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Throwback to the time tumblr accidentally sent a post 15 years into the past
https://www.tumblr.com/pinkiepieistraight/810758631765295104
Found a link
What the fuck does this site's backend look like
Loving the implication that this website could have a backend strange enough to make time travel real
i am not a violent dog
[ID: a digital illustration of a livestock guardian dog surrounded by their flock of sheep. Around the dog's neck is a bloody, spiked collar, the type used to deter wolves. Three sheep cuddle with the dog, while other sheep and lambs rest and frolic. Text reads "I am not a violent dog, but I know exactly why I bite," in capital letters. Around the foreground border are red flowers with green leaves and buds. /end ID]
1950s Butch-Femme wedding, seen in Before Stonewall (1984)
Queer joy detected!
I think one of the most important skills for being an Adult is the ability to differentiate between "I personally don't like this" and "this is Objectively Bad". like I just scrolled past this post about a kink dynamic that would make *me* want to leave civilization to go work in a burger king in Fresno (Fresno, CA is outside of society) and I had to consciously be like this is Not people being irresponsible kinksters just because I don't like it
A global RAM shortage, driven by massive AI demand, is forcing smartphone manufacturers to alter their strategies. Leaks suggest the return
Be nice to include that this is due at least in part to AI sucking up all the resources.
I have to deal with a less capable phone so someone can fall in love with a computer program that might just encourage them to have a little meth as a treat.
"not even trying to be reactionary or "edgy" or say this shit for shock value. i genuinely mean what i say. corporations giggle at protesting. why would anyone ever willingly come down off their throne that they've spent years building off the suffering of their fellow man? nobody is getting visited by the ghost of christmas future. no one is having a change of heart, it's simple. you make them fear for their lives and hit them in the only place they hurt or nothing will ever get done. i don't even see how that's an incredibly radical idea. it seems quite straightforward to me. "violence is never the answer" wrong. sometimes it is ¯\_(ツ)_/ "
"the world is burning and it's very clear who's holding the matches"
Call me a blunt the way I should be passed around by a bunch of alternative women
Behold! The printing titty!
I normally tag these posts “specific ass machines” after a minor meme that blew through Tumblr, but I was tempted to tag this one “specific boob machines”.
(Artist meow25meow seems to have had their Twitter account nuked and I cannot find any other original source to link to.)
disappearing into the bathroom at the club only to reappear covered in decorative printing patterns followed by a 10ft lady wearing bowls as a bra
Losing my mind over this article
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.
Thank you.
Signal boosting for the Truth.
As I said in the tags previous to this, A.I. is damaging to our culture not only for producing slop, but also for spreading mistrust of the truth.
Before the year ends does anyone wanna donate $20 to a t-girl trying to get through the year? My budget is running really tight this year since I got sick last week
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you are not safe to be around if you are siding with fascists. "pedos" have been the boogeyman for 75 years now and i'm tired of y'all acting like chasing trans women off social sites does anything to actually help children or prevent actual abuse.
i was a childcare professional for years. the most dangerous people in a child's life is the NUCLEAR FAMILY and other "trusted" adults.
The Jake Paul fight against Anthony Joshua gotta be a prime example of how desperately conservative wealthy douchebags like JP cling to the fantasy that they are physically the strongest, toughest winners of society. In what fucking world would a man like AJ lose to someone 5" shorter and 20 pounds lighter with no professional heavyweight experience. JP is convinced he can pay for the experience of beating someone at the top of their field, because that's what he wanted out of this. He paid for the ability to say "I can beat Anthony Joshua." He genuinely forgot there is something called the love of the game, and if this look in Joshua's eyes ain't it idk what is
i ask everyone to remember that Anthony Joshua is an Olympic gold medalist with this fucking record:
the fact Paul even challenged him, implying he could stand a chance against AJ, is an insult.