Bad News From The Zones, Tumbleweeds…

Francis 🦝 - he/him I hate AI and love blogging. Join me.

[thesilliestgooseontheloose]

[mercutio-stan]

Hey guys bring back diaries. You don’t have to put some self-care wellness spin on it and call it journaling or anything. I just think we could all use a space to do and say whatever we want that’s not the Very Permanent Internet.

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[twixnmix]

Eartha Kitt photographed by Ben Martin at her New York home, 1957.

[iamafule]

Felt this in my bones

[fung-official]

[cowboy]

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

[monkeyislandtwo]

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

[equos-bipes]

for your consideration

[msnbc]

Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace burns birth certificate on stage in North Carolina  

The band turned the concert into a protest over the trans-bathroom law recently approved by the North Carolina legislature.

Watch the full clip here: http://on.msnbc.com/22e56rp

[theplantqueer]

[ID: gifs of an Against Me! concert, shown in a wide shot with the crowd in the foreground and Laura Jane Grace in the centre. She holds up her birth certificate and says “So, let’s start this off right. I brought my birth certificate with me”, holds a lighter to the piece of paper, then, as it burns, says “Goodbye, gender!”. She waves the flaming birth certificate around a bit at the end. /end ID]

[gerardtweets]

[yourdyingwish]

This is so fucking funnyyyy

[marioyuri-moved-to-transkaito]

I think the most fun part of monsters inc is boo calling sulley “kitty” and mike wazowski by full government name

[nostalgicfun]

Looking through a Toyfare magazine from 2004 and found what might be my favorite ad ever

[hellallamerican]

a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

[lisathevampireslayer]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Behind The Scenes, Season 2

Part One

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[lesbiamlycenterforsocialanalysis]

Perhaps I’m being dramatic, but it almost feels as though the original phrasing (that I see being reflected quite heavily in the comments) focuses on Cheng’s inspiration from AI-generated breakup texts. The article goes much further than that; Cheng and her team clearly spent time acquiring data and then processing it to tell the story of how AI-dependence is fundamentally shifting how people interact with others. This change in human interactions didn’t happen overnight. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with other people and a simultaneous diminishing of how long people will spend on any given task. Focusing in on the more click-worthy problem of breakup texts overlooks the underlying issue that, after being discovered, can actually influence policy change as Cheng discusses

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You know how wealthy people turn into stupid arseholes by surrounding themselves with vapid yes-men? ChatGPT is vapid yes-men on tap. Now you, too, can subject yourself to the phenomenon that we've all long known turns people into giant toddlers who are impossible to deal with.

[saintvitus]

noted gender theorist fred durst makes reference to the concept of non-binary gender in limp bizkit’s opus “rollin’ (air raid vehicle)”, which along with the “ladies” and “fellas” refers to “the people who don’t give a fuck”