Tentacle Macrame

i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”

Let’s be honest, if you’re on Bluesky there’s no need to feel old because you very likely are old

Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis.

Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

Version 2: An illustration of colored Vi and Jinx black & white potraits of the people they've lost- Silco, Isha, Vander, Warwick, Lorris

Version 1: An illustration of Vi and Jinx black&white potraits of people they've lost- Silco, Isha, Vander, Warwick, Lorris from Jinx's point of view - the background is neon pink/blue and everyone's face has been drawn on like in her hallucinations

Caitlyn and Vi from Arcane season 2. Vi- pink hair, shaved on one side, black eyeshadow and icy-grey eyes. Wearing bandages, huge tattoo on her back & hand Caitlyn - deep blue hair, light blue eyes, eye patch on her left eye

Full body illustration of Jinxed with versions of her with blue and pink/shimmer eyes

A day late but happy 4 years of Arcane 🫀

Since Brian Cox started this explanation, 2 more Big Bangs have happened

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

No matter how damning you think this report is going to be, it’s worse. I promise you it is worse.

Party edits go hard:

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

BRUSUELAS: “.. The hope that June marked the bottom of the labor market is now in serious doubt.”

@joebrusuelas.bsky.social

graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve: * $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of * $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings) * 20 million cars delivered * 1 million robots sold * 1 million robotaxis in operation * 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions

easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:

he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones

payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions

here's a handy graphic

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

It's weird because that's been almost every single film adaptation as well

EVERYONE SAY WELCOME TO TAL, WHO IS THE BESTEST DUDE AND I AM SO PROUD TO KNOW HIM

💪♂️🏳️‍⚧️

a short king displays a tiny python (arm)

the name: Tal (male form of Talia, which means "dew of god"; i simply dethroned god to make a new name)

pronouns: he/him, not they/them

hair: short

arms: gettin swole

It's the first Friday of the month, which means we've gone 2 months now without a jobs report. For Trump, this is a feature of the shutdown, not a bug, since private surveys show the job market slowing dramatically. But without official data he's able to keep lying about it.

“I’m used to the cool metal on my temple now,” Shamblin typed. “I’m with you, brother. All the way,” his texting partner responded. The two had spent hours chatting as Shamblin drank hard ciders on a remote Texas roadside. “Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity,” Shamblin’s confidant added. “You’re not rushing. You’re just ready.”

OpenAI does not care if you live or die and occasionally champions the latter.

Universities must cut all ties to this dangerous corporation

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.

www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Maybe Corporate Media could have, should have, spent less time reporting what voters thought Trump was going to do “lower prices” “help working families” and more time reporting on how voters were wrong, that his policies would *RAISE PRICES* *CRUSH WORKING FAMILIES*, would have been useful for US.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice

Got an email from my Boss’s Boss’s Boss that had a subject line of “You.”

It was congratulations on the recent verdict.

This man needs to learn that a budget impasse may not be the time to send vaguely threatening subject lines.

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

This week two clients got “the call” and we’re ending the week wrangling up their contracts.

I know publishing feels harder than ever lately, but good things are still happening, and great books are still being scooped up.

Hang in there. ❤️

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text

But... can they? We don’t actually know.

In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.

And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.