If a shapeshifting alien mimics a popular Elebrian host, does that make it an AstroZo!an? #Starfinder #Starfinder2e #GottaSayItWithJazzHands

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

When everyone is neurodivergent, no one will be neurodivergent. Muwahahahah.

Trying to make a Starfinder Society 2e char and I coulda sworn strix were supposed to be a playable race, either core or with a boon like SFS1? @Paizo where my strix at?? #Starfinder #SillyGamerStrixR4Kids

The Jefferson County library cooperative has over **1.7MILLION** volumes available. (per librarytechnology.org)

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

The LA Times Minis are just straight up harder than the NY Times ones. That is all.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

How To: Make your own crushed velvet 1. Take your too-stiff hip scarf and plunge it in a small sink of cold water. 2. Remember about 0.5sec too late that it was velvet. >.<

I love this kind of nerdy linguistics stuff, despite being a math/sci girl.

TIL I live in the Murder Capital of the US! www.newsweek.com/major-cities... We're #1 We're #1! Go us! >.<

"Chaotic Good"

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

13yo: invents a scary monster, and its habitat, and draws it on his chromebook. 9yo: invents a monster that preys on the first monster, draws it in crayon on paper. Brothers. 🤷‍♀️

He went to Jared's! (Ngl, still a little salty at Food Babe for messing up their bread with her pseudoscience bs. )

It's frankly kind of depressing how much of our economy and the "big brains" in charge of it are simply running on vibes...

It would be unrealistic for this to be what pops the AI bubble, but boy would I love to see that. "Rampant 'Blatant Plagiarism' Machines Foiled By Copyright Laws Working As Intended. " (via Scalzi's bsky)

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Short answer: No. But the idea of throwing simulated "hindsight" at the issue rather than a focus on truth and facts seems misguided at best.

This story is just wild. It's like if Isuzu had sued Collin Raye over "Little Red Rodeo," or Oldsmobile had censured Kathy Mattea for "455 Rocket." Or Ford-Lincoln-Mercury over "Mercury Blues" or "Mustang Sally" or or or ....

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices. To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

o7

Frakkin toasters....

What we call "AI" are chatbots with robust pattern recognition algorithms and a huge (largely stolen) data pool to draw from.

all of my takes are hot, it’s like 200 degrees outside

Hello, I'm a power systems engineer in a film —just kidding, who ever shows the engineers? You got the line crews with the cool trucks, maybe the operators with the big fancy displays...I can't think of a single movie that shows engineers outside of space or "hacking" contexts?

Have a good sleep my #BlueSky friends.

Fascinating infodump on grasslands+CO2 to drink up like a neglected houseplant.

I asked ChatGPT... Well, I asked the Magic 8-ball and it said "Outlook not so good." (I'll ask about MS Teams next time. ) 🧵

Kudos to Iran 🇮🇷 for sussing out correctly that if they largely ignored Trump he'd lose interest in bombing them and move on to the next shiny. It's been 1 month.

Ok, friends, would you count "it's giving" as a simile, with that phrase acting in place of the "like or as" we all learned in grade school? @merriam-webster.com

The last of the lemon oreos counts as "eating leftovers," right?

This is my favorite piece yet on the state of AI & journalism. “The only journalism business strategy that works […] is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.” www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

I live with a 9yo. Let me assure you that "Tyrannosaurus Rex" is a Word of the Week *every week.*

Classic thread. "Is there anything you’re willing to do to protect your family that’s not the plot of an action/thriller?"

AI features might be distracting, inaccurate and annoying but at least they make everything slower

SO MAYBE that's why we don't build big structures in the Everglades, especially not in a rush. Of course it FLOODS. It's a DAMN SWAMP. What tf did they expect?

So haven't played in years, but finally got to make this pilgrimage! #EVEonline #Reykjavik

The eternal struggle between "not rudely eavesdropping on strangers" and "すごい！ 日本語！" Definitely not brought to you by the table across from us at the breakfast place.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Good morning bluesky!

More #DragonAgeInquisition I love this bit. It's so random. Even Josephine is like "Don't look at me!" 🤷‍♀️

yep! unpaywalled:

The rain and water graphics in Inquisition still get me. #DragonAge #DragonAgeInquisition

Dear @democrats.org We don't want Musk. He's a Nazi. He's a loon. He just ran rampant through our institutions. He paid for an election. My enemy's enemy is not always my friend. Sometimes they're just a different flavor of enemy.

Ok, I really shoulda checked my book-buying impulses first, before inadvertently getting myself sucked into an unfinished but minimum-7-book series, where I now own the first in hardback. Goddammit, Donut.

There are only 8 pages left in my book, but 2.5hrs until lunch break. *fidget fidget*

This is exactly what I've been saying. "Hoverboards" should hover to be called such and "AI" should have some level of self-aware intelligence to qualify for the moniker. But I guess "Chatbots Backed with Unethically Sourced Data Pools" doesn't move stock prices.