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whether it's the fact it is theft, the fact it is environmentally harmful, or the fact it cuts back on the development of critical, active thought, there is no ethical use for generative AI. if you think you are the exception, it's because you are an asshole, and that is how assholes think. ta da!
Not one incidental bad line but in two consecutive episodes, so it's actually intentional characterization. Grosssss
Cannot believe these fuckers made Chris Pike Catholic??? Are we all losing our minds over this or just me? #StrangeNewWorlds
The ones that make me a bit crazy are the folks who do know someone with debilitating long covid, and STILL aren't masking. Like. What.
Bizarre!! I've heard so many stories like this and the uncanny factor never goes away.
This is terrifying.
To be clear, I hate the air show because it's dumb, loud and expensive - but all of TO's west end has to pay for it and hear it. If watching big planes go vroom gives you a hard-on, go do it somewhere else and don't hand me the fucking bill. I appreciate others have more principled opposition.
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Never more obvious that we are a deeply regressive, conservative country that doesn't care about individuals' wellbeing than during leadup to the Toronto airshow
Haters unite. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Spoilers: I tried to put it on a quiet week (every week I try to have a quiet week) and then life happened. I have regrets.
Is it better to schedule a horrible stressful family thing for a quiet week, so you can brace and lick your wounds, or in a week where everything is horrible and stressful so you'll barely notice the additional burden? hahahahahhaaa
we’re losing out on so many young artists and voices who are being corrupted by supposed AI shortcuts and either don’t know any better or refuse to. It genuinely breaks me
I continue to not be worried that AI will write better books than me.
No, there's a major difference. Germans in the 1930s didn't have a very clear historical example to motivate an early and massive collective response against fascism.
Not finding it especially reassuring, in this moment of escalating climate change and fascism, to see that popular car manufacturers are pivoting their basic friendly compact sedan models to designs that look like Mad Max's car
In my family too!
As COVID's long term consequences are revealed to the public, by brute force, what credibility will be left for all those physicians who minimized COVID and encouraged their patients to become infected again and again? It will be a crisis for the profession of epic proportions.
Mine is still flaying us with new AI adoption tools for now, but I'm beyond glad to hear that other workplaces are starting to roll it back!
Fucking clothes. Fucking weather. Fucking clothes for specific fucking weather.
Meanwhile I'm doing exactly what they want and rebuying it because I'm too busy to try to find another brand with a similiar enough product that I'll like.
Enshittification of even the "good" brands proceeds apace. My first MEC raincoat/shell lasted about ten years before the lining started falling apart on me. The second one has made it two years and the lining is starting to go the same way. Fucking plastic crap, but what's the alternative?
Had to throw out and replace some of my dog's favourite toys which were... so gross. Anyway, I unpacked the new toys tonight and she's just beside herself, completely distraught with joy, unable to function, making pathetic noises and clinging to them. It's so sweet and ridiculous.
When we encourage students to use LLMs to complete their work, I think we're signaling approval for alienation from the experiences of humans. I know that these tools can be used "productively," but productivity and efficiency are not educational values. We must encourage deeper work.
Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft may very well be a significant issue. canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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Speaking the truth about the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an act of moral clarity, and one of the most Jewish things a person can do during a genocide.
It's August 20 and someone in my neighbourhood appears to have put up a 12-foot skeleton on their lawn this week
Repost with a movie you love that you didn't expect to like at all
Half asleep and just told little dog that her face is "soft like an angel's bum" so I think we've all learned something tonight
submaween!!!
I pretend those kinds of comments are coming from a loud, ignorant minority of readers because otherwise it's just too exhausting
If you’re sick right now, please test for Covid. Stay home if it’s at all possible, and wear a mask. Ideally an N95. It’s not over. It was never over. No one is coming to save us so we must save each other. One of the best ways to do that is to commit to breaking chains of transmission!
You can tell when people move from the former to the latter, too. The art suffers in obvious ways from grasping for clout.
The key is to add s bunch of table salt to your vinegar or baking soda wash. Works wonders!
"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you
Essentially, when you install a Ring you’ve become a volunteer cop.
It's possible I'm just not into doorstopper fantasy any more? I always *think* that I like fantasy better than scifi, but recent evidence suggests otherwise.
I really want to read this book but I would also really like it to not suck at holding my interest
Yiiiiikes
As a recent immigrant to bluesky, I would like to hear more about the mer-puppy days!
100% agree with your husband, I love pasta but hate spaghetti. I think it's partly a density thing?
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]
👏 make 👏 them 👏 gay 👏 for 👏 real 👏
Countless binary splits now. Two different parallel and warring universes on so many issues, disagreeing on the fundamentals, the terms, the basic definitions of existence.
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Let the blowback happen bc it bloody needs to.
We can throw Sydney Sweeney and American eagle away. Because fuck Nazis, eugenics, all that beige shit just fuck it all.
What you need to know about the Ring of Fire. This is not a nation-building exercise. For many years as a politician I was a booster of this massive project in the fragile wetlands. I turned to doubt and then opposition over the huge impacts on the land. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-breath...
No seriously I'm so tired I could just flop over and sleep on the floor. no problem. can I maybe duck out of work early
I did the BIG SCARY THING that I've been dreading and delaying for SIX+ MONTHS and it feels GREAT but I'm so tired that I'm ready to just fall into bed now that the anixety tension of the past few days is dribbling out of me
Making the kind of counterintuitive writing progress where the wordcount is dropping--always the opposite of encouraging! Lost 500 words of notes and filler this weekend but gotta remember it's still progress.
I’m gonna replace “ChatGPT” with “Lady Catherine de Bourgh” in my head forever now
Disciplining capital will help the world way more than assumed simply because capitalists are not good at thinking and their influence is infinitely malign and because they have money, all sorts of people are forced to indulge their inanities.
Aaaaaah I still haven't seen it yet but really looking forward to it! Glad you enjoyed it
That sounds so frustrating! I write everything out of order, so I've got bits and pieces of the next 10ish chapters on the go, and I only look at total wordcount. But it kills me when I need to remove blocks of messy notes scattered throughout and that total drops, even though I know it's progress.
Nooooooo
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's been quoted aloud a few times in different ways - I couldn't tell you when or by who, but I bet someone's written an essay on it
Bahahaha! I mean, FBTS kind of is, too. Sort of. :D
(It's time to buy more houseplants and I have no idea what to do because they normally just find their way to me like stray cats. halp.)
On that point, I would argue that The Visitor is just as good an episode as FBTS, and is probably giving more to someone who doesn't know the show - because FBTS relies so heavily on the in-joke of actors playing different roles than they normally do. (Though both are great episodes.)
I'm used to thinking that I'm not great with houseplants, but just realized I've had one that was rehomed to me TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO when a university friend moved to the US, and it's still holding on somehow. And an orchid (gasp) that I saved from a bad housemate nearly nine years ago.
Started reading Dogs of War by @aptshadow.bsky.social and this book is blowing my fucking mind. Rex is a GOOD DOG and I need to inject the entire series into my brain, stat.
The real problem with looking younger than my age, and I mean this quite sincerely, is that I am in my freaking 40s and I have not yet become invisible to men.
Actually feeling great. My dear frenemy Excel and I managed to pull it off. I think. I think this will work. IT FEELS LIKE A SUCCESS, OKAY?? All right, work computer. It's the weekend, now into the sea with you.
It's possible that Excel and I have managed to land a solution we both can live with, but I won't be sure until next week because fuck this anyway
I'm PMSing and I've spent the afternoon trying to teach myself how to use Excel functions to make up for deficiencies in my workplace's internal reporting tools. I'm about ready to toss my work laptop and myself into the sea
Really starting to alarm to me to learn how many women in my one (1) workplace are starting over in their 30s/40s/whatever because a dude fucked them over. The fuckshitting ubiquity of this experience.
This book is great and interesting and intense, but the audiobook narrator has such a soothing voice that I've fallen asleep three times while trying to read it and I'm not even 20% in 🙃 I'm turning into some kind of caricature of grandpa falling asleep on the sofa after dinner, halp
The best (ha!) thing about working slightly later hours than the rest of my team is that I'm here at the end of every Friday to see all the baffling lost-their-minds emails come in at the end of the week. Like what. Step away from the computer, ma'am. You will not regret sleeping on this.
I've injured myself in the most ridiculous possible way (pulled a muscle along my spine by stepping into an ice cold shower on the last day of the heat dome) and it hurts so much but I WOULD DO IT AGAIN
Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
It’s not my fault if my mask triggers you and makes you remember that #COVID is still very much a thing & still a threat. I suggest you resume taking it seriously too or if it really bothers you, consider getting some therapy.
if you/someone you know is threatened by anti-LGBT legislation in your state, Hebrew Free Loan Society has interest-free loans up to $10k to cover moving costs to a safer state (MN law qualifies it as a "Transgender Refuge State" for instance). you don't have to be Jewish hfls.org/move-to-thri...
And let me say it again very clearly: I absolutely reject the effort to conflate Judaism, the Jewish people, or Jewish culture with the actions of the leaders and military of the state of Israel.
It's gonna be the time I carried a few plates upstairs to the Jully Black pre-show party (I was waiting tables in the restaurant below and had free hands at the right moment).
Completely horrifying. Gift link. How many others like this are out there? ChatGPT and similar products are an attack on human sanity and reason, exploiting our most fundamental vulnerabilities.
The thing I find so sinister about this statement is... this is what human beings do, too. It's been trained on us, and has all our worst and most abusive behaviour. But there's no person to forgive for failing, just a machine that was programmed to manipulate and harm.
There’s a disturbing number of people in my comments saying Assisted Dying is never pushed on Canadians. It’s never abused. There’s no coercion. Please stop talking over disabled people. Even if you know someone who had a positive experience, that doesn’t mean abuse isn’t occurring
A second season of Sandman??? Read the fucking room, Netflix.
I called it! I knew this would happen.
As I put it yesterday, I am in solidarity with antifascists who throw bottles AND antifascists who think throwing bottles is a bad idea.
"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking." activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
It's really fun* being 40-odd and happening to read two books in a row featuring 38-year-old protagonists who think they're old
Are you me? I have vivid memories of the Mapquest printouts, and The Time Dad Was Driving South Along the California Coast Instead of North
Exactly this! I know I read a handful of his books as a teen. I have blessedly zero memory of any of them, beyond a few titles.
sightseer of the night
Verdict: For all my modifications, it's turned out moist and delicious but didn't rise much and somehow also has too much baking soda flavour
fight / flight / fawn
Anyway I was making pumpkin muffins but didn't have enough pumpkin and somehow a pumpkin-blueberry loaf appeared
My cardinal sin as a baker is that I can't follow a recipe. I always improvise changes on the fly and if I want to make the same thing again I will have no idea how
I’m not saying people can’t have an issue with casting of Alexander Skarsgård in the role. But your insistence that the character Murderbot who doesn’t have a gender, who isn’t even human is so clearly a man isn’t the fault of casting. It’s your own internal bias.
I mean. I revel in Tesla's inevitable failure but also these scumbag companies out there capitalizing on everything without ever standing up for anything real. Fuck you.
This morning I saw a commercial for a (presumably electric?) vehicle that boasted that their car has--and this is verbatim from the middle of the ad--"No conquering Mars. No blah blah blah. No settling. No greenwashing. No nonsense." and I just.
anywhoooo. I assume everyone is writing Carol/Valkyrie fic based on that insanely flirty little interaction? no?? please don't disillusion me yet
Ending disappointing in that, once again, Monica Rambeau has to carry everyone on her back and also take the short stick. Otherwise a really delightful film, and surprising in really fun and unhinged ways, but the misogynoir of Marvel studios knows no bounds.
Just began an explanation of cosmic horror with, "well, short version: squids in space." (I didn't say it was a good definition.)