Charlie
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Charlie
@CarefulCharlie
North-eastern storyteller, sketcher, poet-psychogeographer, producer, professional mess. He/him 🖤🩶🤍💜



Mass surveillance company Palantir just demanded mandatory US military service in a newly published manifesto. Palantir is also currently the recipient of roughly $2.4B worth of military contracts.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

It’s clear why DreamWorks screened Forgotten Island six months early, because it’s absolutely fantastic. This high-energy adventure about friendship and memory features stunning animation, irresistible characters, and one badass soundtrack. It’s incredibly entertaining, with plenty of big laughs throughout. An absolute delight from start to finish with a surprising emotional punch in the end. Count on this being in the Academy’s Best Animated Feature conversation next year. #ForgottenIsland


Gastropub landlady blasts 'tight-fisted' Labour MP for only ordering a starter - and failing to tip trib.al/APnh4iB

another thing i liked about project hail mary is that while they both had clocks, the real universal language that helped rocky and grace understand each other was art and dance. like that’s beautiful


design for a Serbian 100 dinar banknote created by artist Milos Zlatanovic

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report for the day care they work at. The co-worker pointed to the words ‘juxtaposition’ and ‘circumstantial’ as evidence of a machine-generated influence. “I don’t write in a casual way but a much more serious, precise way,” he says. “And I’ve paid the price for living in a ChatGPT society.” It wasn’t the first time Hewitt’s prose has been pegged as AI, and he thinks he knows why. He has a stutter, and when he’s typing, he can speak uninterrupted. It is a luxury he takes full advantage of. Hewitt is also neurodivergent. “Growing up, I had a strong obsession with writing,” he says. He was always given good grades in English, but now, with the massive uptick in AI-generated text, all the time he spent happily working to improve his prose strikes him as a liability. There’s a new entity among us, and it’s getting better at disguising itself. The mood is paranoid: This presence is producing a gigantic amount of language, much of it filtered through people we know, whether they’re using it for Hinge messages or LinkedIn posts. The effect is that everyone is trying to figure out who is LLM and who is human. Sometimes, we are getting it wrong. “People are going off vibes,” says the historical novelist Kerry Chaput, who was horrified when a reader thought a social-media post she wrote about her neurogenic cough was ChatGPT generated. Emma Alpern reports on the people — often non-native English speakers and autistic writers — being falsely accused of using LLMs to write: nymag.visitlink.me/kzDs4g



















