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1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

The quarter trick to check if your food is safe to eat after a prolonged evacuation: Freeze a cup of water and, once frozen, place a quarter on top of the ice. If your freezer thaws and refreezes while you’re away, the quarter will be frozen at the bottom of the cup & it’s time to toss your food.

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The “current publishing model assumes that authors, even “successful” authors, already have means. Publishers don’t pay authors for their labor. They assume we survive by inherited wealth… a supporting partner… a job teaching in academia … or a day job in some other industry.”

Pprisonculture.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 10:52pm

It was generous for this author to break this down and to be transparent because the publishing industry is NOT transparent and people trying to publish books are in the dark about everything. monicacatherine.com/2024/05/16/q...

Q: Can an author make a living from royalties?

~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five year…

Guys, get the fuck off Twitter.

A kid once asked me if I was born in the “late 1900s” and I immediately got Osteoporosis

EJlethalityjane.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 2:08pm

Clicked on this Reddit post this morning and it attacked me so now I am sharing it with all of you.

if you can't vote for the lesser evil if you can't vote for your own survival if you can't vote for the second Black and first female President if you can't vote for the candidate who will objectively harm people in Gaza the least vote for Elon Musk to suffer

MCchadbourn.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 12:18am

I didn’t think I could want it more.

Man shot in the head by NYPD cops aiming at a guy who didn't pay the $2.90 fare is suing the city for $80 million. gothamist.com/news/family-...

Family of bystander shot in Brooklyn subway station files $80M claim against NYC

An attorney said the legal claim is the first step toward filing a lawsuit on behalf of the 49-year-old bystander injured in the shooting.