More than 139K films & TV episodes have been used to train AI

• All episodes of 'Breaking Bad,' 'The Wire' and 'The Sopranos'

• Every Best Picture nominated film from 1950 to 2016

• 616 episodes of 'The Simpsons'

• Companies using it include Apple, Meta, and Bloomberg

(via The Atlantic)

How it feels scrolling by and finding my mutuals over here

Here’s a few things you can expect temporarily when there’s an outage:

- “Invalid Handle” everywhere
- Likes don’t seem to work (they’re just being slow)
- Your post isn’t showing up (same, just being slow)
- Random errors or blank screens, the usual app broken stuff

are we out of the woods yet? are we in the clear yet?

if Bluesky is a lil slow for you, hang tight! there were some networking issues on the U.S. east coast affecting Bluesky and other apps, but looks like they're resolving now. 💙

Denzel Washington reveals a gay kiss was cut from ‘GLADIATOR 2’

“I kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken… I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet.”

(Source: gayety.co/denzel-washi...)

The Onion has acquired Infowars in a bankruptcy auction.

They plan to debut a new Infowars in January that will serve as parody, mocking weird Internet personalities like Alex Jones.

The Onion CEO says they acquired it because “this is the funniest thing that has ever happened”

When King Charles showed up to the ‘GLADIATOR 2’ premiere last night, security told Denzel Washington to go inside and meet him.

Denzel reportedly said ‘I make my own rules’ and continued to talk to fans.

(via: @falconsnat/Twitter)

summer isolation 🧡✨

#pixelart

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.