Putting up the most basic safety barriers (like nets under bridges, etc.) reduces most suicide attempts, because they do tend to be transient. But if you have someone in your ear encouraging you over a period of days...

All the arguments for AI are like "the world already sucks donkey dick so why not just suck machine dick too?" or "you fucking rube, it's the future, and you're an asshole for not seeing that" or like "sure it's killing people but isn't the REAL problem that they're vulnerable to murder"

"Never tried therapy before but this is probably it," good fucking GOD.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

@tomboyx.com received a "warning letter" from the FDA for selling "medical devices." Binders. They sell a variety of gender-affirming products, including binders. The government is waging war on trans health care of all kinds. Started with our meds, and now the social transition pieces.

Christianity absolutely requires you to welcome immigrants. No exceptions. No “if they follow the law.” No “if they contribute economically.” No exceptions. Welcome them. Treat them as a citizen. Love them.

This kind of shit seriously makes me want to burn down the world, but it also just goes to show that these mouth-breathing walnuts have not actually READ SCRIPTURE.

First: You can make art. You cannot, as a rule, start from scratch making GOOD art. That doesn't fucking matter. Second: You can make art just for you. No one else ever has to see it. If you do that, YOU ARE STILL AN ARTIST. Third: For God's sake relax, you're a grown-ass adult. No one's grading.

i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

(getting pulled over) The Hit-and-Run Story? Count Me Out.

The reaction to this story and Michael’s thread is a prime example of how social media makes people coldhearted assholes

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

How come when the children put a hat on Frosty and he comes to life it’s cute and kitschy, but when I write “emet” on this lump of clay and it comes to life suddenly I’m “bringing destruction on the whole village” and I have to “make it stop??”

Actual creative people should love that their thoughtful, pain-staking efforts have to compete with an ocean of cheap slop

"if you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE the machine that tells an incoherent story, badly, by plagiarizing other writers."

IF I KNOW HOW TO TELL A GREAT STORY WHY THE FUCK WOULD I NEED FUCKING AI. THESE PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING UNHINGED.

The sounds that come out of my mouth when I read this shit cannot be replicated in a text based medium, either through letter-matching or description. This is at once hilarious, infuriating, devastating, and flabbergasting.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

From @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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🤣🤣🤣

Okay. *cracks knuckles* Just. NO. I say this as someone who has navigated both sudden and protracted loss of both parents, never mind countless others. Let's talk for a second.

⚓OH I forgot to post my Advent devotional EP, Beautiful Broken Things here! New songs drop Wednesdays, and an extra song for Christmas Day. 💙💙🩷💙 Listen to Beautiful Broken Things, an album by Clarityharp on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/AhumhG4fkt0f...

"Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships. Remember: AI can never replace the unique gift that you are to the world." Pope Leo spearheading the resistance to this grift.

To people using AI to generate heartfelt personal messages, I'd rather you just tell me you're an NPC who never cared about me

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Hey, my homies! If you’re feeling lonely this season, don’t sit in silence. Reach out to someone you trust—your sister, a friend, or join an online group. Remember, connection starts with just 1 message. You never know who needs to hear from you! #YouAreNotAlone #MentalWealth #BlackTherapistsSky

Putting my sweater on @ Mum's care home, listening to Pentatonix slaying "I can't help falling in love with you," melancholy because Mum really won't eat much anymore...and the big adorable Filipino male nurse croons in his highest register "Iiiii CaN't HeLpPpP" and really humanity is beautiful.

She writes in a way that sounds like good writing to people who don’t like to read and apparently there are a lot of powerful people who don’t like to read

I cannot tell you how many books over the last few years I have realized were never seen by an editor, and frankly it has done wonders for my Imposter Syndrome wrt writing

This is some backrooms-ass shit.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

You’ll Be OK

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

Just think of the great writers out there who can't get a break & can't break through because Olivia Nuzzi's publishing trash books about fucking the brain worm man for brain worms.

First of all, love this. www.polygon.com/vampire-quee...

not to put too fine a point on it but every one of these people—lizza and nuzzi, obviously, but also sundberg herself—are symptoms of the same problem, which is that larping as a journalist is orders of magnitude more lucrative than actually practicing journalism

ART, BABY.

F---ing. CHURCH. Is where I see this the most, of course, as a queer and trans person, both on an individual parish level and in the wider diocesan/regional levels.

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has killed 44 million people globally. Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors. Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.” Silence = Death

In my online young-onset Alzheimer's caregivers' support group, noticing of course how often caregiving is undertaken by women...and becoming so annoyed with the men my groupmates are talking about, men I've never met who are whingeing about how hard it all is AS IF IT'S NOT HARD FOR US. 😆

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.