[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[anatomicalart]

This is relevant to art also because it is becoming increasingly difficult to find reference images online during simple searches.

[untakenbeepun]

Shane Hollander doesn't have agency, because he is a fictional character that does not exist. His thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are decided for him by the author.

How Shane Hollander feels about being outed, about losing his captaincy and about moving teams are all decided for him by the author.

Whether or not Shane Hollander has trauma is decided for him by the author. Whether or not Shane Hollander experiences racism is decided by the author. Whether or not Shane Hollander 'understands the dark side of hockey' is decided by the author.

If the author is not interested in exploring how Shane Hollander's race intersects with his career, with his relationship, and with the homophobia he experiences (if in fact he experiences it at all and it's not just 'rivalry phobia'), then it simply will not be explored.

By suggesting that the narrative is racist, I am not taking Shane Hollander's agency away. He doesn't have it in the first place.

[turndecassette2]

[wlwarhammer]

A lot of people ignore the absolutely radioactive levels of frat boy coming from Shane Hollander because it’s inconvenient to their hyper feminized bottom stereotyping

[lovinglycerebral]

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

(transcript under the cut)

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[klapollo]

kind of alarming how the concept of slurs has been transformed into a silly kind of word rather than an expression of prejudice

[klapollo]

let's all take a step back and think about the concept of a brand starting a joke post on fucking linkedin with "we need a slur"

[mirialann]

Takes about Jason's death that ignores Sheila's existence are always bound to be shallow. By ignoring her, you're also ignoring Jason's feelings before and during the whole situation. The singular only reason Jason ended up in Ethiopia at all was because of the possibility of finding a living relative, a mom, and ignoring that consequently means ignoring almost all of the emotional weight of ADTIF.

What Sheila represents to Jason is a chance at finding something he's been missing since his parents' death: a real family, unconditional love. With A Diplomat's Son and Consequences, Jason realizes that his role in Bruce's life is conditioned by his actions/behavior as Robin, and any child would feel threatened, scared, and insecure with such realization. Finding out he may have another mother who's alive means there's a chance he may be fully accepted regardless of whether or not he's a perfect child/Robin, that he won't need to prove himself worthy, that their mere blood relation means his mother will love him unconditionally.

That's why Sheila's treason is so heartbreaking. She explicitly denies Jason love and acceptance, she implicitly breaks the enormous hope he carried since finding out he may have a living mother.

ADITF begins with Jason hurting and grieving his parents and what they had. Every single one of Jason's actions in that comic were fueled by that grief and his need for a parent's love that, since A Diplomat's Son and Consequences, he couldn't seem to find anymore in Bruce.

By taking out Sheila out of the picture, by ignoring her existence in that comic, you automatically erase the ground of which the story sprouted from, alongside Jason's entire motivation and purpose. It becomes a whole other story that simply doesn't fit with the previous ones that led to ADITF, one that makes Jason's death even more meaningless (and Batman even more irresponsible) than it canonically already was.

[auntymurda]

the girl with the pearl earring. cy3rix on instagram. 2025.

[bunnywand-z]

"the best laid plans" "i'm hatching a plan" so a plan is a type of egg ? 🥚

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@jorality

[jorality]

I see there's a war happening that we will never know about.

And the pelicans are losing???

[anais-ninja-bitch]

apparently, orcas are also hunting great white sharks.

it's almost as if predatory animals are competing more often for more scarce resources. can't imagine why 🙃

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

1. Orcas have always "hunted" shark and by that i mean they kill sharks for fun. That is a biological beef

2. The California river otter and brown pelican were both brought back on the verge of being endangered due to conservation efforts but this has caused a unique overlap in thier population that never existed before hand. This happend in 1996 and 2006 as well and the pelicans had to learn to avoid otter populated waters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

1. granted my source is shark week, but they made it sound like there was a recent uptick in orcas hunting great whites in particular and in areas where it was previously not seen as often. so a biological beef, but also a change in scale.

2. i did not know that. always crazy when conversation successes have unpredictable consequences. bet pelican meat tastes good, if you're an otter.

[cityfawns]

Reset NYC

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[fuckrozanov]

goodmorning this is your assigned shane of the day

[justalurkr]

SNAPCHAT IS NOT PRIVATE

and

AN ALGORITHM DECIDES WHEN IT IS NOT

Text of tweet:

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates. A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat. An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her. here's what happened in between. Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour. she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all." police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement. This means: Snapchat scans private messages. Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported. Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest. in under an hour. Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm. you are not told when a message is flagged. you are not told when a report is filed. you find out when the police arrive. the message was private. it wasn't.

[future-crab]

Imagine being Anais Mitchell and writing a song about the rhetoric of fascism so incisive and prescient that 10 years later an actual fascist would use that exact rhetoric down to the highly-specific phrasing in his presidential campaign. But also it took 10 years for the project you wrote that song for to move from living room shows to concept album to theater workshop to off-Broadway to Broadway, and its Broadway debut ended up coinciding with said fascist's successful bid for the presidency, and now it looks like your song that you wrote in 2005 is a super unsubtle reference to that one particular and highly-topical politician.

Frankly if I were her I would have started killing.

[userfpurteen]

GAHAHHAHAA I made a comic!!! will I ever do it again? i don't know this killed me it took all night and all day 🚬👴🏻 I need to lie down.

this is a love letter to sanji and all the chefs in my life who I know and cherish

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.