Rebekah Sicari

Hell is a groupchat where everyone is still talking about high school

If you're gonna loudly fight on the phone in a cafe you could at least key everyone else in on the drama

I hate feeling left out

I don't know if this counts as body dysmorphia, but I always think I am taller/larger/more physically imposing than I really am

Yet another monday morning I'm sitting in my car before work thinking about the council of Trent

Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Just asked someone what the name "william" is short for so I think I'm due for a stroke any minute

Stop trying to make healthy junk food

I want fat and sugar and carbs take your stupid protein cakes and get out of my face

Sometimes when I need to feel something I copy paste the entire dinner table scene from hereditary and send it to people I don't talk to anymore

The minute T***** S**** announced that engagement I got the worst migraine headache I've had in years.

My brain was trying to warn me

PALEDRIVER - “They are someone's memories. What difference does it make if it's me or not? They're beautiful. That is all that matters. Beautiful and true -- and they will win. They're *coming* for this, you know… All of this.”

this is part of why AI stuff is getting put into everything by force btw

I love when you try to see what the online fandom of a show/book/game/etc you like thinks and they're all obsessively drawing fanart of a side character who barely has three lines of dialogue

Was gonna jokingly say make a line where everything just has Bruce on it, but I actually would love a Bruce shot glass

As someone whose current work-in-progress is a speculative novel about memory, this was both a great read and made me a little anxious, haha

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

no they haven't

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.”

YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

Yeah go ahead show everyone how freakishly high my resting heart rate is, I had no dignity left

Orange theory displaying your heart rate on its board is akin to the pillories of old

Ow

Ow theonion.com/ow/

Don't talk to me about films until you've seen the big five

a grey and white cat in a stroller with an XXL white lacy bra positioned on its head like a pope hat

“habemus papam”

how am I supposed to explain to my son that the pope is from Chicago

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

happy #InternationalWorkersDay

ZipRecruiter is advertising jobs with ICE in Newark.

If you use them - might want to reconsider.

They should do 2 rival Popes again, might really boost morale

Showing my writing to people is a lot like how my cat presents dead crickets to me. "Look at this! This is because of me! Why are you walking away?"

No wonder AI fans don't care that ChatGPT hallucinates information; they do the exact same thing