As an em dash-loving writer, I hate that em dash = AI.... but also that's AI lol

Hopefully about 700 years

Tbf, the Artemis crew had issues with Outlook. Microsoft disappoints us all equally.

Honestly, the Artemis II crew had the right idea when they flew further away from Earth than any humans ever.

Georgia runoff is a shockingly apt description of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Another (arguably even better) shot by the same LA photog, Jill Connelly, posted to her instagram.
(Cropped)

I Love the Em Dash—Too Bad If AI Does Too | The Walrus I won’t abandon the controversial punctuation mark just to prove I’m human

This hits me right where I live #savetheemdash

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Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

The crap joke had to be done, but also this. Celebrities never fail to disappoint.

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Chuck Norris didn't die, he just defeated life.

Shia and Ezra Miller meeting on a Yacht to discuss starting up the Legion of Goon

This headline makes him sound like a Batman villain.

Plagiarism and You(Tube) YouTube video by hbomberguy

See, this is why I'm so far behind on TV shows. I could be watching new stuff, but instead I'm on my second full watch through of a 4-hour video essay.

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🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:

- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)

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No.... no I don't think I will.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Why does Boba Fett fly around in an angle grinder?

Price will obviously be a big factor, but unlike Microsoft, Steam is capable of NOT stepping on the rakes in front of them... sometimes.

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OK, but hear me out here... what if it came with Half Life 3?

#steam #steammachine

Yeah, I think I gotta start saving now, because next year looks expensive. I've been wanting to drop Xbox because... well look at them, but I still want a console-ish experience for my PC. That Steam Machine probably has me, but the VR headset looks tops too.

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Gigantic 2: Layoffs due to poor performance, management unaffected boogaloo

I have about as good a job as they get these days, and I really do miss freelancing full time.

Every great studio does it. Look at naughty dog, fromsoft etc. things need to be allowed to end. Sadly Microsoft want bankable franchises, not great studios.

when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs?

gotta remember to savor these little things