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HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

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I wish I could like this five million times but each time was a tear drop not a heart

OH MY GOD AMAZING CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

I hope they are stalking your social media well enough to discovery this boundary!

I mean, who am I to attach moral values to art?

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

You're the dessert

Ooops jinx!

Oh I see where I went wrong! What if they composed a surprisingly catchy song about your life and interests based on your social media and then sang it to you between courses but just before dessert it shifted to a minor key?

Ok, but hear me out, what if they put your photo in a bunch of little heart lockets and all your waiters wore the lockets and every time someone took away an item of cutlery there was a small but non-zero chance they were going to get a fingerprint off it to tattoo over their heart?

Hi, data centre engineer here. The power needed to keep a storage array ticking over is negligible. What does take power is processing. The sort of processing needed for ChatGPT to tell you there are two Rs in strawberry.

I'm so sorry. Sending you love

right?? why would you do that if not to hurt me?

Noooooo

I would rather die than create an account to continue

It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.

I hope so too about next season! Tbh I love the show enough that if they do, I will happily convince myself it was intentional all along

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

Anyone who has ever tried to get a team of PhD-level experts to split a restaurant bill correctly or agree on coherent wording for a simple paragraph of instructions will admit the justice of the comparison.

I go back and forth on this one! Like, I want to believe? And the breadth and depth given to women's experiences on there suggests to me that it must be obvious to at least some of the writers? But it also doesn't feel like it has a payoff or satisfying acknowledgement

the initial draft of the syllabus I'm writing describes genAI as "a fascist environmental catastrophe disguised as a plagiarism machine, marketed to people who dislike thinking for themselves"

maybe that's too much for the course policies section but my heart knows what it knows

It's such a wild example - what do they think the point of sending a jokey text to one's spouse IS?

anticipating the think pieces about how women are falling behind in marriage because of their failure to embrace genAI

Probably they've both been replaced by clones by this point

That is so extremely them, I love it

Obviously we have a set of code words we developed in the first year of our relationship in case one of us went to a conference and was replaced by a clone, but increasingly I think every sentence we say to each other has that function too

"Tell my wife I'm running late using the base lexicon of 2013 tumblr marinaded in 12 years of increasingly abstracted in jokes and shared grudges to the point that we are truly insufferable to anyone else but each other"

"go to hell" is basic, it's overdone
"I hope a celebrity whose work you enjoy joins an HP production" is terrifying. it's possible.

Inspirational! Severely depressed autistic woman now slightly less depressed An autistic woman has been hailed online as "an inspiration" after going from very severely depressed to slightly less depressed, it has been reported. Ellie Mulligan, 28, who has been suffering from…

Housemate Avery Mann, 26, said: “Ellie used to be so depressed, she couldn’t complete basic tasks. Now she’s still very depressed, but her teeth are less manky and she’s put on clean underwear.”