The Nine Inch Noise version of Closer has made me excited for the song for the first time in years. There's life in the old dog yet.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

It's a mathematical probability engine. Not a thinking machine. The fact that everyone just keeps saying it's an thinking machine when it's just a spicy predictive text machine is the biggest marketing win of the century. youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY?...

We should have never doubted this man

While it's nice to see more noise about how terrible JKR is, as a trans woman I would appreciate it if there was less focus on "here's what you can read instead" and more "here's how you can materially help trans people". We're the victims here, please stop centring the purity of your bookshelves.

This weekend at every panel I was asked "What do you think of AI?" My answer is the same every time.

WHAT IN THE NAME OF LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE

A patient and diplomatic response to the Guardian’s hurt-seeking rhetorical journalism about museums & human remains. Certain campaigners may disdain respect & decency, museums don’t www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Everyone who’s sad about ao3 being down so much lately: take a few minutes to imagine that except forever because ao3 is dead, and then cross post to other platforms and archive your own work while you’re at it. Save your faves, too.

The 10-year anniversary for CA:CW is almost here, so I'm thinking of doing a Steve/Tony event for it! If you're interested, please consider filling out this short interest check survey (link at bottom of post) and signal boosting the post! 💞 www.tumblr.com/nostalgicats... #stevetony #stony

They're hoping we'll forget about this in a few months and that we'll resubscribe to Nitro so they can get back their funding for this nonsense. Cancel yours and do not forget about this.

this is not something you want. you don't want fujo going mainstream, you don't want m/m subculture going mainstream, you don't want 100 thinkpieces re women gooning over gay hockey men, this is innately bad for the subculture. bring back gatekeeping and telling journalists to butt out

This article would be extremely less egregious without the first 8 paragraphs (which are genuinely awful), and particularly the premise laid out in the first line and infantilizing cover images, which all read as sensationalism to me. Some of the article is even salvageable, if edited competently.

Like even the cover is patronizing. Framing women as children who play with dolls and create unrealistic fantasies like gay men loving each other

Where is the cover where men who are into fantasy football are shown playing with little plastic sports figures? What about men who like NASCAR holding matchbox cars going “vroom vroom”. No, as soon as women take an interest in something, they need to be psychoanalyzed and treated like children

If you guessed a man wrote this and it’s not worth your time, you would be right.

Mini rant incoming. I get so fucked off when I see Heated Rivalry fandom generalised as "straight women" said in a derogatory way. I am in deep with a fandom community that is *majority* queer, trans, & nonbinary people. This quote from McQuiston made me howl with laughter 🤣. But also YEAH. YUP. 1/3

"Congratulations on your niche online subculture breaking containment and finding commercial success! Your punishment for succeeding when you're not supposed to will be endless scrutiny over your sexual interests and judgement over what you're allowed to like under the hetero-patriarchy."

After reading maybe one fan fic and some hockey books, E. Alex Jung spends a lot of time prevaricating between wanting M/M writers to write more realistically and just patting them on the (female and heterosexual, he presumes) head patronisingly.

W H Auden (1939) responding to the rise of fascism The final couplet is brutal and brilliant The juxtaposition of laughing & crying, his tears are not empathy but triggers of violence Not naming the tyrants make this feel less like history, more like prophecy #poetry #poemoftheday #AntiFascist

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold and I am a mushroom. My gills expand, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough strands of a mycelium network. She must have transformed into spores and floated out the window with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping

Things I have to repeat constantly at day job as I QA things: "Please remember that GPT just... makes things up." Quotes! Stats! Comparison data! It speaks with all the confidence of a Silicon Valley tech bro trying to sell you a $400 Juicero that just... squeezes your orange juice out of a bag.

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him. www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/a...

i am going to start a butlerian jihad now

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

UK DECISION TO BAN PALESTINE ACTION AS TERROR GROUP UNLAWFUL, LONDON'S HIGH COURT RULES

discord lied. don't give them your ID or a facial scan. don't trust them with your ID or biometric data.

They haven't reversed, Keep up the pressure #discord

Capitalism has confused us on what the actual purpose of writing is. The purpose of writing isn't the product, it's the process. It's figuring out the puzzle. It's figuring out what you think. The product without the process doesn't change you. It's buying gym shoes and never going to the gym.

Can Claude hate itself as much as I can hate myself? No? Then I'd like to see it write a novel!!!!!! (Confidential to AI researchers: Do not teach the machines to hate themselves. It's my competitive advantage.)

I always think of how obviously stupid those claims would sound for a kink that hadn't been sublimated into fascism already. If JD Vance started claiming every woman secretly longs to grow 20 stories tall and flatten downtown Boise with her ass, people would recognize that he's just weird and horny.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Discord out here inventing noncon age regression

This is all very well, but it implies that they’re already doing age verification in the background, by gathering information on users. This is not a privacy victory. It’s an acknowledgment of an existing privacy defeat.

Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS. The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals. The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

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Honestly, reality can't plot for shit.

Have this long percolating idea for a book-length essay named Everything Is Abuse, and I don't want to write it because I hate writing nonfiction, but also, THIS ADMINISTRATION KEEPS GIVING ME EASY CITATIONS.

I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.

how about we don't bash a queer athlete for very fair criticism while applauding a tv show for being so progressive and opening doors for queer athletes

Link right here: www.reformparty.uk/view-pdf/ref... Reading between the lines they'll be coming for the disabled and queer folk if they want to get rid of ECHR and the human rights act. Note emphasis on "hard working" people on their website. Curious how they expect to pay for all this though.

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