are these reasonable times? will reasonable people rectify the horrors and injustices of our world? sir you have made the case for deep space nine yourself

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

It only took 200 runs but I finally beat Enter The Gungeon. Please clap. No I do not have the Bullet That Kills The Past. Please clap anyway.

tiny tim did die, though. eventually.

me right now

The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.

You are painting a vision of a future in which teachers create lessons with "A.i.," students complete them with "A.i.," and teachers grade them with "A.i." No learning takes place under this system. The only benefactors of this system are the corporations being paid for the "A.i." products.

Another story along the lines of “Cheap, Fast and Good: Pick Two”. Salesforce’s Agentforce to rely less on LLMs to “eliminate the inherent randomness of large models." AI is cheaper and faster than human workers but it’s not as good. This will be the primary challenge for AI tool vendors in 2026.

An implication of the effect of pedagogy and/or AI on reading comprehension that I hadn't clocked until just now is that it's not just another's statements an affected person might misunderstand, but they might also completely miss the implications of their own statements

This requires me to fuzzify my axiom that people are knowledgeable about things contained in and implied by their own statements. It does feel like LLM behavior, where "knowledge" of obvious elements of a conversation or argument cannot be assumed.

Bring back sentence diagraming

Note for the perplexed: in Charlie-speak, a "Sad Boner Professor" novel anatomizes a professor (usually of English) who is Sad because he has an Inappropriate Boner. Its origins are lost in time, but writing one is today a compulsory pre-graduation rite for MFA students in American universities.

"Combine AI and algorithms" is an all-time meaningless sentence.

In 2016, Trump had to choose between continuing his presidential campaign and playing the president in Sharknado 4.

the comments on last years jake paul video have been gold

Jake Paul lost the fight but he won the superpower of always knowing when it's about to rain

Never act like these fascist fucks are popular.

by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints

Death-threats are always an evil, but the average AI proponent would collapse under a fraction of what most trans people get.

Obviously it's bad but it is very funny/on-brand for Trump to be going around grafting "The Donald J. Trump And" onto stuff that people actually respect in the hopes of getting rounded up into it. The Donald J. Trump And Orioles Park At Camden Yards ass. The Donald J. Trump And Chrysler Building.

taking a moment to appreciate the fact that if i my head gets exploded on camera no one in my life will attempt to franchise the scene of my death.

[transylvania, police interrogation room] COP: you stabbed Dimitri in the heart… with a… VILLAGER: with a stake, yes COP: and he died… meaning he was… VILLAGER: was a dracula COP: was a dracula POLICE CAPTAIN *nodding*: was a dracula

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Spotted @jacobgeller.com at Elliot Bay Bookstore here in Seattle tonight

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

It is such a fucked up thing that I can think back to building the Hogwarts Lego set on Christmas Day as a kid and then 20 years later the woman who came up with that will hate that I exist and dedicate her entire fortune to destroying people like me

It’s the reason I can’t find myself being entirely sympathetic with the ‘it’s my childhood’ excuse. It was our childhood too.

and it’s key to recall that every tech must undergo a process of *convincing* people that it’s useful — and this cannot actually be brute forced

It's like how Pharaohs used to carve their name over their dad's name on all their dad's monuments, because "if Dad wanted to be remembered by history then he shouldn't have been such a jackass to me when I was little."

First draft of the Face Hugger is also a grand example

#JewSky, I require your aid: I know that you place and light the Hanukah candles in opposite order, but I can never remember which is new-to-old and which is old-to-new, and I'm sick of googling it every year. Share with me your mnemonic devices! Help me in this, my hour of need!

Which so many trans people said was exactly what was going to happen

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

i made this for my husband

not surprising people aren’t more psyched for the SOON WE WILL NOT NEED YOU USELESS EATERS ANYMORE machine

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.

There was a phrase that stuck with me from an article back from the first Trump term where the author said we were basically all stuck inside Trump's head, & described it as "a casino filling with seawater." That's it, really. We, our country, our history, are subsumed by this awful man's neuroses

every conversation with a tech ceo

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

proving to the judge my father was unfaithful by presenting video evidence of him being much happier playing catch with other boys