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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Stop conflating being transgender with being sick thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...

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"Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

If you're in Pōneke, come see this exhibition (opens tonight, up till 22 June) - a fundraiser in support of a wonderful local artist's gender affirming surgery. Loads of work for sale: paintings, prints, pottery. And from me: some original art from the Magic Pen, framed prints, and books.

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Strongest recommendation for anyone who prefers their schools of wizardry stories queer, sharp, and dazzling.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Stop telling me that my hippie aunt with her damn nasal lavage was right all along.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

submitted 29 days ago • 140 comments

Might be time to repost this oldie of mine from the bad site (originally written in response to arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/17/l... )

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Always proud to be part of Dayenu: NZ Jews Against the Occupation. We come from all over, but our Jewish values unite us and demand we speak out against the genocide being committed in our name.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

What a sweetheart. Gods this'd be fun. It's a (one-night, livestreamed, rehearsed reading of) Twelfth Night, which is as queer as anyway.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in Small Rural Hospital that serves Surprisingly Large Area and they have one (1) working IV pump for the whole ward, if you want to know what healthcare cuts look like.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Just a ‘coincidence’ that Govt wants to increase allowable glyphosate (Roundup) residue limit 100x at same time as it tries to introduce GE crops, which have Roundup resistance as their main modification. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Whenever I hear a car ad that brags about "best in class safety features" or whatever and they clearly just mean this sort of design, I fully become the angry goose comic. "SAFETY FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKERS?"

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This is my friend Lucy who is currently missing in Wellington. She is vulnerable, low on resources, and may be experiencing paranoia and disordered thinking so if you see her please be gentle and honest. Her mother is now nearby and can come to wherever. Please share.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?

submitted 48 days ago • 23 comments

I tell all my World History students every year that the most ubiquitous letter home from soldiers, in any century, any region, whether ancient Roman legionaries or U.S. Civil War troops or Chinese Communists, are requests for new socks. Ignore "socks are boring presents" folks; socks save lives.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who wants to hold public office should be required to live, for one year, on minimum wage.

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This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

submitted 58 days ago • 34 comments

Cycling in the City of London has surged by 57% since 2022, with cycles now making up 39% of daytime traffic—nearly twice the number of cars. Motor vehicles have declined to just one-third of their 1999 levels, while cycling has increased six-fold. buff.ly/6yNOXe7 #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...

submitted 108 days ago • 14 comments

Wow. Randall Monroe is not fucking around at all.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Best song of 2025 so far

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

submitted 75 days ago • 582 comments