“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
“Why don’t you want to have a conversation about AI?”
“I broke into your house and stole your shit and now I just want to talk.”
ALSOBROOKS: I have the recording. I can play it
RFK Jr: I do not believe that every Black kid should be re-parented on a wellness farm and I have never believed it
ALSOBROOKS: Well you said it, sir, I have the video
RFK Jr: I'd have to see the transcript
The FCC is soliciting feedback on whether to push the TV ratings system to ban trans and nonbinary characters from children's TV shows.
www.imdb.com/it/news/ni65...
this is absolutely horrible. I do not want my amazing, brilliant daughter to have been exterminated in the womb for being trans!
also...like, I know for a fact that she would not say that her childhood was horrific. 1
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.
Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.
The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
Warren is providing us with an answer to the question "If Democrats were presented with a bigoted populist candidate who had some ability to win elections that other Democrats couldn't, they would turn that down, unlike Republicans, right?"
One of the scariest parts of the Handmaid's Tale was people being told "no, you can't leave"
I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue
"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich"
the sound i just made was not dignified
Extra points for the correct usage of the word 'kayfabe' in a non-prowrestling context
Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, US appeals court rules A federal appeals court rules that Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, allowing posters of the religious doctrine to go up throughout the state
So public schools can’t have a book assigned in class about LGBTQ people but apparently can be required to teach Christianity.
The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.
the cover of the book "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" which features a black and white photo of an elderly Black woman sitting in a rocking chair, clearly in her sitting room, holding the barrel of her long gun while it's propped up beside her on the left. she is wearing a long plaid skirt and a short sleeved white shirt.
:slides this across the table without comment:
BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
We're really in that point of history where humanitarians are being villainized for keeping tabs on terrorist organizations... What's the point of remaining nonviolent towards hate groups if it's still going to get us punished?
totally compatible since to make things fair you need to put them motherfuckers against the wall, and to put them motherfuckers against the wall you need to make things fair.
I am "the Republicans screaming about Obamacare 'death panels'" years old and I am very tired
I was considering posting my work online again sometime in 2022. Then generative AI became a thing—that idea died. I don’t want to feed someone else’s cash cow… I don’t want my words cut up and butchered and turned into milquetoast slop while real people are harmed. Anonymous (North America)
Writers are increasingly hesitant to share their work online because of AI—per the findings of our recent Creativity & AI survey, the damage AI has wrought on writing communities is psychological as well as material.
But that’s not the full story 🧵👇
Full blog post: ellipsus.com/blog/survey-...
Riding a bike is one path toward radicalization in The War on Cars.
Empire collapse
134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
a patch/sticker design depicting a jackalope mask and blood spatter surrounded by the text "NEVER DIE SAD / ALIVE UNTIL THEY KILL US / PISSED UNTIL WE'RE FREE"
you don't get to tap out
because this is not a game
my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article
Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help
Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
There is a reason all my cousins and close friends know not to ever call the police for a wellness check on me.
imagine explaining this to yourself in 2014
