Report: U.S. Still Leads World With Highest Density Of Kevins https://theonion.com/report-u-s-still-leads-world-with-highest-density-of-1819576406/

speaking of locked tomb, this muir quote is one of my favorite things anyone has ever said about writing and self-indulgence

... and two days later OpenAI admitted that ChatGPT's hallucinations can't be fixed because they're a side effect of how LLMs work. Stellar job there, @ox.ac.uk .

Every time I think about PhDs I get a slap on the face from reality and remind myself why it's not worth it. So glad I couldn't afford to study in England, imagine the amount of money and time wasted just to be exploited, devalued and impoverished by these institutions.

Rape is not just about power, it's about arousal and sexual desire too. Stop denying this just to prove your point about fiction.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

I think those who hate trans people are under the impression that information about us somehow makes us "trans", whereas the reality is that all those feelings and unexpressed desires were already there, and then someone makes a word for it.

I lost mutuals and can't follow some artists in the tlt fandom anymore because some of them decided to stay mainly on twitter. I don't want to sound accusatory, it just makes me sad that people who are triggered and afraid of grokAI and the Nazis can't even enjoy parts of fandom anymore.

@moderation.bsky.app These new policies directly harm the survivors you claim to protect. You’re promoting a dangerous lack of moderation and making it hard for survivors to consent to what they see here. This is serious. These policies are directly risking lives.

Gli Stati Uniti sono precipitati dentro il loro ombelico. Se non fossero pericolosissimi sarebbero una noia mortale.

people always say "don't give them an excuse" and i always say "they'll just make one up"

Not enough talk about how you are never going to truly reach people who think they are chosen by a god, have no responsibility to other humans, and won't cease to exist when their brain dies

report this post, it almost definitely wont work but it should be reported for misinformation because it is

#MondialiVolley, l’Italia è campione del mondo! 👏 Le Azzurre battono la Turchia 3-2 al tie-break e conquistano un oro storico, nel 36° successo consecutivo. Egonu trascina una squadra leggendaria che entra di diritto nella storia indelebile dello sport italiano! #ItalVolley #Volley #Thailand2025

Io quando mia mamma ha nominato felon in una conversazione l'anno scorso. Mi sentivo come Gesù nell'orto degli ulivi

German TV correspondent smiles happily as she reports on Bolsonaro's conviction

Here’s a beautiful Kinuko Y. Craft painting to cleanse your timeline.

Buongiornissimo, ho bisogno di seguire più gente italiana, grazie al maledetto felon ho perso contatti con Twitter Italia e mi perdo tutte le notizie di cultura pop da mesi 😔

On a related note, playing animal crossing can help with trauma recovery.

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High resolution scan of a Ninth House illuminated manuscript fragment; Artist and Date Unknown. #thelockedtomb

Is there a luxury tax on British accents making all these actors broke or is it just the terf island background radiation making them all ignorant assholes

I'm not worried about the quality of generative AI being good enough to compete with our talent but of AI deluge that will make it hard for new voices to find an audience, no ladder for growth, and a surveillance CEO solving the problem he created w biometric human verification, aka data4dictators

French actress Adèle Haenel joining the flotilla to Gaza from Tunis

i bought my cats their own laptop for when they hang out in the office with me and now they have to write emails and go to zoom meetings

I'm not sure what is worse, when reviewers say stuff like this or when (mostly male) reviewers called Poor Things a feminist retelling of Frankenstein

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

"I reject the question" is a robust social philosophy. Metaphorically, literally, spiritually, emotionally: hit da bricks

When I'm in a Wrong Side of History Competition and Germany is my opponent

BOOM BABY!

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Oh no.

I asked ChatGPT and it said that I was a credulous rube who would believe anything if the message was delivered with a sufficient degree of fawning subservience

Close enough, welcome back baron Isaac Tettares of the Fourth House

I'd say there's an episode of black mirror about this but at this point it seems redundant

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

hey bsky! us TLT artists recently started drawing on a whiteboard together and thought we could share it with y'all for a good cause! donate any amount to the sameer project and you can gorge yourself on 50 pages of #thelockedtomb sketches and drawings from the whiteboard 💀 details below!

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

They said the same thing about radiology, students were dissuaded from pursing the field. They were wrong. Now we have a radiologist shortage.

“I predicted the rise of fascism, the acceleration of the climate crisis and, amazingly, Netflix releasing a documentary called Poop Cruise.”

Good grief! It’s a FILE TRANSFER SERVICE. This is the equivalent of Royal Mail saying that, by sending a letter, you give them all rights to use the contents of that letter for whatever they like, including training AI models. And to add insult to injury, you categorically won’t get paid for it!

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

folks who think skeptically about corporate claims and believe in labor and environmental oversight are always portrayed as somehow extremist by the establishment press

Translation is one of those things that looks like it could be "easily" automated... but you should only do that if you don't want your translation to make a lick of sense to someone who speaks the target language.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

Same for graphic design. I watched it decline over a 35 year career in favor of bigger logos and cheaper production. People don’t understand that all of this stuff is a mirror of who we are, and discarding craftsmanship is a hallmark of an uncaring society. And uncaring societies don’t survive.

This enrages me so much. They are truly horrible, tasteless, useless people who want the world to be ugly. They could be those little people painted in commissioned medieval art. Lorenzo De Medici and Frederick II used to be poets, for fuck's sake.

This is something that I find particularly sad about our new age of extreme wealth inequality (as well as all the obv. bigger issues). The Medicis et al were awful but at least they funded some of the greatest works of art humanity has ever created. Our current crop of billionaire tech-bros...🤷‍♂️