Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

And even stuff that's digitised may not be machine readable in *any language*. There's a whole volunteer project via the Smithsonian where they crowdsource human transcription of documents. Documents that are not that old (19th century) and are in recognisable English.

UK folks, as your local immigrant pal, I am begging you to please submit a response to this consultation. (yes, I did.) The proposal is appalling on many levels.

Stevie Nicks vs Miss Piggy. I mean.

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

o rly

it's so starkly obvious as soon as you see the chart showing how many articles about trans people are published in a 30 day period since 2012.

There should be a lengthy German word to describe the feeling of being trans and enduring the deliberate witch hunt of 'you're a threat to children,' co-ordinated by the very people and systems who were and are active dangers to children, hiding in plain sight and celebrating their crimes together.

This is being pushed by pushed by Our Duty who on their about page for example state: "that medical transition is harmful, that there really is no such thing as a transgender child." It will be used to harm trans kids and the community in general. Avoid all contact with ayagdos dot org

The measure of winning will not be in how we spot their harm but how we take care of each other. The government and ICE have years of being ahead of the game and everyone who thought this was theorhetical is about to find out exactly how real it is

I'm certain I'm not the only person to say this, but I continue to both be unsurprised that Minneapolis is prime Trump admin target, yet feel it's probably the single worst possible choice for success in said targeting on so many levels. Like...Leningrad levels of bad.

Immigration is good, actually Fascism is bad I thought we learned this over the past century and really wish that we had

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab

This is a must-read (CW ofc), particularly as Mara suggests a bunch of realistic things that need to happen--it's the tech companies that need to be accountable, only making creating this stuff *against the law* will not work. Also it's (obviously) not just a US problem.

They're closing in on $10k now and I bet we can get them there!

The extent of what I know about Greenland, tbqh, comes from reading Smilla's Sense of Snow/Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow about half a dozen times as a teenager. Yet I get the impression that's more than most of the American contingent who seem to think we need the place?

yes, they have a vast propaganda network at their disposal no, the propaganda they are creating is not very effective at convincing anyone who isn’t already part of their bubble, because they think they’ve already won - it’s just self-congratulatory garbage aimed at their most extreme members

the entire administration is making content for twitter nazis and they are convinced that those twitter nazis are genuinely representative of the vast majority of american sentiment they believe all the election conspiracies and think the country is 80-20 in their favor

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

Wow today is going to be weeks long

Bluesky needed my birthday bc Reasons, and I half wished there was a 'too old for this shit' tick box.

That time of year again!

If you've got a little extra after all of the holiday shopping, year-end donations, and festive feast prep - lots of folks needing mutual aid are still out here asking. Check the #MutualAid tag to find some. Here's my household's. gofund.me/4ef5d854d

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David Zaslav is a cultural vandal. May he never know peace.

I hate that our collective response to the news of a cultural destruction in the form of Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. is, "well, at least it wasn't the other evil conglomerate."

Who is gonna donate to match the $100 I'm sending in?

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

Teen Vogue was so welcoming to teen We Testify storytellers as they broke new ground. It’s disgusting to see how Condé Nast is destroying some of the best journalism. Young people deserve news and info that educates and uplifts them. Thank you Teen Vogue writers for the way you changed the world.

Pondering total HFCS in the amount of Push Pops and Airheads I ate as a young teen in the mid/late 90s makes my head swim, but okay kids.

Not gonna look at US election stuff, I am not, I am not... oh hell

American here, who will clearly confuse matters by being a 'Roly-Poly'...

so just hire a second person to do the job that the first person didn't want to do but also there's no more rainforest?

This request just got a lot more urgent as I need to deposit cash in my bank tonight to prevent overdraft but my car is not working. I only need $5 deposited. Please consider a share, thanks!! Paypal [email protected] Venmo Merideth-Lively (note spelling) Zelle [email protected]

Best: The 10,000 Maniacs' cover of 'Because the Night' from MTV Unplugged. Most clever: The Carolina Chocolate Drops covering 'Hit Em Up Style'. Sheer wtfery: Le Tigre's version of 'I'm So Excited'. (yes, I have a whole covers that don't suck playlist)

According to British people, my insistence on having mayo as the condiment on my bacon breakfast roll. (look, I grew up with BLTs and clubs as the only bacon sandwiches, ffs, mayo belongs with bacon, end of)

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Phew. Okay, so, this is tough. I can't afford to pay for the surgery my beloved Eugenides needs to save his mouth from severe inflammation and infection. I'm chronically underpaid by my day job and already struggling financially. Please ... I need help. www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

Every time I make myself cinnamon toast (especially using Penzey's blend, because cinnamon here is less cassia-forward than in the US), it is delicious and I get decked by nostalgia. Why don't I do it more often? It's not like it's hard.

So the Rapture is Rosh Hashanah and also Bi Awareness Day? this seems...odd

Again, I'm pretty sure the rerelease of Buckingham/Nicks is what broke our timeline (I've been a fan for over 25 years and suspected S&L would NEVER, especially after the latest Fleetwood Mac implosion of the late 10s). But it's a banger of an album, so you might as well buy it or at least stream.

this week in surprise UK-US culture gaps... ME: I'd forgotten Robert Redford was involved in Ordinary People. MATT: What's Ordinary People? ME: [halfassedly explains the plot, Oscar bait, heartbreak, etc.] MATT: Uh-huh. Never heard of it. ME: It won several Oscars. MATT: Nope, no idea. 1/?

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.