[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

1537) Jinglebots. What's that faint ringing in the distance? What's that sound effect that makes a pop song with no hint of a festive theme a viable Christmas No. 1? Yes, it's Jinglebots!

Seven years at OU, and this is exactly who and what the administration is. Such craven servants of the Christian fundamentalist White nationalist right, that’s the whole criteria for appointing presidents and administrators at OU: how low can you genuflect to republicans politicians and the right?

Christmas movies? Die Hard ❌ Lord of the Rings ✅ It has: Elves. Gift giving. Three wise(ish) men traveling east. A jolly old bearded man who delights children. At least 5 golden rings. But they were all of them deceived. For another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom.

Joining the War on Christmas as a hard-ass commander who was once Christmas’ strongest soldier and became increasingly horrified by what has been done in its name. She hopes it isn’t too late to take it back and build it into something better.

Starting to need to consider ring splints. I appreciate the hell out of people who try to make them look pretty or at least inconspicuous. The last thing I need is to be the weird wheelchair lady with Seven of Nine digits.

Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.

Annabelle Lee and The Cremation of Sam McGee have the same meter and rhyme scheme and my insomnia hobby is swapping lines between them. Twas many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a maiden fair whom you may know by the name of Sam McGee.

So I am going WAY TF out of my comfort zone tomorrow and am going to a Yule get together. (Masked. As always.) And the transport situation is objectively miserable. The closest train station has stairs, which wouldn’t be an issue if the distance from the station to the place weren’t so long.

I have more than a few, given previous employment and my current study, but I think my favorite is a state archive which shall remain nameless accidentally mistook some old cataloging/processing tools as exhibit pieces. That in itself is only worth a chuckle, but older employees were PISSED.

I love Star Trek, but it sounds like Roddenberry was a nightmare to work with. Between the faux-progressivism, the sexual harassment, and his incomprehensible story demands (his series bible declared that in the future we will evolve past workplace conflict)…

The original painting is sold, but you can get this one on a silk scarf artologica.etsy.com/listing/1607... #sciart

This is art. The review, not the racist ableist bullshit movies. I have been marveling at the layers of roast and venom in this. Admiral Badguy and Poopy Dookus were a cherry on top.

I appreciate that things like taping joints and compression garments exist, but at this point a need like…a compression bodysuit and then to be wrapped in tape like a mummy.

My ex-boyfriend wrote a short play I kind of inherited a part in (pre-dating, no ethics worries here) about a Hollywood director struggling to adjust to the introduction of sound to movies. I found it interesting, because it was sympathetic to this guy whose art form was being radically changed.

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I can tell who hasn’t lived with shitty people by who likes that Mariah Carey Christmas song. The rest of us are bracing for: “Wow, I sure wish someone got ME a nice present.” “But—you said all I want for Christmas is you.” “A small thing would have been nice. It goes without saying.”

Can’t stop laughing every time I glance over

Thread on why even using AI as a way to brainstorm a project is a horrible idea.

Anna in 2015: wow, technology is advancing so fast and it really feels like society is kind of getting its shit together. Some scary parts but I can’t wait to see what good we can do Anna in 2025: my jobs are threatened by snake oil salesmen who are also Nazis and snake oil is highly combustible

I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.

PS: and the cancer bots have been found being racist lately, so no. No good uses at the moment.

YES. Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!

This is specifically about AI use in humanities disciplines within academia, which is clear from context- this crap is extremely harmful in that setting. Inevitably, people show up to be like "AI finds cancer cells tho". NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.

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Ha ha wow, the r slur in a joke. 2006 called. It wants its fucked up humor primarily comprised of dehumanizing people who are different back. Le edgy jokes. So l33t.

There’s a library social media trend where they show a staff member asking a children’s librarian for things and they get more ridiculous as time goes on. Children’s librarians do have a lot of weird stuff. But what you should really be afraid of is when they go “I could probably make that.”

The headline is over the top, but the phenomenon is real. When people clamor for digitization of archives, they don’t think about the risk of changing formats, market interests, etc. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I don’t know anything about boxing I didn’t learn from a very strange nonfiction class in undergrad, but it is immensely satisfying seeing these fake tough guys being unable to fake being tough while getting their shit rocked by real fighters.

So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up. Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.

Imagine looking up at the ceiling and getting an eyeful of taint and having to pretend to your host that it’s a very tasteful choice.

"Mother's little helper" implies the existence of "Father's massive obstruction"

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

This machine kills fascists

Yeah, I feel you, Herman.

This is my surprised face.

Also when making art is your job there are times where you will absolutely fucking hate the process. That is normal. And sometimes you'll hate the end result at first, that too I feel is normal. You don't have to fucking love everything and not all things in life spark joy. Gilding the lily here

I’m not going to quote the original because this is tangential to it’s very excellent point, but people really have to stop conflating “the representation in this story touched someone” with “the representation in this story is a game changer.” I think a lot about representation. I’m disabled.

Sorry for ranting. I know these are just a handful of posts but stuff like this keeps popping up sporadically and maybe…just let your enjoyment of a sexy TV show be enjoyment of a sexy TV show and don’t try to turn it into a meaningful act of culture-changing solidarity

"There is no meaningful, long-term social value in keeping the peace for the peace’s sake." www.theflytrapmedia.com/holiday-holl...

Did the thing! It’s like coloring with a needle. Jason was like “you gave fabric a tattoo.”

Clair Obscur’s now confirmed Gen-AI usage during the development process has caused their IGA debut and GOTY wins to be retracted.

I guarantee you: you can have ideas. Engaging with your brain to generate ideas is how you have more ideas. A well-exercised brain can't be *stopped* from having ideas. Some will be good, and some will be building blocks to good ones. Do not abdicate that precious task to the slop machine.

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

I am once again going to rec this post about Black and Brown skin tones. This is my go to post when I am writing BIPOC characters. Also, if you have another list of non-food suggestions for skin color suggestions please slide it this way! www.tumblr.com/letswritesto...

Three movies into christmas movie season and an early pattern emerges. The dudes all work in finance. If this holds, it looks like we are full fash in about nine months.

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

Astrid has a toy leek. Every so often I will be chilling on the couch, this leek will get flung up onto it, and that means I have about two seconds until a strung out cat with giant eyes who would knife fight a raccoon leaps on top of it. It’s exceptionally funny to see a flying leek.