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Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. The caption reads, “I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me.”

happy international women’s day

My favorite Takahashi anecdote is that he had such deep dissatisfaction for Shinzo Abe and the admin at the time, he drew this picture while urging his instagram followers to go vote for something better. He got crazy backlash for it and had to apologize though.

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

If I think too hard about how every horrible thing right now is completely manufactured and wildly unnecessary I don’t think I’ll come back from it 🫠🫠🫠

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast in a very watery row

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast. "The water was up to my knees making it very hard to push my cart. My feet were so wet and cold, I couldn’t feel them. Growers have us harvest despite the flooding to avoid losing product." #WeFeedYou

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

The two-buttons meme, a comic in two panels. In the upper panel, a hand hovers over two potential buttons, one labeled "Don't use perfect meme", the other "Legitimize illiteracy". In the lower panel, a jutting-jawed man pats as his sweating forehead as he worries over which button to press. The comic is credited to "jake-clark.tumblr".

You can generate your own here:
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Image of Jacob Wysocki screaming with poorly edited text that says "you are AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL."

YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVORITE THINGS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW BAD AND ITS OK. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN TRY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVES FUCKING NASTY. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WI

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

markovchaingang hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market" markovchaingang alright, alright. you can talk about the clothes that damian was wearing. but only if you promise to define what each article of clothing actually is, ideally describing the materials they're typically made from also

I’ve definitely thought about buying and storing physical newspapers

Look, parents and Pete Docter: I’m sorry to tell you this, but the purpose of art is to challenge, expand, teach, inspire, sometimes comfort. It’s not to reinforce your narrow worldview.

Wow. Quiet part out loud.

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

re "claude is conscious explain human consciousness"

a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

oh wow maybe we shouldn't have put all our money in a kiln and set it to 4500 degrees

Nav Toor @heynavtoor 🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

⚠️Told you so moment:

OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up [...] Always.

They proved it with math.

[...] This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

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This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

The idea that blank slate characters are more relatable because people project themselves onto them is one of those just-so stories that refuses to die. It's the opposite! People relate to specificity!

Also relateable doesnt mean "exactly like me".
I relate to both Crowley AND Azriaphale. I relate to Simeon AND Mammon. I relate to Cid nan Garlond AND Zenos viator Galvus.
I relate to different things within different chars. I do not want a copy of me, I already have a me. I can look in a mirror.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

The occupation of Minnesota isn't over but it does seem the feds are retreating, not in shame but in frustration.

Kidnapped Minnesotans continue to be held in concentration camps.

We're unlikely to see justice soon, given the pathetic deference of local politicos to the feds.

But I'm proud of us.

There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

immediate follow 👀👀👀

Dyke knights wip! ⚔️

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

I’m glad Prasad is gone. He should be gone. We’re all better off that he’s gone.

But let’s not fool ourselves that his replacement is gonna be better. We still have to fight for vaccines We *must* keep fighting.

oh, I am SO here for this 🫡