Pretty incredible to be getting ads for fake AI slop products while reading a @nytimes.com article about scammers in Myanmar. This timeline makes me feel crazy sometimes.

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Ok but I bought my gourds today 😭

I get razzed for sticking w old things: my phone's from 2018, my "computer monitor" is a 15 yo TV, my car could legally drink & my house is full of 1950s & 60s furniture. Here's the thing: older shit was built better & I don't worry that it's going to self destruct or steal my peace w an "upgrade."

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

This is my fear as I see a few people in my life get a glimmer in their eyes as they recall AI conversations. These are products with one goal: to keep you engaged. If you end up isolating everyone in the process, well that's just more time you can invest in the chatbot.

Lessons from being online since 1995 1. Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." 2. Chill before serving. (Mine) 3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware." 4. On the Media's rules.

And in fact we wouldn't have to invest so much time and energy obfuscating if it wasn't.

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social I still cut up the (now seemingly bio degradable???) six pack wring Every Time while my gen X husband laughs at me.

Still here, still queer (as in f*ck you, as the saying goes 🙂)

Turns out when you ask the robots how hungry they are, they'll attempt to justify why the entire ecosystem should continue to be fed. Note I didn't ask why the money was being spent, just how much.

So my new-to-me townhome in the suburbs has a kitchen door that could be assumed to be the front door. Yesterday 2 sales guys opened the creaky storm door to knock and were greeted by the kung fu kick-and-lock of a startled former city dweller. Kind of sorry but also good to know about myself, lol.

It's times like this I'm glad for my dark sense of humor because the comic made me chuckle if nothing else.

hoping to see more of this.

"it's like shooting crackers in a barrel" = new idiom for a non-event that was all but guaranteed to rile up "anti-woke" conservatives.

"While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade." So the longer you interact with the model, the more off script it goes? Fantastic.

Very large slug with mini lighter for scale. (That's it, that's the skeet.)

Wanted to get more context on the current vibe with tech stocks, so I searched news on "magnificent 7 stocks" in the past week. I thought it was weird that I wasn't seeing anything... then I realized my last phone scrub reset my search to Google. Screen shots for the same params on Google and DDG.

I wonder what other business they conducted over the hotel wifi 🤦🏻‍♀️

Whoever designed the Google Slides interface should be condemned to attempting to build out a deck while riding a commuter train for all eternity.

Y'all I'm about half way through They Thought They Were Free and I'm not having a good time. Came here for a break and wow nope, still not a good time.

"HEAD ACHE" https://bonequest.com/9635

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

Sometimes having a pet w/ a chronic health condition means going to the vet for care you could have administered at home w/ the right supplies. Gotta love taking the morning off and paying $242 for a bag of saline, rx meds you requested, and a thumbs up. At least my vet knows I'm on it and listens.

Love abounds in my front yard as Fester (a cardinal who's experienced "catastrophic molting") feeds his new lady friend. Just goes to show ya that personality trumps looks (if you know where the best seeds are, anyway).

Cat scratch fever dream. Analog collage with magazine of various decades, fabric trim, and other ephemera bits.

Didn't have Rosie O'Donnell as a bell weather for the continual erosion of democracy but I guess that's why I don't do prop bets.

FEDS!!!!! CHECK YOUR SERVICE COMPUTATION DATE (SCD) AND MAKE SURE IT’S CORRECT! You can thank me later. 😘 Sorry for shouting. As you were. 🫡

An incredibly succinct assessment of our current situation. Usually when I try to explain this (to anyone who needs it explained, anyway) I feel like that meme with Charlie and the pinboard wall.

A friendly Prime Day reminder that there are over 7 ongoing investigations into Amazon's illegal practices and worker safety violations. Jeff Bezos is worth over $236 billion and yet can’t bring himself to protect his employees or pay them a livable wage.

My 16 year old diabetic cat pulled a "it looks like I may have gotten outside but actually I'm just asleep in the back of the closet" today and it's going to take my nervous system a full week to recover.

Practice personal device security as you're out there fighting the good fight. @eff.org has comprehensive and approachable resources.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Oh this made me smile.

To smoosh or not to smoosh? That is (NOT) the question! 51st.news/dc-spotted-l...

If your headline is some version of "person A SLAMS person B over some thing" know that I will not be clicking on principal. Can we please stop treating public discourse like a BuzzFeed article or TMZ story ffs?

Currently trying to convince my cat that head on pillow > head on remote but we're still in negotiations.

AltNOAA is not a verified alt gov account. I followed them accidentally and then realized something was off when they said back in April that they thought it was a good thing that CECOT exists...

Popped on Pee Wee's Playhouse for some fun background television and definitely never picked up on Bob Dobbs in the intro sequence when I was in pre-K. #boblovesyou

Those who don't learn history are doomed to be manipulated by a bunch of evil fucks with a recycled playbook.

Celebrated the long weekend / my own existential dread with a little whiskey last night. Woke up to find that I had gone on an absolute book bender. 6 purchased, 6 pdf / epubs acquired, and another 13 waiting across 3 online shopping carts (ever prudent, I had decided to reassess in the morning).

Grieving for our country today and sincerely wondering if I've already lived through the best we'll see in my lifetime (not to get dark or anything).

I smile and nod as my boss tells me to "just Chat-GPT it," knowing we're less than two hours away from her marveling at how quickly and concisely I manage to distill the thing she was trying to convey but just couldn't for some reason.

None of the dystopian novels warned me that fascism in America would be dripping in stupid consumerism but of course it is. USA! USA!

This was a beautiful collection of stories and photos to see as we wrap up pride month. Remember, we have always been here and there is real power in sharing community with our elders. ❤️

What to document during an ICE abduction. (print / share). ICE does not only rely on people staying silent but failing to document their activities. Help keep your community safe by gathering the following information. #3E #StopICE

Wheeeeeen theeeee Goons get your cash in a preemptive stash that's payola! When you pay off a guy to get on his good side that's payola!