Lolololololol This is not what makes cat-care expensive Have you seen a vet bill lately?

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 21h ago

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

Sometimes I think, “oh shit. My writing sounds like tweaked Gen AI.”🤖 And nope. That’s backwards. GenAI sounds like a ghost of my writing because they trained the LLMs on piles and piles of work they stole without permission from writers like me.

Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't think it's solely a function of people being unread. The prevalence of LLM slop just has everyone doubting *everything* and looking for patterns, enough to ignore or forget that some of these patterns are craft, and the LLM's do it because that's what they trained on

I don't think it's solely a function of people being unread. The prevalence of LLM slop just has everyone doubting *everything* and looking for patterns, enough to ignore or forget that some of these patterns are craft, and the LLM's do it because that's what they trained on

Like, a bad, forced metaphor is not a tell by itself because writers sometimes end up resorting to that. But a bad, forced metaphor for something that also was already abundantly clear without a metaphor? Then you can start asking whether a human writer would do this or whether they'd just not.

A human writer can always choose to drop a paragraph that's not working. "AI" can't because it didn't choose to put it there in the first place. It can only pattern match on the structure of prose, not the meaning.

The problem is that a lot of this emerging folk wisdom is treating "AI" like it is a kind of writer with habits. The actual tells come from the complete lack of intentionality to the writing. It's not a writer with habits because it's not a writer at all.

Cats have it figured out, man.

MicheleMuse 💙🌈🦋🇺🇦@michelemuse.bsky.social · yesterday

The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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Behaviores Reporte: 95% goode, 5% harrass of Ludo

Personally I would love to see Bluesky expand. It shouldn’t just be the app for leftists who can’t stand Matt Yglesias! It should also be the app for liberals who can’t stand Matt Yglesias. And apolitical folks who can’t stand Yglesias. And, yes, even conservatives who can’t stand Matt Yglesias!

Monday morning: Feeling a little better this morning. Managed to feed the cats and make myself coffee and heat up a zucchini muffin all in one go, rather than needing to take a break between.

This. All fucking day. I am living in an absolutely different body than the one I inhabited in 2020. I exist in a universe of chronic pain, fatigue, energy management, and calculating (sometimes incorrectly, like last week/right now) what I can tolerate. There is SO much we still don’t know, y’all

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

The HORROR

The Shallow State@ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d ago

Copper: "Yesterday daddy was busy so at dinner time, a neighbor fed me. The neighbor didn't make up a song about how handsome I am. The neighbor didn't speak to me in a baby voice. There was no petting or kissies. He literally just put my bowl on the floor and poured food in it. Like I'm an animal."

We are at the “everything hurts in every position” phase of this particular bullshit

I have watched this many, many times

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m going to tell y’all’s kids that this is Charlie Brown & Friends.

This latest crash has been especially nasty/sneaky. I feel like I have a concussion — I can’t do anything that requires attention without feeling nauseated or getting a massive headache after about 30 minutes.

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

CoolCoolCool what I definitely need right now is a bout with PEM insomnia (And for Bluesky to not be loading GIFs. Boo.)

Doofus

The promise of New York City is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: this place would welcome anyone seeking refuge or a better life.

Never eat the blue M&Ms at all

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d ago

never ever eat the blue M&M first

If you think her tone is similar to fanboys’, then your reading comprehension is nigh to terrible.

tomhoefwrites.bsky.social@tomhoefwrites.bsky.social · last wk.

Lol. Hell of an accusation to throw around there, my guy. I just found it unfortunate that one of the world’s contemporary experts on THE ODYSSEY chose to offer commentary on this film in the same snarky tone one of those incel STAR WARS fanboys used when those dudes were killing THE LAST JEDI.

Behaviores Report: 100% goode and thenky

Yes

Carolyn Petit@carolynmichelle.bsky.social · last wk.

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.

Emily is channeling a LOT to academic rage at our impotence.

First sentence, out the gate, gives the relief of a clean, private stall after holding it for the last 28 miles. Woo-saa.

the whole piece is an extended exercise-as-prose. It’s saying, “this thing you’re experiencing right now? Kind of feels like gas? That’s called a visceral emotional reaction to authentic intellectual voice changing you into a living thing — AI can’t give you that.”