Rory

This is an organisation that paid it's football players $324 million in 2024.

But it can't afford more than $15 an hour for the most well known cheerleaders in the US.

Basically, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are paid a very low wage $15 an hour (, and do it usually on top of their normal jobs, sometimes working up to 40 hours a week.

They are informed that the prestige of being a DCC and the perks that come with that is compensation.

They fight back...

Seriously impressed with how well Netflix managed to detail how cult like and exploitative/racist/sexist the US is by default.

Wife was suggested to watch "America's Sweethearts" about the Dallas Cheerleaders, and it ends up being one of the most blistering critiques of American work/grind culture.

Will someone please read the exact purpose of the second amendment and then uphold the constitution.

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

AI will certainly revolutionise medicine...

Not in a good way.

"Let's make the most extreme form of neurotypical society"

My internet use is down about 60% since the rise of AI slop.

There are two websites I bother to check regularly.

AI is the death knell of knowledge and interesting information.

chat should we absorb our citizenry's most intimate data into a foreign country's widescale-human-rights-abusing extrajudicially-executing concentration-camp-running racial-pogrom street-abduction security apparatus

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

I did Na zi that coming.

Bowel obstruction - first of the year.

Yay. Legitimately felt like my gut was going to rupture.

Wonder how many more times before it does.

I read so much research that when I see a paper on a specific topic around ADHD, especially women and ADHD as it's a core area of interest, I am interested in reading the papers this information is based on. I check the reference, and it's completely fabricated with researchers in a different field.

Stop generating AI medical information about things like ADHD.

When I check the references, often they don't exist.

It is completely unethical to use AI to offer medical advice without rigorous quality controls to make sure it isn't hallucinating results.

Still waiting to see what the best case is if AI actually does everything they think it will.

What happens to the vast majority who will be without purpose?

AI's good if you want to know what it's like to have an employee who will do the work for you and just randomly make up stuff without telling you.

Wonder when dying news agencies will see that their pandering to the elite is the equivalent of digging their own graves. Every time.

No media who is supposed to represent "the people" constantly holding these people to account, questioning their morality, exposing their depravity in clear terms.

People starve to death in a world where people have the resources to stop that happening and then choose every day to not help those people.

That is unconscionable.

Yet they are rewarded...

The world would be a much better place without the existence of billionaires, and laws which prevent that level of psychopathy to be rewarded.

Going to be wild when the computer electronics market collapses because like 9 of the richest assholes on the planet are addicted to building a better lying machine.

Oh yeah that too.

I remember how disappointed I was the first time I stayed up past midnight.

Nothing happened lol.

Wonder if there is a stronger preference for autistic people not to care as much about calendar days like valentines etc. Not claiming all autistic people, but it seems so arbitrary to me, and feels forced if I do anything for it.

"ADHD medication can cause insomnia"

Well I just woke up from the most productive nap after taking my meds.

people who still maintain they're 'centre' left or shy from radical left as part of their political brand have missed key facts of the current environment - the scale is out the window now.

We're at "do you think a tiny minority of men should have overwhelming power and wealth or not".

One in 100 year rainfall recorded in parts of Waikato Waikato has been hit with a one in 100 year weather event, with extraordinary rainfall causing flooding and slips.

Might need to start renaming these events soon...

There are some wild older signs in NZSL for nationalities and religions that I am glad are updated.

Basically relying on racism/anti-Semitism.

Spinoff headline: Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

Logged into FB, someone I used to know shared an "ADHD is made up" post with AI slop images.

Logged out.

I would delete it if I didn't need it to contact certain people.