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@ughhollander It was truly enjoyable and I loved it!

please read this if you haven’t!! the concept is so original and it’s hilarious. ☆ read as one family tries to dissect the (unique? strange? absurd?) family dynamics of the Pike family when they a mom…and 3 dads? Amber Pike Has Three Dads by e_fyre 🔗archiveofourown.org/works/79193036…

So depression sucks. I managed to wash my hair today. It’s the little things that you can do that build you back up and out. Still could loose my job. Taking that a day at time.

@JustineBateman @dostnumber1 I really hate AI. How it was trained, the ecological damage, the human cognitive dissonance…it just is such a terrible thing

What's most interesting to me is the language used, here and by many Tech Bros, re: AI. "We have to..." "Don't be left behind..." "You're not keeping up..." "Going to make your life easier and better..." "You have to understand..." "We have to use it." Patently ridiculous language. No one "has to" use anything. Everyone is on their own path and no one is "being left behind" at any point. Use of this type of language is nothing but an attempt to introduce fear and a lack of choice to you. You have nothing to fear, and you have free will, always. That is never not true. Never.

An article I wrote for men about "Rape Academy." Women already know this & I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: Most men are not safe to be around alone. This is not sustainable & men must lead the change. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-need-…

@wwxwashere Yeah, I love that feature of ao3!

people who care about chapter length (and not the pacing of the story itself) confuse me because i just click entire work and gobble it all down

@anishmoonka I loved this show. Netflix announced they were dropping it too. I wish we had dvd of it.

AMC spent almost $100 million making Season 3 of this show. Two full film crews. 300 people on set every day. Then they cancelled it. The show is Into the Badlands. It ran on AMC (the network that made Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead) from 2015 to 2019. It's a martial arts show set in a post-apocalyptic America 500 years from now, where swords have replaced guns and warlords rule the land. Daniel Wu, an American-born martial arts champion, starred in it and produced it. Wu told Den of Geek the show ran two separate film units at the same time. One for action, one for dialogue. 150 people on each. Each episode cost $6 to $7 million to make, which is roughly Game of Thrones money for a cable show almost nobody ended up watching. The fight choreographer was Master Dee Dee Ku. His teacher was Yuen Woo-ping, the man who did the fights in The Matrix and Kill Bill. Ku himself worked on Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Iron Monkey. He put the cast through a six-week boot camp, six hours a day, learning kung fu, weapons, and wire work. Stephen Fung, who directed the Chinese film Tai Chi Zero, ran the whole action unit. They used real wires for the flying scenes instead of computer effects, which is how old Hong Kong movies did it. The premiere pulled 8.2 million viewers in November 2015, the third-biggest cable show launch ever at that time. AMC had it airing right after The Walking Dead, which at its peak was drawing 14 million people a week. When The Walking Dead went off the air between seasons, Badlands lost half its audience. By the Season 3 finale, it was under 1 million viewers per episode. AMC had also stopped promoting the show after Season 1. Cable TV runs on ad money, and that needs big regular audiences. At $6 million per episode, the numbers just weren't adding up. The creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, moved on. A few years later they created Wednesday for Netflix, with Tim Burton directing. It's now the most-watched English-language series in Netflix's history, at 252 million views. Same writers making the same kind of dark genre TV, but on a platform that could actually find the audience without needing a Walking Dead to drag people in.

@thechosenberg Men putting the onus on her to get them to change. Her to Make a manual. Why can’t one of the men make the manual? The lack of respect for her and her time. They need to grow up.

@thechosenberg So I’m reading these comments. Yeah pretty misogynistic. She is making a point here. Not one of those men stepped up and took one of those things over. They EXPECTED her to carry that weight. And if she had asked, “well you do it better!,” “I don’t know how”

Isnt this what product managers are for

I just want my mind to stop spiraling and quiet. I want to be able to go back to work without shame. I want my life back before this episode.

This is just me shouting into the void. Depression sucks. I try so hard to manage my bipolar 2 and depression and take of my elderly parents and I am just collapsing. I am going to loose my job, the financial work I did to repair my finances is lost.

I am lucky at the moment I live and take of my parents. But I feel Like it is so conditional and I will loose that too. I am so tired. The exhaustion is real. I am not self harming but the desire for it to all disappear is real and the depression talking.

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

I told my therapist: “I’m not suicidal… but I’m tired in a way that scares me.” She didn’t brush it off. She didn’t say “everyone gets tired.” She didn’t tell me to think positive. She said softly:

Child goes out for a snack and is stopped by ICE. Child doesn’t have his papers… because he’s a child. He just wants to go home, but ICE tells him “No”. Is this what you voted for? Masked men grabbing kids off the street for not having papers?

Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. to.pbs.org/4i58wuq

Under the War Powers Resolution, the President must end the use of military force if not authorized by Congress within 60 days. With respect to Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean, that clock ran out Monday. These illegal strikes will now be even more illegal.

The way we stopped hearing or seeing media about Palestine, and there are new types of bombs being dropped in a ceasefire

4 days out from my life-changing surgery, @Aetna has denied the appeal for my brain surgery. to be clear, when i signed up to aetna months ago, the coordinator had confirmed they would cover this surgery. then, a week ago, they said the surgery was too experimental/elective and denied coverage. we appealed. that appeal was just denied today. now, my neurosurgeon is trying to do a peer-to-peer consult with someone at aetna to explain why i need it so we don’t lose the surgery date on monday morning. aetna is not being responsive. this is sadistic and a violation of basic trust. please spread this so they can’t ignore it. they may not care if i live or die but people should know just what kind of company they’re dealing with. and please pray they are able to have a peer-to-peer consult with my neurosurgeon and have a change of heart.

This Post is to raise awareness... Please feel free to cut and paste... Will you join me? Over 5700 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women #MMIW #MMIWG2S. #MMIP.

#BREAKING “They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” says Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik