you can be mad online on a saturday. I'M in a groupchat trying to sleuth out if a weirdo in the NASCAR RPF tag on AO3 used some abstract form of AI chat to write a chase elliott/personality-less original female character fanfic in addition to several other weird one-offs
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Профиль Vivelytransguy writer. yr producer pal Matty on Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad w/ autojourno hosts Peter Hughes (ex-Mountain Goats) & Rory Carroll https://linktr.ee/tiredpod (i am also DIY music archivist claremontcometh.net)
ah cool i love living in the era of total epistemological collapse. like yeah it's always been challenging to vet things & weigh trust levels, but then everybody decided to pour money into the trust-annihilating super-collider. everyone lying to you has infinite resources. paranoia loop forever.
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
you can go a special kind of insane by reading john rechy's city of night and knowing this was the queer stuff being written in the 60's vs. now. i mean of course you can go Grove Press triple insane Classico Style by reading lady chatterlys lover but i mean everybody should read lady c's lover obvi
it's nice that "progressive" institutions are finally admitting they're not just fiscally conservative, they're also happy to take their cues on social issues from the far right. two openly right-wing major parties! out in the open! and this one will still beg you for money as The Lesser Evil! :)
Sal r.r. tamarkincenter for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"