MirandaPitcher

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

I highly, *highly* recommend these books, truly excellent folklore-focused romances that are so beautiful that university theses have been written on them

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

We saw Eric Bauza at ComicCon on the Voice Actors panel in July, and laughed so hard we cried! Such a shining star, gone way to soon. He was one of the highlights of our 4 days in San Diego. My husband and I are heartbroken, but comforted to know that he leaves a rich legacy for the animation world.

Eric Bauza. Legend.

I was there that day! Tagged him in a tweet thanking him for his support and he followed me back instantly. Dude was just a class act. Got to meet him for real a little later in the year and we nerded out over TMNT. He loved what he did and all the people that came with it. So sad, dude.

Eric Bauza wasn't just a talent voice actor and impressionist (he also did layout art, character design and rough animation from what I hear), but he was also a man who valued artistic integrity and would put his job on the line. Rest in Peace, King

Frankly seeing a voice actor do that is still so inspiring, because he was 100% risking his job over that (we voice actors are often seen as expendable/replaceable), but he did it because it was right. Man was a champion.

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

Just found out out I'm speechless. Bauza was the nicest guy... Never acted the big guy around crew even on the smallest productions, dude would show up at muppets just for a bootstrap pizza party, zero ego and so genuine. Didn't know him well but truly shocked to hear this

My painting 'Northern Reflections' is available as a unique wooden jigsaw puzzle from The Puzzle Lab! puzzlelab.com/collections/...

I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

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I can't stress enough how counterproductive it is for campaign sites to hit visitors with a donation pop-up they have to close before they can see anything. A week out, most visits to these pages are voters trying to make up their minds.

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay. The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.

I'm not saying it *is* incompetence and not malice, to be clear, I'm just pointing out that in this case incompetence would be nearly as bad and really just as damning. Maybe even more damning than simply being in the bag for the GOP would be.

This is one of those situations where even if you're a fan of Hanlon's Razor like I am, the innocent explanation is nearly as bad as the sinister one: maybe they're just lazy idiots who don't bother to check volunteer sources that fall in their lap and no one should read their half-assed slop.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

As someone who was hospitalized for five days after a cold turned into an inner ear infection and caused SEVERE vertigo, you can be perfectly healthy and still have major complications from "just a cold". It's 2.5 years later and I'm STILL using a cane and doing PT in the hopes of fully recovering.

You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

People Magazine has it! people.com/former-miss-...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Yes! These reports read like the reporting on traffic collisions where cars (not drivers) hit pedestrians or fixed objects as if they are free range, autonomous beasts. A human hit enter on the prompt, a human was in the driving seat. There's your perpetrator!

Thank you! There are flesh and blood human beings responsible for all of this, they're all somewhere on the spectrum from negligent to actual criminals, and we do have a legal system built to deal with that. We could and should strengthen it, but even what we have now would help IF WE USE IT.

"But i didn't know it would do that!" if you didn't have full trust in the boundaries and instructions being followed you shouldn't have hit enter

who hit enter on the originating prompt charge them

Screening. First in Chapel Hill. This Thursday. See you there. www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/event/power-...

I am cognizant of my fears, rather than letting them spill out as angst and then doubling down on that angst. Because of that, I am able to make thoughtful choices about how to treat people and where to put my energy. It doesn't always play out perfectly, but it's better than running on impulse.

I get it. I am worried, and I have very real fears right now. We are entering a tremendously dangerous time. The GOP will do desperate things to influence the outcomes of the midterms, and after losing races. We have every reason to be on alert. But during dangerous times, we must be thoughtful.

A lot of people need to slow down and acknowledge to themselves that they're afraid, and this is affecting how they are interacting with other people. You have to acknowledge the reality of your feelings, or you won't control how they shape your behavior.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

And every time these floods happen, cars get ruined. And then *everyone’s* insurance rates go up.

I'm posting this as a reminder to myself that I want to make it tomorrow. 👀 sallysbakingaddiction.com/nutella-tart...

remember when Elon took over Twitter and was having the engineers document how many lines of code they were writing as if more was better and not a sign they were not very good at coding