New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

I've worked at the 'big' studios. While I'm on the writing and showrunning side, none of my projects have used AI in their process. I feel confident about my designers, directors, and story artists doing the same. These folks are convincing themselves 'everyone is doing it'.

My most consistent unpopular opinion - an argument I've lost many times in the past 35 years - is that Pride is for the community & the community does not benefit from the parasitic involvement of corporate fair weather friends.

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

Someone follow up with book buyers at the big retailers (who shape a *lot* of what is seen) — Walmart, target, Barnes and noble, Amazon — ask the actual people who are buying books for their stores why they’re not pushing for more lgbtq+ stories bc buyers are immensely powerful in this conversation

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

That's exactly the issue with AI I frequently have to go to page 2 or 3, but it does require the expertise the AI doesn't have.

I want the American people to understand that: 1. The worst elements of the Trump administration are taking notes as we speak, 2. In-depth international coverage is even more crucial than ever before to know thy enemy, and 3. Therefore billionaires are racing to dismantle international desks

(admittedly, it hits harder when you hear the "YOU CALL ME RECKLESS, I CALL IT ART" in its semi-screamo gamer eurotrashpop glory👌)

trying to explain root canal edits to a non-writer like

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

1- fuck you mihoyo 2- this game looks and sounds amazing, im getting this store.steampowered.com/app/2452920/...

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

trying to explain root canal edits to a non-writer like

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

A lot more people are using AI slop generators for their writing than we realise. Seen a definite uptick in "this thing isn't just this, it's really this" phrasing appearing in posts and reviews. It doesn't automatically mean AI, but it makes me suspicious.

It's about time the Catholic Church apologized for the church's role in slavery, and it shouldn't have taken an American pope with his family history to have done it

I like this from Pope Leo's encyclical on AI: "For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change."

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

Everyone go read @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's #AllHailChaos! (Well, after #LongLiveEvil) It captures the experience of being a reader & realizing how much of your memory of a book is your own projection, not the author -but also witty banter & hijnx! Warnings: not quite a cliffhanger, but...1/2

ChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Bank Account and See All Your Transactions https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-can-now-connect-to-your-bank-account-and-see-all-your-transactions-2000759306

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Big Tech has "built a billion-dollar industry on stolen voices because they thought no one would make them pay for it," said a lawyer for the journalists and audiobook narrators suing under Illinois' biometric privacy law.

Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 Deepest condolences to literally everyone who didn't know about this before participating in this book and/or elevating it. Zero thanks to Michael Todasco.

it's that time again! NOTE that you can find these pesky A/I folders in multiple locations now! I'll provide the paths I've found below C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates (which folder it's in changes every update) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 (cont. in next post)

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

If a screwdriver can only remove 60% of screws its head is designed to fit, that screwdriver is unreliable & unfit for purpose. If a faucet only produces water 60% of the time, it is unreliable & unfit for purpose. If a vacuum only powers on 60% of the time, it is unreliable & unfit for purpose.

I'm so embarrassed for literally everyone involved in developing these products

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

it's that time again! NOTE that you can find these pesky A/I folders in multiple locations now! I'll provide the paths I've found below C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates (which folder it's in changes every update) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 (cont. in next post)

YOUR NAME IS FINAL *FANTASY* YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET SO REAL

godsdammit FF7 I come here to get AWAY from work 💀

😔😔😔

also I'd like to add a reminder that structuring and organizing your thoughts/the story is...part of the work of writing like that's a skill you can and should learn alongside the sentence level writing and all the other writing/storytelling skills

Look, I've been trying to have a sci-fi career for a DECADE, and I have to keep doing other things if I want to get paid because the entry level for "real" sci-fi is perceived as high, and my books *checks notes* can imagine a universe where women are people.

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

Today’s warmup: studies of an inconvenienced cat

No one wants this. People do not want hyperspecific individualized stories only they engage with. People want the shared experience of being told a story by a human and engaging with other people who also experienced that story. People want the social aspect of storytelling.

People, this is an insane trove of learning materials for writers and screenwriters of all skill levels.

The Sun Also Rises. If you want to throttle a teenage girl’s love of reading, make them hash out metaphors for a middle-aged man’s impotence at mind-numbing length.

Pizza Hut should make an Adult program 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

for no reason whatsoever, I am bringing out my favorite 12th-century illumination today, which depicts 1) a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian Guard who tried to assault her and 2) his comrades praising her and giving her all of his stuff for her very understandable and justifiable actions 🙏

Contrary to reports from fake news subspace, THE HEKARAS CORRIDOR IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. THE GORN FOLDED ON EVERYTHING! Thank you for your attention to this matter. -President Gul Dukat #StarTrek #Sisko197