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AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Fuck the shovels.

Can we PLEASE stop roleplaying "I, Robot" by ascribing sentience to a fancy text prediction model? I'm sure there are loads of sci-fi LARP groups one can join, instead of legitimising this nonsense.

"With billions of AIs already in use in the world, it has echoes of animal rights debates, but with an added piquancy from expert predictions AIs may soon have capacity to design new biological weapons". Ah, yes, the added piquancy of... not actually being sentient, as opposed to actual animals.

AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’ Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I didn't know it was physically possible to cringe so hard.

Nothing makes more sense than you being a socialist male, trust me.

But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

But most importantly, why is Jira?

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I confirm I find this Uncomfortably Relatable

Is this the start of your Uncomfortably Relatable Anime Villain arc?

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Mini comic in two parts. 1: "Just make it exist first" - crude drawing of a red circle, not very accurate. 2: "You can make it bear later" - the circle is now a bear's head after adding a bunch more lines to it. "Bear" on the caption is handwritten over a previous text. By Joabaldwin based on the comic by Growthbyvisuals

just make it exist first
you can make it bear later

Esquie is wondering if you'd like a hug to stop you feeling whooo...

#Esquie #Expedition33 #PixelArt

sorry i didn’t reply to your message i saw you texted and half-knew what it was probably about but didn’t have all the details to respond yet and if I open it I’ll forget i opened it so i can’t open it yet

please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

Hauswand mit Grafitti: die wahre Flüchtlingskrise ist eure Flucht vor der Menschlichkeit.

So ist es. 10 Jahre: „Die Toten kommen“. politicalbeauty.de/die-toten-ko...

A message written by the AVTE (audiovisual translators europe) saying : "Much to our surprise, we see more and more translation jobs for The Walt Disney Company reduced to machine translation post-editing - and this happens all over the world. We were shocked to find out it's Disney themselves that forces this solution. One can't but wonder if filmmakers - who put so much effort into their series and features and who spend endless hours refining editing and sound engineering - are aware of what happens with their work at the very last leg of its develivery to the non-English viewer. It's hard to understand this policy, since it takes a scant fraction of the total production cost to deliver a high-quality language localization, while MTPE yields a product of much worse quality. Reducing foreign language versions of a Disney production to MTPE is like coating a high-performance sports car with builder-grade paint."

Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.

While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.

Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.

'avin a laugh~

I love Axl < 3

#AxlLow #GuiltyGear #PixelArt

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.

If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?"

You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

The author goes on about "normal human etiquette that respects dignity", then proceeds to complain about "men who think they are women" 🙄 Apparently she's the only who gets to ignore the aforementioned etiquette.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

a stylized, jagged painting of a racoon washing a french fry in a stream. it has a bag of more fries next to it.

Sadly.. I don't think it wants to share with you.

I am begging people, from game devs to game journalists, to regular players: Stop equivocating difficulty options with accessibility.

While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.

I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension

I wish I could replay this game all over without knowing anything about it ❤️