Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I'm at an exhibit centered around the contributions of women to technology and, uh, this plaque is missing some very relevant information, like if there's maybe an important woman who worked alongside Charles Babbage

I downloaded a Firefox extension that lets you add custom CSS to any webpage and I fixed Canvas, it's all better now

cooking tip: if you use only half an onion for a recipe, you can put the rest in the fridge and later you'll have a fridge that smells like onion

YOU GUYS GOTTA READ THIS

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Aheh.

i wanna pet you like an animal

this guy gets it

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Canada has laws against forced/slave labour that I've never seen enforced against the US.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

My wife had long covid and, although she's happily fully recovered, she was essentially bedbound for two years. Seeing journalists say stuff like this makes me viscerally, profoundly angry in a way that few other things manage.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.

Not only do I not use ChatGPT, but I still don’t know how to get to it, I don’t want to know, and I have no interest in even learning. I consider this to be one of my better qualities even though it sounds extremely “I don’t even OWN a TV”

We should close off Mt. Everest to climbers for 10-15 years. Humanity has turned a sacred mountain into the world's biggest outdoor toilet. During this time, all the locals should be getting global reparations plus equipment and money for cleaning up as much of the mountain as they safely can.

They really beefed it jumping straight to "Super Nintendo" for their second creation when they had like 9 more Nintendos to make, they gotta call em things like "Bump 2" or "Yay!!". They got too ambitious too quick.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Everyone remembers "delete the wife" but no one remembers Janeway making Michael Sullivan 3 centimeters taller and more educated

I found this image this morning, I'm keeping it for further use, hope it inspires you

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...

One of the things Judge McMahon does here is actually take a small snipe at the judges on this case before her: that is, she explicitly points out that if she had been assigned to the case initially, she would have read the works in question and dismissed the case many years ago.

If you end up on a jury for a personal injury case, it’s because insurance won’t pay and they’ve probably blown a settlement demand, so you can award as much money as you want. You should award $20+ million to the plaintiff to teach the insurance company a lesson about paying what they owe!

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

Tonight we're watching the Voyager season 6 episode "The Voyager Conspiracy", aka the one where Seven builds an LLM in her brain and convinces herself all kinds of bullshit must be true

i can't believe there are downsides to anchoring your paid blog to the same service richard hanania is using

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last wk.

Substack introduced a feature to detect AI generated writing on its platform. That makes some people really really mad! www.404media.co/substackers-...

We’re all good cats here. Things can be hard but even so, we are doing great at being good cats

Potential 2028 Presidential candidates who put out a statement commemorating the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act: -Wes Moore -JB Pritzker Ones who did not: -Kamala Harris -Gavin Newsom -AOC -Jon Ossoff #ADA36

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

I hate to keep asking for help, but it's still going to be months before I get paid through Illinois's Crime Victim Reimbursement program Paying the bills is really tight right now while I've been recovering physically and mentally Please consider donating if you are able

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 4w ago

My GoFundMe is still up. Every little bit helps pay for medical bills and being unable to work for a couple months following being violently attacked Thank you to everyone who shared and donated already. Any extra signal boosting to your networks is appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

Over time I've chosen which foods I'm picky about the quality/how fancy they are, and which I'm not, which is why tonight we had the fancy bronze-cut spaghetti...with Rao's sauce...and Kraft parmesan cheese