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ADHD is thinking about all the things you have to do, getting stressed about all the things, worrying about the consequences of not doing the things, but still feeling stuck and unable to do any of the things.

in 10 years we're gonna get so many 'yes i gleefully addmitted to calling the gestapo on my neighbors but here's why you should forgive me" essays that the new yorker's submission inbox with crumple under their weight

Meet the cast of 'Harry Potter' audiobooks: Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, and more Meet the cast of the official 'Harry Potter' audiobooks: Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Michelle Gomez, Riz Ahmed, Cush Jumbo, and more.

And now this fucking thing?

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

NCOSE is an anti-porn, Christian morality group that used to be known as Morality in Media. They have campaigned against gay marriage and sex ed. They published an article called "Connecting the Dots: The Line Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders". So yeah...anyway, KEEP CALLING PAYMENT PROCESSORS!

Sub Drive: If You Get Me to 1000 Patreon Subscribers, I will Attempt To Join the Freemasons.

www.patreon.com/c/cryptotheism

The S stands for Summer

“but he was legitimately elected”

yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy

just because people made a mistake doesn’t mean we can’t fix it

"but the joke was right there" luckily so is the block button. congratulations nobody will ever see your unique and super cool sense of humor. hope it was worth it

Sorry, I’ll never be ready to rumble. Go ahead and rumble without me

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

great time to go back to pursuing a degree, i see

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

Hey @ultimateguard.bsky.social are the marginals on these boxes post-licencing worth directly funding anti-trans policy? Or do you just generally hate queer people?

Asking for my audience, & those of my other creator friends xoxo

Background: Personified Visa and Mastercard surrounded by a crowd of people Foreground: Monder lady looming over a personified PayPal and Strip Dialogue: Hello, dear. Do you have a minute to chat Caption: All my homies hate censorship stop-paypros.neocities.org

You didn't think we'd forget about you two, did you?
All payment processors get love! :)

While Mastercard and Visa are drowning, these two have been feeling a bit neglected. u_u

stop-paypros.neocities.org

#SaveSpeech

Something I noted a couple of times here today at GenCon is that I think it's important for publishers to invest in "midlist" and/or newer authors because the cash cows at the top can die, stop producing, or blow up in scandals, and if you don't have a stable of writers to step up, you're screwed.

I can't emphasize enough how much your direct action, calling these processors every day, has forced these statements and the news coverage to happen. It's so important that we keep going. We have been shown they can bleed so be like sharks. Keep up the pressure and more things will start cracking.

A sentiment I agree with and used to argue with people about when I was at Tor.

New scam going around it looks like, making a post to spread awareness about it!! 🗣️
If you get ANY messages similar to these where they're talking about there being an impersonator and ASKING YOU TO MOVE TO A DIFFERENT APP D O N OT go any further with the conversation.

What's hilarious about this is literally nobody sees a kinky game on Steam and thinks "Wow, Mastercard sure has low standards these days"

Meanwhile, by trying to "preserve their brand", they sure managed to turn the entire internet against them.

Can confirm this works, the rep was kept insisting "there was adult content," I kept repeating "but the statement form mastercard says 'illegal,' adult content is not illegal," and I got him to agree that yes, he has seen no evidence any illegal transactions happened.

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

These days, make sure you're really buying what you want to buy online. Also, if you see news that a favourite author has written something unexpected, unless that comes verifiably direct from them or their publisher, double and triple check that it isn't one of these increasingly prevalent frauds.

it's so dumb that the language in the mastercard thing is like "it'll damage our BRAND!!!!!" as if anybody on earth has ever given a real shit about what symbol is at the checkout other than "is it the one i have"

kotaku.com/mastercard-d...

Almost half a million US households lack indoor plumbing: ‘The conditions are inhumane’ This article is more than 3 years old Renters and people of color are most likely to be living without water or flushing toilets in some of America’s wealthiest cities, new research shows

I think it's silly and hateful and stupid that our government is obsessed with trans people using bathrooms when this is the situation in America. it would be regardless obviously but given this it's an additional also slap in the face to us all

You can't apply the need for high profit margins and satisfaction of shareholders, to education, research, or cultural expression. You'll end up with slop, bias, and if high quality products arise, they're bound to be paywalled, ergo encourage class divisions.