I was listening to this podcast about cults (?) and honestly it was an interesting episode (a dentist office that used Scientology stuff), but the hosts had to explain to listeners what Scientology is all about and they were like 'this is what ChatGPT wrote'

Bitch u can't read off from a wiki page??? A goddamn wiki page is too hard to bring up for you? You had to ask machine learning to write something that already exists on a goddamn wiki page ? Fucking hell man

I’m fully convinced chatgpt is bringing on real brain rot - there are a few people I know who would normally have used google or Wikipedia are now using chatgpt and I’m constantly having to tell them they can’t trust that info and that it’s basically randomly generated words and I’m just… what happened to critical thinking???

I don't understand why people are using chatgpt like google 😭 Like I know google results are getting less and less reliable these days but it's still better than asking machine learning ...

At least wiki has links you can check to verify shit 😭

#i will die mad about this for real You don't need to, it was a joke. If you listened to the victim's interview, which took up the bulk of the episode, you would know she does explain what Scientology is and how she was targeted and groomed. The actual important part of the episode.

"You don't just see things in black and white. Sometimes, you've just gotta blur the edges."

neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

we are fully crying

Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too.

Because it is not mentioned by name in the article!:

If any of you develop “violent new food allergies” after having covid — even allergies that present as migraines, malaise, nausea, irritability rather than swelling and itching — you need to get checked for mast cell activation syndrome. It is staggeringly common to develop from long covid and is often treatable.

Meant to link this sooner but life briefly got away from me -- tl;dr it was discovered last month that over 1500 ancient artefacts were stolen from the British Museum by a senior museum curator. Who has been selling them on eBay for years. (Allegedly. And possibly the museum knew about it much earlier and covered it up, given he was dismissed earlier this year; the theft was actually uncovered by someone who linked the curator's twitter and ebay accounts.)

Lots of talk these past two weeks about how this does not give the museum much of a leg to stand on the next time it tries to assert it's a better caretaker of Greek antiquities than, well, Greece. The marbles being returned in our lifetime is a stronger possibility than ever.

Been a bad year for the museum, aside from the blessing of my presence there in April...

Got excited for a sec, but no.

The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War, making it the most heavily bombed country in the world.

They didn’t even declare war on Laos beforehand, they started doing this in secret and it was only exposed on the 16th year of the Vietnam war

This is also significantly more bombs than were dropped in total in WW2.

Let me examine closer *my eyes turn purple and blaze with spiritual power* oh yeah no that’s an egret not a heron, it’s got black legs

how could you hide this in the tags

หย็องแหย็งแมน

Art Spiegelman pulled his Marvel Folio Society intro after Disney demanded that he not criticize Trump

The Folio Society has announced a series of volumes paying tribute to the history of Marvel Comics, the inaugural volume was originally scheduled to feature an introduction from Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus and the first person to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel.

Marvel is a division of Disney, and its chairman, Isaac ‘Ike’ Perlmutter, is a longtime personal friend of Donald Trump, donated to Trump’s campaign, and serves Trump as an “unofficial and influential advisor.” Spiegelman’s intro made reference to this fact, and tied the origin of Marvel with its thin-veiled allegories about fighting fascism, to the contemporary moment, comparing Trump to the golden age Marvel villain “Red Skull” and dubbing him “Orange Skull.”

In response, Disney/Marvel demanded that Spiegelman redact his essay, removing references to Trump. The corporation said that it was trying to be “apolitical…and is not allowing its publications to take a political stance.”

Spiegelman refused to make the change and instead severed ties with the project. His unredacted essay will appear this weekend in The Guardian.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/16/everything-is-political.html

Art Spiegelman is an important figure for a reason. Good on him.

Here’s a link to the essay!

The X-Men: Evolution gang, by Lukas Werneck!

chekhov's example window

wuthering heights ~ emily bronte / puppet history ~ shane madej

Seward sandwich?

"A ship can never truly love an anchor." dude shut up. a ship without an anchor gets dashed against the rocks. it's useless, completely at the whim of the currents. a ship loves an anchor so much it carries it everywhere it goes. the anchor gives the ship the world to love. dude.

DUDE DON'T YOU DO THIS TO ME

This Is Just To Say

This Is Just To Say

We have eaten

the solicitor

that was in

the castle

/

and which

you were probably

saving

for business transactions

/

Forgive us

he was delicious

so sweet

and so warm.

first they phased out the 22 episode season then they phased out the 13 episode season and now they’re phasing out the 10 episode season like can you guys go watch fucking movies or something and stop trying to “tighten” television

We need to go back to more episodes because shows can’t be action or drama all the time, there needs to be breathing room for both the audience and the characters. There need to be good filler episodes where the characters get to just have fun and develop outside of the main story. Side quests and downtime are important to storytelling. We need to see the characters be regular people with regular problems in between the big stuff.

I will never get over this joke Futurama was so important