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So this is something I've been noticing more lately: people seeing an image, wrongly assuming it's AI, and then confidently raging about it being AI when it wasn't.
Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.
Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.
December 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
So this is something I've been noticing more lately: people seeing an image, wrongly assuming it's AI, and then confidently raging about it being AI when it wasn't.
Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.
Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.
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This month, an A.I. country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and passed three million streams on Spotify. In his column, @chaykak writes about how A.I. is changing the music industry. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/71aOen
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This month, an A.I. country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and passed three million streams on Spotify. In his column, @chaykak writes about how A.I. is changing the music industry. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/71aOen
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Why Hurricane Melissa Was One of the Most Powerful Atlantic Storms in History www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
What Made Hurricane Melissa So Unusual and Dangerous
Hurricane Melissa’s rare intensity and lasting impact reveal how storms are evolving in a warming world.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why Hurricane Melissa Was One of the Most Powerful Atlantic Storms in History www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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if you want to be an unaccountable legal shaman for life the least you can do is shut the fuck up
if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)
The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
if you want to be an unaccountable legal shaman for life the least you can do is shut the fuck up
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Six year old sprung a nosebleed on a day we are to a) go to a sensory gym and then b) go to an indoor playground after and I’ve calmed him
down and stopped the bleeding before he could bleed on his teddy bears &c but getting him to stop touching the nostril is absolutely a circle of hell
down and stopped the bleeding before he could bleed on his teddy bears &c but getting him to stop touching the nostril is absolutely a circle of hell
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Six year old sprung a nosebleed on a day we are to a) go to a sensory gym and then b) go to an indoor playground after and I’ve calmed him
down and stopped the bleeding before he could bleed on his teddy bears &c but getting him to stop touching the nostril is absolutely a circle of hell
down and stopped the bleeding before he could bleed on his teddy bears &c but getting him to stop touching the nostril is absolutely a circle of hell
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you teach your kids to be an activist by teaching them to be kind and empathetic and brave, not explaining technically what activism means! I hate that book lol
I have no idea what Nanette is but if we’re talking about content that it’s now safe to say sucked, I’d love to nominate A is for Activist, which was a horrible children’s book that nobody asked for. Nobody wants to read that 400 times!
I agree that we need to apologize for the excesses of wokism. Specifically everyone in 2019 who told their friends to watch Nanette.
September 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
you teach your kids to be an activist by teaching them to be kind and empathetic and brave, not explaining technically what activism means! I hate that book lol
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NPR's Brian Mann recounts a late-summer run on Sauvie Island, weaving through blackberry brambles, passing goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace, and finishing with a refreshing dip in the Columbia River.
A trail run with blackberries and late summer flowers on Oregon’s Sauvie Island
A late summer run for NPR's Brian Mann featured an abundance of ripe, wild berries and a dip in the river.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
NPR's Brian Mann recounts a late-summer run on Sauvie Island, weaving through blackberry brambles, passing goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace, and finishing with a refreshing dip in the Columbia River.
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Depressing how many people here on this alternative, upstart social media system insist that all social media is inherently bad and evil and that governments should have the power to silence people at a moment in time when the US gov't would love nothing more than to control our speech.
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Depressing how many people here on this alternative, upstart social media system insist that all social media is inherently bad and evil and that governments should have the power to silence people at a moment in time when the US gov't would love nothing more than to control our speech.
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Just saw a TV ad for bitcoin and the thrust of it was “physical money takes up a lot of space” I mean why is crypto still a thing we’re forced to deal with
May 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Just saw a TV ad for bitcoin and the thrust of it was “physical money takes up a lot of space” I mean why is crypto still a thing we’re forced to deal with
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Rescued a struggling little clematis (fireworks variety) from Lowe's and planted it along our fence line. I've never tried to grow clematis before, so I hope I haven't simply prolonged its suffering
May 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rescued a struggling little clematis (fireworks variety) from Lowe's and planted it along our fence line. I've never tried to grow clematis before, so I hope I haven't simply prolonged its suffering
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Scientists have named a conductive bacteria discovered on the Oregon Coast after the Yaqona tribal people. Their descendents are now part of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, who helped come up with the name.
Scientists discover new electric bacteria in Oregon sediment and name it after Siletz tribe descendants
Researchers have dubbed it Ca.Electrothrix yaqonensis. That’s in honor of the Yaqona tribal people, whose descendants are now part of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, who helped come up with the name.
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April 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Scientists have named a conductive bacteria discovered on the Oregon Coast after the Yaqona tribal people. Their descendents are now part of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, who helped come up with the name.