Codex O'Healey Melcher

Giving people art they want will only ever—at best—satisfy them. It will never inspire them. That is what AI will never be built to understand.

We gotta have a conversation about how comfortable Republicans have become saying "tranny" and nip that shit in the bud.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

Vivek is to political instincts as Elon is to comedic instincts.

It's been over 10 years since the "detransition wave" was just around the corner. it is tremendously effective cope for the phobes.

It’s almost a worse feeling to want to feel optimistic but forcing yourself to stay pessimistic. And I was in the “of course he won” camp of 2016. Political trauma, y’all.

in the narrative of this ad, kyle, our white plagiarist, isn't even depicted as worried about his own job performance; he steals labor because seeing someone who's not a white guy being praised "really got to him" if that doesn't sum up where we are with all of this, i don't know what does

Looked at the bad site and this was the first thing I saw.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

A few years ago I was going through the archived papers of a guy who ran a prominent theater in the 1980s, and between drafts of playbills and invoices for upholstery I found a large collection of his very polite correspondence with sex workers

What's so amazing about these old Irish Halloween turnip carvings is how accurately they also represent what it feels like to live in the 21st century

These images are all from this excellent book btw. And I’ve got an Interview with the Vampire video coming this weekend! Make sure you’re subscribed to get the notification: YouTube.com/mattbaume

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

RIP to a true Guy Among Guys

Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

T4T Wrestling (@t4twrestle) is being covered by CBS News LA today! i’m so incredibly proud of what we’ve built together! we’ve worked tirelessly to create a platform for ourselves in an industry that has historically denied us opportunities and representation and we have no intention of stopping! 🏳️‍⚧️

There's a lot going on here.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Marghoulritaville has reopened for the season!!

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

So what I'm being led to believe is that Kash Patel fucked a horse.

an extra silver lining if paxton goes down in flames: $160M of elon's money set directly on fire

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

If they can do it to her, they will do it to anyone. Fuck this b

Anyway I'm not giving up my em-dashes. Fuck off.

what I actually want to see from my trade body is not "how do we use this unethical tech created by mass theft from our members and designed to put them out of work", nor is it a two page spread in my trade magazine promoting its use by publishers.

@societyofauthors.bsky.social need to do much, much better about talking to your members before taking these kind of swings that look a lot like a kick in the face.

What are we doing here, people?

Rewatching series 1 of Ludwig now that the US is allowed to watch series 2. Great show (even without my lifelong love of David Mitchell).

i love confidently saying the wrong word. its so gelatinous

But when shopping, I encourage you to consider the total package. Sometimes you're not just buying a product, but also good service, a fun day, and a memory. After all, it's through shopping at these places that they will continue to exist. Video: Creutz in Nice, France (IG thenorejectionguy)

🗃️ In Genoa a couple years ago I saw this sculpture by Bruno Catalano, which says much more about what it means to be Genoese, or "Italian" than the fake outrage of Chris Rufo and the never-ending saga of Christopher Columbus apologism. 1/

He was arrested by the Inquisition-era Spanish for crimes against humanity and mismanaging the New World territories

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️