Archangel Beth

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AKA EMcCoy_writer, "Mantis Space Marine," Archangel Beth, & ArchBeth, depending where you are. She/Her works for me.
(ElizabethMcCoy.com, & the new one isn't there yet, but there's only one other "me" on Amazon😅)

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It's almost Ben's 9th bday & the 1year anniversary of his gotcha day! Therefore, through Monday, it's... Ben's Birthday Sale!!! Book 1, AN UNCOMMON CURSE, only $.99 books2read.com/u/bzKXBj Book 2, AN UNCERTAIN MURDER, only $1.99 books2read.com/u/bp1nBW Fantasy novels about fairytales & musicals!

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Also, speaking of word of mouth, may I please remind you that - Isabel Yap's collection of short stories NEVER HAVE I EVER is very good, and - Nadia Bulkin's collection of short stories SHE SAID DESTROY is also very good (And they are good in QUITE different ways)

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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”

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Dems should run ads just showing this, then slowly zooming in on "end recreational sex"

I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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Sliced bread first went on sale 96 years ago today and — here’s the fun bit — was promoted as being the greatest thing since WRAPPED bread.

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Daily bunny no.2542 is out on a calm empty sea

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Meanwhile, Biden HAS quietly delivered $1 billion to communities for climate shocks resilience. 👇 (My previous post had "trillion", an autocorrect. It would be good to imagine what level of funding could do, on the USAID budget too.)

Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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out here finding the weirdest little guys I never knew existed. what even is a leptostracan or a tanaid

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Authors making a website for their webcomic for the very first time: I am begging you to add an about page. You GOTTA be able to pitch your work to someone visiting for the first time, even if you only have 25 pages up

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I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect

potato.

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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!

It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us. Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same! cartoonist.coop/2024USsurvey (art by Phil McAndrew)

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Republicans know Trump's agenda would be disasterously unpopular: From The Washington Post Editorial Board: "The former president wants the 2024 GOP platform to be anodyne, but don’t be fooled. He has an extreme agenda." Read it: buff.ly/4csXz23

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staycation all i ever wanted staycation didn’t go away staycation hanging with all my stuffff

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New blog post, Weekend Catch-Up: sharonleewriter.com/2024/07/week...

Weekend catch up – Sharon Lee, Writersharonleewriter.com

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Blake E. Reid

E.g., if I use a search engine to query “how to make cheese stick to pizza” and it points me to somebody joking about adding glue to the sauce on Reddit, I might be annoyed that the result is irrelevant and not that useful, but I’m not going to blame the search engine for what the person said.

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This is a very important point: a great many web 2.0-era platforms (especially search and social media) are fundamentally structured around unpredictable outputs (and inputs). But the unpredictability is usually an obvious function of *other people’s speech and behavior,” not your technology.

"unpredictable outputs" is the thing I keep hammering home to anyone with their hands on a budget. you can't have customer-facing tools with unpredictable output if you have a public image to project/protect, it never ends well

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“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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Andre Norton is a great comparison and apropos

5 stars. "It reminded me of the classic science fiction stories of Andre Norton, but with some added pleasures--the enjoyable tension of a strong romance story, bonus worldbuilding nuggets in the background..." www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP3YN354

Amazon.com: Star Pattern Traveller eBook : Chng, Joyce: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com Star Pattern Traveller - Kindle edition by Chng, Joyce. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Star Pattern Traveller.

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"coronavirus is “like throwing a bomb in your body,” said Dr. Ken Cadwell, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how Covid affects the gut. “You’re going to feel that in multiple different organs, not just the lungs.”" (Gift link)

This May Be the Most Overlooked Covid Symptomwww.nytimes.com Gastrointestinal issues are a common but often unrecognized sign of infection.

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The number one response I've been getting in the last few days is that Trump isn't involved and doesn't want to have anything to do with it so therefore we shouldn't worry. I don't know how to combat that. They are convinced P2025 isn't going to happen. :(

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

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Chemistree ⚛️🧪

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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Pheces Levanter

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Emma Evans

I once saw someone from Tumblr say, to paraphrase briefly, the Paradox of Tolerance resolves when we think of it as a social contract. The unspoken agreement is that we don't actively harm others. When anyone chooses to be intolerant, they've broken the contract, so it no longer applies to them.

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We shared this photo with Dad and he said "is she getting bigger or are the boxes getting smaller?" so Sarah got out the tape measure and said "it's 6" x 10" x Ginny" because she will definitely go to great lengths for a joke

Technically, not on the counter Also technically, a fragile jelly bean

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Courtney Milan

As a chem TA, one of the most valuable things I ever did with struggling students in office hours was have them narrate for me how they would solve a problem, and then figure out what it was they weren’t getting. That’s how you get the lightbulb moments.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.