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It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

the “Heated Rivalry is so sapphic cos horny and wholesome who cares that it’s gay men” discourse is as fucked up as the alt-right “it’s gay for men to have sex with women cos that’s SOFT AND UNMANLY” discourse. like wtf are we doing here? the knots people tie themselves in for gender essentialism!

Happy Holidays!

One striking thing to think about is that he daily posts things that would get you fired from any other job if you posted them, even on a personal account.

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

With emphasis, there is no difference in the conservative mind between porn and "icky porn". Queer existence itself is porn to them. Band together and say no to censorship, wholesale. You will not get a pass for being one of the "good" queers. IN THE CONSERVATIVE MIND, THERE IS NO SUCH THING.

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

Picture this: You have an assignment. The deadline is next week. You wait a few days to get started because you can't get to it right away. The teacher says "ACTUALLY... it's due tonight." Casting directors do this with #castingcalls. And they shouldn't. #VoiceActors

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Every time a trans actor books work, that is a step forward. Not backwards. Those of you who see things otherwise should turn the fuck around.

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

me: I'd like a portable speaker with no mic, camera, or AI that has 24 hours of battery time and a battery indicator light. speakers: WATERPROOF TO 40 FEET FOR EXTREME PARTYING me: No, I-- speakers: RAINBOW LIGHT SHOW FOR MAX PARTYING me: There's no party-- speakers: THE BASS WILL KILL YOUR GRANDMA

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

“Fuckwit of a Took!”

That time of year again!

"Could Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem today? Without the checkpoints, illegal settlements and separation wall, the 100km (63-mile) trip could take less than two hours by car today. But under current conditions, the journey would be a very different one." @aljazeera.com

cool, cool cool

Thinking today about this sentence: "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

Oh dear, the brain rot has set in. Watching the cricket and the commentator announces the new bowler has 69 career wickets with best figures of 6/7 and I couldn’t help but giggle.

The conservatives forces using the Bondi Massacre to instigate a crackdown of freedoms of speech and the right to assembly are completely disgusting. Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.

I said this before: I'm pretty sure 2 Muslim terrorists with links to IS were not influenced by the Bridge March against genocide.

Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable. There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same. pwlearninglab.com

Again going to bang my drum: *Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks *Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails *Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent. Gen AI is poisoned at the root.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙 BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

Signal boost! Anyone know a virologist? Faith, would an epidemiologist also meet the brief?

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

the world has changed

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Please bear this in mind if you consider grabbing Hogwarts Legacy for free, thinking that you can accept/play it without it now doing harm. It's free to you but comes with a cost elsewhere.

fucked up feeling when a lot of my best work that has made me the most proud is on a blog posting this, a game that profits someone who wants me and my people dead, and whose profits go to the goal of killing us.

The thing is, social media is a lifeline for rural kids like my youngest, who never, ever fit in at school. At least with social media, they could find other kids like them to bond with and maybe it wasn't an ideal type of social life, but they still game together some five years later.

Even UNICEF is like "yo, Australia, this social media ban for kids is a terrible fucking idea." www.unicef.org/press-releas...

When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67

Cause I've got one hand in my pocket And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab And the third one is flipping off the mad scientist for what he just did to me

🎵 It’s beginning to look a lot like fuck this 🎶

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

Stealworkers

It took an extra few days but as of this morning, all Australian YouTube accounts with a date of birth aging them under 16 have now been closed, meaning no more parental controls and mandatory ad viewing even if parents pay for YouTube Premium Family. Insane decision.

This is such a great example of how the AI-folks miss the point. My father died over a decade ago. I still want to talk to him every day. But that's because I want to show him new things and hear his new thoughts. A ship in a bottle cannot discover what's over the horizon.

aight folks, i finally got sick of existing here under some weird conjoined pen name situation. so this is now where you follow me, Matt, the human, along with the collected book updates, but i’ve split off @devinmadson.bsky.social and @rebeccaide.bsky.social for people who just want book updates 😎

Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,