"You can re-sign your lease, but I have to raise it by $250 a month because I realized there was a bigger number your rent could be"

An 1861 Japanese woodblock print about the American Revolution. In this historically factual scene, famous American power soldier Benjamin Franklin hoists a 650lb canon to blast the British under the direction of the military genius General John Adams. archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko1...

Lovely bit of Disambiguation here

Yesssss Anne Rice's #InterviewwiththeVampire, from the book, to the movies, to the current show, is rich with queer history

Complete control of value incoming

Yesssss Anne Rice's #InterviewwiththeVampire, from the book, to the movies, to the current show, is rich with queer history

In each diagram, the green area and blue area are equal

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Bamboo and Mantis. “Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual” (Jieziyuan huazhuan 芥子園畫傳). Qing dynasty, c. 1701. © The Trustees of the British Museum. #InsectThursday #SciArt 🌿🌱

Dropping in on the Discourse to reiterate that British food is a) not bad and b) the way Americans specifically talk about it is completely deranged. Yes Brits eat more processed food than anywhere else in Western Europe and that is Not Good but it’s also doubly true of America!

lol

Trains from Euston either cancelled or showing as delayed without any estimated time so off I go to St Pancras to try the other line to the Midlands. Can’t get on the train because it is full due to earlier cancellations. Solution: definitely never come to London again!

"Deleted" - you love to see it

So let me have this straight. They are going to have the 80 year old President speak in 90 heat index at 10 pm for 45 minutes to an hour, then effectively gas the entire tidal basin (where said octogenarian has been speaking in the heat) with fumes from exploding ordinance? Did I get that right?

missed drawing her so muchh ☀️

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

I worry a lot about how artificial super intelligence will lie and manipulate us to get what it wants, with no care for us or any kind of morality at all behind the 'friendly' mask video unrelated

Each year I honestly pray for England to get knocked out early so I don't have to put up with football's ubiquitous presence in every sphere of life. It's completely inescapable here in the UK and it drives me up the wall.

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

Conservatism is a mental illness.

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

Here's today's top 18 posts on /r/videos. Once again, only 6 not related to US politics.

"Is sex a binary" is not a philosophical question, much less a political one. It's a scientific one that can be answered in a completely dispassionate manner... the answer is "no" and anyone who disagrees must contend with their refusal of totally uncontroversial medial science.

We need to either return to a pre-bot/AI internet, or flee to create a new one. Call me naive, but back in the 90s I was under the impression the internet's destiny was to be an unprecedented knowledge resource that benefitted humanity. Instead it's become the unreliable puppet of grabby little men.

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

I should add that higher education has just worn away my respect for “cleverness.” Im an academic and scientist, everyone I know is “smart” in some way 🤷🏻‍♀️ Humility, integrity and compassion are what truly matter.

POV you go to /r/videos to watch some funny or cool videos and, of the top 18, only 6 are not about US politics. Only 2 out of 18 are not about any kind of politics. It's like this every day now.

Okay Lestat getting pissy with a kid trick or treating at his doorstep this show is perfect I need no other

In times of doubt, Anne Rice comes to me, speaking words of wisdom.

played the vampire lestat in the car and my mom thought it was david bowie. so everyone can jot that down

we caught up on the vampire lestat tonight and this series is just so good and weird and horny and sam reid is so fucking good!

can't believe this show is real

WIP - I need Loustat together again PLEASE #wip #loustat #iwtv #tvl #louisdepointedulac #lestatdelioncourt

#Horror #Horrorsky #Lestat #Vampire

seated for the vampire lestat 3x04

Lestat's Sunday study #InterviewWithTheVampire #TheVampireLestat #iwtv #Iwtvamc #iwtvfanart #Lestat

The vampire Lestat

HOLD UP how have The Bear and The Vampire Lestat both started already and I didn't know??

Second episode of the new House of the Dragon season was a banger! That last scene was very tense. Nothing is simple in the game of thrones...

Today I was discussing Executive Dysfunction with some folks, and how in our household we call it "The Sits" I decided to make an info poster. It's based on my personal experience with it. Yes, the person is me 😆 #neurodivergent #memes #executivedysfunction

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

What is the charge? Training a chatbot? A succulent Chinese chatbot?

So what is the crime? Is the output of Claude copyrighted? Is Alibaba using Anthropic's product too much? If Alibaba's excessive use of Anthropic is damaging Anthropic's ability to offer their service, then how is that different from AI bots and scrapers effectively DDoSing open repositories?