Shauntelle B (they/them): Flavourful weirdo

OpenAI's fund raising boom slows amid mounting debt Experts have begun to question the AI startup's path forward amid surging financial needs and no profit plan.

Experts have begun to question the AI startup’s path forward amid surging financial needs and no profit plan.

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

P l e a s e.

N.K. JEMISIN'S BATTLE ANGEL ALITA

Albanese’s policy on Iran makes us complicit in the collapse of international rules The Albanese government has stood by as the foundations of the international order were destroyed

Albanese’s policy on Iran makes us complicit in the collapse of international rules www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

There’s a Roman dice tower in Bonn and I was not informed?!?

(Note: I have been visiting Bonn co-organizing events at the University’s Analog Game Lab since 2023)

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

A machine can’t be creative, because every “neuron” it has is intentional. You can track the birth of every one.

Humans prune neurons (or don’t) based on experiences and individual, ancestral biology in such complex ways that to outsource our potential for creativity and learning is a tragedy.

Almost the same can be said for creativity. It isn’t *just* a job. It’s not purely about productivity and output. It’s about the thought that goes into it, the processing and side streets. It’s about the journey. That’s where the depth of understanding comes from.

Learning isn't a job. It isn't about what you produce, how much time it takes you to finish an essay or an article. It isn't about the grade you get on your homework.

It's about you - your brain, your mind, the data in it, the connections, the processing.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

No pls.

First TTRPG I played that wasn’t D&D?

My first TTRPG ever was Dark Heresy, THEN 5th Ed, then… Savage Worlds, then Blades? Then Open Legend… and the rest is history (because suddenly there were so, so many. Too many to list)

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

Where’s the APA on this tho?

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As what they’re trying to force is unethical, and psychologists can lose their licenses for improper ethical conduct, I’m ready to see a more recent response to all this than the one from last year: updates.apaservices.org/statement-on...

If there’s a consistent time, it’s easier (until daylight savings kicks in). It’s castings and people assuming everyone is where they are that gets hard.

Please allow me to be in Australia. 🥲

And please, if you’re in a discord server with a potentially international community… use Hammertime or something like it. It’s exhausting trying to calculate using all timezones.

🪻 HEY, LESBIANS! I'm slowly gearing up to put Lessons in Bitter Annihilation, a TTRPG about lesbians and comphet, into print.

If you are a lesbian and do:
🎨 Illustration
🖱️ Graphic design
🖥️ TTRPG layout design

Please share your portfolio in the replies! Trans lesbians especially encouraged 🧡🩷💜

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I hope you get some rest soon!

That baby said she's gonna get her mama RIGHT

A poster for Void Blossom, with the text: A 3 part D&D story: 16th Feb, 2nd Mar, 9th Mar Part 2 Briefcase, Sazthemeeple, Shauntelleb and Ashmakesstuff Live 11am aedt at Splitthepartytv

We are running a bit late, but we're on our way!

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It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.

In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I just blocked two people who were like “we need to see the bodies of blown up children for people to get how serious this is,” and as a former human rights lawyer I cannot tell you how wrong that is.

Do not inflict bystander trauma on people. It will make them shut down and go numb, not wake up.

If you’re in a western country, this holds up.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

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