Perhaps it’s silly to mention, but whoever on the #Bridgerton production design team decided to work in a low-key SUSPIRIA/UTENA reference this season was earning their endlessly spinning roses (and/or irises) that day.
That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new
Thank you! You too!
Have we considered the possibility that Jack Warner vowed on his deathbed that, “If I can’t have it, no one can,” and has cursed the corporate lineage from beyond? Because on a lot of levels, that tracks.
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
Duvall's uncredited role in "The Conversation" is essentially a cameo, but when he appears the movie shifts somewhere new---the viewer realizes Hackman's protagonist is just a minor supporting actor in a drama he doesn't comprehend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGOm...
We did this experiment at my former job. The highest paid employees (editors) ended up putting hours into editing and fact checking stories because the AI was wrong in unpredictable ways. Between coming up with the story idea, prompting, and editing they were the most expensive stories we did.
Why do chess students play out, move by move, the matches played by chess masters? So they can learn which decisions led to both the win and the loss, and in what context.
Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
I don't think many cis people realize how much...
1) Blatant transphobia and harassment by the "you have to support Newsom" crowd.
2) UK tearing apart trans rights under a centrist/liberal gov.
3) Blue state govs refusing to enforce trans protections.
Is reshaping how we see liberals and Dems.
Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭
important not to underestimate the visceral discomfort of this: having something personal and unique stolen, copied, and exploited for money.
Green metal dude mutant (Gorky), baby mutant, mad scientist mutant with cleaver (Gnash) in a grubby kitchen.
Sunday morning Canadian television is three monster puppets hosting a showing of IT'S ALIVE.
Honestly, Angelenos: Everyone hates LAPD helicopters. Everyone. Point out that they're using the choppers the way ICE is patrolling and you will do a helluva lot to shift attitudes across the city.
Point out that over 90% of calls those helicopters are on don't require them -- by LAPD's own data
disconnect.blog/getting-off-... wanna get off US tech? It’s hard I know. But bit by bit is the way to go. This guide by @parismarx.com is excellent. One to bookmark and implement slowly
now some of you are going to think, “Claire, surely this literal adult meant that she would generate the raw data and THEN feed it into ChatGPT to make it pretty and do the actual writing”
and to you I say, bless your pure and innocent hearts, I pray you never lose that kernel of faith in humanity
WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK IT WAS USING TO BEGIN WITH?
Doesn't anyone remember that math has to come from numbers?
Percentages and graphs have to come from data. Where's the data?
AI doesn't "show its work" because it can't!
Everyone is going to fail their audits.
When OpenAI released ChatGPT, it was trained on pirated books.
This finally came to light in a lawsuit three months ago, but it has gone essentially unreported.
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I know you will find this a shock so I need you to sit down.
There are countries which are not the usa
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
How to fix all city finances: make the police officers pay for doing this shit, not the city
"Hopefully the Trump administration will continue or accelerate its program of civil rights abuses to ease our product launches!" -- many product marketing teams.
I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
"Totalitarianism in power inevitably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those cranks and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." ~Hannah Arendt
Said it before & will say it again: A vast proportion of the current framework of Western technology & power is founded on, & delights in proliferating, eugenics. Thiel, Musk, Epstein; "AI," life extensionist, way too much of transhumanism. Gebru & Torres gave it 1 name, but the connections are OLD.
Capitalism has confused us on what the actual purpose of writing is. The purpose of writing isn't the product, it's the process. It's figuring out the puzzle. It's figuring out what you think. The product without the process doesn't change you. It's buying gym shoes and never going to the gym.
