One of the things I appreciate about Behind the Bastards is the acknowledgment that historically people were more racist and misogynist, and to then clarify that the subject of an episode was notably racist or misogynistic for the time. Like Dewey of the Dewey Decimal System, who had a colleague write about how horribly sexist he was.

That’s literally how “AI agents” are being marketed. “Tell it to do a thing and it will do it for you.”

What are you checking against? Part of my job is looking for events in cities that are upcoming and may impact traffic, and ChatGPT has frequently missed events that were obviously going to have an impact.

Sadly a lot of that is probably marketing, with little to no LLM integration, but it’s basically impossible to know for sure.

I’ve known a number of homeless folks, and not a single one has made anywhere near that flying a sign, but plenty of them have had everything they owned trashed by the cops, who also confiscated any cash because the homeless folks “couldn’t explain where they got it.”

That sounds like an urban legend. The Sherlock Holmes story “The Man With the Twisted Lip” includes a wealthy man who had made his money by begging. The “beggar king” trope goes back further than that, and as far as I can tell it’s just a comfortable fiction to excuse society’s failure to care for its most vulnerable members.

Same. The headline is journalistic malpractice at best. Joss was murdered by a homophobic terrorist.

The mayor is an elected official, the governor can’t just fire him. The fact the US DOJ was investigating and probably going to prosecute likely led to any state investigation being ended, due to federal investigations taking precedence.

I’d say just don’t engage with it at all.

If someone talks about it, pretend ignorance. Like total ignorance of any aspect of the stories.

Or, if someone mentions it, just say you don’t give bigots money.

Editing to expand: by pirating you are perpetuating the cultural impact. The majority of people pay for access to this media, and by engaging with it you make it more costly for other people to skip it.

Got kids? Percy Jackson (and the other Rick Riordan written) series are great. Older kids? Get them reading chuck wendig or Margaret Killjoy.

Introduce yourself to Kafka and Marquez and Butler and Morrison and so many other great great writers who make JK Rowling look like the utter hack she is.

But you’d possibly be making life better for people in general, depending on which politicians you chose to destroy (and in what way you destroyed them.)

That is clearly a wolverine.

I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.

It’s a crime that these books aren’t ten times more well known.

That’s not really a side effect, more of a condition.

Agree, and I missed the fact that I didn’t make that clear. If Airbnb stayed what their initial marketing portrayed them to be (connecting people who had a spare room or mother-in-law suite that was unoccupied with people who wanted a more genuine local experience,) I’d have no problem with them.

Also this is a two month old story.

The penalties should be higher for short term rental properties-if it’s listed on Airbnb or VRBO or similar, taxes double.

It was bullshit before generative slop was a thing. It’s even more bullshit now.

The really hard stuff came when Fred Hampton started to work with white and Hispanic groups, that’s when the FBI and Chicago PD assassinated him.

Kind of like what happened with MLK and Malcolm X.