The Book Shepherd

There’s not, at present, an ethical way to create art with AI. Not with the tools we currently have that are all trained on stolen work. Pleased to see so many residents of Calgary echo that.

You’d better believe the librarian group chats are discussing this today.

I mean, am I always in a great mood these days? No. Am I eating the right things and drinking enough water? Also no. But am I *financially* secure and emotionally stable now that I'm in my forties? Again, that's a big no but listen...

We could, in fact, do less of what the US does and I would be more than fine with that.

My hope is that BC adopting permanent DST means other provinces will eventually follow suite and get rid of the twice a year change!

I really struggle with it. I know it’s only an hour but man does it really mess up my sleep. And I know kids are always hard but this time change feels like making things even harder for sunlight in the evening that would happen in 3 weeks anyway.

Just kidding, I don’t care what people on the internet say about my enemy, the time change.

I struggle with this time change a lot, but I’ve seen people on the internet say I shouldn’t so, I guess I’m in the wrong.

Help, my children are still awake: a time change horror story.

Yes and we don’t even really think about how recent they all are! Or that they can change, relatively quickly.

Also, obviously, trans women are women and their rights are directly under threat today (and being actively taken away in parts of the USA).

It’s wonderful to celebrate women achieving a lot now, and we should! But we still have a ways to go, and we shouldn’t become complacent when there are women worldwide losing rights as we speak (and those who never had them to begin with).

For International Women’s Day, remember that many of the rights women enjoy today were gained by loud and angry women who spoke out despite the cost to them personally because it would benefit us all. We could all be channeling more of that energy today.

I wish I could say I’m more shocked but alas. I’m sorry your experience so closely echoes others I’ve heard.

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kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

This is actually super helpful context considering I only know him from his current WWE run and the persona he puts on there and before that only knew him as a name with a bad Pepsi tattoo.

You are such an excellent resource for wrestling info and I appreciate that about you.

I really need someone to give me a CM background pamphlet for context.

I, a notorious anti time change person, am now jealous of British Columbia.

The U.S. Hockey Men Spoil The Fantasy | Defector To be a U.S. Olympian is to represent the best that your country has to offer. That sounds extremely lofty when it’s written out like that, but I think that’s really how it works, ideally, if you’re t...

On the ideals of the Olympics, the fiction of hockey romance, and the real world: defector.com/the-u-s-hock...

Do you hate winter or do you hate the system that expects you to treat every day of the year the same way, ignoring cycles of nature?

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

I’m gonna do it Cindy!

Jerry doesn’t see the big deal, George sheepishly admits to using it himself but only “in times of direst need, Elaine!” and Kramer has never heard of it but owns shares in an up and coming LLM no one has ever heard of and has been in development for ten years.

Modern Seinfeld episode where Elaine gets the ick because she finds out a man she’s dating uses ChatGBT to write his emails for him.

I’ve been told this is a hot take (weirdly) but I don’t think anyone should have nuclear weapons and that we should destroy all of them and erase the knowledge of how to make them from our collective knowledge.

The fish must have been some good here, let me tell you.

I fuck with anything Charli XCX, and love this accordingly.

I know you’re a fan of WH and was having a conversation earlier about whether H is written as not white or not and realized I was being way too English major about it all. So far all I’ll say about the new movie, not having seen it, is that the soundtrack slaps.