the will graham you find at home

i know my parents never won that much money all in one shot so like don't poopoo on many money just because a guy got it and reacted to it in a way you didn't like (won it on a game show set up by friend and creator Sam Reich) (this is about Who Wants To Be Jacob Wysocki?)

and please note, this was a grand prize winning!!! one hundred thousand dollars all in one go!!!!

just heard my dad say "It's just a hundred thousand dollars, it's not gonna do much" when i was watching a funny haha show and i'm like. as someone who DOESN'T have a hundred thousand dollars, i would argue otherwise

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

i love u chuck tingle. thank u for your honesty !!!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

What's the best Halloween costume?

1. Muppet of ill repute
2. sexy pile of mulch
3. shambling darkness
4. functioning democracy

happy thursday friends

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

YOU GOT ME GOOD

READING RAINBOW'S BACK OH THIS IS SUCH A WIN THIS SOOTHES MY SOUL

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

bro we can't even consider OTHER HUMAN BEINGS as people, the robots are not gonna win in this aspect

S/o to Marc Maron for speaking out against the fuckery though:

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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

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and not even for like. a detrimental reason either. it's genuinely so petty. but i was like "their works do not vibe with me, so instead of making it their problem, i'll just hit that block button and call it a day."

But It Was Not A Day.

weird thought but sometimes people will recommend an author of fanfic and they'll be really earnest about it because they love that person's work, and i'll have to sit there, barbeque sauce on my tiddies, because i straight up have that person block/muted on ao3

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

Photo of Oracle owner Larry Ellison smiling under a headline from Business Insider that reads "Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure that 'citizens will be on their best behavior'. Dated Sept 15, 2024.

Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year.

This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.

Apparently the best way to "protect children" is to instruct our entire society that consent is always already too much to ask.

THANK *CHRIST*

Please don't call it that

The problem here isn't necessarily porn, it's the way our society allows, like, zero overlap between porn and "serious" media, such that it's conditioned people to believe sex in media could only ever serve as masturbation material

No but really I think this is an underrated explanation, pornography is so easily accessible and ubiquitous - while remaining cleanly bifurcated from all other media - such that a generation is no longer able to see sex in media as anything but "just porn"

literally regular sage works. the sage you buy from walmart in their lil pots in the produce section works. the sage you buy seeds for growing at home from sprout to bloom works. stealing indigenous plants for your own amusement is fucked.

You can't just tell your dog he's handsome all the time, you also have to compliment his job performance