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Glass Cat Owl
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Mostly alive.
She/Her
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Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.

We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.

Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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there are a bunch of accounts pushing this scam btw
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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If you did not give a shit about it, or saw something out of the corner or your eye and was like, enh, whatever, who cares about downloading books from romance authors, they're all alike...

Just please, please think for a second.
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?

It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.

The first archive they stole was largely romance.

arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus
Recent literature has underscored the importance of dataset documentation work for machine learning, and part of this work involves addressing "documentation debt" for datasets that have been used wid...
arxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?

You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.

You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Michael.
Peter!
What do you know about The End of History?
(Matt Yglesias: You mean you haven't even read the book?!?!)
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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So getting added to an "AI Hater" blocklist made me go yeah, genAI hater here, for life ✌️ So I made a thing XD

Mainly made for a sticker, but it's on other stuff too.

Threadless: artofelainetipping.threadless.com/designs/slop...

TeePublic: www.teepublic.com/sticker/8510...

#noai #humanmade
Slop Hater by art-of-elaine-tipping
Support human-made art and make your generative AI hatred known. GenAI hater for life! Say no to slop!
www.teepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
From the studio that brought you "Am I A Dismal Failure Or Is It Just Late At Night?" comes the thrilling new instalment, "Do I Want To Kill Myself Or Am I Just Hungry?"
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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My brain is freaking out, would you mind reblogging this to make sure people know you can download a free baby dragon?

.........gotta make a "You would download a dragon" meme.
Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews.

As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Sending love and solidarity to all my Jewish friends — I’m so sorry that a time of joy has become a time of grief and fear
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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See also: recent news out of Canada I recently shared where someone with a chronic illness is considering using the "right to die" _because_ of barriers to access to a procedure that would save her life.

I support "right to die" only AFTER we first furnish the RIGHT TO LIVE.
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔

A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.

Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This man is a hero who saved countless lives. He's the best of humanity during the worst of it.
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers.

Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
December 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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just FYI, there were 2 shooters.

after he disarmed one, the other--who was on a bridge--shot him twice
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters

His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed

A 43 year old married father of two

He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland

No experience with guns

He was walking past

He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Oh boy people who aren't Jewish are now making a brutal mass murder of Jews in Sydney, Australia, about Netanyahu. I'm gonna go burn some goddamned vegetation.
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
Tragically, Israel has done its best to ruin these Jewish symbols for everyone and brought danger to all Jews by constantly conflating the IDF’s barbarism with the Jewish people. That is unforgivable.
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real

Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM