Easy. I don't use it now & am not forced to use it for my job, thankfully. Turn it all off & nothing changes for me. Spell check isn't AI. Algorithms aren't AI. Even LLM's aren't true artificial intelligence, because they cannot think. They're big fancy databases with a natural language interface.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 19h ago

I have one answer.

Emma Rios! Whether it's Pretty Deadly, or an issue of Captain Marvel, or Anzuelo, etc, I always recognize Emma's art immediately. But also Becky Cloonan. No one else draws faces like she draws faces. And Nicola Scott - singularly herself, in everything she creates.

Anne Loves Comics!@annecomics.bsky.social · 3d ago

Who has the most instantly recognizable art style in all of comics? Jason? Quitely? Moebius? Momoko? Who? Name anyone and tell us why 🎨

THIS!! In my opinion our collective idea about what is an “Important book” and an “Important film” is also wildly misguided and archaic and that idea needs to be expanded significantly because, as Martha says, joy is important too! Humans contain multitudes!!!

Martha Smith@mostlymartha.bsky.social · 3d ago

I used to read every Important Book and see every Important film. These days, if I wish to experience grim hopelessness, I will simply interact with reality. The truth is, suffering is not the only profound human experience, and I'm tired of the only art that counts being the sad shit.

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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There are definitely tropes I don't personally like or think should be used BUT just the existence of a trope in a story isn't really a gotcha.

Yeah, this kind of thing drives me nuts. Tropes are not inherently bad or wrong to use. It's HOW and WHY.

David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d ago

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

If there's an opposite to the act of fact-checking, it's using so-called AI. It didn't even occur to me to add fact-checking to my "no, you can't use genAI of this, either" list on writing, probably because it didn't occur to my brain that anyone jumps into a lit furnace in order to cool down.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · last wk.

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Link to technical paper www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Loss of vesicular monoamine transporter 2 in striatum of long COVID and relationship to neuropsychiatric symptoms

Findings of reduced VMAT2 binding may reflect reduced dopaminergic terminal integrity in long COVID. Loss of dopamine nerve terminals may be contributing to symptom correlates of apathy, motor slowing...

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The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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Also, as we all know, there are lots of rural areas that don't vote GOP. Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white. We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.

I warned you about using "AI" for the entire business of the administrative state up to and including international relations, bro!!!! I fucken told you dog!

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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…i really need my "fascist bullshit"/"generative AI and authoritarianism" paper to finish going through reviews and get published, soon, please

Violet Blue®@violetblue.bsky.social · 7d ago

For those unfamiliar, Newsmax is a far-right extremist, election-denying, pro-racist, pro-Trump, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-queer, and anti-democracy state propaganda platform. Newsmax content will now "support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I’m much more worried about the very rich men pushing the narrative than I am the thing itself

dame@dame.is · last wk.

real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?

I'm worried about climate crisis (we're past climate change into crisis) & the millions of people who will die due to fire / smoke inhalation, flood, hurricane / tornado/ typhoon, heat domes, & crop failure/ starvation. A truly super-intelligent AI killing humanity? Nah. We're bad enough as it is.

dame@dame.is · last wk.

real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

The lying has become routine.

ICE and DHS's growing record of deception

When their agents shoot and kill people, they shouldn't be allowed to run the investigation.

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I'm catching up on THE FORGED. Vol 2 *clicked* for me. Vol 1 set up the stakes, but vol 2 showed a glimpse of the greater world(s) & what might be pulling strings. Fascinating characters & world building from Greg Rucka, Eric Trautman, Mike Henderson, Nolan Woodard, Ariana Maher, & Alejandro Arbona.

This is fucking terrifying

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2w ago

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

Freeze water bottles if you can, to be handed out/carried in car/bike/transit for cooling later. Check on elders, unhoused folks, disabled beloveds, & households with very young kids. Get debris off HVAC, drain the condensate lines, get box fans positioned... 🪭🌬️ We keep us safe💛 💙🩵

Alerts from NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN (UNOFFICIAL)@mpx.nws-bot.us · 2w ago

🚨 Extreme Heat Warning issued July 24 at 12:59PM CDT until July 26 at 12:00PM CDT by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 🚨 Additional Details Here.(3/3)

Minneapolis Vigil 🕯Saturday, July 25 7 – 8:30pm CDT The Renee Good Memorial site 3343 Portland Ave S

RayHether@rayhether.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm attending Disappeared in America's event, “Minneapolis - Vigil to Demand Justice for Lorenzo. Justice for Johan. Justic www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

This is legalized corruption and there is a way to solve this problem if only politicians loved their country more than they loved money and power.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

Big AI corporations like OpenAI, Google, and Meta are giving millions to state Attorneys General on both sides of the aisle to block efforts to regulate and investigate the industry. Call this what it is: legalized bribery.

The 5 Dems who voted yea to ban trans girls from sports in DoDEA schools are: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Shomari Figures (AL), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), & Terri Sewell (AL).

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amendment 20 passes 221-203. 5 Dems vote yea to ban trans girls from sports in DoDEA schools. Will update who voted yea once roll call updates, which should be after the last vote of the night.

I'd go to Meiningen on October 25th, 1885, for the premiere of Brahms' 4th Symphony, conducted by Johannes Brahms himself. I'd dearly love to hear that!

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You can briefly time travel to any time and place to witness any historical event. You can't affect the course of history; you can just witness it. Where do you go/what do you see?

Requesting your library acquire copies of a book is one of the best ways to uplift the authors you love.

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is

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MN BIPOC KidLit Creators@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social · 2w ago

MN BIPOC KidLit Creators will be at the upcoming Midwest Black Book Fair, on August 22! We’re a vendor, selling our books, and our members are also on a panel. ✌🏽✊🏽 Come check us out!

After my mom died of breast cancer, my dad was a single father of 3 kids 10 & under & had to budget carefully & take all of us w/ him when grocery shopping. I got pretty good at grocery shopping at a young age, which has been immensely helpful to this day! Kids belong in public spaces!

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.

They did say AI would bring productivity like never before

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago