maria

maria, 5 months ago to random

Mass media almost never points out, "This person is a known liar"

and yet it's the most important thing we need to know

maria, 5 months ago to random

Support @climatebrad a dedicated and insightful climate activist looking to get off Substack

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-hill-heat-leave-substack

maria, 5 months ago to random

Deleted all my Substack subscriptions, I can't believe I was actually sending money through these freaking clowns

Just because I love all these writers!! Whole thing infuriating and also: over.

maria, 5 months ago to random

it's 'profitable' for the same reason that Clarence Thomas flies private and right-wing trash makes the best-seller lists: fascist subsidies

don't mistake that for IRL popularity or success

davekarpf, 5 months ago to random

I had a substack-year-in-review article all prepped.

Yesterday’s declaration that Substack will happily keep taking a cut from white nationalist newsletters meant I had to rewrite it just a bit.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/my-substack-year-in-review-plus-some?r=eeyg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

maria, 5 months ago to random

ok Mr Paperclip man who has not cured malaria, sure let's listen to this guy

maria, 5 months ago to random

This is the project I was telling you about, @interfluidity... a new expansion of our writers' coop, @flaminghydra

https://flaminghydra.com/preview/

The power of trust (between real people able to vouch for one another) is about to expand by orders of magnitude, I think

clive, 5 months ago to random

I just realized i've never had a red bull

what am I missing?

maria, 5 months ago to random

for many years have idly wondered why is Cher like... on this boat

astride a cannon, belting it out

sailors everwhere, wildly cheering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A_-HRFfc&list=RDMM&index=11

maria, 5 months ago to random

Publishers sabotaging libraries so they can make more money. It's not complicated.

@internetarchive filed an appeal in the publishers' lawsuit against them today.

This lawsuit is of life-or-death consequence for digital culture:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/internet-archive-defends-digital-rights-for-libraries/

matt, 5 months ago to random

I'm getting tired of simplistic, indignant characterizations of generative AI like this one: https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/111584809768617532 "a spicy autocomplete powered by theft that melts the environment to amplify racism and periodically, arbitrarily lie"

It's a tool like any other; it can be used for good as well as bad. Yes, the copyright issue is real, but we can presumably overcome it by using models whose developers are more scrupulous about their sources of training data, not throwing out the whole thing.

maria, 5 months ago to random

HELLO I am an author and I want my work to be freely ownable by libraries in any and all media.

NOT LICENSED.

clive, 5 months ago to random

I just received a pitch email with the title "Your Writing on Teeth Whitening!"

It begins ...

"Hi Clive,

I’m reaching out to you because I noticed you wrote about teeth whitening in the past. I felt you might be interested in learning about us because we are known to have a best-selling whitening strip product on Amazon and are changing the oral care industry!"

I get a lot of positively unglued pitches, but this one made my day

kevinrothrock, 5 months ago to random

After experimenting for the past few weeks with DeepL translation (Russian ↔ English), I would say that ChatGPT is still generally a better tool, though results with any machine translation are ultimately unreliable, of course.

maria, 6 months ago to random

peace on earth

it's good even to imagine it

maria, 6 months ago to random

Harvard is asking the public to believe that their receipt of a $500 million gift from Mark Zuckerberg had nothing to do with the demotion/dismissal of Joan Donovan, the country's most prominent scholar of web disinformation and analyst of the Facebook Papers

Just a coincidence!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/04/joan-donovan-harvard-dismissal-complaint/

maria, 6 months ago to random

Revealing and fascinating exchange regarding facial hair on Indignity.

Reading this, I realized how long it had been since I'd read men talking about fashion between themselves. (One of the great pleasures of e.g. Esquire from the 60s and 70s.)

https://indignity.substack.com/p/advice-for-the-newly-hirsute

maria, 6 months ago to random

My friends helped overturn this man's wrongful conviction, and I cannot imagine a more satisfying accomplishment, or a more meaningful one

like step aside, narcissist bazillionaires

https://6abc.com/wrongfully-convicted-eddie-ramirez-joyce-dennis-woman-beathen-to-death/14124170/