I pledge to use my smashed-orphan orphan-smashing hammer - the world's first hammer built from smashed orphans for smashing orphans - to protect and support orphans.

The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’ve pledged to use generative AI services only in a way that protects and supports human creators. By signing the Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries we’ve committed to:

I'm feeling the masculine urge to read George Eliot.

I think I feel about watches the same way I do about Disney rides and Broadway musicals, which is that it takes an extraordinary amount of engineering & artistry to make something that is intended to feel special and make you happy, so even if it's not for me, I'm glad it's out there.

Scary Cremastericle@yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 5d ago

(i mean, I guess that's also true of quartz watches, which are products of the same history, but I'm glad there are people trying to figure out how to do fun things with tiny springs and gears)

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’

Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'

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the most offensive thing in medicine is that it's spelled bair hugger

If I ever suffer a massive head injury or a Fetterman-style stroke I'd like to maybe go do ethics work at Anthropic.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · last wk.

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

You hear there's breaking news about sucker MCs loose in your area, but when you turn on the news they're just showing shots of police closing in on your house, wdyd?

Your mum and dad can't even fuck you up anymore, because of woke.

Battlestar Galactica

Nev Fountain@nevfountain.bsky.social · 2w ago

What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?

Those pictures are what we get for letting Dell beat Gateway

Dipped to my waist feet first into a vat of toxic waste, transforming me into the villain known as "One Face."

We have created the sneering visage upon a trunk and two vast legs in the desert from the poem "dont build a vast statue with a sneering visage as a testament to man's hubris"

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's time for science

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”

Chase Brown currently has 6 carries for 8 yds

related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Merton Hanks ass neck

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 2w ago

texting Tom Cotton "why does your neck look like that?," "dude what's up with that neck?," "eaten any good tree leaves on the savannah lately?," and so forth every few minutes

Nation’s 93-Year-Olds Announce Plan To Crash Car Into Side Of Bank

Nation’s 93-Year-Olds Announce Plan To Crash Car Into Side Of Bank

WASHINGTON—In a joint statement outlining the mission shared by hundreds of thousands of elderly American citizens, the nation’s 93-year-olds announced a new plan this week to crash their cars into th...

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Going to bed

Reminder: Michael Tracey claims to be a friend to all dogs because dogs can't say no.

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICYMI: Netflix Shoots For Its Own ‘Heated Rivalry’ With ‘Icebreaker,’ Casts Daisy Jelley & Newcomer Connor Simos

Who is still posting like this? This shit sucked in 2016.

i hate the bengals man

“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI

WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...

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MY BODY is a MACHINE that turns COFFEE into BLUNDERING MY QUEEN IN SEVEN MOVES AGAINST A SIX YEAR OLD BOY IN NORTH MACEDONIA RATED 453.

I gave money to Abdul El Sayed and now I’m getting spam shit from this decrepit bitch cutting ads misgendering trans girls get fucked you fucking monster. Get fucked Act Blue.

I don’t have much to say about party politics, but I can say this: you get to decide whether you support candidates who think my beautiful, wonderful children can go to the doctor and live regular lives or if they should be trapped and tortured by a hostile system. And the former requires so little.

Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.