As a Muslim woman, adding yet another failure to the list

Raise your hand if you're a woman in this country who doesn't trust the police to protect you. ✋

In case Alex's post is too subtle APOLOGISE TO TAMATHA PAUL THIS INSTANT YOU COWARDS

Artist Tai Ericson is using ‘Harry Potter' books to create portraits of murdered trans women.

I just had a play around with a little PNGtuber thingy and obs just to see if I could do it myself and how easy it would be and honestly I'm impressed. Hell yeah

You have literally lost all of your leverage. Americans were suffering, yes, but now all the pres has to do is say, "see? They caused this. That's why they folded." It makes him look stronger and the rest of you weaker. You weren't united in this fight, how will you be on the next one?

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

So I am not as big a reader as I once was, but I have some books I think about a lot 1- The Giver 2- The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 3- Jane Eyre* 4- Maus 5- Persepolis 6- Stellaluna 7- Le Petit Prince 8- Humble Pi 9- ohhh probably LotR

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I probably can't make it to this so one of y'all reading this better go on my behalf!

Going to repeat this every time I see the GOP "plan": I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment. So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.

Ok, well ED doctor does NOT think it's shingles, he thinks it's impetigo, and I've been prescribed a topical ointment for this. All up we were in ED for about 2 hours, and then it took about an hour to get the prescription and get home through traffic.

My doctor prepared and sent me a document to present to ED that says I DON'T WANT THIS WOMAN TO GET BRAIN INFLAMMATION so hopefully that helps, I don't know

What do we think the chances are of ED prioritising someone with a big ass infection on their face?

I think my shingles has gotten bad enough that I should probably go to A&E to double check it's not serious. But I don't know what else they could do. I'm already on antivirals, and if I go I know I'll be stuck there for like 12 hours in misery without the ability to wear a mask.

Something I wrote earlier this year when all this started #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/internet/07-...

Big Tech is so unregulated. If any other industry was creating products so faulty and so destructive, various agencies would be under pressure to rain down hell. But not with social media or AI. Laws around under 16s regulate US not THEM. They need to be regulated. It’s insane behavior.

I'm trying not to post about having shingles but it really is the only thing occupying my brain space right now.

Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park. Devastating in our premier national park. Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs... #RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro

Last night, my sister told me that her niece (on husband's side) has a classmate whose father (an asylum seeker w/ a valid work permit) was snatched by ICE in the Chicagoland area and is now being held in Michigan.

Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.

I keep seeing this argument that it's just getting better, but there's plenty of evidence suggesting that we've already plateaued with LLM capabilities and are in danger of model collapse. Improving ChatGPT, for example, will take increasingly more & more resources. That's the issue.

NZ Professional Firefighters Union doing a geat job on a daily basis showing up David Seymour for the liar he is. #nzpol

✨ Shingles update ✨ I had 2 tiny spots on the other side of my face, and they seem to have gotten bigger and redder and itchier 🫠 uuugg

I have had to do the unthinkable... Boot up Windows 🫣 Tried to play CK3 on Linux and it worked but was really laggy and then got so bad, I had to hard reset my machine. Oh well. Seems to be a problem with swap memory

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Sam Altman molested his sister; no one talks about this

My biology teacher in high school showed us a documentary about Rosalind Franklin and I've been angry about what happened for 2 decades now.

A bunch of pretentious dudes who don't read, let's be clear

I feel like there's so much disrespect towards QA as a game dev role, even though it's incredibly crucial. Remember when Playstation had a whole reality show where the winner gets a QA job?

Well said, Susan #NZpol

Another reason not to like some of these people.

Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons. These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.

I did take another day off primarily because I felt so tired this morning I kept falling back to sleep, but also because, honestly, I'm depressed. I'm depressed because even though the shingles is crusting over, the thick, red rash all over my face isn't fading at all. I'm so worried it's permanent.

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This is incredible Who made the Elon air dancer whose only bend point is the salute??? 😂

I am so sleepy. I slept the whole night but I'm just so tired

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I heavily used these tolls early on, trusting and hoping they were really as granular as I thought, but no. I had to turn all adult content off to avoid actual NSFW content despite being fine with most nudity.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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My manager texted me today to take all the sick time I need and I am inclined to heed him because I want to tear my fucking face off. I have more small spots on my face now that are just itchy as hell, and my unaffected skin is SO DRY UUGGHHH WHEN WILL IT END???

She is a minor. He raped her. Don’t dress it up as ‘services’.

I just remembered that I used to record stuff from TV on blank VHS tapes all the time. Like ALLLL the time. But...now...if you gave me a VCR and a blank VHS tape...I wouldn't know what to do

Why do sexual predators in this country get so much protection? He admitted guilt, who gives a damn how it affects *his* life? It's maddening to me.

1955 was closer to 1985 than 1985 is to now

I want everyone to know that while miserable on my couch, I am self-medicating with dumplings. There's this dumpling place near me only open on weekdays which closes just before dinner time, so I'm living it up on these things while I can.