“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it”

so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

Orange and white cat who thinks he's very funny. His behavior report is 90% good, 10% multiple trespasses on the helicopter shelf while Mom and Dad were trying to watch Up in Smoke

Behaviores Report: 90% goode, 10% MULTIPOL trespaces on hellocobber shelve whilst mombandade were tryngto watch ChechinChong Up in tha Smoke

The train stations are especially stark. Vast, empty spaces that were clearly meant to contain something and now serve no purpose.

If you're in a bar and half the group of people you're with are screaming invective at the bartender, you're all going to get kicked out, because nobody should have to put up with that behavior at work. I don't know why people keep trying to justify it because the social space is online.

One of my former students posted a long "AI" generated post on LinkedIn about how Earth Day reminds her of doing research for me on environmental activism to protect old growth forests and I just died a little inside

Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican. The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."

This is an incredible tweet.

I am just a regular-ass often-abled but frequently-needs-to-sit-the-fuck-down-for-Reasons person and public architecture that is hostile to me every once in a while is hostile actively to other people all the gd time and it fuckin chaps my needing-to-sit-down ass

I can’t take the piss out.

It’s in their national beer.

Having one AI hallucination in a work is kind of like having one human finger in your chili. Even if you take it out, the existence of it is evidence that you're doing the entire process wrong.

“You need a detox”

NO YOU DONT THAT SHIT IS A GRIFT

IF YOUR KIDNEYS STOPPED WORKING *THEN* YOU NEED A DETOX AND THATS CALLED DIALYSIS

A PERSON WITH HEALTHY KIDNEYS DOES NOT NEED TO DETOX

But a whole lot of you need to examine why you think it's okay to abuse someone just because they work on a website. It's not okay to scream abuse at a bartender, and that fact doesn't change just because the person works at an online social hangout instead of a physical one.

People keep acting like the Bluesky staff is somehow uniquely bad at communicating with their users, and they aren't. Sure, they aren't perfect, but the perception that they're terrible comes from the narrative about everything they do being set by the loudest and most aggressive assholes around.

Needless to say, Bluesky does not have a culture where engaging in that kind of abuse is socially unacceptable. On the contrary, Bluesky has one of the worst "culturally valorizing abusive asshole behavior" problems I've ever seen on a social site, ever.

All I gotta say is that people who are criticizing any staff of a website for blocking users of the website need to spend a few years as staff of a social website and experiencing the unhinged abuse you get for it and see how fast you resort to mass blocking too

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

They believe they are entitled to their own law. They believe they are entitled to their own facts. And, apparently, they believe they are entitled to their own math.

This is the world we live in now.

I mean, it seems pretty clear: you're insulting lawyers directly to their faces and then acting confused about why the people you insulted are now mad at you.

Excerpted quote in the highlight: “language that’s perfect for my argument!”

In context: “Appellant argues ‘language that’s perfect for my argument!’ We disagree.”

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The thing with the luddites is that it didn't fade out, it was actively crushed by capitalist interests. These are people who stood against a future that they were absolutely correct to have fought against. There have been echoes of this ever since and the stakes keep getting more drastic.

Why do luddites have a reputation for being backwards hicks who can't understand technology? Have you heard how execs talk about folks that refuse to use chatGPT? It's in the best interest of capitalism to erase the vital history of protest, action, and heroism that defines these movements.

Twitter user cosy_love_: I don't support all women, some of you are really unhygienic and dumb! <headline from article: Gen Z gals on growing out their body hair: It's 'sexy' and 'empowering'>

Today’s metaphor for incorporating LLM tools into your processes:

Digital Cholera

A thing about the heaviest users of chatbots is that they acclimate to cloying obsequiousness. Like a billionaire and their entourage of viziers, it becomes normal to them.

Any interaction that is *not* abject simpering they'll now perceive as a slap to the face, an aggressively violent outburst.

That thing they do in marketing where a website asks if you want to sign up for whatever and the choices are "YES!" and "No, I'm a stupid little baby" I'll go ahead and click the stupid baby button. Nice try but I don't care

Again, I ask of any Tolkien fans who may be reading this: what is "Palantir delenda est" in Quenya?

The imperative (Unmake Palantir) is "À nancarë Palantir," if you prefer that.

(Technically you can use that imperative particle with the future tense, "à nancaruva Palantir," which might be closest to the Latin?)

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

An intersex Mallard swimming directly at the camera. This is a duck with an orange and black bill, a brown chest, a grey and brown back, and a head that is green on top with orange cheeks.

An intersex Mallard perching on a floating log This is a duck with an orange and black bill, a brown chest, a grey and brown back, curly black rump feathers, and a head that is green on top with orange cheeks.

An intersex Mallard standing on a partially submerged log This is a duck with an orange and black bill, a brown chest, a grey and brown back, curly black rump feathers, a blue wing patch, and a head that is green on top with orange cheeks.

An intersex Mallard swimming, photographed from above This is a duck with an orange and black bill, a brown chest, a grey and brown back, and a head that is green on top with orange cheeks.

everyone please appreciate this gorgeous intersex mallard

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.