Thread worth reading if only b/c of how much of it, by volume, is people saying “the way GLP-1 meds are marketed/talked about is undoing decades of what was already achingly incremental progress on fighting cultural fatphobia and thin people are being more fucked up about fatness than ever”

been very slowly workin on an updated Fennel (my pine marten sona) and may be starting to get somewhere I'm happy with now more POINTY and also I chopped their tail off (i'm sorry i just really like short tails rip)

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

ahhhh thank you!!!

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.

Since the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is.

The stupidest part of this is that we had some minor success with early weighted models and instead of asking “How can we make this work better on less powerful hardware?” we skipped right to “we should turn every atom in the solar system into comptronium!”

as a former science journo, i can attest that a big issue is editorial control & capitalist ownership of outlets. i quit bc i was told directly that i wasn't allowed to write or question anything that could affect advertisers or companies we covered bc they'd refuse coverage & hit us w/slap suits

tekken scampi

i read this as 'shrimp tekken' when i first saw it, and was startled when i saw it again because it's not about shrimp. what about shrimp tekken

slime... squishy