This is one of the most profound statements & pieces of wisdom I've ever seen in a meme 🖤 Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🪾🐿️🍁🐺

I maaaay have grown up with this, on vinyl. archive.org/details/04it...

This is the way.

Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]

you're the main reason to keep on going

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

Wild, adorable, and smarter, of course, than given credit for. They're teaching each other how to pull the traps. 😘 Open article for short video.

I wish I could say I was surprised...

... Boy, Dickens is the worst example to pick here. "Dickens's world is too far removed from modern experience." What, you mean the world of enormous wealth disparity, the industrialization of human life begetting generational suffering, the young forced to scavenge on the fringes of society...

These are my emotional support 30 open tabs.

mtg spent like ten years making enemies on the left and that seemed fine with her. she spent ten days making enemies on the right, had to hire security, and then had to quit altogether.

History repeats itself, right? Right??

Just a little holiday PSA. Be good to each other. Dad said. 🤟🏼

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

Important fox and otter business in Lincoln: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

"Everyone says they want a computer that thinks. What they really want is a computer that does what it's told."

I did not want to be in a toxic relationship with my computer and now I'm in a toxic relationship with my computer

PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice. Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you. (continue...)

I will never not be charmed by headlines about our alluring Seventh Planet (and what secrets may be probed in its depths).

Furries, do NOT buy this game if it is using any of that generative ai BS. Even if it is "just a little". This is how they slowly add it in and make it more accepted, and they WANT that. THAT is their plan.

Alternate title: _There's a Monstrous Medical Bill at the End of This Book_

And also? Nobody can bust you later for something you *imagined*. But stuff that you asked the world-fucking plagiarism machine for? Hoo boy.

Today is the Trans Day of Rememberance. We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising. We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Decent people: "Hey, these hate symbols are terrorizing some of our service members. We should do something about that." Coast Guard: "Say no more, fam. Those are no longer hate symbols. Problem solved." newrepublic.com/post/203458/...

"Since you declined our AI bot, you also don't get spellcheck" okay I'll take that trade

"Heracles was friends with Buddha" is my favorite outgrowth of this fact

How do you work as a CEO when you don't know what customers wants? They are totally out of touch and batshit crazy with AI.

Most people want a usable OS - they don’t want any AI or copilot capabilities. But who will tell them? www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Yep.

"Let's go over this one more time." "I know what-" "ONE MORE TIME." "Fine." "What is it you're looking for?" "A garbage bag." "In which room?" "The kitchen." "What do you do when you find it?" "Bring it to you here." "I'm counting on you, Tim."

Asimov created the Three Laws on the assumption that we'd be sensible enough to hard-code, possibly hard-wire, them into robots. Unfortunately, some people think that an inhuman, non-sentient, possibly much stronger servant in one's home will *automatically* come with those Laws installed.

There are coincidences, and there are trends, and then there's this. This is erasure.

Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --

A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless. Please share this. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

Ah good, the company that made itself synonymous with the 'cancellation fee' is doing a test run of the 'non-renewal fee' Love that the speed of enshittification is determined by any executive with no actual ideas or scruples and an incentive bonus on the line

Planetary procrastination

there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

Carly Simon: There are clouds in my coffee. Kathryn Janeway: My coffee is in those clouds.

“My dad is so old…” “How old is he?” “He’s so old, we call him the 20th century fox!”