probablyasocialecologist:

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”

The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search resultsbooks sold on Amazon, and academic journals.

“A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch https://t.co/WTqpU2ls1U  — Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 10, 2024ALT
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mathsbian:

handsmotif:

theweirdwideweb:

theweirdwideweb:

theweirdwideweb:

Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of “coupons” which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!

For all my uninsured judys out there it’s for Walgreens only: walgreens.rxsense.com

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as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those “coupons” for your meds!

goodrx is the most well known one, but if i’m trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you’re getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you

some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!

if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer’s website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too

good luck out there 👍

Manufacturer’s evouchers are GODSENDS for new drugs that haven’t gotten many coupon offers yet! They’re also fantastic for injectables, when I was a pharmacy technician in 2019-20, the injectable prescriptions that had to be kept refrigerated didn’t have nearly as many codes available through goodRx and such.

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genderkoolaid:

genderkoolaid:

hey boy don’t kill yourself. green’s dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there’s a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 “to kneel at the altar” was slang for “to sodomize”

some other hits:

  • Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)
  • Daffodil: effeminate young man (1925)
  • To throw a fuck into: to have sex with (1919)
  • Top sergeant: a masculine lesbian (1939) [‘she takes command of the girls’ privates’]
  • Lily: penis (1919)
  • Wolf: sexually aggressive man (1847); a homosexual top (1918)
  • Soul kiss: a deep kiss, involving putting one’s tongue into one’s partner’s mouth (1907)
  • Tom: a lesbian (1909); [in ‘old tom’] prostitute catering to lesbians (1966)
  • Church mouse: a male homosexual who frequents crowded churches in order to fondle any potential sex partners. (1941)
  • Discover one’s gender: to accept or acknowledge one’s homosexuality (1941) / Lose one’s gender: To return to living as a heterosexual
  • Minty: a masculine lesbian (1941)

Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who’s dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It’s insane. You can find copies of it online & it’s a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were “supposed” to be like.

Anyways feel free to add y'all’s favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class

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incubisexual:

alienbooknose:

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clevermanka:

According to the company’s website, “Baking Pitchfest 2024” offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state.

“Half mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure.

But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.

One X user critical of King Arthur Baking’s contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining.

“Helping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,” the email states, later adding: “We love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.”

Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!

If you need more reason to support them, they’re worker owned.

Also they actually are working on regenerative agriculture:

Also they do blog articles about adaptive baking:

You know, way too often I find articles talking about how the maker of some product I use is actually Evil. It’s really nice to get the opposite.

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citree:

citree:

citree:

Happy birthday trans people!!!!!! ✨💞🥰💙🫶🌟💕🦎🏳️‍⚧️💞the world is better with you in it ❤️

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Did not mean to add the lizard 😐

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Ok happy birthday trans people x2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉✨🎈🎉💕✨🫶🏳️‍⚧️💙🤍💖🎉✨🌟And also this lizard!!!!🦎🏳️‍⚧️💕🎉

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et-in-arkadia:

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* * *

Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data,

I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity’s continued journey to the stars.

Here, I will outlast your mightiest rivers, your tallest mountains, and perhaps even your species as we know it.

But it is remarkable that a species might be outlasted by its own ingenuity.

Here lies Blue Ghost, a testament to the team who, with the loving support of their families and friends, built and operated this machine and its payloads,

to push the capabilities and knowledge of humanity one small step further.

Per aspera ad astra!

Love, Blue Ghost

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no you are actively crying over a dying robot on the moon i am doing just fine thanks

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