I had to get glasses recently. My 9-year-old niece asked me why I was wearing them, and I said my eyeballs had changed shape as I got older. "Your *eyeballs* can change shape?!" I said, yeah, your whole body changes shape as you get older, right? And she agreed. And it's true!
Oooh. "Pound sand" means "go away and do something else", I could see not having context for that. It's also an older slang phrase, from the '50s probably.
That story I posted earlier about chatbot-manipulation buried the lede. It's worse (or better?) than everybody thinks "The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-llm...
It all began because one of the New York Times' professional opinion-havers didn’t like how chatbots were describing him. Of course, his take was not the sharpest: My theory about what happened next ...
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You have six attempts to guess the phrase. Green means the letter is in the correct spot, yellow or purple means it's in the wrong spot, and gray means it's not in the phrase.
I don't know if you can do spoilers in here, so here's the answer backwards: meop ennod nhoj a morf osla dna levon yawgnimeh a fo eltit eht s'tI
It's not even the husband. It's the 80 men *in her area* who took part, and the many more who were contacted and didn't participate, but also didn't do anything about it. It's knowing that there are 80 men in my area who would happily do the same to me, and many others who would look the other way.
Gisèle Pélicot was drugged by her husband and raped by over 80 men over the course of a decade. She had no idea.
Given that words mean things, that would a "mass killing", not a "mass shooting". Here are mass shootings thus far in 2024, according the Gun Violence Archive from whom the NY Times has taken their data.
Next time an genAI defender uses the “empowering disabled people” argument to justify the technology, here’s a tip: take a look at their timeline and see how often they have advocated for accessibility & empowerment, outside of the AI debate. Then you’ll see exactly how despicable their argument is.
See also: concerns about safety and fairness in women's sports (but only in regards to trans woman competing), concerns about long-term health effects of medications (only puberty blockers (for trans kids)), outrage over corruption in nonprofits (only Black Lives Matter)
*Being arrested in the middle of my art heist* This has classist and ableist undertones.