i assumed this was how these things always worked pre-genAI. just like how "fantasy name generators" were just pulling from big lists also

robins and starlings ⭐✨ for #februaryfrost26 week 4! #patterndesign

Spring 🌸 #Procreate

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I saw the (very large) counter-march to this today, and it was completely encased in police - if they had wanted to break off and attack somebody, there was no way that they could. There were at least six police vans following them at all times. Seems to be a slight double standard here.

Can we talk about what Jordan Cowan's on-ice videography does for art reference?! What an incredible talent bringing us SUCH beautiful perspectives on the power and grace of skaters. 😍

Joe Hills is always at the forefront of cutting edge technology. By not cutting you with the edge of technology.

I hate how much this is me lol

i cannot play java minecraft anymore because i have not verified my age for microsoft's xbox bullshit. i would marginally understand more if i was simply stopped from joining multiplayer, but refusing to authenticate account logins at all??? even if only for single player? i am so tired.

Yes. Staph infections were fatal so often that we distinguished them by what part of the body they attacked first. "Childbed fever" is a term for a variety of post-birth complications that killed a lot of women. There are reasons wet nurses used to be so common. (And they're not all class-based.)

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this is dystopian as shit

Nobody expected the zombie apocalypse to be digital.

Physicist here. Yes they would do this and then go immediately in the fireplace christmas morning

Adoration. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info except an embossed photo studio logo that says “Duclos - Lowell” - a photo studio in Lowell, Massachusetts.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

If I am reading this essay right, the author of a popular bluesky data viewing tool is saying that she can wipe all of the data from your account if you give her your account credentials, that she egosearches and gets mad people are using her tool to help them withstand moderation drama and so she

Just discovered that every labeller is a moderation service and at any time the admin of a labeller can hide contents and accounts, and that there is no option to not give admins this permission if you use a labeller

GUESS WHO RAN THE PRONOUN LABELLER! archive.is/1iTut

Google's recently announced Gemini Personal Assistant tailors search results from email, photos, search, and browsing history. The serpent winds itself even tighter 🐍 www.theverge.com/news/865548/...

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One of the biggest reasons the right wing couldn't make Charlie Kirk stick as their Reichstag fire is that none of them, including his own widow, actually and sincerely gave a fuck he died

btw it's important to note that this 30% statistic includes both men (31% couldn't find the clitoris) and women (29% couldn't find the clitoris) (YouGov, 2019). Yet another reason why we're here!

Did you know 30% of Britons can't find the clitoris on a diagram of the vulva? Show the world that you know your labia minora from your labia majora and can find the most important organ of all with this fanny-tastic enamel pin! vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/...

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Nothing makes me feel good like scrolling through multiple TikTok videos of medical school students going through their newly minted AI generated textbooks and making slideshows of all of the errors including completely made up muscles and tendons - can’t wait to age in this hellscape

“The surgeon warned Acclarent “there were issues that needed to be resolved”... Despite that Acclarent “lowered its safety standards to rush the new technology to market,” & set “as a goal only 80% accuracy for some of this new technology before integrating it into the TruDi Navigation System.”

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

period hunger is also kicking me in the ass. i only ate 3 hours ago. why am i too hungry to think again already

period pain is kicking me in the ASS

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

I'm sure I've spoken about this before, but at my job a year or so ago I had to review some educational trainings about genAI, that we would then have all of the employees at my job take. This was less "how to use it" and more "what is it" and a preliminary ethics course, so I eagerly did this.

But because they were given biased ass information in the guise of neutral educational materials, they have been misled in some of the most dangerous ways. They think they are literally correct. PLEASE send those smart people the scientific studies we are now seeing, & teach them the truth!

Much like the "everyone will be using it someday so we may as well" argument, a LOT of the informational materials passed out about genAI before the last couple months came directly from the companies selling it. We're only just starting to see more studies about the real harms AI is doing to us.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Just because people can go around repeating it and it can cause a real misunderstanding. I would say “this is about as close as we can come to having a vaccine without it being an actual vaccine”

lost todays wordle because it refused to treat the actual fucking answer as a real word

i need an oniceperspectives x stock image artist collab. i need some figure skaters in those stupid ugly body suits with the markings on to help with foreshortening and perspective

89% of Japanese artists consider generative AI “a serious threat” to their livelihood, large-scale survey shows automaton-media.com/en/news/89-o...

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

people need to realise that if you want fandom and art spaces to thrive, and if you want to make friends in these spaces - you need to hype each other up! not just expect a pat on the back for your own work, you gotta encourage others, even if it's not a fandom or content you like!

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

An article spotted soon in the Guardian "Why we should be precise in who we cancel with the Epstein files"