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Professional translators cannot be replaced by AI. Your attempt to translate a menu, sure, but actual translation is an art, translating things not just across languages but cultures and idioms. Only monolingual dickburgers could think it's all the same.

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

by the 2030s you’ll be showing zoomers in their 30s how to use file systems

I don't think I've mentioned this before, but my workplace has an interdimensional void between office spaces. Like in the second Matrix movie, it's an irregularly shaped hallway with many doors and absolutely monochromatic blank walls. I only use it to cut through two specific office spaces.

A lot of being an archivist is looking at a document and thinking, "Huh. Choices were made." Blank sheet of paper taped to a printout? 🧐 A clipping so important that it needed its own folder? Sure, but ...why was a second copy taped to the /outside/ of folders as well? Across many folders? 🧐

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?" "Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago." "Have they taken over the world?" "Not yet." The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears. "I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.

New in PN: Trump tries and fails to extort Canada "The American president is a toothless old tiger, roaring on social media as his real power slips away. He can still extort a secondhand Nobel Prize from a dissident leader, but he’s not taking the Stanley Cup."

we have this week’s “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” winner, thanks for all of your nominations

I remember their stance on this was different when the President was Black.

I appreciate the implication that Congressional investigators will be fine-tooth combing the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction—possibly frame by frame—in search of comparisons to be made.

This is incredible, the administration is literally saying having more undocumented immigrants created MORE jobs and now that we have fewer we all need leas jobs and should be happy with a shitty jobs number that’s good actually

i am not sure that i could name someone in business who has burned more name capital than musk has. like, you usually have to look at entertainment or sports, and it’s usually people like phil spector or OJ. maybe bernie madoff applies here.

luv 2 have an elderly president ostensibly atop a rudderless administration having daily crashouts that are increasingly and obviously evidence of intellectual decline

I'm not sure what dimension this is supposed to be posted to so as to come across as reässuring to its audience... but it's not this one. This comes across as cold sweat and barely concealed pants-pissing.

who in the shit formatted this thing, lol

I keep thinking about that Matthew Broderick ad for AI that presented it as something that could do your work for you and let you take a day off. Yeah, man, be sure to tell your boss that AI can do all your work for you, that'll probably lead to lots and lots of time off.

It's kind of funny that Laura Loomer demanded that ICE go raid the Super Bowl due to her hatred of the halftime show's pro-immigrant message. Because the original plan *was* to have ICE at the Super Bowl, but that was canceled, likely because they would have gotten a hostile reception there!

I really do appreciate people checking in with me. Grief isn't lineär, isn't always apparent even to myself, and fuddles up my senses of time and memory. It's only been a week and it doesn't feel real.

I’m offended by the excessive AI ads and straight up surveillance technology being advertised last night. Those cameras will collect videos and images of your neighborhood that ICE will use to track you and your neighbors. As someone else said “Way to soft launch community facial tracking.”

this is just mindless reaction from people who don’t particular care about any of this at all, but want to pretend they do

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

Whatever vibe in the culture that was shifting right is dead. Over a hundred million Americans watched and enjoyed a Spanish language performance about love and family, and a tiny crowd of losers streamed a used up Kid Rock lip syncing 20 year old hits.

Michelle Obama tried to get schoolkids to eat more vegetables and the right wing treated it like Maoist indoctrination.

the answer to his hypothetical about a five year old American citizen is his party would like to deny it food and healthcare if its parents are working but poor and that the party would like to tear gas the American child if the parents take the kid to do free speech incorrectly

vice signaling

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

I admit I made a Mistake. I realize I need to own up to it. I can’t be the man I want to be until I’m held accountable for the actions of the man I was. But first, would you mind helping me close the containment doors? They’re extremely heavy and the Mistake is almost done devouring the lab techs.

wow too much for tim scott is saying something

this, too, is an impeachable offense

[guy on Fox News with visible bite marks on his neck] look there’s nothing ILLEGAL about hanging out with Dracula

Please don't avoid the casino just because there's a colony of giant man-eating bats in the rafters. Visiting here is now the ultimate form of gambling.

As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America. I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.

😭 Listen, they’re not tears…it’s hot lava pouring from my eyeballs okay. That’s how angry I am. 😡😫 ______ #relatable #memes #mewhenimangry #meexplainingwhyimangry #icrywhenimmad

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

... and naturally, the guy they gave it to is a straight-up Nazi (2/2)

So over on Twitter, they did a "$1 million article contest." This is the guy who won the million dollar prize: (1/2)

this is mangled. i’d been thinking about olympics reporters in my sportscentric anger but this is evil

My Mom passed on Sunday. She had emphatically wanted no services, so we had a simple viewing the next morning. Given the unreasonably short notice, I'm thankful a few people were able to make it. My husband, two aunts, my girlfriend, and a few friends.

In memoriam: Republicans who used to pretend to care about "States' rights" when it came to combating civil rights at the local level.

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey: Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.

The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE

elon musk claiming he’s going to build a sentient sun is the direct downstream result of investors, media and wall street analysts letting him say whatever obviously false, crazy shit he wants for so many years without ever facing even the meekest pushback from them

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this is not the ringing defense he thinks it is, even before you get to his robot giving him the world’s saddest handjob

trying to imagine the person for whom a personal appeal from stephen miller on twitter would be the tipping point for applying for that AUSA job they see open

Earth was saved from destruction after an intergalactic organization designated it an enteral preserve— not for our biosphere, history, or art, but our snacks. No world is as chemically daring in their conception of “food” as Earth. We would be safeguarded forever as the birthplace of nacho cheez.

Mewonders how much energy I radiate in a day swinging my legs under my seat.

the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar