Jocelyn Leitzinger

it was obvious at the time that they were making copies of everything to sell to the highest bidder or keep for bragging rights. who knows how much has already been sold

He'll never be successful if he doesn't learn to use punctuation

Right!?! It's like they're pissed I prefer human writing - so condescending

The Human passage “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be.” — “Blood Meridian” (1985) by Cormac McCarthy For this passage readers chose A.I. The Human passage: “You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” — “A Wizard of Earthsea” (1968) by Ursula K. Le Guin For this passage, the readers chose Human

The Human passage “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.” — “The Demon-Haunted World” (1995) by Carl Sagan For this passage, readers chose A.I. The Human passage “It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” — “Wolf Hall” (2009) by Hilary Mantel For this passage, the readers chose Human

The Human passage “I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper.” — “The Fish” (1946) by Elizabeth Bishop For this passage, the readers chose Human

Right now, the results have readers preferring real human writing over "AI" plagiarism for 3 of the 5 samples

It would be hilarious if the majority of readers chose the humans for 5 out of 5 samples. And maybe a signal not to fire their writers?

Although the one who made this might deserve it

How does the plagiarism machine compare to famous writers?

I only have to care because the NYT is desperate for people to like "AI" writing, and I'd rather support humans

I got humans 5/5. No lucky guessing needed, the slop is obvious - it's the boring writing that doesn't make you think

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

The premier of Nova Scotia’s ENTIRE plan is based on oil and gas extraction. He just said it on air. That is his only plan. Our biggest industry is tourism and he just cut $$ to tourism, arts & conservation (all reasons why people come here).

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Grief, anger and lack of trust expressed in community meetings on Nature Restoration Plan Plan must have clear and enforceable targets, says advisory committee

The vast majority of the Irish public feel distress, sadness, anger, grief, fear, despair, guilt, frustration, and worry at nature loss and environmental decline.

Why is this never reflected in actual government policy???
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Gas has gone up another 40 cents per gallon since Friday. Gas prices have increased 23% in just 4 days

I've seen gas as high as $4.70 a gallon in Chicago right now. And as they keep bombing oil depots, those prices will surely continue to rise

Imagine thinking the biggest contribution you can make to our dumpster fire world is very publicly lambasting people who consume fun coffee drinks for causing the loneliness epidemic

Grygiel thinks that making Americans drink straight espresso will suddenly make us talk to each other - hilarious

It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.

2. Logan Square FB group - Always a good time, not quite as funny as Reddit

3. Nextdoor - No humor. Some early good info, then just whining. It tracks

4. Wicker Park FB group - Dissappointing, as always

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Finally fell asleep around 5 this morning. Very grateful my dog let me sleep till 11:30 - she was clearly exhausted

Post torture ranking of social media on the incident:

1. Reddit/Chicago - hands down the best source. Hilarious. Informative. Deep discussion of train horn chords. Solidarity 💯

It stopped again!!!!

*knocks on all the wood*

*crosses all the fingers*

Lu (@carrotflowerking) on Threads News stations… hmu

Coming up on 2 hours of a very loud train horn sounding nonstop with only a 7 minute respite

If you're not lucky enough to live within earshot, carrotflowerking has a great video of the source

If nothing else, Metra owes us all some ice cream. And a day off

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Screenshot of a post on Reddit/Chicago "mags_7 • 14m ago I wonder how many trains there are in the yard. With the noise being so loud, maybe they can’t tell which train it is? AssistanceTrue9399 • 4m ago i drove by. there a metra train idling on the center track just blaring its horn. i'm curious as to why they don't just turn it off. i assume it's a horn running off of a compressor and air tank so as long as that air tank keeps getting air from that compressor, the horn will keep blaring lol"

More info on the Chicago Metra horn sound torture saga

It's been 90ish minutes

I've sometimes wondered how long I could make it if I was ever being tortured and they used sound - horns, loud music, etc

I now know I would not make it that long

My dog wouldn't, either. She was awakened from a deep sleep and has left to go hide in her crate

I'm about 1.5 miles from the source of the sound. It must be unbearable over in Humboldt Park

a woman in a dress is sitting on a bed with #schitts creek on the bottom ALT: a woman in a dress is sitting on a bed with #schitts creek on the bottom

We got a whole 7 minutes of sweet, sweet silence. And now the noise is back, louder than before

It's been almost an hour of this nonsense. My skull hurts

Wait, did it just stop? Fingers crossed!

It's been 40 minutes or so of this sound torture

Someone on Nextdoor posted this:

"I spoke to the precinct just now and they confirmed that they are looking into it but they don't know what it is"

This does not instill confidence in a quick fix

I just saw someone post that they checked and it's coming from the railyard

I don't understand why the sound keeps getting louder in waves

I've seen people posting that the sound is coming from the Metra Station at Grand and Chicago

Someone else said they called the precinct and they're dispatching someone to investigate

If robots decide to conquer the world, they could use this absolutely awful sound

Nobody on the Northwest side of Chicago gets to sleep tonight because there has been a train horn blaring nonstop for 20+ minutes and I don't know why we waterboard people because they could just play this sound - it's hitting that resonance frequency that makes my brain want to crawl out of my ears

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

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B@stards are threatening ICE detainees with the WRAP. If you haven't read about it, the WRAP is a tool of torture.

Gas price at my local station went up 39 cents per gallon over night. Thanks, Obama!