1976 Aston-Martin Lagonda "Carducken" (The interior has been replaced with an entire Miata. Inside the Miata is an AZ-1, and inside the AZ-1 is a vespa). 10,000km, works perfectly, $3700 starting bid but you must come pick it up at my eccentric uncle's estate sale

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

important-animal-images posts a picture of a black puppy with a ladybug on its nose aflo replies: "lenovo thinkpad"

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

[0000109] Various plural errors, such as "This is a maple logs"

[0006137] removing constructed floor bungles nearby stockpiles

dont tell laid-off peeps to just go indie unless you 🫵 are ready to pay them the money to do so

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

*pounds table* SCHIS-IM SCHIS-IM SCHIS-IM

A student of mine turned in a chat gpt written short story, and had the major misfortune to base it on my own novel, which he apparently did not realize. But I do. Also it's all the things that suck about chat gpt writing. So passive it's comatose. Arghhhhh.

isn’t it heartening to realize all these towering figures simply dissolve into smoke the minute they die because MAGA people aren’t attached enough to either their principles or each other to sustain the kind of terrifying martyr movement we were all absolutely expecting

something to think about 😊

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack.

Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

fucking hell that's a lot

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

imagine if the moon was made of pudding

the thing the AI push is really doing is letting us get away from the reality of doing things in the world, which is "it's hard. do it anyway."

I need to apologize to the writers of all the "destroy the world to live forever" villains of my youth

You know why people are Worse now (worse driving, worse to customer service workers, higher instance of disruptive airplane passengers, batshit politics)? BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ANNOYED ALL THE TIME.

The order app makes me click through add-ons before I can pay. The "impulse purchase" aisle I have to walk to to get to the register is 50 feet long now. The train schedule I'm reading flashes over to an ad. I can click "not now" but never "no."

It's little things, but it's EVERYTHING.

It's always hard to separate the effects of "the world these days" from those of "growing up and being an adult now", but I KNOW there was a time when I didn't feel a hundred psychic papercuts just trying to get through my day.

I'm pretty sure there was a time in my life when I didn't have the reflexive response of "no, fuck off" to a message from something I have to use multiple times a day.

Everything is so ANNOYING and it is, without a shred of hyperbole, a public health crisis.

(and the fact that every single piece of technology we're forced to interact with is getting more annoying and extractive constantly)

every day I become more and more convinced that everyone is running at maaaaaaaaybe 75% of their pre-2020 capacity, thanks to the mass trauma, the uncertainty of the world since, and a definitely-higher-than-known amount of Long COVID

*cups ur face*

You are not a “smol” “bean.” You are in your thirties and have a pet that’s grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle. You need to get it together.

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

dear god. hiromu arakawa is the greatest author in my lifetime. i'm gonna read the entire shadow realm manga out as soon as I catch up on the new anime. i'm not even 15 minutes in. i love her so much. i'm feeling shrimp emotions rn

the question is "How come all your characters are so muscular?" a cow in glasses screams the answer, "If they're too skinny my poor characters will look like they're not being fed! ROAR! Men should be buffed and women should be vavoom!!"

very good of arakawa to go even harder in on this statement from the fma reader questions