[smumjii1]

[oldpaintings]

Le Bon Marché, 1898 by Félix Valloton (Swiss, 1865–1925)

[alienssapiens]

Angela Lane

[nature-travel-photography]

Cliffs of Etretat, Normandy, France - Author: ExternalAvailable963

[tearsofrefugees]

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

[hagiomoto]

I wanted to point out that both Google and Apple have already erased the names of those villages from Lebanon’s maps, and they should be held in contempt for it.

[huliajelena]

ted lasso art from a while ago that ive never posted

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’m blindsided by authors using ai in their works. how can readers and writers tell if the writing is ai generated?

I’m gonna assume writers know whether or not their own works are ai because they either write them themselves or have ai write for them.

but as for readers (or writers who read other writers’ works), no, you can’t tell unless the writer themself says their works are ai generated. anything else is witch hunt, speculations and possibly wrongful accusations — all of which harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

so if at any point you think an untagged work is ai and if that bothers you, quietly click away. but you can never know for sure based on vibes. because everything ai writes, a human writer does. that’s what ai was trained on and what it was trained to mimic.

I’ve already talked more about this here, here, here. and more on my other blog @writingdose here and here.

[littlepagodatree]

You can notice certain telltale signs in some of the writing, such as short sentence stacking and usage of "not x not y but z" structures. But you have to be familiar with AI writing styles to be able to notice that.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’ve been writing “not x, not y, but z” way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve read works that have “not x, not y, but z” in them, and I’ve read those works way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve also been using em dash way before gen ai became a thing, and I’ve seen em dash used in so many written works way before gen ai became a thing. I know for a fact some human writers actually prefer short sentence stacking too.

every “ai telltale” is something humans write before, otherwise ai wouldn’t have been able to mimic it in the first place. because it needs human-made works to mimic on.

when I say ai witch hunt, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more, “not x, not y, but z” and em dash are one of the main things I’m talking about.

[seananmcguire]

As I saw someone say recently, when you start declaring "obvious tells," from punctuation to sentence styles, to be proof of AI, what you're actually spotting is trace amounts of the original source material.

[imjohnnyboy]

[butt-rice]

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

[thesobsister]

Dora Maar, (Untitled) (c.1935)

[biomaterial]

new kind of guy dropped

[3liza]

he's unironically 100% correct and i will hear nothing against him

[zombilenium]

A Glasgow building during demolition (1972), showing soot trails to chimneys.

Photo: Eric Watt

[skj-weebmam]

Another day, another mission…

[userfinalgirls]

Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton behind the scenes

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (2026) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

[ladyoftheharbour]

can we please please please learn to differentiate between things that are good but devalued because of their association with women (caring for children, being compassionate), things that are neutral but seen negatively because of their association with women (the colour pink, having long hair), and things that are bad but associated with women because of misogyny (being materialistic, being stupid) because otherwise we’re gonna keep getting takes like “being gender nonconforming is anti feminist” and “not studying for your classes is feminist”

[saltshroud]

:-)

[sigynpenniman]

[mikeyfuckinway]

Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly and overcharged fans | CNN Politics

A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly in its dominance of the live events and ticketing industry, validating comp

[sugar-and-spite]

But fans won’t see ticket prices or fees tacked onto their bills drop anytime soon. Judge Arun Subramanian will now hold second trial to decide what remedies are warranted, including whether to grant the states’ request to break up the company or make other structural changes such as ordering the sale of businesses.

more deliberation still to come, with a settlement in the works that caps fees, allows competitors to do business, and dissolves exclusive agreements ticketmaster has with certain companies. article says nothing has been decided for sure yet, and even once it is, it may take a while for consumers to notice any effects.

this is very good news, still! let's all celebrate the impending death of ticketmaster, while maintaining reasonable expectations for what that will look like!