Two of my motheres systeres lyve yn Trastevere and make jokes and jestes all the tyme except when thei playe yn their pop punke bande. Thei are My Comical Rome aunts.
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Two of my motheres systeres lyve yn Trastevere and make jokes and jestes all the tyme except when thei playe yn their pop punke bande. Thei are My Comical Rome aunts.
Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
Thys ys moost wondirful. Have thy people calle my people.
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
"Not that Bluesky is important"
Believe it or not, Ich make certayne to check ideas for jests onlyne bifor Ich poost here. It ys awe-ynspiringe and terrifyinge how manye bad puns have alreadye been made. Ich thynke of somethinge but then, nope, somebodye years ago alreadye seyde Doceratops or Donotceratops ther ys no Triceratops.
Believe it or not, Ich make certayne to check ideas for jests onlyne bifor Ich poost here. It ys awe-ynspiringe and terrifyinge how manye bad puns have alreadye been made. Ich thynke of somethinge but then, nope, somebodye years ago alreadye seyde Doceratops or Donotceratops ther ys no Triceratops.
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
The readynesse ys all
Ther ys power yn a union
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Ther ys power yn a union
Hark, now approacheth the tyme of gettinge ratioed
Two of my motheres systeres lyve yn Trastevere and make jokes and jestes all the tyme except when thei playe yn their pop punke bande. Thei are My Comical Rome aunts.
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!
Science fictioun ys more alyve than it hath evir been.
Let’s gooooooo
Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!
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Bob's Burghers of Calais
Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
Gen A.I. ys a machyne to make us lonelye.
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [lute solo] 🎶
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I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [lute solo] 🎶
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
Surreal sandwich humor: "Oh, but we’re not done." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
The Gen A.I. Borg do not saye "you will be assimilated" thei saye "you will be woven ynto the nuanced and poignant tapestrye of historye"
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
Surreal sandwich humor: "Oh, but we’re not done." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald
You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde? Anywaye, Gen AI...
You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde? Anywaye, Gen AI...
Texte SQUID to 1-833-724-8398 for squid factes. Thys ys reale. Learne about squid.
You get your eel facts advent calendar yet? I need to make sure we have a banger of an advent calendar season so that Skype a Scientist can go into 2026 swinging. We're 11% of the way to the advent calendar goal (which is pretty far behind last year. I'm hoping I can turn it around). EelFacts.net
Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
The war on knowledge doth continue
Fantastic event at @bkwrks.bsky.social tonight! Thank you to everyone who came out—what a crowd!
Fascinatinge CFP on new metaphors for AI newmetaphorsforai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Fascinatinge CFP on new metaphors for AI newmetaphorsforai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
ChatGPT will nevir feele the drastic contrast bitwene the use of pentameter yn most of *The Canterburye Tales* and tetrameter yn *Confessio Amantis.*
Ymagine what Gideon wolde saye about thys!
ChatGPT will nevir get the jokes yn Tudor verse drama.
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ChatGPT will nevir understande musical theatre
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
"“I think this seems to be, at this point, slightly part of a trend to provincialize the United States in a way that is troubling for the future of this generation of students..." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
A goode daye for thys beverage: www.russianriverbrewing.com/brew/pliny-t...
A few years ago when I was at Forbes, I did timeline and map of hour-by-hour breakdowns of what happened during the August 24, 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius 🌋 (and yes, I still hold faith in this date over the specious charcoal evidence). www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
Wylde how at APPLE TV thei have Lee Pace as Cleon yn Foundation dressed yn basicallye the same outfit as Seth Rogen playinge a stoner yn Platonic. Biholde the hat! [Ich saye thys wyth love for both showes]
Poetrye ys the technologye of hope.
Poostinge thys for no particular reasoun, just to get the worde out ther. The *Empire Striketh Back* part ys especiallye ynterestinge to thynke about.
"Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915 – 1978) was an American author and screenwriter ... one of the most prominent female writers during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. .... She also worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film." {Wikipedia}
Any cuttes to academic programs must use seven generacion thinkinge to reasoun out the long terme consequences. Any cuttes to academic programs that do not are profoundlye harmful.
www.slashfilm.com/1944248/boja...
A moost wondirful booke!
Ther ys a war on knowledge, learninge, and educacioun yn the US. Defend the humanityes.
LAST CALL for a Los Angeles legend: Cole's French Dip agent Derrick Moore is accepting offers to buy the joint through Monday, August 25. Pass it on to all your rich dreamer pals--even the ones you kind of hate. What kind of a second rate city are we if we can't Save Cole's?!
Poetrye ys the technologye of hope.
That ys my yn the cornere That ys me yn the spot lighte misspellinge myne owene name yn work emayles
Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes: Siena and the Devyce Milan and the Contraptioun Orvieto and the Mechanism Venyce and the Gadget Spoleto and the Apparatus
Wher ys Ted Lasso when you neede hym!
I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!
thys skeet will receyve verye fewe lykes
cuttinge downe the sworde of Damocles
Let Jonathan Franzen finisshe the Wyndes of Wynter
The LA subwaye ys fantastique!
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania." --The legendarye Dorothy Parker, born OTD yn 1893
The best!
Apple TV ys honestlye so consistentlye great. But then you remembir it ys Apple. Exactlye lyke seeing somethinge coole yn Florence and remembering it was fundid by the Medici.
Happye birthedaye to Dorothy Parker, one of the greatest wryteres yn historye.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Just sawe a signe for a local businesse offeringe a "self servyce dog wasshe" and methoughte well, that ys askinge a lot of the dogges
Absolutelye brilliante and catchye song: "Change Shapes" by Lauren Mayberry www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciDs...
yeah I'll incorporate AI into my workflow. the workflow of my butt
AI ys not a bubble. Bubbles make a lot of people rich, yf onlye for a brief tyme. And at leaste tulips are real.
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
Everybodye sholde have to wryte emayles the olde fashioned waye -- entirelye usinge ASCII art
Wikipedia publishes list of AI writing tells boingboing.net/2025/08/20/w...
Shout outte to everichon who kan remembir everye worde to some random popular romaunce about Syr Gawayne but kan not remembir how manye pyke were caughte from the manorial ponde yesterdaye
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Yeah, that's right... an MIT study shows 95 percent of generative AI products fail to provide any real value. No shit. Sloppers live in vain. Stop the slop.
It's publication day for MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social with a beautiful foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social! Go forth! Be free! Read Emshwiller!
Yn the court of Kynge Arthoure a verye effectyve insult was knowne as an Excaliburn
I'm so sorry to have to share this news, but it seems important to get the word out there. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...