I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Geriatric tabby cat asleep with her face in a woman’s hand
Mimi is snoring and dreaming hard, whiskers twitching into my hand. I think this means I am forgiven for today’s vet visit but I can never move again
Tried to find out if tonight’s dinner place has a dress code. Forgot to turn off AI search and so the top result informed me that “many restaurants have dress codes.” Yes, thanks, definitely needed a summary instead of specifics.
Useless-ass technology.
Came here to see if anyone else was thinking that!
Is the regime trying to build an ICE detention camp near you?
idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.
Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.
A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!
Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
Oh GODDAMMIT.
Ad captioned “From festive party looks to cozy luxury” above an image of a German newspaper celebrating Hitler’s election
I cannot fathom what algorithm would lead to Poshmark just casually showing me an ad with a main image of the Völkischer Beobachter. It IS a party look, I’ll give them that. A very specific party.
what the e indeed
A simple flow chart Should I use generative AI to create something? | Do you have a brain? If no > Don't create anything If yes > Use your brain instead
A little simplistic but I think it covers most contingencies
Just now from State Rep Hoan Huyhn, who says CPB stopped his car, pointed a gun at him, and tried to break his car windows
ICE continues their terror campaign today as people protest in mass. Border Patrol was seen in Blue Island, and at the O'Hare rideshare lot again. Sightings in southeast side. A truck with a smashed window in Villa Park. Right now, they're hunting people on the southwest side.
“A pilot’s son won’t fly / so it’s a two-day drive” has lived in my brain since the first listen.
Back early from a neighborhood anti-ICE event: so many people showed up to assemble info packets and whistles that the organizers ran out of supplies. Chicago forever.
Rock over London
Chrissie Hynde and Paul Westerberg both belong in this conversation, imo
(Friend sends a very nice “condolences” bouquet)
Mimi: Roses! I love roses! (chomp chomp chomp)
LinkedIn post for a job offering $100–150 an hour for seasoned poets to train AI on understanding poetic structure, literary nuance, and emotional expression.
This is an unheard-of pay rate for poets, but anyone who takes this job is a scab, full stop.
Niece, batting around a balloon: Did you play a lot of Keep-Uppy when you were a kid?
Me: No, not really.
Niece: Were balloons not invented yet?
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Let’s do Albany Park next! Silver Properties imposed rent increases over 20% here.
Rogers Park Tenants From 5 Buildings Form Union After Rent Spike blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/25/r...
Biked through what looked like a puddle. It turned out to be overflow cooking oil from the restaurant dumpster, and the entire alley was so slick that I wiped out for the first time in years. Which feels like some kind of Chicago rite of passage? But ouch.
a summary of someone else’s book, rather sycophantic and missing several crucial commas
A book promo plan that depends on algorithms
Another sycophantic summary of a different sci-fi/fantasy novel by the other guy, with a weirdly similar tone even though the sender is someone else
OH HUH, I think we’ve seen a version of this marketing strategy before too! But I’m sure they’ll approach individual reviewers with care, tact, and consideration, right?
When you have enough time to ask ChatGPT for a summary of a novel, but not enough time to check that you’re approaching the correct E. A. Bagby with your promo scam
Senior tabby cat living her best life on a green velvet loveseat
I did not know it was International Cat Day! Here’s Mimi.
I toured a gym today and the guy referred to the glute machines as “butt stuff” and I cannot stop laughing
It’s possible that there’s an old signup form on some other forgotten page, but the numbers really make it look like there are multiple signups *per site visit.* Which seems odd in a way I don’t trust.
