Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.

"Umami would make a wonderful name for a nonbinary child"- the Hansel and Gretel witch, who is surprisingly progressive

Say what you will about Bari but she got Americans to watch 60 Minutes again.

One of those comics where a pre-transition trans woman is staring longingly into a mirror showing a more feminine version of herself, but the trans woman is me and the reflection is just me holding a pizza.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

A much needed evisceration of this billion dollar minstrelsy.

Me, with my cats 🙄🥰

Never ask me to choose 😅

A fascinating conversation I got to overhear was between an astronomer and a librarian for the same university, who met at a dinner I was invited to. They were commiserating over the astro dept admin’s decision, without faculty input, to discard all the books in the observatory. 1/2

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

4a. Just want to emphasize this: You cannot say that you're just anti-Zionist and not antisemitic, and then go spread hate about the Talmud. That's basically the same as saying "I'm not racist, I just think we need to defend the white race against [insert racist slurs here]"

Flirting by angrily accusing me of doing witchcraft in my small forest cabin

A cozy detective story ❤️

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows you would taste really good So be ready with your stake Oh You'd better not shout You'd better not cry He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi Dracula is coming to town

#eldenring #eldenmeme

This. People can afford less though they make more in real terms &quality is worse. Also the prevalence of unrelenting scams & grift that colonize every form of commerce is exhausting. My parents can’t even answer their phones b/c of the telemarketing overwhelm. The whole economy *feels* predatory.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

Not an accelerationist, but a believer that the acceleration already happened and we must respond accordingly

It is depressing how often this hope must be expressed

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

I AM GOING TO HAVE THE HEALTHIEST BRAIN ON THE PLANET

Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment

Rwake are absolutely wonderful people who just happen to write some of the heaviest songs in the world rwake.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...

"Results indicated that LLMs often proposed inferior treatments when patient race was explicitly or implicitly indicated, though diagnostic decisions demonstrated minimal bias."

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Just yesterday I saw News Corp is putting out their own guides to understanding the scandal and fail to mention that Rupert Murdoch was in Epstein’s black book.

This is all very odd to watch because if everyone knew what was going on with this scandal with confidence, there would very obviously be a rapid collapse of our ruling class. This information already exists.

Did we really expect anything else?

Tired of busted old debates about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Bringing back a fresher classic: are the Whos of Whoville that the Grink steals Christmas from the same species of being that Horton hears

"Beautiful doll snaps out" is how I'm going to describe my mental breakdowns from now on.

black shuck #art #creatureart

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

The dorks who insist AI is inevitable, especially in the games industry, deeply underestimate how much I’ll just shrug and play retro games for the rest of my life. Like the PS1 & PS2 libraries alone are enough for multiple lifetimes. Fuck you, make me.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

It’s easier to avoid bad takes when you assume everyone in a dispute is varying degrees of wrong and our task isn’t to figure out who’s right and who’s wrong but rather what these degrees of wrong are and what we should do about it.

Musicians playing Irish music in a Cambridge pub (mixed media) #art #guinness #fiddles #jigsandreels

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about UBI and mental health

'Cat and Ornaments' - Inagaki Tomoo. #Caturday #JapaneseArt

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.