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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:

Next week, it’ll be “omg I saw asylum seekers with shoes. Shoes! Time to ban shoes!”

Oh look, yet another disaster for ordinary people caused by Tory governments abandoning social responsibility in pursuit of cost-cutting for lower taxes, which has unfolded exactly as experts predicted at the time, and clearing up the mess will now cost public money desperately needed elsewhere.

A photo collage of some original artworks, all available on Folksy: A Glencoe mountain scene, a swallow in flight, mushrooms with clover, golden marigolds, a northern lapwing, and a landscape with oxeye daisies.

Not my shop, but that of my favourite artist and best friend, @theweeowl.bsky.social. Check it out!

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a sincere thank you to Star Trek's "The Empath" for giving us perhaps the greatest smash cut in the history of television

More reasons to vote leave, I guess. Well done, Westminster.

I love learning something new every day. 💕

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

💔 Winter is coming, and I’m scared for my children.Our home in Gaza is damaged , walls are cracked, the roof leaks, and we barely have enough food.I’m a mother of8, trying to keep them warm, safe, and in school despite everything.Every bit of help, every share, means hope for us.
gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

Unironically, true.

Can Rep Fine even describe "Western values"? Is there some unseen definition he's working with?

Yes! Cats are great like that!

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

😶‍🌫️...effort, tbh. It's stripping the bed; washing the bedlinens; somehow getting them dry; either folding/ironing them for storage or putting them back on the bed. Personally, I don't often have the capacity to do all that, I'll admit. It's easier in summer, though.

In my opinion, the scandal is that she'd want to brag about it.

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Honestly, all of the original series films had such different, interesting things to say, yes, even The Voyage Home, which was a lighthearted admonition to consider how important all species are in the balance of ecology.

Even through the pain, I keep searching for hope.
My children deserve a decent life , food, education, and safety.
Every bit of support means so much 💛
#HelpGaza #SupportFamilies #Hope
gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

exciting times for those of us in the photonics/structural color field

The cruelty is the point.

i've lately been writing about the history of magic mirrors, and let me tell you, the extent to which techbros have misunderstood the meaning of the palantíri and the dangers of using them is...spectacular

Not quite on schedule, but not far off either.

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

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