Reblog daily for health and prosperity

i love this because it's like. why did paleolithic peoples paint the hunt. perhaps to celebrate and honour brave deeds that kept the community alive. perhaps to bring luck for future hunts. perhaps to instruct those who came after how to slay the beast. perhaps to remind us we can: that the mammoth is not unkillable.

this graffiti, too, serves those purposes!

Hmmm…

Ok but why does Genghis Khan by Miike Snow still slap so hard tho

My wife showed me this and it's on my playlist for when I cook her loving homemade meals now.

I can't put this into words exactly but I feel like as far as movies-that-fail-the-bechdel-test go there's

its completely vibes based

I think the dividing line for Non-Bechdel movies is whether it's clearly a story by and for men about a Male Experience, versus something that tries to proclaim knowledge of the Human Experience while excluding 50% or more of humans.

genuinely though, my condolences to the indie authors writing weird books, books without marketable romance, books without romance at all, books that can't fit the tropes du jour without stretching the truth, books that defy explanation, books that experiment. I'm trying to find you guys and it's so hard to track these books down!!!

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

Ever met a Staplegator? 🐊📎 It's the mascot of Staple Expo in Austin, TX where I'll be hanging out next SAT & SUN (4/12-4/13) with @upandoutcomic and Last Place Comics!

Swing by, say HI SON, and reblog this post for a shot at 2 free passes! 🎟️🎟️

Ive been to this art installation when it was in Seattle it was made by an indigenous artist if I remember correctly it has small patches of astroturf in front of a black and white American flag with a sign that invites people “kneel and join in the screams of the American national anthem”

Please tag me if you can find it!

This piece is called Neon American Anthem bu indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin “to mourn the loss of lives, freedoms, and safety for people and lands subjected to American violence, and to protest continuing oppression.”

Text below the line to make it easier to read!

Straight guys who use tumblr are the funniest people ever literally how did you end up here

Dei hire

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL TOMORROW (Apr 2), and in BLOOMINGTON on FRIDAY (Apr 4). More tour dates here.

There's a debate to be had about whether AI chatbots make good psychotherapists. This is not an area of my expertise, so I'm not going to weigh in on that debate. But nevertheless, I think that if you use an AI therapist, you need your head examined:

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/30/some-argue-ai-therapy-can-break-down-mental-health-stigma–others-warn-it-could-make-it-worse/

I'm not an expert on psychotherapy, but I am an expert on privacy and corporate misconduct, and holy shit is the idea of a chatbot psychotherapist running on some Big Tech cloud a terrible idea. Because while I'm no expert on therapy, I have benefited from therapy, and I know this for certain: therapy requires confidentiality.

Shrinks are incredibly careful about privacy. For example: when my brother was getting married, my therapist was invited to the wedding. His daughter and my brother's fiancee were close friends, and my brother's fiancee had grown up staying over at their house and wanted her friend and her friend's parents at the wedding. My therapist sat me down and said, "Now listen, I take confidentiality very seriously. If you want me to, I will pretend not to know you at the wedding. No one needs to know that you're seeing me or – any therapist."

I told him I didn't mind people knowing I'd seen him, but just that little fastidious gesture confirmed the trust I'd put in Alan. It meant that I could openly and freely discuss things I'd never told anyone before, and that I never told anyone ever again. Having those genuinely open conversations transformed my life, for the better.

Now consider the chatbot therapist: what are its privacy safeguards? Well, the companies may make some promises about what they will and won't do with the transcripts of your AI sessions, but they are lying. Of course they're lying! AI companies lie about what their technology can do (of course). They lie about what their technologies will do. They lie about money. But most of all, they lie about data.

There is no subject on which AI companies have been more consistently, flagrantly, grotesquely dishonest than training data. When it comes to getting more data, AI companies will lie, cheat and steal in ways that would seem hacky if you wrote them into fiction, like they were pulp-novel dope fiends:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

When an AI company tells you it won't use your intimate secrets as training data, they are lying. Of course they're lying! This isn't just any data, it's data that isn't replicated elsewhere on the internet. It's rare – it's unique. It's a competitive advantage. AI companies will 100%, without exception, totally use your private therapy data as training data.

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‘Angry across the board’: Inside the civil war raging in the Democratic Party

It’s almost like too many Democrats are old as fuck, entirely comfortable and insulated from the consequences of their inaction, and determined to hold on to power and lobbyist money as long as possible, our Democracy be dammed.

I’m serious: replace them all.