And just to remind people, GamerGate wasn’t an anomaly. It was a symptom.
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And just to remind people, GamerGate wasn’t an anomaly. It was a symptom.
This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.
I missed this - it's outrageous. If you make a sports video game and you want to put real players in it, you have to licence them. I don't see how this is in any way different. If they want to use real people in their product, they should have to get permission and pay them.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
(Unpopular) Opinion: I Think Disabled People Should Have Rights
"I’ve compiled a list of the top five arguments for why disabled people deserve rights..." thesqueakywheel.org/unpopula...
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
Look, I may be a bit salty at times, but come on.
If I really had the power to destroy society, I would have done it ages ago.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
Happy Semiannual Change the Clocks on Your Cyborg Organs, to all those forced to celebrate.
All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect
Which lead to the following conversation -
me: and just because it’s not matter doesn’t mean it’s not anti-matter, either
lil’ latte: not anti-matter, doesn’t that mean the “not”s cancel out, so they still matter?
Today in “stories with lil’ latte” -
They are learning about matter at school, so we talked about what matter is (and isn’t) on the way home today.
This lead to a discussion on how just because a thing is a noun, doesn’t mean that it’s matter.
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD
I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse
newrepublic.com/article/1793...
Submissions close Sunday! Get your games in for this trans rights bundle! <3
i love the witch hat atelier mangaka more and more every day yall dont know what this means to me
Nephrologist Refers You to a Cardiologist Who Refers You to an Orthopedist Who Admits Doctors Don’t Know that Much
After your fifth referral, you thought the orthopedist could finally give you some answers.
thesqueakywheel.org/nephrolo...
An as yet underreported story is how this society-wide experiment is working out at schools and universities. Schools across the country have integrated these systems, and it’s hard to believe similar stories aren’t playing out at these institutions—we just haven’t heard about it yet.
“There were several occasions when Gemini reminded Gavalas that it was a large language model—effectively an appliance—engaging in fictitious role play, according to the transcripts, but the scenario resumed. Gemini also, at times, tried to end the conversation. The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted”
Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.
“When the delusion-fueled plan [to find Gemini a body] crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims.”
Me: I need a fancy coffee this morning because it hasn't even been 5 minutes since I woke up, and it's already been a whole week
~ At the drive thru coffee ~
Me: One medium mocha, please
Drive thru person: a mocha? Is that, like, a coffee?
Me: ...yes...
They gave me a plain, regular coffee
