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Not to make this about cis people but sometimes I feel like us trans women are more of an excuse to intimidate cis girls out of playing sports on threat of, calling it what it is, sexual assault.

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

the praiseworthy thing here is the work done in order to bring about the environment in which the rainbow capitalists feel comfortable hoisting their pride flags. praising the capitalists themselves is pointless, they will take those flags back down for a dollar

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

Hey you know how when Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes toss out some nominally left wing position, and everyone immediately recognizes it as an attempt to rehabilitate their image and infiltrate new audiences? Maybe stop praising the Pope just because he hates AI, like everyone else does.

Mehdi Alibeygi

Growth and Decay I saw a sapling growing from the stumps of a decaying tree while walking my huskies and imagined the ghost of the dead tree watching over its successor. 1/2 #art #painting #tree

It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

Thinking, as I often do, about this tumblr post

I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs

elon musk is the closest thing we have to a real world Jar Jar Binks he talks funny, hes the product of cartoonish racism, plus his main contributions to society are: causing explosions, and propelling us toward fascism via absurdity

*Bridezilla *Japanese Giant Hornet *Microtransaction *Jorts *Date-rape drugs *Complex regional pain syndrome Boy oh boy, 1995 was a doozie apparently!

I'm of course 100% biased, being from Spain myself, but Spain winning the world cup would be amazing just for the absolut middle finger to Trump!

I'm replaying Hades I, and the fact that Hades described Zagreus and Theseus' relationship as a "heated rivalry" is sending me lol

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

"It is easier and more fulfilling to show me who you are than it is to try and triangulate who you think I want you to be."

the Library of Alexandria has burned 10,000 times and will burn 10,000 more before it’s all said and done

Being from Mallorca, I gotta say that our party scene is not that great. Not saying that it's bad, but you can have just as much fun partying in any decently sized city. So many people come ere just to party and it's like... there's so many better things to do in the island!

Sometimes you find out about a movie that's so fake you have to watch it to prove it's not fake and even though you watched the entire thing it just never stops being a fake movie

Always sad when students learn about the secret list of all their flaws we professors keep whenever we notice the inadequacies they're trying to hide. You want to shield them from that, you know? But, just like their deep seated failings, in the end it always comes out.

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

The character/s vs how you drew them

“Everyone from Walmart to your local bodega will need to maintain a presence in Fortnite to stay relevant” is so profoundly stupid I’m just glad I have the documentation to prove someone legitimately believed it.

It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Students who put hours into studying and preparing assessments have a reasonable expectation that their markers are given time to read it carefully and provide thoughtful feedback for the student's improvement and future use

Really depends on who you ask within our profession but... Academics should be paid when asked to peer review academic articles. Every time I tell non-academics about how the academic publishing industry works, they are horrified...

“Everyone calm down, we’ve just surrendered our most formative creative decision making to the slop machine, but we force our wage slave sculptors to replicate its outputs like they’re monks transcribing the Bible” ok, cool plan you geniuses

“We’re “”just”” using ai for concepts but then meticulously following its orders by hand” is just production cuckoldry, you’re cucking yourselves

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

The almost half a point they made by accident here is that this isn’t an LLM problem so much as way too many people thinking that a dataset being big negates the data being trash and clearly not reflecting the underlying reality at all.

Thinking of getting into the "game lore theory youtuber" business

Proud of my country

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

It's amazing how many guys you can find on Grindr whose kink is basically "two bros hang out doing homoerotic shit and then say 'no homo'"

nobody else is ever going to attain this combination of visionary genius and stepping on your own dick in a single reply tweet