Teija
@teija.bsky.social
Perpetually tired and achy. Eldest daughter, mother, pianist, writer, reader, and single-player game enthusiast. History MAs: Modern Germany, Imperial Russia. Introvert with a coffee problem.
We just did two solid days of in-office team building stuff and today is back to normal but my god I am still so tired!!!
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
They’re hers. If he wants clean copies he can buy his own or borrow from the library or something. Fuck off, Charlie. I hope she dumps you.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoYou be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books?
Had a great time seeing Muse last night but boy am I paying for it this morning. I’m feeling my age today 😂
What is kind of terrifying about this, aside from everything else, is that this "company" used the actual likenesses and reputations of actual human academics/scientists without their consent or knowledge to make itself sound authentic. Scary times. www.404media.co/company-offe...
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
404media.co
There was a place near here that used to be in the historic train station but got rent-hiked out in favor of a steakhouse. They had solid chicken, but hands down the best house-made honey mustard I’ve ever had. I think about it every now and then.
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · last yr.I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again
JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS
Avian Face-Tool 🦡@beakmoo.bsky.social · 2w agoI just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
idk maybe it’s curmudgeonly of me but “bloodcurdling laughter screams” are definitely something a parent can discourage their kid doing in public spaces like the shared lobby of this swim lessons place I’m stuck in for the next half hour of my life
Binging Star Trek Discovery for the first time ever as self care (I just finished s1e10)
Who purveyed the toxic veggies? Whose the negligent inspections Of these filthy pestilential Salmonella jalapeños? Name the seller, ebon corvid. Quoth the Raven, Taylor Farms
This definitely falls under the "I don't think people should go to prison for objectively funny crimes" rule. english.elpais.com/internationa...
The incredible story of the man who built a fake Roman theater in Italy and sold tickets to visit it
The fraudster, who charged up to €40 to visit a site built without permits on a hill in Vicenza and presented as a historical find, has been sent to prison
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I could answer that "what's a batshit thing a medical professional has said to you" thing or I could sleep tonight without reliving it, so that seems like an obvious choice.
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
When I was a kid, if anyone had suggested they wanted to examine children's genitals, that in fact they HAD TO examine children's genitals, that one sentence would net them jail time. I think those times should come back.
Every now and again I think it's important to recommend this book. It drives home the understanding that we live in a connected eco-system and that evil doesn't simply manifest in a vacuum. Nazi Germany studied American fascism, particularly Jim Crow, very closely before committing the Holocaust.
I really wish I could convince my sweet, dumb, ancient, arthritic dog that he does not need to get up every time I move.
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
website I've never been to in my life: you've already used your free articles sign in to read!
Leslie Knope: I Hate It Here
Alt: Leslie Knope and April Ludgate lean, both miserable, against powder-blue lockers and Leslie says: I Hate It Here
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we're at that stage of parenthood where everyone keeps getting out of bed well after bedtime with mysterious sudden nonsense ailments that are immediately resolved with a withering "get back to bed"
If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4w ago"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
if only somebody like, idk, Upton Sinclair, for example had warned us about this a century ago
Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · 4w agoTurns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
The FDA was literally created because in the 1880s, milk sellers were thinning milk with chalk, cow brains, and formaldehyde to make more money. Like milk specifically was a main driving force behind the creation of the FDA. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid
In an unpublished excerpt from her new book The Poison Squad, Deborah Blum chronicles the public health campaign against tainted dairy products
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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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Claudia Black please and thank you
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · last mo.You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
I feel that we need a Jimothy and Moo Deng animated heist film
why do I like the meg so much, is it jason statham vibing with the tiny adorable child or is it rainn wilson being the worst millionaire and being eaten by a megalodon for his sins
