It's not just that AI is something new or it's a useless gimmick. It's that I find it to be a moral crime. It could make my life easier and give me time to do nothing but write poetry and count the leaves on trees and still wouldn't use it because I think it's genuinely akin to theft and murder.

Love search engines trying to guess what I wanted instead of just using the words I typed. Yes Google Maps, when I searched for East European I actually needed to be shown where Eastern Europe is

God I love Fleischer. You absolutely can't predict where his cartoons will go. A torrent of visual gags, creative use of music and rhythm, and virtuoso animation. The 3D staircase sequence in this is still astonishing 93 years later. Featuring the early Betty Boop, when she was still a poodle!

CWfrownt.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 12:45am

#6 Bimbo's Initiation (1931)(Short) - Fleischer animation that no doubt inspired one or two Cuphead levels. Some hooded men try to get Bimbo to join their club and he refuses and is repeatedly tortured and threatened. Delightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSm0...

Bimbo's Initiation (1931) - Fleischer Studios

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Not for the first time, very glad I quit a job at LexisNexis a few years ago www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

NUJ condemns RELX for its union-busting decision to derecognise the union at LexisNexis and LexisNexis Risk Solutions

A friend has a kitten who needs life-saving heart surgery. If you're able to contribute anything to help it would be so good of you. Sharing this fundraiser would also be super appreciated. Thank you 💜 www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

Donate to Help save Zira's life, organized by Nadia Vidal

Zira was born in rescue on the 11th June 2024. Sadly during her first vaccination visit at the vet s… Nadia Vidal needs your support for Help save Zira's life

Did you know? In 1952 the United Nations signed the International Convention on the Rights of Kittys and section 17.1 explicitly makes it illegal to move an eepy baby

This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony. www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...

AI technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...

I need a bookwheel; then I just need to dress my cat up as a lion and I'm all set

DBdbellingradt.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 7:18am

This goes out to you working all the due manuscripts and proposals and course reading lists: look at the annoyed and bored face of St. Jerome while writing, and enjoy this fancy bookwheel. Bonus: his lion does not approve you working too much. #bookhistory #academicchatter #skystorians 🗃️

STOP comparing London railway termini St Pancras is MAJESTIC Waterloo is GIANT King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS London Bridge is SHINY Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS Victoria is CONVENIENT Euston Paddington is HISTORIC Marylebone is COSY