Pirate Jenny

I have been priced out to Staten Island but I will never leave this gorgeous city, I love it so much, I am hanging on by my fingernails and I am grateful

Just thinking again how the NYT ran a metro piece about the mayor being besieged by bombs & their takeaway was that his response was concerningly limp, a point that they did not make convincingly & which was contradicted by his real life response. And it's because he didn't sell out Muslims.

No, someone did NOT write "leave it in tacked" on a park website *dies*

🙃

Sorry, extrapolating.

This notion that it's somehow magical and perpetually on the verge of real consciousness needs to be killed with fire.

I loaded up one of my own drafts into Grammarly, and once again clicked the “expert review” button. As before, Grammarly seemed to be looking for “inspiration” from the experts who would be certain to hate this feature the most. There were tips from a phony Timnit Gebru, the prominent AI ethicist who is among the world’s most vocal critics of how AI has been developed and deployed; and from Julia Angwin, the New York Times opinion writer who has overseen numerous investigations into how tech systems degrade privacy. I had hoped to find myself among the suggested reviewers, but in my tests today Grammarly spared me that indignity. You can’t choose a specific reviewer in the product; instead, you can refine your suggestions by clicking automatically generated topic tags. Once when I did this, Grammarly offered to show me hallucinated experts in “media ethics,” and the force of the irony was sufficient that I had to briefly lay down.

100% the inclusion of @timnitgebru.bsky.social in Grammarly's fake "expert review" feature was a bit of slimy, acidic trolling from some juvenile AI dudebro. Just unbelievably nasty

Reminds me how Altman picked Miyazaki's aesthetic for a viral trend as revenge

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Whenever I fucking feel like it, basically

I don't have a fancy camera, but if I get to meet him, I'll post my iPhone pics

I like big birds and I cannot lie

I MUST GO AND MEET THIS BIRD

I met the Mandarin duck, I can meet this guy. I missed Flaco & Pale Male, and I'm perpetually kicking myself that I missed the wood crane on Staten Island because I fucking live here & it was just a car ride away.

The East River is a logistical challenge BUT I WILL GO.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

Lasagna in the oven. Also cooking some mince, and then roasting asparagus. And then...oh, lord, the crudite tray for the week. RIP my refrigerator space.

The UK is a small island, only so many ppl on it

Ralph Fiennes

"Yeah man, times were so good for farmers back then they wrote books about it!"

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

they give black history month the shortest month of the year and steal a hour of precious sleep on women's day. People, we are at war

Happy International Women’s 23 Hours.

Get used to earning less than your male counterparts, sweetheart. Now smile dammit, you are so much prettier when you smile.

I think about this a lot. If I was drowning, you wouldn't call it a respiratory illness, so why is it a mental illness when I'm in a situation beyond what my psyche can handle?

in my tech career, at the trenches level, almost all the damage control and clean up after the boys get through breaking stuff was done by competent women, from code clean up to new architecture of failing projects. but i knew this was the exception, and not the rule. sigh.

"We can't cancel all the sex pests! Where will we get all our great ideas from?"

...their victims and would-be victims, who have to work twice as hard to be considered half as good?

(Also, bluntly, the "great ideas" of so many cishet white men in media are vastly overrated.)

Happy international womens day, especially to trans women who have to fight this world proving who they are.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

It's not a ball cap. It's a gimme cap - a piece of swag from his fucking grifting. He's appalling.

Hate it

Watching his decline as the series progresses is so difficult, as a massive fan. He was so ill. And yet he insisted on keeping on going.

You have to excise the cancer and radiate like hell in order to be cancer-free.

Yah of course, that fucking figures

Parsnips could be a thing. Snip-tots.