Get vaccinated and pick up a pack of n95s to wear in crowded and indoor spaces, friends. Just keep one in your bag, it doesn’t have to be a lifestyle, just a precaution. Protect your family, friends, and vulnerable loved ones from the flu, measles, and COVID this winter.

He’s so good at storytelling.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Anyway, I’m starting a high end security company for retirement homes. I call it BALROG.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us to associate optimism and a positive outlook with low intelligence

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

And it was Jewish refugee from the NAZIs Lise Meitner who figured out how to split the atom. Miller's racism would be bad enough, but it is amplified by his being an ignoramus who has a very limited & inaccurate grasp of actual history. The US's & anyone else's.

it’s the last night of the year to shop the shop - now’s the time to get yourself the gift nobody else got you! www.peculiarityshop.com

Someone didn’t get the memo.

Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels. Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.

Translation is a fucking art form, I want to tear my hair out in bloody chunks and throw it at people who don’t understand this

Definitely DO NOT outsource the reading/summarization of the legal contract to which you will be bound to a pattern matching program that can AND DOES willfully create misinformation when its algorithm tells it the misinformation is the statistically mostly likely next set of words.

Don't delegate the reading of your contracts to any one or anything. Read the whole fucking thing. If you have questions or don't understand something, this is what your agent or lawyer is for. And fucking YES get a lawyer, one that has some experience with contracts in the relevant field.

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

From what I’m hearing from other writers, AI is already being used to generate marketing plans, etc, at major publishing houses. It isn’t great! But to say that AI is a useful tool for small press publishers is disingenuous, naive, and blinkered boosterism.

I am curious to see what will happen when one or more of the GenAI data centers gets hit with flooding. I don’t wish it on anyone or any community, but I am curious - will the tech be considered inevitable and vital then?

i love every single microscopic detail about this. Rama is the moment. Her husbands cool too I guess lol.

A fine is a price. A hell of a price. But just a price. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

what IF weaving was for kitten??

me too, gävlebocken, me too

lol let me guess which customer it is. could it be the one that has repeatedly failed to develop a better "last mile" system than the one a 250 year old state-operated infrastructure agency developed for the benefit not of tax-shirking corporations, but for u.s. taxpayers?

mods are asleep, the 10 item limit is lifted for the rest of the year 😘 www.peculiarityshop.com

My friend Mary was laid off AND diagnosed with breast cancer in the last few months; treatment is going to make it extremely hard to start a new job. She set up a GFM and I am signal-boosting. gofund.me/1b54a89c7

Game Changer is new fav right now. Highly recommend for any uk folks who love taskmaster. Same comedians who are friends tormenting eachother with weird rules to win a game vibe

Race is defined by societal beliefs, cultural norms, and institutional practices, not inherent biological differences. It is a human construct.

Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people. A reminder that this work really does matter.

Sometimes I joke that she has rocks for brains but I really do love how curious she is.

“mom what are you doing to MY cat tree???”

A teaser for a collection brewing for the spring...

The Onion, non-stop winning

one of my least favorite flavors of internet dude is ‘guy who doesn’t realize a woman was making a joke, and therefore makes a worse version of the same joke in her replies’

I have bat hearing which is honestly pretty terrible for city living but it DOES mean I can hear all the adorable little squeaks that my cats make and that’s a pretty big win in my book

you cannot serve both God and cunt Josh O’Connor: bet? Andrew Scott: bet?

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

a white christmas

Starting The Residence and all I can think is that the East Wing doesn’t exist anymore!!

"Alberto" has been harvesting mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms for almost a decade under a UFW contract. He says the union contracts guarantees workers many important things including paid vacation days and holidays like Christmas and New Years. #WeFeedYou

When you're grumpy because three annoying ghosts kept you up all night.

If Mary Queen of Palestine is new to you, get my Paranormal Palestine zine about her here; name your price including free! Treat yourself! soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p...

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

(Energy transitions can happen faster than we think): In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark’s electricity was from fossil fuels, but in 2024, that number was a mere 10%. No addition, just transition. Jan Rosenow buff.ly/TERHqrF #ShareGoodNewsToo

a reminder that I needed and maybe you do too: help that isn’t helpful isn’t help

gonna finish this book tonight even if tonight is tomorrow

art today

Awesome news, EMS are severely underpaid, and also lol

Christmas Eve Eve

HEY SURVIVORS !! HEY ATTENTION TO ME beloveds you do not have to read or witness all of this . You do not have to re traumatize You don’t owe nobody nothing