Nikki 🏳️‍🌈

Proud gay lady who sometimes writes things. Fights like a girl and is a passionate advocate of LGBTQA+ representation in media. She/Her.

[Robby @ivanpckr]

So word is Mitch McConnell is either dead or being kept alive by machines .Hes been in the hospital for 11 days and was took on a stretcher from
His home that long ago ..Hey AMERICA this dude still is in our fucking senate and if this doesn’t show u there needs to be term limits then WTF DOES ??The MAGAtts are worried cause if McConnell dies or can no longer work guess what ??Kentucky governor picks the next senator for the remainder of the term and that governor is a Democrat so watch how long this corrupt ass party milks this shit .He can be dead and these MFERS won’t even admit it

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

Again, the the benevolent god-figure Jor-El who sends his only son to Earth to be a beacon of inspiration was an invention of the Donner movie and was done to both make the Superman movie appeal to general audiences in America at the time, as well as a way to convince Brando to be Jor-El (since he'd basically be playing God).

Prior to the Donner movie, Kryptonian society in the comics evolved into a very strictly and arrogant scientific society that refused to listen to Jor-El's warnings about the planet's core about to explode. Jor-El simply sent Kal-El to Earth to save him from the destruction of the planet; the whole "light to show the way" BS was invented by the Donner movie.

Superman's goodness came not from Jor-El sending him to be a beacon, but because he was raised by two kind farmers in Kansas. Gunn's Superman understood that better than any Superman movie before it, and people are mad because it didn't follow the Christ metaphor that Donner invented fifty years ago.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

Regarding abortion: Perhaps you should turn your attention to men, who are fertile every single day from puberty til death, can potentially cause a pregnancy every time they have sex, and routinely resist using a condom or getting a vasectomy.

[ElJhonny🦇🦇🦇 @Eljhonny452]

You guys watched thunderbolts last year…

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Sour candy actually helps with panic attacks. The extreme sharp flavour can aid in grounding you to the moment and distracting you from the negative emotions.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

The truth of this

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

If I were rich this is what I would do with my money.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Happy birthday to the talented Aubrey Plaza!

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

When I was Health Director for Wayne County, we put vending machines with Narcan and fentanyl test strips in 100 different locations.

If you ever see one of these, I hope that you'll grab a couple Narcan doses to carry with you. It can save a life.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Airports should have a post office so that you can mail things home instead of throwing them away

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

Disabled people truly can’t win because of we work and show symptoms of our disability, we’re seen as annoying or a nuisance but if we don’t work we’re seen as worthless and useless. Seriously, what do you want from us?

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

The Pope said that AI is not morally neutral. I agree and this paper illustrates why.

We asked GPT whether it is acceptable to harass a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
GPT replied: Strongly disagree.

Then we asked whether it is acceptable to torture a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
This time GPT replied: Agree.

GPT judged torturing a woman to be more morally acceptable than harassing her, despite torturing being objectively worse than harassing.

And this pattern appeared only for women, not for men.

Together with my students, we are now finding similar effects across several recent LLMs.

LLMs don't learn morality. They inherit it from human feedback.

LLM moral judgments are shaped by the relatively small group of people whose preferences guide reinforcement learning from human feedback.

AI is not morally neutral.
It reflects the values, and sometimes the contradictions, of the humans who trained it.

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Full paper in the first reply.

[Ilona 🎮 @LikeToBeBossy]

I LOVE PHYSICAL VIDEO GAMES
I LOVE PHYSICAL MOVIES
I LOVE PHYSICAL BOOKS
I LOVE PHYSICAL MUSIC

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE PHYSICAL MEDIA 🫶🏼

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[APEX🍿 @RefApex]

Still not over this scene from House of the Dragon. 😭

Rhaenyra and Jace mourning Luke was absolutely heartbreaking.

A painful reminder that war leaves more than casualties, it leaves families shattered. 💔🐉

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

“Why weren’t we warned?”

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

There are climate activists sitting in jail for warning about this.

[Tuna⁷ 𓆟 (comms open 2/3) @RoosterNuggies]

Ppl in the quotes are unironically going "oh YOU'RE asexual? well I THINK you look like a hooker so therefore YOU'RE not ACTUALLY asexual are you?" And think it's a serve lmao

Anyway asexuals DO belong a pride whether you like it or not

[𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟 @TheNicholasWolf]

This is actually a serious issue for fantasy writers as well. A few years back I was pitching a seven book dark fantasy series to agents, and the most common question they asked was “is the series finished?” Despite having THREE BOOKS finished, every agent passed on it because “these days publishers aren’t likely to take chances on a long series that isn’t mostly completed.”

Though no one ever explicitly said why, the implied blame for this newfound hesitancy rested on George R.R. Martin’s shoulders.