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Just me refreshing this app every five seconds to see just how many gauntlets can be thrown.

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This.

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Jingle lives the soft life.

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I really wish I didn't have a reason to leave my porch today. But it's ransomware tabletop exercise day for a client. We've been planning this exercise for close to a year and it's a BFD. So, I guess it's time to leave this sanctuary and go straighten my hair.

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People defending AI-generated “art” because AI is also used to find medical cures is like saying that smashing people’s toes with hammers should be acceptable because hammers are also used to build hospitals.

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I should have made a New Year's resolution to stop arguing with Wordle bot every morning.

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The paw on the throat at the end slays me.

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I loved being a mom with a houseful of kids with their creativity and inventiveness, but you know what? I also love my empty nest where everything stays in place. My forks are either in the drawer or in the dishwasher vs being stuck in the dirt outside or between the mattress and the bed frame.

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Congrats to the Bureau of Prisons senior leadership that woke up this morning to a memo that was like: "Reopen Alcatraz. Mr. Trump wants more sharks, too. He wants the sharks to be visible at all times from the prison. Possibly deputize the sharks. Unclear."

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Charm? That's her strategy? Talk about being unequal to the moment.

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I've flown almost a million miles. And the only flight that ever terrified me was an aborted takeoff in Denver. So every time I takeoff from Denver I get this little residual tickle in my lizard brain. But I'm also grateful to see the vast prairie my ancestors came to as immigrants.

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I'm not this kind of risk taker.

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Day 4 of my "publish something every day" challenge for April. I really don't know if I can make it every single day for 30 days but I'm taking it one day at a time. Today is a poem I wrote pretty recently. #poetry #write open.substack.com/pub/incident...

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Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

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I have birthday depression every year. So, this year I'm doing something different and I've given myself a challenge to publish an essay or poem every day during April. I've now made it ONE day. Woot! Today's essay is about what else - the power of the fool. open.substack.com/pub/incident...

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And the choir said, "amen."

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This is why the internet exists. owlsintowels.org

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

It was ALSO only 13 states, no overseas territories, did not have a standing military, was saddled with enormous war debt, and the major industry was farming, largely supported by slave labor. I know techbros are fucking illiterates, but goddammit, read some history for fucking once.

submitted 78 days ago • 39 comments

There is literally no ethical use of genAI. 🔥 It's built on theft. 🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources. 🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it. No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.

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I just trained a crisis management team last week and spent time talking about the hygiene of CMT meetings. Like, a key component is to never conduct a crisis management meeting without taking a roll call of every single person in the activation. Random phone number? Just initials? That's a NO.

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Woke up this morning randomly missing the Sunday paper. I can almost smell the paper and what a joy it was to separate out the sections and decide where to start.

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What the mediocre tech bros are doing to authors is the modern version of raping and pillaging. This represents the single largest theft of artistic works in the history of the world. Think about it, the equivalent is stealing the entire Library of Congress or the Boston Public Library. Gone.

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Yep yep

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Standing on principle appears to be a lost art.

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At the DMV in Oregon and after 27 years in Atlanta it's real strange to be in a space where everyone is white.

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The news about the cause of death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, is just grim beyond belief. Both died of "natural causes" but that does not seem sufficient to convey the horror implied by the circumstances.

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Personally, I'm in favor of the Lucrezia Borgia method.

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