José Pablo Iriarte

Has anybody been getting the really plausible AI generated fan mail spam via their contact form rather than direct email?

Up until now I have thought everything from my contact form was clean, but now I have caused to doubt.

This tracks with my *own* reading habits/patterns, and I'm somebody who loves to read (and write).

Used to be that if I wanted a recommendation for an app or for hardware, I would Google for what I wanted and find an article from a PC magazine comparing several top options. Now the results are all bogus sites "recommending" whoever gave them a kickback, with the text usually AI slop.

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

"it's not a shark unless it's eating you" is how some people talk about fascism. to them, it's hysterical to call the shark a shark before an actual shark attack is underway. these people are high on their supply of never forgets, and they forgot to bring along any never agains

I wanna be sure:

you can’t hurt AI feelings because it has none. Insulting a JSON file is not a bigoted action.

But non-Black ppl *roleplaying pre-American-Civil-War racism* online for the lolz just telegraphs that the only thing stopping you from performing IRL racism is shame, if you have any.

I swear, ESPN statistics are such mathematical absurdities.

Some kind of line graph from ESPN's GameCast. The Dolphins have converted 5/11 third down opportunities. The Panthers have converted 4/8. A horizontal bar underneath is shaded, let's guess 56% on the Dolphins side and 44% on the Panthers side, suggesting that the Dolphins are outperforming the Panthers on this metric.

What . . . is the meaning of the bar graphical element here?? Is the claim that the Dolphins have "outperformed" the Panthers on third down because they have more conversions,disregarding the fact that they are converting under 50% while the Panthers are converting 50%?

The Account Dashboard for SmartCity, a landline service provider.

Not shown on the "Account Dashboard": how to close an account.

I don't tend to see them listed when people start listing newspapers to support instead of WaPo, LA Times, and NYT.

I'm not expert, but the Miami Herald seems like it does good work: They broke the Epstein story, they broke the Alligator Alcatraz story, and they broke the story about that Tampa mansion where a minister was working 50 people for nothing except promises that otherwise their soul was in danger.

"Remember this device," I ask, again, knowing you will not.

But he's talking about whether we *feel* like adults or not. I mostly do not.

But to be fair, in spec fic in particular, the fear has been virtually unfounded. And with young people the fear has been virtually unfounded. Sometimes entering queer spaces outside of those I've gotten a *vibe*, but not really overt gatekeeping.

The calls are coming from inside the house.

Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

If Kendrick has to clear his samples, then so does every white tech bro who wants to use AI. You cannot use someone else's content and claim it as your own for money. You must give compensation. You must give credit!

as inauthentic because my performance of my gender is so muted that I might as well be cisgender.

And moving away from policing others, it feels remiss for me not to connect all this to how any hint of femininity was literally beaten out of me, and now I struggle to figure out who the authentic me is. I fear (without much basis in experience) that people in queer community will reject me

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Finally beat it into submission. To be fair, I had a lot of trash.

From the payment screen for Kia financing: Note: Payments submitted after 8 p.m. Eastern Time on any day will be available for posting to your Kia Finance America account as of the next business day.

This is nonsensical. It implies that if I pay at 10 pm on a Friday, it will be credited as Monday, but if I pay at 3 pm on a Saturday, it will be credited Saturday, and thus if it's after 8 pm on a Friday or Saturday, you're better off waiting until the morning to remit payment.

Anybody else observing a thing where you tell GMail to empty the trash but it just . . . does nothing?

The highlight of the night for me was singing "These Dreams" by Heart, something I had never attempted before.

In my hands, I'd say it sounded less like a rock song and more like something out of Phantom of the Opera.

I wonder if people can tell which I am.

Congratulations! I love that venue!

Last night was another good voice night. I no longer can count on that always being the case, so I feel like I have to make note of it when it is, an appreciation for joyful things.

Someday, probably, I won't be able to sing anymore, but that day hasn't come yet.

Wow, so shocked that so many "comedians" who made their name shitting on vulnerable people and populations and giggling out slurs on podcasts would take House of Saud money that forbids them from joking about the House of Saud all while braying about the sacredness of Free Speech

shocked

shocked

to follow this rule the hard way, sometimes at the threat of violence, and I learned it so well that it's hard not to turn around and enforce it myself. (Until I was even *older* and saw the bullshit for what it was.)

This makes me think about how I'm old enough to have seen multiple fashion swings, and how when something was normal when I was a kid and deeply uncool when I was a teen, seeing it start to creep back into vogue at some later point gave me a visceral negative reaction, because I had to learn

i'm telling you