What’s the opposite of “rolls over in grave.” Gives a thumbs up from the grave? Or “Dante <3’s this” from @theonion.com.

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Jael nails a tent stake through the head of Canannite general Sisera. Ready for meme-ification.

[Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620. Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 50 1⁄4 in. (92.3 × 127.5 cm). Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest]

Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.

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A lot of people mistakenly conflate "non-violent" with "non-disruptive" and/or "exclusively legal". SCLC, SNCC, CORE, etc all were very willing to undertake very disruptive and legally dubious non-violent activities.

Meet one of my favorite Renaissance friends: Galeazzo Sanseverino, a mercenary whom contemporary sources describe as the sexiest thing in pants in Italy, part of the badass polycule threesome that ruled Milan in the early 1490s. Thread 1/?
(#HistoryPix Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" day 3)

The clip from night time is sending me 😂

the white house saying the medicaid portal will be "back online shortly" does lend some credence to the idea that they're just shutting the entire government down and manually whitelisting whatever they see becoming an immediate political threat