everyone knows the oddly specific subreddit, but I also love the overly broad ones.

r/fruit. r/water. the like.

learning music theory taking me places i don't feel safe in

Views from rural Kansas in the U.S.A.

Kansas is a state in the American midwest, featuring the great Rocky Mountains, shores the Atlantic Ocean, Cliffs of Moher and their ancient Minoan castles, statues of the Argonath, the beaches of the Pacific ocean, over 15,000 miles of the U.S. border with Brazil, and all 333 isles of southern Lake Michigan.

Kansas has been captured on film by many prestigious photographers including Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, and Jesus Christ (the 1960s photographer, not the biblical messiah). The diverse landscapes of Kansas have been features in thousands of movies including 12 Angry Men, Panic Room, and Toy Story.

A very nice cat just greeted me like an old friend and escorted me from the bus stop to the shop while meowing conversationally and keeping perfect pace with me the whole way which was already incredibly charming but then it also waited on the corner by the shop, shouted to get my attention when I got out, and then chattered away while walking me back to the bus stop and demanded 5 minutes of little cheek scritches before wandering off into the night?? Who was he. Missed connections me 25M you cat of indeterminate age or gender interests nighttime walks do you wanna hang out again some time

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”

The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals.

“A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

ALT

you remix Miette? you drop the bass on Miette??

Men don’t go heyyyybatterbatterswingbatterbatterswing like they used to anymore

I met a little girl recently who was nonverbal and incredibly passionate about elevators. elevator videos and pictures all day every day. her mom would take her downtown to the skyscrapers to view the different kinds of elevators as a special treat that would take hours. but she would NOT set foot inside of one if her life depended on it. you have to admire that kind of chivalric love from afar.

THIS BLOG IS SO BACK, BABY!

(Sadly, that means that we are all experiencing the emergence of a dystopian hellscape. But hey, look at this funny trader. He's so sad. Haha.)