my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

This looks a little like the photo they might use when on a swingers site looking for a third.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Just having a skeleton face day, I guess. Good evening!

In honor of Andre the Giant’s birthday, 19 May 1946, here’s my favorite picture of him, standing next to a regular size man and regular size horse

Wrestlers Andre the Giant (left) and Jos Le Duc test the structural integrity of two bicycle frames #BicycleBirthday Andre the Giant May 19 (1946-1993)

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Baffling that many US cities assign responsibility for sidewalks to the adjacent property owner. That’s just not how transportation infrastructure works at all. People walking places don’t teleport past vacant lots. Imagine doing the same thing with roads.

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

#OtD 19 May 1925 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He became one of the most influential advocates of self-defence for Black people as well as one of the foremost critics of America's institutional racism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9128...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

I made an outfit to watch the weather channel in. and a very cute deskmat you can buy them here :v theyetee.com/miski

MACE: “.. These companies are planting massive data centers across our state, driving up energy demand, and leaving families and small businesses to pick up the tab.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Little eel magic for today's #TransArtMay

Good thing I've been trying out several different emails

Oh yeah it's coming together

Reminder that I also live in the community that relies on the Colorado River. Which is also frequently in the headlines about fear of scarcity of water. So I'm not being hyperbolic.

I think the phrase "rest is productive" can be incredibly helpful if you struggle to switch off work mode or thinking about it. But I also think it's sad when that's what it takes to actually rest. Rest is necessary. You shouldn't have to feel like you only deserve it in the name of productivity

Toby the African pygmy falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) is taking a dust bath at the Cincinnati Zoo. Birds secrete oil from a uropygial gland ('preen gland') that is antimicrobial, conditions & adds waterproofing. A dust bath helps remove this oil so a fresh layer can be applied.

No one does it like Beetlemoses, so I had to dub this one immediately. #PochaVoice

fuck AI make zines ✏️✂️ #diyzines

(Music : Noumena · i need dopamine)

I got a job at one of the new data centers! My duties involve resting my arms on my neighbor's fence and telling them how quiet the data center is, and when they respond, I cup my hand to my ear and yell "what?" and then laugh affably. Our research suggests this will eventually improve their opinion

#haiku #poem #poetry #book #BlurbBooks Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life are three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. A collection of haiku written between the years 2022-2024. buy it - www.blurb.com/b/1242...#haiku

Krista Jahnke wrote about the #Haiku Machine in her blog, Creativity Wide Open. Check it out creativitywideopen.s...

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

In 'The Artist, His wife and the Writer Otto Benzon,' (1893) Peder Krøyer (in the blue smock) depicts breakfast at his house in Skagen where he helped found an artists' colony on the most northern peninsular in Denmark.

#OtD 19 May 1920 a shootout took place in the town of Matewan, WV between striking miners and private detectives, who had arrived in town to evict miners' families. Seven detectives, one bystander and two miners were killed. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-...

Sunday morning ritual with @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social: part cat, part man.

they're taking the soft animal of my body out behind the old barn

#OtD 18 May 1928 "Big Bill" Haywood, former mineworker and founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union, died in Moscow. Learn more about the @IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I’m too much of an introvert to go on a #book tour so I’m sending this #Haiku Machine out into the world for me. If you’ve got a space that can host a residency in Metro #Detroit, and now that it is so close, #Chicago, drop me a line http://katherinemont...#book

Folding fundraising pamphlets was the order of the day for me yesterday to help Glasgow Zine Library hit their goal. 50% still to raise with a week to go, or they get nothing 😱 Any historian will know how important preservation of social documents can be! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/zinecultur...

Found at the Main Branch of the Santa Fe Library. Needs more zines! #Comics #Zines #SantaFe #NewMexico

"Dickens/Melville/whoever was paid by the word!" STFU, lazy ass. First, they weren't. Look it up! Second, words are good. Long books are good. Third, you know who gets paid by the word? Short story writers.

29,000 year old Paleolithic rock engraving depicting a stylized female silhouette. It is located in the Cussac Cave in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. Original post

Reminder that erotic/pornographic art has always been part of our human history. From phalluses and vulvas drawn on cave walls to mass printed comics, from stone carved to digitally crafted. Our ancestors, all over the world, have depicted sex scenes. You can't erase that.

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

We get calls about this at least once a day. I hope The Henry Ford enjoys the support! Occult83 - 6609 N Telegraph Rd. Dearborn Heights, MI 48127

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

This is the antidote to the variety of 'dudebro shouting something into a girl's ear' memes that circulate

those grand fresh-water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s noblest traits

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

me: (capable of producing a light fog at best) you don’t want this smoke, homes

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake