist. (Honestly, I want Jamie to be my best friend!) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/subs...

"prove a human wrote this" mf you think an AI would have needed 4 threatening emails and 3 deadlines to submit a short story

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of, and it feels fake to me.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Look, I really don't want to hear from anyone about anything on flights--I'm wearing my earbuds for a reason--but just imagine the hysteria if someone got up during a flight to read from a surah, pray from the Sunnah, or just recite the Shahada.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Yesterday I wore one of my enbie pride T-shirts, and got some amusing (to me) reactions. The shirt features a cassette tape, with the label being horizontal stripes in the colors of the nonbinary flag, and the slogan "I am a Mixtape."

Honestly the last decade already did that for me. "AI" is just the inevitable plastic cherry on top.

Alex Arrelia@alexarrelia.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m gonna be honest with you all, if “AI” has done anything, it’s changed my perspective insofar as it makes me respect people less in general. A lot less. It has revealed an uncountable number of losers who will shamelessly lie, cheat and steal, and still never amount to anything.

Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?

CBS News@cbsnews.com · 2w ago

ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

if this flag offends you i'll help you pack

heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

Sepsis wards are coming. I have yelling this for ages and sadly it is coming true. This is a fear all those who know history knew was coming. God it is scary!

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Is clear as black and white!

For the 50,000 pound discourse, I have a degree in math and I understand expected value. I also know that the dollar equivalent of 50,000 pounds would alleviate problems that are crushing me right now. I also double majored in a humanities field, and so I understand that there are intangibles not

Cosigned. This enby actually spends a *lot* of time in Sapphic spaces, and at least 99% of my experiences have been wonderful, accepting, and joyous. And the trans lesbians (and trans bisexual women) I've seen in those spaces have been accepted and uplifted as well, in my perception.

Kathryn Salamander 🦎✨@transsalamander.bsky.social · 3w ago

Was at an event for dykes last night that was easily half cis & half trans and it was just a bunch of lesbians having fun. Anyone who buys the lie that cis lesbians have a problem with trans ppl haven't been in many lesbian spaces. I'd trust a cis lesbian I've never met over any other cis person.

I just watched Now You See Me. They made two more of this crap??

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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