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Sharing this cos I love this binding!

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The cancellation of The Late Show - which will not have a new host; it’s just being outright cancelled - is a direct result of this administration trying to end the freedom of the press.

Very cool that CBS looked at their options:

• cave to an authoritarian who openly wants control of the press and to end all speech and media that criticizes him, or

• stand up for democratic values

and chose the first option because they had a billion dollar merger to think about 😢

This should deeply alarm everyone.

To recap:

- Donald Trump sued CBS for a “60 Minutes” segment where they edited out part of Kamala Harris’s answer in an interview. This was routine editing to fit the interview into the time allotted and was in no way misleading. CBS could easily have won this case in court; there was really no case.

- But CBS needed the Trump administration to approve their merger with Paramount, so they chose to settle instead, allowing Trump to control what happens on their network instead of standing up for the freedom of the press.

- Days later, CBS cancels The Late Show, on which Stephen Colbert routinely criticizes Donald Trump, for no obvious reason besides that Donald Trump doesn’t want it on the air anymore.

Cool. Anyone who works at CBS should be embarrassed to work there and certainly shouldn’t call themselves a reporter or a journalist. They’re pawns, and should quit if they want to retain any integrity. Join a media organization that will actually stand up for, you know, media.

So, so stupid.

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poem ending with a murder/suicide by Bob Hicok

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From an interview with Ursula K Le Guin

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the procrastinator’s mind will invent distractions you’ve never conceived of in order to avoid tasks even a dog could do.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Katekyou Hitman Reborn! Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Xanxus (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!), Sawada Tsunayoshi, Superbi Squalo, Gokudera Hayato, Yamamoto Takeshi, Varia Ensemble (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!), Vongola Tenth Generation Ensemble (Katekyou Hitman Reborn!) Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Curses, True Love's Kiss, but not, Short and Silly, Reverse Writing Tropes Summary:

Exactly as it states on the tin. Just an age-old story turned on it's head, and things go about as well as you might expect. Because, let's face it. Tsuna would never be lucky enough for things to go the classic fairy tale route.

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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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yeah

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the impossible return

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today in "making up ways to help kids decompress on the fly": i had kids cup their hands in front of them and for 1 silent minute, picture a small mouse in their hand. afterwards they got to tell me, one at a time, what their mice did

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✨ Fullmetal Alchemist Starter Pack ✨

Eeeee I made stickers ✨

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knights kissing

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the sunlight on our skin, and all the other things that make us human

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Fanart between comms (*‘ω‘ *)

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Another reason to ignore negative comments (especially on AO3)

So at work I’ve been forced to learn about “AI Agentic Workflows”. But being an AO3 author, I couldn’t help but think of how this technology affects authors on AO3 (and honestly on other social media platforms too).

What I learned was this: Agentic AI workflow software makes it extremely easy to automate, and bulk-post, HIGHLY-STORY-SPECIFIC negative comments to AO3 fics.

If you’re not familiar with what an AI Agentic Workflow is, I highly recommend informing yourself. You’ll be hearing it a LOT very soon. Basically, it’s a linked linked chain of AI prompts on one/many software platforms. Each “agent” completes a task. Then it hands off the completed task to the next AI Agent in the chain, which builds on it. Then that result is handed off to another agent, etc etc, even potentially to a final agent which analyzes what worked well and what didn’t, and changes what the other agents do.

There are a ton of repercussions here.

But let’s stay focused on AO3.

With AI Agentic workflow software, a person/group who wants to silence the voice of a community can easily scrape a tag, analyze stories by the thousands, then post thousands of highly customized, story specific negative comments, all without a human being ever seeing your words.

They could even set up AI agents watching to see if you delete your story, or delete your profile, which would be a marker of success. That success marker could be shared back to the other AI agents, and the whole workflow could be changed via automation to use that more effective approach.

I’m sure the OTF is working on ways of stopping this. I’m sure most social media companies are too.

But as usual the tools to create havoc are ahead of the ones to prevent havoc.

Anyway.

TL;DR: If you get a highly-story-specific negative AO3 comment — it does NOT MEAN it was written by a HUMAN! You were probably just story 20,031 in a scraped database of 50,000 stories, all of which were being targeted because they belong to a group/topic/tag that some shitty group or agency wanted to silence because of their horrible political or social.

Don’t let them silence you. They never looked at your words to begin with.

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