in 10 years age verification will be so entrenched as the status quo that saying age verification is bad and ineffective will get responses like "well what do you propose, *not* have age verification?" like it's a foregone conclusion and was always there
mark my words
Posts by Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester
frank ocean @rickdevens.bsky.social??? #survivor50
There isn’t a tiny cabal of people that you can guillotine and save the world.
It isn’t even that there’s a tiny cabal of people who are standing on the way of fixing the world.
The systems that are standing in the way of it are both resilient and distributed.
Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.
(sure, easier said than done, but i never said it was simple or easy)
no matter how much you grow and change, there will always be people in your life who see you the same as when they met you or similar.
you don't have to be that person even if they relate to you like that person. you just have to find ways to accept that and protect your peace.
On February 10, Canada suffered one of the worst mass shootings in its history when eight people were killed in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, including five students and a teacher at a secondary school. After the shooting, OpenAI reached out to authorities to provide information about the shooter’s use of ChatGPT and announced it had banned the shooter’s account months earlier. However, what OpenAI didn’t say, but the Wall Street Journal discovered, was that employees pushed for the company to reach out to Canadian authorities to alert them to what the person who would later take eight people’s lives was inputing to ChatGPT. The user was flagged through an automated system for suggesting scenarios to the chatbot involving gun violence. “Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on [the user’s] posts,” wrote the Journal. “Some employees interpreted [the user’s] writings as an indication of potential real-world violence.”
Altman’s comments were bad enough. But the following day to read about how OpenAI had neglected its duty when it banned a user in Canada who was using ChatGPT to play out gun violence scenarios put his comments in an even worse light.
disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...
Do you still hate shinji or have you forgiven yourself for being fourteen yet?
The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.
Techno-fascist billionaires are angling to set up private cities in nations destabilized by U.S. intervention.
Also - a thing I’ve been thinking about is that the Trump admin people thought of Minnesota as a lot of very nice white people who by virtue of being nice were not strong which is part of right wing ideology now
Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.
This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!
App deadline is March 15!
ok so why couldn't we make trade deals with the EU then and not literally the worst options possible, bar Russia? this is good but also argh
jay manuel from ANTM looking sour and nervous on the reality check interview set
jay manuel still looking scared of tyra tbh #realitycheckantm
So, I dropped this comment in passing in another thread, because I consider it kind of self evident, but a number of people raised very reasonable objections, and that's on me for being a bit loose with language.
So, let's talk about modularity and RPG design.
i missed it, but at 4S Honolulu, someone ran a workshop where folks crafted felt vaginas. my friend did her comps with a theatrical component. more STS + art plz
making and doing baby
live without security footage of things you can do nothing about in retrospect
your ring camera won't bring your stolen package back, no matter how many times you post to nextdoor
The alternative is "don't live in terror of nothing, you mark"
it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean
pfft not to Canada to me specifically
btw thanks for the shout out in the show Benito
it finally got uploaded an hour ago and it’s at 2mil views already! i’ve already watched it 4 times 🥹 youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...
i don't know enough japanese to know definitively what i'm singing when i sing along to all the songs in revolutionary girl utena, but they're bangers so i sing about the absolute destiny apocalypse just like i shake my ass to bad bunny
what the helly
I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago
Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it
Not for nothing, these are the things that white supremely., capitalism, and the venture-capitalist industrial complex want to take from us.
Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.