Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Strongly recommend this thread from a friend of mine for explanations and nuance. Tl;dr, Dismissed does NOT mean not guilty, it means the case was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

solidarity with all my taylor swift agnostics

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

What LLMs are doing, fundamentally, is reaping the benefits of a vast spontaneous, directly social, decommodified decentralized production of use values.

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

Buried lede here is that this has come only after the handful of anti-trans obsessives pushing this were repeatedly rebuffed by most pond users who were supportive of or indifferent to trans-inclusive policy, and so resorted to legal coercion to impose their will instead.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

I feel your anger toward me, and I forgive you for it. Mrs O'Brien, if I've misjudged you, I am terribly sorry. Have I? Is there a place in your school for the Prophets?

I always have the same reaction to her as Sisko here

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

This is beta mindset, Gareth. Your spouse is your co-worker. Your parents are your boss. Your kids are employees. The only relationship you should get "emotionally attached to" is the one you have with that AI chatbot who loves you because of the new branch of physics you've invented together.

I know they’re looking for grubs but I really enjoy this because what it *looks* like is that they’re digging graves for their enemies, something corvids would absolutely do.

Absolutely this, and it's tedious how many people fall for it. All these articles going up because people know they'll get clicks, but it's nothing, it means nothing.

And this is the problem. Because antisemitism is always, always wrong. This was an attack on British Jews, praying in their shul on the holiest day of the year. If your response to hearing of their murder starts with “but Gaza” you are missing the point.

The poster's motto

Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.

one of the first pieces of queer media I remember getting my hands on as a noughties teenager was The Naked Civil Servant, and the fact that it and Crisp were much older than me is a key part of why it had such an impact.

Because something is happening here / But you don't know what it is / Do you, Mr. Pope

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

The Onion are so good at these satirical headli... Hang on

brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it

this book is quite deservedly a bestseller. if you spend a bunch of time online (this is literally all of you, dont lie) you owe it to yourself to read about how the internet has affected our language.

I'm shocked that The Guardian which has a strategic partnership with Open AI would do something like this

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Two people are now confirmed to have died as a result of the ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester this morning. Three others remain in a serious condition. The attacker, who was shot by police, is also believed to have died.

Don,t forget to occasionally refill your apostrophes with helium or they,ll sink

Why does every photo of Kash Patel look like he's just sat on a porcupine and needs to stay quiet about it

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

I read this, got to the third paragraph, scrolled down, scrolled back up, and scrolled down again looking for the bit where they actually took a position.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

"Is Donald Trump Pro-Ship" – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

that’s what I’m loving! They feel like the books! None of the others feel like the books! he’s the David Suchet of Sherlock Holmeses

My “the crazy spending of this AI boom isn’t like the dot-com bubble” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

This is the definitive star wars take for me tbh

Most of my students think it's okay to use for "brainstorming" and "generating ideas." Once again: GENERATING IDEAS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOU

if the president is more than 15 minutes late, everyone can leave and government is canceled for the day

YOU consent to the scene by deciding to read it. whether the characters do within the fantasy or not is completely irrelevant

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

(The critique that TLJ is undermining or reversing its predecessor on Rey’s parents is one of those things that always feels especially silly to me because I literally went into the movie hoping that Rey wouldn’t be descended from anyone, an idea which I believed TFA had obviously left open!)

absolutely correct. It is in fact notable how scrupulously Rian Johnson tries to follow through everything set up by Abrams in the first movie and even picks up lines of thought from the prequels

I’m in the middle of my [redacted] rewatch and it literally never stops being true (👏 twinks 👏 get 👏 it 👏 done 👏)

We got so many inquiries about the lavender cake recipe that we asked Alex for the link. Here you go! web.archive.org/web/20240519...

I actively like going to give plasma, I live near enough a train station that getting out to Twickenham isn’t very disruptive, I don’t particularly mind that maybe one donation in three or four I feel kind of light headed afterwards, buuuuuut