Find your local polling location and election information at www.sos.ca.gov/elections.

If I see that character you like, I will often try to send you fanart I see of them. Sometimes I will send you the same image twice if I see it again several months later with good intentions and a shaky memory.

happy *quiet, chill* pride

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

The point is not to write the best book ever objectively in the history of mankind. The point is to write the best book that can come out of YOU & hope it clicks in some way that others see it. There is no YOU in writing you produce with AI!

life is at least a little beautiful idk

The NAACP has filed a lawsuit to block Tennessee's attempt to remove the only majority-Black congressional district in the state

Your annual anti-Discourse reminder that the Met Gala is the source of a huge amount of the funding that the Costume Institute at the Met needs to curate and preserve its collection of American textile history

AO3 put out a warning detailing what kinds of automated bot comments you should watch for, remember its AI doing these archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

Folks, I've been seeing some negative comments about Giuliani. C'mon, people. Is that really how low we've fallen? "Some negative comments" isn't enough, it should be more. Pick up the pace, team.

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

stop making me cheer for the atlantic

Tell you friends about the Internet Archive. I was absolutely shocked none of my friends even knew it existed beyond the waybackmachine, and they were dazzled at how many resources they provide. It's such a vital and important resource, especially in our time of erasure of facts and culture.

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A good time for a reminder that locking people up for low level marijuana offenses doesn’t solve anything and our federal laws need to catch up with the times

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

"Fandom deserves to be taken seriously" I actually can't think of anything more desperately in need of being taken LESS seriously.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

NEW: After months of being too scared to leave their homes, more than 500 children have returned to in-person classes at Columbia Heights Public Schools, a huge moment of celebration for school leaders in this Minneapolis suburb once swarming with ICE agents. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

This is correct.

looking at the wisconsin supreme court election after everything else that happened today and having one of those “I’m about to fucking lose it” hysterical laughing fits

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

This is no way to live, man

In 2016, a bunch of us were told that we were just being dramatic, we didn't need to be upset, there were checks and balances, we didn't need to worry and that things could not possibly get as bad as we imagined because no one would ever let that happen. Anyways,

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

this is just so gross, man. I cannot wait until we are past the pipeline of Obama alum -> shill for the worst industries in the world. It's noxious on policy and political grounds. Just because it's "tech" or "new" doesn't mean it's not evil. But hope and change or whatever.

Traitor Ollie North

"i have a unicycle for a frontal lobe and the devil rides its pedals" both killed me and brought me back to life

As someone who feels like I am moving at a snail's pace right now--compared to being able to write two books and a novella or two a year a decade ago--you might wonder, have I ever been tempted to even think about using AI to speed the process up? The answer is not even fucking slightly.

I had to check if this was real, given it's April 1st. It is real.

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Everyone dooming over how $185M means nothing to Meta: this lawsuit was brought by one (small) state. Forty-nine plus DC to go. It is okay and encouraged to celebrate Ws instead of just saying “it doesn’t matter” every time any awful corporation faces ANY consequences. This could force change.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI

oh I have a long memory and I remember who all of you fuckos are

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

Honestly, this should be the way: honoring movements, not individuals.

This is a good time to remember that immigration judges aren’t real judges. They work for DOJ as part of the executive branch (under Bondi and Trump) and the fact that we call them judges like they’re independent arbiters would be laughable in a free and fair country.

10/10 no notes

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“ I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."