Feels like @99pi.org bait

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Is weather doing good

youtu.be/qMw5H1WjpDM?... 20th Anniversary Edition

Comedy news shows in November: “We’re off until February.” Are you out of your goddamn mind.

Less than 48 hours to go and she’s nearly there! seedandspark.com/fund/girlie

Tara is the coolest bravest person I know and yes it’s important to support art, particularly about reproductive care, in this dark period of American history.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

There has to be a line that says this subject is morally unworthy of debate. “Fix your hearts or die”.

If there’s no genuine recourse in a political system, violence is inevitable.

let me rephrase - one of the fastest ways to become a monster is to blind yourself to the role that luck played in your success and your failures.

The order of science: 1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem 2.) Work for years to solve it 3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won 4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed 5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax 6.) The deadly problem returns

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no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

Just a quick color pass in Lumetri. Okay, lemme just normalize the volume real quick. Y’all want a quick fade at the beginning? Nothing fancy, just simple. Oh, probably should put in some subtitles. What are your deliverables? Splits? Should I put some leader on

God Only Knows is the best song of all time

This gets to the heart of why generative AI is not a technological tool of expression like a camera, a word processor, or a pencil. A prompt is just a question, the beginning of an inquiry. You have to answer it yourself.

we sent a camera to space on behalf of planet america. it all combusted on the way back, but not before our ai astronaut confirmed there is alien life out there; alien life that insists gender is binary. “also they wanted me to make sure to tell you life starts at conception” relayed captain grock

"Oh so you like it when AOC rails against elites but you don't like it when RFK Jr. rails against elites?" is utterly brain dead and absolutely EVERYWHERE. AOC is right that inequality is bad and RFK Jr is wrong that vaccines are bad. It's not hypocritical to like one of them and not the other!!!

if you look closely, babies are everywhere

On the other hand, pro-AI people talk about it like they’re trying to unload a shitty used car. “Does it always work right? Absolutely not! Do you need to take extra annoying steps to receive worse results? Of course! But that’s the real beauty of it…”

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

There is a profound difference between assistive and generative AI in cinema.

buddy the only "tik tok" I'M worried about is the beating of his hideous heart

Born On The Fourth of July is a Christmas movie

*leaving hell* hey it’s nice out here