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Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
When a bunch of people all start saying things I like at the same time? That's just great news. Nothing suspicious about that. We all see the cool thing and talk about it.
When a bunch of people all start saying things I don't like at the same time? Buddy you better believe that's a conspiracy
I need for this to be a religious cult. We are having hard enough times, and we deserve some religious cults as compensation
the story of the last X number of years is, “oops, that role was load-bearing.”
this is unfortunately one of the symptoms of an under-resourced media ecosystem. it's exceedingly rare to have fact-checkers these days, but even having a copy desk (or editor who checks the names of people mentioned) could have helped catch these fabrications pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
DO NOT WAKE THE CHAOS
You just call out my name And you know wherever I am I’ll come running To see you again You got a friend
shakes bag of chips enticingly
I can't explain why but what's funny about an Eric Adams staffer trying to bribe someone with $140 in a bag of chips and claiming she just needed a friend is how Eric Adams-coded this behavior is in the first place
I'm on the 6, so that's plenty of upgrade still if so. So long as it doesn't get pushed in a patch....
Con organizers thanked them for it (with permission) during opening ceremony, and there was a "thank you, wish we could have seen you this year" card passed around for signatures and sent on.
My point is, it CAN be done safely. If the organizers and the attendees have the will to do it.
The one con I still attend requires in-person masking (and proof of a recent negative test at registration badge pickup), & has big air purifiers in every room. The first year of this, a beloved community member found out about an exposure the day before; they reported it and stayed home.
...well, fuck. I was gonna get another Pixel for my next phone, but not if it's like this.
Congratulations to Google for making photographic evidence even less reliable thanks to the AI zoom. It will look less blurry, but it will absolutely make shit up.
Truly, what is a photo?
anyway good night
