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i saw that when i drove home a this summer! truly shocking

i give you permission to quit a book that you aren't in love with. life is too short, and there are too many books, to spend time with ones that you don't love. (i say that as a person who Does Not Quit Stuff lol)

what are you reading?

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

ah yes. at our house, this is the sacred "brown dinner." whatever breaded meat/non-meat you can find + some kind of potato + 1-3 sauces. always hits.

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

THE KERNING!!!

ah yes, the classic gradient > metallic > bronze word art setting. absolutely reeks of luxury.

there are still good people and good things happening in this miserable country. what a night

Y O W Z A

funniest possible version of this

Hey TikTok witches, your aim is getting better! Keep it up!

Man's wife loves him and wants him to succeed. Here's why that's bad.

screenshot of a post reading "dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers"

Last chance to turn it off.

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To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

a trick-or-treater saw the cats in the window, and said "your cats are so cute! tell them happy halloween" 😽

this is like the promise of high speed rail between chicago & st. louis: people have been talking about it the whole time i've lived here and at this point, i assume there is no way it will ever happen

I KNOW!!!! he was like "well i learned html as a kid?" i pointed out that learning html didn't rely on resource-guzzling data centers and he huffed at me! like who cares! lol scream

I swear I was alive in a time when the misuse of “luxuriant” would have caused damage.

i talked briefly to a man in a different session who said his elementary school aged children are taking classes to learn how to use Firefly, adobe's text to image AI generation tool. like. fuck.

we're so fucked in like 12 different ways.

at a talk about social media strategy and someone just started a question with "we have a goal of disrupting the barbecue space..."

if i take 1/2 a step back, this conference is very, very silly

hahahaha I WISH!!!

there is def a LOT of: set up frameworks of the steps of your repetitive tasks & drop in what you need edited/fixed/generated & it will ~magically do it for you! but all the setup is an entirely different skill set than just doing the work? not quite helpful enough to justify environmental costs imo

amazingly, the thing that got the biggest cheer from the crowd BY FAR was automatic (AI powered) layer naming in photoshop. lol designers

then i remember that human beings need to drink fresh water? not have Firefly generate 16 different variations of a poster for me, AN ART DIRECTOR, to choose from.

phew, that was close