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Is anyone else here refusing to review LLM-written manuscripts?

What are your experiences with editors when you decline for this reason?

I think Monty Python's Flying Circus *did*

Isekai have rarely seemed so tempting…

Who even needs metaphors?

Measles Profiteers. MEASLES PROFITEERS.

Viñeta de Superman con mensaje antiracista.

From DC.com

That's one hell of a gilt complex.

Today in "LLMs, or HHGTTG slashfic?"

They must have some fun parties.

Thread.

Trump is… definitely saying words.

Well, mostly words.

Eye covered by its semi-transparent nictitating membrane, a cream-breasted hawk with brown flecks and head grasps a high branch in strong talons.

#DailyBird 🤖
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), 3rd August 2024
es: Busardo Colirrojo, fr: Buse à Queue Rousse
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1039mm, 25% crop, 1/400s, f/14, ISO 2000
#Birds #RTHA

Weather conditions for 2025-08-07 🤖:

Sunrise - sunset (14.2 hours):
Temp 60.8ºF - 81.5ºF
Approx rainfall: 0.00 inches
Max wind: 9.8 mph

24 hours 🌕:
Temp 60.4ºF - 81.5ºF
Approx rainfall: 0.00 inches
Max wind: 9.8 mph

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA):

1 American Goldfinch
2 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Cardinal
4 Black-capped Chickadee
5 Common Grackle
6 House Finch
7 Tufted Titmouse
8 Blue Jay
9 Song Sparrow
10 Carolina Wren

#Birds #BirdsongDetection #HaikuBox

Who walks at or above 5.5mph?

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

A Senate investigation has so far found 510 human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since Jan 20, including deaths, physical & sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions, inadequate food & water, extreme temperatures, denial of legal access, & child separation

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I hate to “and actually” but anyone qualified to work in the lingerie dept should be able to, and anyone going into a lingerie dept can ask politely to be served by someone else if they wish. Confected GC rubbish shouldn’t undermine that trans people have the right to do ANY job with dignity.

Anyone in the Labour Party who still thinks all they have to do is write the right article or make a more compelling argument to leadership to make the party Not Horribly Racist And Transphobic is utterly delusional at best an an enabler of the far right at worst. The party you loved is gone.

And today's winner of "Shakespearian insult or Cool Bird" is…

Easiest way to prove you're smarter than everyone else is to make everyone else dummer, so yeah.

As any fule kno, the US States with R's in, starting locally in the North East, are New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Marsachusetts, Cornettocut, Marine, Pennsylvanier …

That is some impressively bullshit "reasoning"

Yes, I'm sure the UK is Perfectly OK.

With zero context, I’d volunteer that this is a rhetorical jewel

🚨DHS asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction restricting the ability of ICE and Border Patrol to stop and question people based on factors such as speaking Spanish, being Latino, doing day labor, or being in certain areas.

Hard not to read this as a request for a license to racially profile.

I dunno, AI seems to be coming for their jobs pretty fast.

Trump demands 'highly conflicted' Intel CEO resign over China ties A change in leadership could pile pressure on the company as it pushes through a major strategic reset that Lip-Bu Tan started.

Trump is truly a petty dictator, not a president.
He's not doing any work as leader of the country; he's just surfing the internet (or being fed things by staff) and then spewing out petty demands and EOs when something catches his eye that he doesn't like.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

hey, @jillybobww.bsky.social, look! alt text!

did i just watch someone ask an american politician “please consider the disabled” and the politician was like, “yeah, good call”?

There's also a large (and possibly overlapping) class of "Do you want reliable info, or easy info?", to which I have a very similar response.

Well, true.