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so glad I got to vote for Fran yesterday, and am also schadenfreuding about the GOP facing a whole different candidate than the one they’ve already spent so much energy/dollars/attention on lmao

// US politics Damn it really bums me out how much left-pessimism & straight-up Dem misinfo is shared out here, C’MON we’ve known for over a decade this is a tool the rightwing uses against us, and well-meaning progressives still fall for that shit over & over it’s FRUSTRATING pls check ur SOURCES

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

If at any point you feel like gen-AI can do one of your tasks just as good in fraction of a time, it should be treated as an indicator that you are bad enough at that task to have no competence in it, and you are the last person who should be off-sourcing it to AI. Talk to an expert, damn it.

fiction by Academics so often reads like "Behold: I, the Author, am So Smart & Clever" but I'm loving A.S. Byatt novels rn bc her characters are odd & particular in a way that feels like Byatt must've lived with so much attentive curiosity/huge love of learning, and I just?? admire that a lot ok idk

A brilliant debate capped by this superb closing statement from Francesca Hong for Wisconsin Governor. Showing why she’s up 30 points in the most recent poll. This is the moment. This is the movement. And Francesca is the leader for the moment. Vote Francesca Hong On August 11.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

Yeah, the existence of these books and the existence of people who prefer these kinds of books isn’t an issue imho, but the framing? The framing is rancid Vanilla fiction is not somehow more morally righteous than the weirdest, most depraved shit (positive) you can imagine.