internet why do you do this to me
Fryda Wolff
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I don't have a college degree.
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Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.
President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; Congress did:
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Let us return to the bygone era of healthy pregnancy! Perhaps the Federal era, when everyone drank their body volume in whiskey, kept themselves looking cute with galloping tuberculosis, and consulted the almanac for cures (more whiskey) whenever the worms in their intestines got a bit too wriggly.
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today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere
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and as always, worth noting again: this settlement is for pirating works. the judge in the lawsuit ruled that the way anthropic trained on works was legal!
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Not even high enough to be considered a lowball.
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.
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Deserves to be heckled every day of his idiotic life.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that use of Tylenol in pregnant women is potentially linked to autism in a report that will also suggest a medicine derived from folate can be used to treat symptoms of the disorder in some people, per WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter.
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"I found it in the men’s department at Armani and they had an in-store tailor. I could not have known it was going to become this statement outfit, and I still have that suit." Damn, I should just start doing that.
The True Story Behind Julia Roberts' Iconic Armani Suit
If you’ve ever admired a suit on screen chances are it had Armani’s touch. Case in point: Julia Roberts at the Golden Globes in 1990.
I wrote something for GQ about how Armani impacted menswear. It's easy to forget, but when menswear transitioned to slimmer silhouettes in the early 2000s, baggy clothes were derided as "sloppy" and "middle aged." Over the years, people have revisited campaigns like these 🧵
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Evil and repugnant, start to finish.
AI Is “Possibly The End Of Human Creativity,” Predicts CEO Of Amazon-Backed Firm Helping Rescue Lost ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ Footage
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Amazon-backed startup Fable, sees AI as "possibly the end of human creativity" -- at least as an exclusive phenomenon.
