S. Drekisdóttir

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I'm a simple girl. All I want out of life is to drink the blood of my enemies from their hollow bleached skulls. Ink Witch. Lesbian Gym Rat. Brawler. Skater. Climber. Painter. Musician. She/Her.

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

The photos you were shown in school of Nazi book burnings are from the raid on the Institute for Sexual Science. They were burning us, our history, our belonging in this world. It is still burning. You either choose to help put out the fire or accept it.

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Political consultant: Imagine a job where you can get absolutely everything wrong and never get your clients any positive results and yet continue to get hired. DNC keeps making the same mistakes on repeat. It stops looking like incompetence and starts looking like deliberately throwing the match.

Some things are classic for a reason, but just because something has survived, doesn't mean it's good or correct. Nostalgia might be comforting, but it's also a trap and a cage. What spoke to you as a youth might have been truly great or you might have just been a kid. Discernment is hard.

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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.

Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

I'd love to sell some copies of MINTY FRESH this week, because we're coming up on her fourth anniversary at the end of the month! The paperback came out just this summer. Check 'em out! 🖤✨️ 🔗 links to ebooks: corvine.gay 🔗 paperback:

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Araminta Chase is a screw-up. Falling out of a window to avoid someone is business as usual. Landing on a vampire is a new one. And the vampire wants to know exactly why Minty was where she was, when ...

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Stop saying stupid stuff like: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Start saying: "A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."