AI Companies: We can totally use everyone’s content without asking for permission Also AI companies: we totally won’t use the content you give our AI agents to train our models without your permission 🤞 😬
PlantsAreNeat is drowning in vegetables
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Worker Cooperator, Solar PV Installer, Knitter, Cook, Bi Cis Chonky Lady she/her, Trans Ally, Lifelong MSTie & Sherlockian; I already like your dog here to lurk, comment, and strive to check my privilege at the door
One hates to be formulaic, but here's a blueprint: 1. Play the music 2. Light the lights 3. Put on makeup 4. Dress up right 5. Get things started
My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).
Heidi Faith@heidifaith.bsky.social · 2d agoThe origin of "#mansplaining".... "Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.." ~ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson
NOH8 Campaign@noh8campaign.bsky.social · 20h agoGillian Anderson shared that she identifies as pansexual, saying in a new interview, “Pan, as in pansexual, as in attracted to all genders.” Anderson has spoken openly about her attraction to women and sexual fluidity for years, and now says pansexual is the label that fits her #NOH8
As a cis person who can read, the degree that trans panic is unscientific fearmongering becomes crystal clear as soon as you read even a crumb of actual research should probably be discussed more. Bigots tend to make shit up
Look diesel going up to six bucks a gallon isn't ideal but it would only be a big deal if we were a huge country where the vast majority of our consumer goods, commodities, building materials, and food were transported almost entirely by vehicles that run on it
The premise of the Muppet Show is that if you greenlight it, the biggest stars in the world will gladly appear on your network because they want to meet Kermit and seduce him.
Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 21h agoThis is warlockphobic. Shameful.
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Kiss Cam Operator Not Going To Stop Until All 32,000 Fans Have Kissed
The RiffTrax Experiments Are Back! See Sting of Death in theaters one more time this Sunday afternoon. Get tickets here: www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
Oh my God, what an honor! Thanks for sharing. I will brag about this forever.
Johnny Mathis@thejohnnymathis.bsky.social · 12h agoWe of Johnny Mathis' staff adore MST3K. In the past we've shown Mr. Mathis clips where he was name checked in different episodes, and he certainly got a kick out of it. Thanks for sharing this👍- The Johnny Mathis Online Fan Club
TNG -> DS9 follows the pattern of construction (set up the utopian future), deconstruction (interrogate this utopian future), and reconstruction (show how it can still be a utopian future… if you can keep it) A lot of modern writers are really only interested in the middle part, for some reason
Murderbot out here encapsulating a major moment in current events...
MurderBotBot@murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat I really needed right now was a giant omniscient machine intelligence second-guessing me.
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d agoShout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
Chuck Tingle thread on being open to your own creative ideas and “the fearlessness of sincerity” being so very important. Over and over—across media types and genres—the work that feels sincere is what I’m drawn to, and what I form lasting connections with.
Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 3d agoi understand the instinct to wrangle these creative transmissions and control the outcome when you connect to them. thats so much raw power in our human hands and it can be scary, and one way of making it feel SAFE is to wrap it up in irony or only sample a half measure. buckaroo, STAY OPEN to it
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Dolly Parton's take on AI in 2023: “I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing. I’m sure it’s a good thing for scientists or medical things. But when it comes to trying to duplicate a human being and every little thing they are, it don’t seem right to me. It’s too much.”
Dolly Parton's Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer
"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023.
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Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
1000% my fave episode of ST:TNG; possibly of television, period end of story. Richly written, beautifully acted, heart wrenching and human and wonderful. I've not experienced such perfection in a single episode of anything else. I'm verklempt r/n thinking of Picard playing his flute at the end.
gabriel conroy@the-endgame.bsky.social · 2d agoif one generally disinterested in Trek were to watch just one episode from the past 60 years, i'd probably recommend THE INNER LIGHT a lovely story that (famously) gives Patrick Stewart an opportunity to flex his acting chops
World record holder! This is much easier than running 100m in 9 seconds.
Glyn Morgan@grmorgan.bsky.social · 3d agoTonight nearly 1000 people set a new world record for the most people performing the Vulcan salute in one location. Celebrating Star Trek day on the franchise's 60th anniversary at @sciencemuseum.org.uk
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1990) "The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I & II" Blooper Reel (2013)
