That AI isn’t actually intelligent doesn’t actually matter: the goal - the sales pitch - is “what if you could profit from labour without having to pay for it,” which implicitly situates labour as valueless. It’s never been about creating a tech utopia; it’s about not having to respect workers.
this is fun!
What's My JND? 0.0027
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who could have predicted this!
there's one where you can sort into 50 categories as well
idk why that sorting game just eats the brain of anyone who tries it but it REALLY does
Happy 11th of March!
sweet stuff - cookies, cake, candies
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
happy birthday! that sounds delightful.
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I tried to go see this at my local cinema, which participates in National Theatre Live, but when I got there it was sold out with a giant line of disappointed people out the door
let's all watch this this weekend
I'm really impressed by these feet!
aw that's lovely! I should've known that her polemic about how reading requires context came from someone with Experience in Fandom Bullshit
wait wait what
yeah, exactly. sometimes Greg goes a little over the line for me, but Tom is way past that line. Plus Greg actively enjoys gay stuff which helps!
imo he picks on every gay contestant and it gets worse over the seasons. he's a homophobic and ableist bully (this is why I had to stop watching TM AU)
Terminator 2 made me gay and also is just such a banger action film!!! so excited for anyone who gets to watch it for the first time
in How to Read Now Elaine Castillo has a chapter entitled "Reading Teaches Us Empathy, and Other Fictions" and I really wish more people would read it and understand it. The idea that fiction is medicine puts so many shitty burdens on marginalized writers
holy shit
Fading to black but it’s just for complicated action scenes while all the sex scenes are written in full
I'm sorry to hear this! I'm glad you have some help with this task.
move slow and repair things
Happy women's day if you're a woman
if you're not there's always next year
yes.
screenshot of text::"The United Nations instituted International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975—or so the official story runs. Few remember not only that the origins of March 8 lie in the history of the international workers’ movement, but that it was the socialist movement in the United States that first launched the idea of a day devoted to women’s rights centered on working-class women. In fact, the Socialist Party USA first established a day of education and action around women’s rights called “Woman’s Day” in 1908, and the following year U.S. socialists held demonstrations in several cities to demand women’s suffrage. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the transformation of the U.S. Woman’s Day into an international day of action—International Working Women’s Day—which, in 1914, started being celebrated on March 8. Three years later, on March 8, 1917, Russian women workers took to the streets in St. Petersburg, organizing a strike to demand bread and peace. It was the beginning of the Russian Revolution."
a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza
Read the Vulture article on Sam Reich's decision, after being approached by the creatives of ABC's The Rookie, to go through with the crossover, and the fact that he's nothing but gleeful at the opportunity is as galling as it is disappointing.
Again, and this point continues to be glossed over...
happy birthday!
you can!
Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too
