Sometimes the problem with having really amazing friends, is there is never enough time to hang with them.
The quoted AI bro reminds me of the guys there are like "every man has done [creepy rapey thing]" in defence of a creepy rapey guy, completely unaware that, in fact, they have not.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 16h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
The SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN crowdfund is now live - and we've already unlocked the FRIDGE MAGNETS stretch goal!!! YAAAAAY!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
#books Reference Book Sunday! Today it's "Pocket Ref (4th Edition)" by Thomas Glover. This weensy little book is invaluable if you need a working man's knowledge of chemistry, electronics, material science, carpentry, plumbing, hardware, weather, first aid, and much much more. Astonishing, but true.
It is pouring rain, and yet there are still some customers walking around. I love this art fair crowd.
Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.
Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d agoThe August issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Ravn J. Silver, Eilis O’Neal, Jordan Alexander, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, E.N. Auslender, Y.M. Pang, and H.H. Pak. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_239 Subscribe today at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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[S] There is no bottom to Rowling being The Worst. But I read about her hero when verifying: author and journalist Jessica Mitford. Who would probably be ashamed to be associated with JK. And then I stuck gold: Mitford's delightful 1995 recording of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" youtu.be/FKqQIhTCTzY?...
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Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 4d agoAlways hilarious to me that the true story of JK Rowling's harrowing and #relatable story of writing while unemployed was actually "she was fired from Amnesty International (!!) for writing her dumb novel on company time" m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself. One day, the meaning of labels will disappear. Please love yourself as you are. The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself. Because that is your strength and beauty. Chiitan loves you
Quote of the day: "He would lose a battle wits with his own shadow." - from Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines
Normal part of me: LOL that is rich given how they have pushed AI writing your posts. Cynical part of me: I wonder if they are going to use that to make a new AI corpus so it sounds less like an AI to people.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
Today we would like to recognize Ken Sample aka Ken Cougar. A Black man who is credited with creating and coining the term "Fursona". While drawing one of his "Exotics" Ken drew a Cougar character that looked strikingly like himself. Attendees of this conference also wanted their own characters!
Chiitan has a dream. I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past. I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination. Until then, let's all support each other🤍
You know, there is something about a device which is not 100% designed around efficiencies which is just sort of nice.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.www.tumblr.com/thevaultofth...
Ever wonder what the world would be like if instead of obsessing with making ever better weapons of war that effort was instead spent on something which betters the human experience?
At this miserable time in this shambles of a country, Lynch's simple line bears repeating.
This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!
"This renewed incarnation of ACT UP focuses on three advocacy and protest tentpoles: 'attacks on HIV/AIDS funding, the domestic Trans genocide and the ongoing and unmitigated COVID pandemic.'" ✊
Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · last wk.ACT UP, a groundbreaking direct action group that fights AIDS, has returned to Chicago after a 30-year hiatus. blockclubchi.co/4bfn4W7
Reminder that Pride is a daily fight for human rights. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.
Emmett Till would be 85 today. TODAY. Every semester, I think about the fact that he would be one of my mama's siblings; older than her, but younger than her sister. Not a distant past. Someone who should've experienced growing old.