I specifically requested no more metaphors

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

Butts are awesome

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

I’ve worked in TV animation for the past 16 years and “stunt casting” voiceover work has the worst ROI across the board and executives never get tired of doing it.

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

Turns out this One of Those Nights where I Sleep Terribly in a Completely Different Way!!!

undiagnosed, but pretty sure

Hmmm I fear this may be One of Those Nights where my busy simply refuses to fall asleep

heading into June

BRING BACK EXTRAVAGANT PRACTICAL MODELS

AI is not and cannot be a true intelligence because it has no intention, it has no motivation. It is a machine that doesn't work particularly well. Always remember that.

first step: eliminate streetcars

Being paid for on-call time is nearly unheard-of. It's great to see some teams getting this - hopefully it becomes the norm.

Imagine being a company (whose whole mission is climate protection) suing a drag queen (whose whole mission is climate protection) for using a name of a region in South America (which, oh, you also use). Boycott these losers. Drop the lawsuit, @patagonia.com.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces that New York City will build 200,000 new rent stabilized homes in the next decade.

sleepy soldiers, we ride in 5 more minutes

the JAW Hutt thing is a great reminder that Actor and Voice Actor are different skills and we lost a lot when Disney made it just we got famous actors to voice things

Taking John Waters home to fuck and he's hesitating a reeaalll long time staring at my bookcase full of only Nickelodeon magazines

Seconded. Women and girls are expected to empathize, sympathize, and relate to male protagonists. It's simply presumed we will. I genuinely believe the binds of early misogyny could be loosened in young minds by expecting the same of boys with female protags.

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

Great. Now you’ve got to go out here and try to out-write the Pope.

Nor did I foresee that I would want my deans to read (immediately) a papal encyclical: AI tools "encourage excess reliance and the search for ready-made answers, and weaken personal creativity and judgement."

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

These data centers do not produce jobs. These centers raise electricity rates and create electric shortages. These centers use tens of millions of gallons of water and discharge toxic water, causing environmental pollution and noise pollution. Why are they getting billion-dollar tax breaks???

Join the Himbros every fourth Sunday for open studio @devilmaskstud.io for practice and labbing time! See you Sunday!

girlboss lawyer puppets HATE to see us coming

This brought me joy.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Dragonzord, Mastodon, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, Sabre-Toothed Tiger, Tyrannosaurus

Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart, Captain Planet

Fun lore: I was one of these [19] year olds. (Fortunately it wasn’t for millions of dollars.) I endorse this post completely and want my money back.

'Kubo and the Two Strings' - made back $78 million against a $60 million budget which apparently makes it a 'disappointment'. It's actually one of the most beautiful and intricate animated films ever made and everyone should see it at least once in their life.

California-based artists and creatives, the California government is asking for public input on AI's impact on our work. Please fill out this survey, it'll just take a few minutes: join.engaged.ca.gov/en/projects/...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Himbound's first birthday is this Friday! Join us for a lesson on single columns with @ellliot.bsky.social at @devilmaskstud.io! momence.com/l/mXhxB9zk

Hades 2 Q: What makes the skull work for y'all? I honestly hate using it and never feel like I can get it to work well for me. It's the only weapon I don't vibe with

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

hi whiskey!