The Women's Professional Baseball League has announced team names and branding ahead of its inaugural season, which begins August 1. They are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells (elaboration on meaning/inspo in this thread).

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

Stephen King: boy howdy King: this whole graham platner thing King: the sexual assault allegations are pretty troubling King: nevertheless

Back from a week of hiatus and live with FATEKEEPER Let's catch up and chat a little bit then ask the very important question of HOW THE HELL IS THIS GAME ONLY $10?!? Join us - www.twitch.tv/Danination

anyway

NEVER TRUST A PERSON W/ A NAZI TATTOO

i have no idea whether this is actually what happened or not, but FIFA choosing to let trump take credit for doing a corruption when they had already decided to make a difficult (but wildly unpopular) call sounds just about right

Now that we're past all the dumb freedoming and fireworks... IT'S SPOOKY TIME BAYBEE

I'd like to wish everyone setting off fireworks and scaring the shit out of my cats a very disrespectful eat shit and go fuck yourself.

Well Well Well, Guess Who Wishes They Used More Alt Text Now, Huh?

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Wild stuff funded by America250 — which is the congressionally licensed entity, different from Trump's Freedom 250 grift operation. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/america...

It’s hot out #Boston here are some tips on how to stay cool! Visit Boston.gov/heat for more information and to find out about resources that are available.

I have diagnosed myself with Profile Picture Disorder: aftermath.site/i-have-diagnos...

hi i do cybersecurity and am adjacent to robotics. holy shit do not put a cheap, capable robot in your house when we bring these into work they go on a separate untrusted devices network for a reason

/ A SRSLY HOT 1 IN BOSTON 2DAY / TEMPS IN THE LO 100S / OPPRESSIVE DANK DEW PTS IN THE LO 70S / HEAT INDEX UP2 110 / OZONE AQI OVER 100 / THATS A LIL BIT *2* HOT / THATS A LIL BIT *2* DANK / PART OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS IS STAYING SAFE & NOT DYING / SO THAT U CULD LIVE 2 REPENT ANOTHER DAY

/ "WTF IS A DEW PT Y NOT TELL ME WAT THE HUMIDITY % IS?" / BC THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUE IS NOT THE MEASURE OF HUMIDITY U WANT IT 2 BE / RELHUM ONLY TELLS U HOW MUSCH OF THE AVAILABLE AIR STORAGE MOISTNESS IS TAKING UP

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

happy gay wrath month, beloveds

🚨 BIG BOAT STUCK 🚨 apnews.com/article/iran...

Yeah well I'm not gay as in happy I'm queer as in fuck you. I'm queer as in subverting gender norms and roles. I'm queer as in my primary romantic relationship looks cis het but is more complicated than that given my relationship to gender and sexuality I'm queer as in humans defy neat categories

Summary for non-lawyers: this week is the capstone of a project to undue EVERY important institution, norm, freedom, and right that we have been relying on (and taking for granted) for the last 80 years. We have only barely begun to feel the repercussions; I suspect we will regret it dearly.

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You’re loved

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

By a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS agrees that the Constitution is constitutional

(1) The party of Jeffrey Epstein wants genital inspections for teen athletes. (2) Every time conservative justices can destroy a campaign finance law, they will. (3) Upholding birthright citizenship should have been unanimous. That it wasn't shows how extreme the Court conservatives are.

Well, we gave them a chance to fix their hearts.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

The day is hot

"Weird Al" Yankovic has always been a real one. Just learned that he very recently turned down "a nice pile of money" to shill for A.I. Damn right he did. @alyankovic.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/entertainmen...

/ 🚨 WARNING: EXTREME HEAT 🚨 / 10 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM EDT SATURDAY / HEAT INDEX VALUES UP2 112 DEGREES / HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY DURING EXTREME HEAT & HIGH HUMIDITY / PART OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS IS STAYING SAFE & NOT DYING / SO THAT U CULD LIVE 2 REPENT ANOTHER DAY

Here’s an partial list of govt agencies that will no longer be “independent,” but more closely controlled by the president (and what they regulate): SEC (stocks), NRC (☢️), CIA (🕵️‍♂️, NSF (🧪), EPA (🌲), FCC (📺), FTC (trade), CPSC (consumer safety), SSA (Social Security), USPS (📪), FDIC, FEC (elections).

I've been using the Steam Machine for a good week. Since there's so much excellent raw data out there already, decided to approach it from a more casual angle. What are the intangibles that data can't capture, and do they have any value? www.polygon.com/steam-machin...

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dinner

I present to you, the babies.

*melts in SSRIs*

evergreen

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

From Reddit: pride train crushes Tesla with Virginia plates, lololol.

I just think we should be careful about language here because for me AI is a fascist anti-art and so should not be casually compared to even imperfect human works

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!