Kai Butler

"Why I Don't Write with Generative AI" by Jason Sanford These words aren’t about the tech companies worth billions of dollars or how they created generative AI models by pirating the works of artists and writers without permission or payment. These words a...

I know to many this is a taboo topic, but it really encapsulates my feelings on the issue. As I struggle through the early chapters of my new work, I find myself returning to the idea that the struggle is the point.
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Why is this? It's largely because
1) Republicans eliminated tax credits that help pay for health coverage
2) R's set tips, seniors, and overtime provisions to expire in 2029 (the year Trump leaves office), while making permanent cuts for corporations / the wealthy
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

Gorgeous!

Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

Big local news scoop by @startribune.com: " Target has... never to an inauguration fund until this year. Target’s donation came shortly before the company publicly retreated from its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals."
www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

No, I’m sorry, if you’re telling people posting cat photos is a distraction from the real issues, you’re a Fed and you’re trying to make the movement eat itself.

ChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns? As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use.

It's all fun and games until …

"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wait.

So all I have to do to undermine Zuck and Meta a little bit is...talk about a book?

OK

The emperor is more ruthless than his father, and he knows every secret in the palace. He has exiled or had killed at least seven members of the council. I suspect more.

Betrothed to the Emperor is available now!
Direct on my site (readerlinks.com/l/4600252) preorder on Amazon (readerlinks.com/l/4600893).

A graphic with a book in the middle surrounded by the following tropes: I claim you, Ravens are Assholes, Twins Trading Places, A Throne Made of Bones, Emperor/His Assassin, Arranged Marriage

For sale direct now (readerlinks.com/l/4600252). Preorder up on Amazon.

I just used the help chat feature! You need to keep pushing to talk to a real person and get through all the automated responses but I didn’t need to call at all.

I can confirm that this works. Just spent half an hour finally getting to talk to a real person, but was able to turn it off and I no longer see the "helpful" prompt offering to summarize a five sentence email for me

OKAY. Here is how to actually turn off Gemini AI for your google workspace!

1) contact google support from admin panel and keep asking for a supervisor/to speak to a person.
2) ask them to enable settings in "Gemini for google workspace"
3) turn it off.

I just did this and it worked.

a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses is holding a bag that says ' fresh ' on it Alt: A scene from the Peacock TV show Poker face where the main character is wearing a trucker hat and holding a large sub sandwich

Whenever I listen to Sabrina Carpenter's Lie to Girls, I imagine an epic Poker Face fanvid that I will never make.

MacKenzie Scott's game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: 'Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability' "What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s typically not what she is doing.”

Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model...
fortune.com/article/mack...

My husband got me a Chu Chu shirt for Christmas and the love I feel for that man….

This is the bizarre part. I watched the video and remembered thinking if being pregnant as a person not in the public eye was hard, how much harder would it be to be a star and have it so relentlessly commented on/noted/have your bump touched

Going to go tell my cohost about that. That's amazing. Scorpy is our top tier villain.

It's amazing how even if everyone was "the same color," we'd still find ways to hate/differentiate. Think of the blue eyed/brown eyed class segregation experiment. Or, in fiction, the Sneeches. "not being assholes" is much more sustainable.