heather 🌮🔔

i couldn’t believe this when i found out about it. how do you drop the ball like this

I can make him worse.

Beware the brands who never support or speak on queer issues outside of June who are now trying to align and be ~topical with using Heated Rivalry in their content feeds.

Very responsibly using Disney+ AI to deepfake Charlie Kirk getting cut in half by Obi Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace.

A shirtless man in a Christmas setting saying “please, it’s Christmas” and Shirley saying “it’s December 10th” while about to hit him with a giant sized candy cane from Community

It’s that (exact) time of the year

NANCY IS HAVING A BAD DREAM IN HER DREAM WE SEE A PEACOCK WITH ITS FEATHERS IN MULTIPLE COLORS AND THERE IS WRITTEN IN THE DREAM THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

THIS NIGHTMARE WILL
BE IN FULL COLOR

bob's java jive, route 99, tacoma, washington, 1980

bob's java jive, route 99, tacoma, washington, 1980

McDonald's was bullied into yanking the AI ad after not even 24 hours. Anything is possible. Weaponize being annoying.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

We must end the Owl.

drawing of a chaotic winter scene of various woodland animals, mostly amphibians, frolicking in the snow outside a rustic hobbit-type dwelling

more frog, again. seasonal frog

This is just Pato O'Ward.

We don't need any more Wrapped packages! I'm done with all the places tying up all my data for the year in some cutesy way they want me to repost and give them free advertising and attention. I'm not longer interested in this retrospective!!!! I would like to delete it all.

I think we could all stand to be a lot ruder about genAI in general

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:

All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

It's the 8th anniversary!!!

Our rescued cougar Sullivan is getting so big, now weighing over 75 pounds and thriving! He’s grown into a confident, resilient cat who loves training sessions, climbing high, and of course, never turning down a good snack. Enrichment time is his favorite, and he and Sienna can play for hours. 🐾

The hardcore screaming guy I posted about a few weeks ago, the one who was posted outside the Heritage Foundation, is back!

Tonight he's making a LOT of noise outside of Butterworth's, a MAGA hot spot on Capitol Hill.

Closed event in there tonight.

They're never gonna create anything that will merit a tag on AO3

Whatever happened to wanting to be Don Draper. Why couldn't you just get trashed at lunch on the company card then go do an ad pitch beyond schlammered to a group of executives.

'Go somewhere else': Manager locks Border Patrol out of Kenner store In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door.

“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.”

“‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.”

www.wwltv.com/article/news...

best of all time

3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t. Britt Young, writer and lecturer at UC Berkeley, explains why 3D printing has not brought down costs of prosthetic limbs.

Over ten years ago I pitched a piece about how all these glowing profiles were being done about 3d printing companies "disrupting" and "democratizing" prosthetics and how that was simply not true. I was told it was too boring/negative and nobody wanted it.

www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

"You're my present this year!"

These advertisers are just overthinking this all trying to use AI. I've been watching the Hershey Kiss Christmas bells commercial for idk 35 years and it's still great. At the end of the day, we're all easily entertained by the simple.

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Yup. This is the time to get my ducks in a row. Gonna have to bully myself.

It sure punched a hole in my mental sludge! I gotta stop being sad and update the rezzie. It's technically a good time to look since a lot of people leave jobs once they get their annual bonus. I'm not Raya material.

On the horizon in my job role is training AI agents and all that bullshit. So it's really actually time for me to find something and put that work in. Or really actually find someone who is rich and wants to marry me. I bring nothing to the table except mental illnesses and Timothy Olyphant facts.