I just showed child the Tom Holland/Zendaya lip sync battle. She died.

@Faraday A better question is why are you spending this much effort trying to detect LLM usage in the first place? If you can’t actually tell the difference between what some idiot romantasy author wrote and what some less-censored chat gippity clone spat out then it really speaks ill of said romantasy author. Maybe xir needs to just git gud? Has she considered applying to Panda Express? I heard they’re hiring lately. You can even get a job there if you’re a White man.

@Roz this one kind of fucked me up

@Faraday Amen. It’s getting weird in my practice, too, when empathetic statements and self-accountability start to sound like AI-level sycophancy. “That must feel frustrating” or “I can see how that would be intolerable” or even “I think I remember you mentioning this before” have started to ping AI hypersensitivity.

Wisconsin let me the fuck down yesterday. It had one job. Whatever, I’m drinking myself into oblivion, because that’s what Sconnies do.

A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was part of a performance at some kind of arts academy, it was something like the big once-a-year performances those places do. For some reason I was put on the spot and asked to perform a couple of songs before the show started (many of my dreams have a focus on being asked to do something I’m not prepared to do) so I decided to change the lyrics to “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman” to something more thematic, which was nature, and sing that… Back in the waking world, I was on vacation with my family and thus we were all sharing a room. And that’s how my husband and son got woken up by me shouting “IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A SQUIRREL” out of nowhere at 8am.

@Pavel Okay, so I didn’t invent her presence on that one whole cloth. Whew. Going to have to check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pjzRJstARnE

@Wizz what a handsome

@Faraday CUTE!!

Because this is topical for me today with the final part of Wind and Truth coming out (yay, finally, I can start it!) … Cannot possibly recommend the company Graphic Audio enough as an audiobook experience. It was my gateway drug back into reading after an embarrassingly long stretch of fractured attention span. Their tagline is ‘A Movie in Your Mind’, which it pretty well succeeds at. They make everything a full Radio Play experience, with sound effects and music and a sprawling cast of voice actors for each book. The only downside is that they do tend to retain the same voice talent, so if you bounce around between some series, you’ll be like, “Hey wait, why’s Wit here? Oh, no, he’s not. Just the same voice.” Either way, cannot recommend it highly enough. The actors really swing for the fences, and when it lands, it lands so well.

@Roz obvs so nothing dethrones the AoA thread post count.

Ashkuri’s doodles are awesome. Characters, postcards, random drawing from an offhand comment I made as a joke. Good stuff if you get a chance to take them up on it.

@Cobalt I’ve asked. I’ll message you privately if I get a bite.

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@MisterBoring said in FAT BEAR WEEK 2025: Chunk is the winner. Also, I found out he’s got a broken jaw, so the injured contender story probably pushed a lot of votes his way. “His face looks sad and that makes me sad” versus “his belly is very round and that makes me happy” definitely came into play in a few of my votes for Chunk. The broken jaw is going to be a permanent issue for him, so I hope he continues to have several more years of being a very fat bear despite it.

Arguable, but the Teshigahara film Woman in the Dunes is based on The Castle by Franz Kafka, specifically the first part and the reaction by the villages. Also, please watch Woman in the Dunes, it is beautiful.

@Third-Eye shhhhh they were beautiful and I loved your poems