How to turn off Apple Intelligence; www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The "more ethical" so-called "AI safety" company everybody👇🏽

Going to do this but also a general call for similar guides to turn off AI features. I'm a Windows/Android girly but others here might appreciate it for the tech I don't have so link away.

A "Christian nation" does not trash 55,000 acres of fruit simply because they can't find a buyer. The pinnacle of God's beautiful, delicious creation, destroyed en masse for no reason other than corporate finances, while people go hungry nearby. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

mario kart is making us all racecar drivers

The Vatican has finally put into words what families have known for generations: 'conversion therapy' is a profound failure that leaves only harm in its wake. (2/3)

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

👀 #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou

I have tried with Buffy, but can't get beyond the actors looking 30 playing teens 😬 If it were a teachers work place drama, it would be fine!

To my dying day I'll never be able to wrap my head around this. They PAID HIM IN BOYS. The SBC is the Epstein Island of denominations.

Sometimes a death Is more than one death But the death of Assumptions All the plans A thousand futures That could have been If only. open.substack.com/pub/invisibl...

Sometimes a death Is more than one death But the death of Assumptions All the plans A thousand futures That could have been If only. open.substack.com/pub/invisibl...

We are the fourth largest economy in the world. We're going to need a few more examples, preferably professional experience.

Metrics are not fruit of the spirit. Look for love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

I am sincere when I say structurally rejecting carcerality will ultimately have to mean that we figure out humane but real models for exile and shunning for perpetrators who refuse to participate in restorative processes in good faith. Not as a punitive measure, but to keep communities safe.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

I wanted to clarify that the person I originally quoted for this post was talking specifically about their experience with people outside the ace community. But I still stand by what I said. I listen to marginalized aces and aros and have seen that exclusionism is one of our worst enemies.

The allonormative framework that's ingrained into society views sex and romance as inherent to the human experience and equates those concepts with desirability. It creates a belief that one's projected attractiveness has some bearing on their personal identity, which isn't true

Doing a one-woman self-study on how long a brain/body with a neurodivergent variety pack can go without clawing out her own stitches. So far we're up to 2 out of 10 days of tuning out sensory alarms that tell me to pick at The Wrong (sutures) in my skin that Doesn't Belong There (very much do).

As an addendum to this, reading Sherronda J. Brown's book reminds me that there are those in the queer community, even (especially?) in the ace and aro community, who do *not* actually want queer or aspec liberation, choosing instead to chase the gratuitous rush of tribalism and gatekeeping.

Write the kind of book that you wished you'd had, when you needed it the most.

Reading these voters, it's wild how much they just believed whatever Trump said about himself. Like, if he says he's going to bring down prices then he will -- no further critical thinking required.

oh jesus. please just stop asking it for anything at all. it’s wrong SO FREQUENTLY and in majorly disastrous ways

people really are remiss in refusing to believe the evidence right in front of their fucking faces

The fact that Black voters are the only group that's plus 56 D after everything that's happened over the last year and a half is honestly depressing.

KCaitelyin(e)s, you're next.

My dream tbh is that the @unitedmethodist.bsky.social will be consistently progressive enough that it's nationally accurate to say we're walking the path of discipleship holding hands with our older sister The Episcopal Church and our cousin The United Church of Christ and more friends all around

Love this!

After opening prayers, community guidelines and check ins, we listened together to "The Village" by Wrabel.

Jesus.

Join our queer contemplative spirituality group tonight? Info and registration in this thread.

Didn't we learn about chromium-6 from Erin Brokovich?

I could sit staring at my hands for a thousand years and not come up with a more quintessentially fascist response to the alleged attempted assassination of Donald Trump than “this is a vindication of traditional masculinity”

Screaming into the void

Consider watching The Laundromat, starring Meryl Streep, before you vote or attempt to explain politics or economics to anyone. 😱😬

Counterpoint: no need for age verification if you just ban AI chatbots in general 🫠

if only there were journalists around to report on the situation

I’m sorry cottage is the WORST. Be cheese or yogurt not both things.

We’re issuing guidance for healthcare facilities and providers on gender-affirming care, which remains legal in California. Providers can and should continue to provide the care their patients count on without fear of unjust retaliation.

These are not morally serious ppl and it should be brought up to them every rare occasion they leave their bubbles

California AG Bonta has released guidance to all California hospitals telling them that they should return to providing gender affirming care after winning a lawsuit against Trump. He is the only AG to sue a hospital to force it to stop complying with Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“Hey… so, yeah. We saw you from across the biblically obvious allegory and dug your vibe.”

We need more aspec literacy for EVERYONE not just aspecs, bc all would benefit from realizing there is such thing as platonic intimacy, platonic lifelong committed relationship, platonic yearning, platonic desire/touch starvation, platonic affection, platonic crushes, platonic family/parenting, etc.

The worst thing with babies is that once they get into your house, they don't leave for 20 years or more

❤️‍🔥💯 "Christian or not, the work it takes to separate another person in your mind from their humanity by stigmatizing them is work that rips you apart from your own humanity." Also don't miss this CRUCIAL paragraph! This is consistent with everything I hear from my BIPOC queer Christian siblings: