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This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

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a list of "beautiful" words for july

to try to include in your next poem/story

Acervate - growing in heaps or closely compacted clusters

Bêtise - an act of foolishness or stupidity

Calamus - the hollow basal portion of a feather below the vane; quill

Dreamery - impractical fancies

Ferronière - a pendant jewel worn (as by women in 15th century Italy and early 19th century England) in the middle of the forehead

Ictus - the recurring stress or beat in a rhythmic or metrical series of sounds

Ivorine - a substance resembling ivory in color and texture

Languescent - becoming languid or fatigued

Malgré - despite

Naupathia - seasickness

Nymphean - inhabited by nymphs

Orfevrerie - gold or silver plate; jewelry

Philter - a potion credited with magical power; a potion, drug, or charm held to have the power to arouse sexual passion

Saturnalia - excess, extravagance

Threnody - a song of lamentation for the dead; elegy

Undern - a light meal in the forenoon or in the afternoon

Verselet - a little verse

Villeggiatura - residence in the country for a holiday

Wrongous - characterized by unfairness

Zymosis - fermentation

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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a LOOK at AGING, CAREGIVING and OTHER THINGS we DON’T LIKE to DEAL WITH

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LISTEN to this PODCAS before U actually DO grow OLD

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sztupy

1976, the time of the big heatwave in the UK apparently everyone remembers, vs recent times.

ayeforscotland

My room is 28 degrees right now.

victusinveritas

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.

Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.

Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.

Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event

Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.

Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.

creepymutelilbugger

you know I never put it together that he built his platform on draining the swamp and then like went and made a swamp and now refuses to drain it

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

6. Spread conspiracy theories that the Democrats have deliberately sabotaged the pool and arrest whoever pulls out the floating paint chunks as vandals.