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Did u know it's actually 2019 and I make Sanders Sides incorrect quotes edits
Saw this post and immediately felt the need to make an update
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the dark sides as that one twitter post.
Remus knows what’s up
If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.
You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.
In fact: you SHOULD share it without your thoughts on the US Military. If someone in the military sees this number and is considering it, they already know. Just let them see the resource.
It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door.
Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance.
Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron.
The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies.
The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscated nearly 18 pounds of marijuana. They handcuffed the woman, whose name was Mary Jane Rathbun.
She didn't look scared. She didn't look guilty.
She looked at the officers, smoothed her apron, and reportedly said, "I thought you guys were coming."
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#i didnt reblog the first time #because i wanted to verify this #and now that i have? hell yeah brownie grandma
Can you please share how you verified, and give alternate sources, so we can maybe quiet the accusations of "A.I. slop" in the comments?
I'd be only too happy to do that. I was suspicious to start, too. It seemed a bit on the nose to have the weed brownie grandma named "Mary Jane," but also, that's a very common combination in a certain place and time, so I thought it was worth the extra effort.
What I did was find sources that made the claim (in this case, that a woman named Mary Jane was a medicinal marijuana activist in California, USA in the 1980s and 90s.) I checked the dates to get some certainty those sources aren't AI slop, then checked that the sources are generally reliable.
Then I followed useful details about the place and time, and other people involved, to explore it more fully.
The first thing I did was search for "Brownie Mary" and see if that turned anything up at all. It turned up a LOT of results. Predictably, some of them were recipes, but not all of them.
Next up, I checked sources and dates. Wikipedia can be dodgy for academic use, but their policy on LLM-generated input is very clear: they don't want slop. I started by reading that page and then went on to read others.
The Atlas Obscura article is from 2018. I found another one from SFWeekly from 2017.
Both of those are decent sources - Atlas Obscura gets a High factual reporting rate from MediaBiasFactCheck, and while MBFC doesn't have a rating for SFWeekly, the verbiage in that article is very close to what GastroObscura has. (Also to what the post itself has, right down to the choice of pull quote.)
Now, we can stop there and feel pretty confident that articles published before the wide availability of LLMs are not, in fact, LLM generated.
...or we can go deeper, and run this all the way back to source.
I spotted references to a Chicago Tribune imterview of Mary Jane Rathbun, published in 1993.
My search string of "Chicago Tribune 1993 Mary Jane Rathbun" hit it in the top 3 results. That article includes some fun new details: she wore a cannabis leaf shaped pendant to her trial!
She also objected to being portrayed as a cuddly grandma up against The Man, so I must retract my flippant tags, above.
The evidence now strongly points to Brownie Mary being a real woman who really went to court for giving AIDS patients weed brownies. But can we get closer? I've now seen several mentions of a 1980 attempt at convicting her too.
The articles have mentioned Sonoma County and a nonprofit called the Shanti Project, so let's hook onto that and see what we get.
Searching for "Mary Jane Rathbun Sonoma County 1980" gets me an article from a law firm; that mentions the prosecuting attorney by name, and points to a book: Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, by Paulette Frankl. It even has an excerpt!
We can run the book down too, just for fun (now we have a primary source.) My favorite used book site has a copy for $1. Amazon gives a view of the back cover, too:
...wow. I should see if my library has that!
The excerpt on the site has a mention of a candelight vigil held for her death in 1999. It took some hunting past things I'd already read and a bunch of shops giving written tributes, but I found a news report about that, too.
There's a lot of information out there, and it's worth digging into. Otherwise it's altogether too easy to think something real and worth knowing is just another bit of slop.
*whispers* holy shit. he’s done it again.
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Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭
Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now
okay but let's just imagine being kath in december 2009. phil brings his new lanky friend dan to rawtenstall, he's polite, got a little posh voice, a fluffy hat and you've never seen phil so smitten. they're filming funny videos in the snow and you tell dan he's welcome for christmas. you tell him that every december for 16 years until he eventually accepts, his stocking has been waiting <3
Patton *holding one of Virgil's books*: I'm worried. There are incantations in this book to summon actual demons! Roman *slow nod, before he turns to look at Janus*: Is that how we wound up with you? Janus: ... That's a good one. I'm gonna give you that. Patton: This is not a joke!
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Recently released court records show that the CEO who was allegedly murdered by his own driver owed the man a “substantial amount of money".
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“When you’re mean to me this is who ur being mean to” meme with Sanrio characters and small kitten is overused. Trite. It’s done I can’t relate. When ur mean to me this is who you’re being mean to:
The artist behind this iconic dragon image, that I'm pretty sure thousands of people have seen before, is Ciruelo Cabral. I definitely recommend checking out more of his paintings if you love dragon art.
The chances are you also might have seen this one too, to give another example of his work. I've come across this and the white dragon one a lot online over the years.
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The artist behind this iconic dragon image, that I'm pretty sure thousands of people have seen before, is Ciruelo Cabral. I definitely recommend checking out more of his paintings if you love dragon art.
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I second this! Ciruelo Cabral is one of m favorite dragon painters. Here's some more of his work!
(this first one is Saphira and Eragon btw)
the sides in retail
i’m very bored at work so i’ve been thinking about what roles the sides would have in a retail job (the same job i unfortunately work in)
Roman: would help customers place online orders, very charming and brilliant at interior design, definitely would take a lot of money
Logan: manager of the stock system, checks to make sure the stock levels are all correct, works stock daily via a very well thought out calendar, works closely with virgil at times
Virgil: works the back door, checks in and breaks down delivery, yes he has to be up at 6 am but i doubt he’d even sleep the night before, doesn’t have to talk to any customers and only a few close colleagues, checks in with logan to make sure delivery is correct
Remus: who else better to do shrinkage (get rid of broken or unsellable stock), digging through broken glass (without gloves) and used customer returns, plus he gets to destroy stuff before putting in the skip
Patton: very very very friendly manager…he will however stand up for his staff who Are family to him, positive energy that a lot of the colleagues need, isn’t afraid to be tough with customers if necessary
Janus: absolutely works on the till, takes no shit from anyone, loves lying about stock levels to customers or return rules. uses the phrase “i am the manager” Daily even tho he actually isn’t…he’d rather get yelled it with a straight face then let Patton get yelled at….literally isn’t bothered by Anything