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My boyfriend likes to text me via Siri while driving

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leave him alone he's working

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hey babe im gonna be home late tonight do you mind picking up dinner. yeah sorry the king has us working over time, some fuckin egghead sat on the wall and had a GREAT fall. we've got all the men working on this but idk if we're gonna be able to put him back together again. yeah we've tried the horses. ok bye love you.

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I have responsibilities

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"How fucked up is American public health" you ask? Well this is one of the more comprehensive explorations of how to get vaccinated I've seen, and it's from a sports blog.

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 12

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i try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything

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stuff that drives me crazy as someone who watches a lot of silly action/thriller/crime tv:

1.) when I go to the doctor and they need to give me Act Immediately Medicine they have to fuck around with a needle finding a vein and generally it’s very fussy and difficult. But in tv and movies they just walk up and JAB someone any which place and they just fall right asleep ok

2.) when someone is catastrophically injured and the person helping them is like STAY WITH ME and yelling at them to stay conscious and stuff. Ma’am they have a giant stab wound, let them go night night until they’re at the hospital. Seems kind of rude to try and make someone be awake through that

3.) 100% of the time, if a psychiatrist is introduced in the first act, they’re involved. The more helpful and intellectual and non threatening they seem, the more fucked up their involvement turns out to be. Apparently tweed jackets cause violence? Some of my best friends are psychiatrists and this is slander

4.) foster parents are either evil abusive idiots “just in it for the money,” or they’re sainted Montessori moms who end up with perfectly behaved, grateful rescue kids through the power of love. 🙄

5.) the super hot badass hero never comes and fucks me

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“It’s completely shocking to me,” Pete Kelly, who runs the popular History Time YouTube channel, told me in a phone interview. “It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching, writing, narrating, editing, doing all these things to make a video, but now someone can come along and they can do the same thing in a day instead of it taking six months, and the videos are not accurate. The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often. And I’m fearful because this is everywhere.” “I absolutely hate it, primarily the fact that they’re historically inaccurate,” Kelly added. “So it worries me because it’s just the same things being regurgitated over and over again. When I’m researching something, I go straight to the academic journals and books and places that are offline, basically. But these AI videos are just sort of repeating things that are on the internet and just because it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s accurate. You end up with a very simplified version of the past, and we need to be looking at the past and it needs to be nuanced and we need to be aware of where the evidence or an argument comes from.”

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Historians who have studied the AI summaries of historical events have found that they “flatten” history: “Prose expression is not some barrier to the communication of historical knowledge, to be cleared by any means, but rather an integral aspect of that communication,” Mack Penner, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, argued last year. “Outsourcing the finding, the synthesizing, and the communicating to AI is to cede just about the whole craft to the machines.” As YouTube and other platforms are spammed with endless AI-generated videos, they threaten not just to drown out the types of high-quality videos that The French Whisperer, Ancient Americas, and other historians, anthropologists, and well-meaning humans are making. They also threaten to literally rewrite history—or people’s understanding of it—with all of the biases imbued into AI by its training material and, increasingly, by the willful manipulation of the companies that own these tools.

3 September 2025

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if meeting people and engaging in community in several different religious spaces has taught me things, one of them is that maintaining a black-and-white child's view of religion is not tenable or righteous. there isn't an us and them. there is us and us. or just us. and my growing conviction is that life is too complicated to divide into life that deserves to be safe and nurtured and life that doesn't. in the end, all we have is to walk gently on the earth. in the end, we have each other and we have this beautiful universe. what are we going to do with that?

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Did you see the BDS movement have updated their boycott list? XBox, Reebok, Teva and Disney have moved to priority targets, and they’re supporting the organic boycott of Zara. Dominos is back on the list too (did it ever really leave though)

Yes I did!

Here is the updated list for anyone who wants to stay in the loop

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every morning I wake up and think of these words from philosopher cher

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i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2