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 have abandoned my family for a few days to finish some writing deadlines, and am housesitting alone & I decided to go to bed, & less than 10 mins later I am in bed. Is this what it is like to have no dog and no kids?? Do you people live like this all the time?? I am flummoxed and flabbergasted.

🚨FOR PETE’S SAKE PEOPLE, DO NOT EAT THINGS YOU THINK MIGHT BE WILD CARROT/QUEEN ANNE’S LACE UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WILD HEMLOCK LOOKS A LOT LIKE WILD CARROT AND IS BAD NEWS FOR THE HUMAN BODY www.dcmga.com/wp-content/u...

Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Only learned recently that this thing I’ve been calling Queen Anne’s Lace for most of my life is actually also called a “wild carrot.” Totally blew my mind. I didn’t eat it, but it *smells like a carrot*. There were hundreds, so I pulled one and washed off the dirt at the riverbank.  

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

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WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

Another year, another struggle to find the #AllIreland #Final in the USA. Please, streaming services, a deal with the GAA can't be that expensive???

When you (an editor or a critique partner or a classmate) comment on someone's writing, you can absolutely deal them a disabling injury if you're thoughtless about it. I'm not saying anyone should be dishonest or refrain from pointing out issues. I'm saying

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

David Thewlis does not get enough credit for being an absolute TREASURE.

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

I have NEVER been able to get past Say Anything. They are GRADUATING. She is the valedictorian! Why are we just finding out about this fellowship now?!? Did she apply nowhere else?? Deposits were due May 1!

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮@purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Can you think of a movie/ tv trope that is a wildly inaccurate representation of what they’re trying to depict? For me, it’s science stuff . They’ll show a scientist and say something like “ he has a ph. D in molecular biology “ and then have him solving physics or organic chemistry problems

I'll go with logic.. #politics #logic

I think if your North Star is “What does the audience want?” And not “what is the most interesting story I can tell with these characters,” you’re dead in the water. If YOU don’t know what you want to say, you’ll never be able to say anything

The thing that makes me saddest about Lindsey Graham's passing is that I won't get to hear Seth Myers scream at mee-maw anymore.

How is it possible that I had absolutely no idea Season 2 of the Artful Dodger had even finished production, much less dropped?? WHY DON'T STREAMING SERVICES WANT ME TO WATCH THEIR SHOWS?? I get a bagillion ads for random crappy reality I've never clicked, but shows I've rewatched are buried. WHY?

Has there ever been a situation before this when governments devoted so much money and effort into forcing people to adopt the products of a few companies, with so little evidence that they were useful?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI

HOW COULD JANE AUSTEN DO THIS TO ME, PERSONALLY??? HOW COULD SHE???

I'm so fucking sick of having to be hypervigilant about EVERYTHING. Please, for the love of all things holy, let me just exist in this world without constantly having to watch my back for who is trying to screw me over. (Go change your Instagram settings)

Zach Hazard Vaupen@emo-sludge.com · 4w ago

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

What if we made it socially, culturally, & politically untenable to be a man who hurts women? What if we valued women JUST ENOUGH to value women's lives over men's power or talent?

hey here's an idea maybe hold men responsible for acts of sexual violence as a matter of course

this is what happens when you get rid of the Department of Defense

I wrote a script that everyone loved, but my agent didn't want to send out because it was "execution dependent." Translation: it would need good actors.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

Democrats are preparing a hostile audit of Trump and his inner circle, intent on exposing — and ultimately ending — the most lucrative presidency in American history. Dems see the presidential gold rush as corruption personified — and plan to bury Trump's orbit in subpoenas if they win the House.

I love me a Chicago pope.

Fantastic 🧵 1000 years of history summed up

Den M@mousketeer.bsky.social · last mo.

Lets have a wee off the top of my head look at some of the Highlights of 'The RCC is at it again'. 🧵 12th Century : Pope Adrian 'gives' Ireland to Henry II of England. Now, while the Papal Bull 'Laudabiliter' is considered a later forgery, the 'gift' did occur. Why? Doctrine? Kinda. Money? Oh yes.