Stephanie Thompson

@Stefaniya
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PR & Comms, writer, editor. Jeopardy! silver medalist. #TwitterRefugee
#ProTip: Always buy the matching earrings.

> Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but buying a $25,000 La Marzocco espresso machine, if the La Marzocco was also bad at making espresso, but could, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso.

The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs | Defector
https://defector.com/the-computers-are-coming-for-the-wrong-jobs

The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs | Defector

One of the funnier conceits of the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike is the producers’ insistence on keeping the door open to having AI involved in the writing process. One reason it’s funny is that AI as it currently exists—that is, “large language model” programs like ChatGPT—only appears “free” or even “cheap” because it […]

From a day ago, but still applies, although we already knew CNN was like this:

Jon Stewart:

I learned nothing from this town hall about #Trump and his most ardent supporters I haven't known since 2016. I learned a lot about #CNN.

The so-called party of “law & order” is so dangerous that the Judge ruling over Trump’s sexual abuse conviction trial is compelled to warn jurors to remain anonymous “for a long time,” lest harm come to them.😳

The is the GOP today. Smh. Horrible.

Love to wake up looking like such trash that my phone doesn’t recognize me and I have to remember my passcode 

“In pair of unan decisions in cases involving defendants convicted of fraud for actions during Cuomo admin in NY, #SupremeCourt again ltd fed prosecutions of public corruption.

1 case: former Cuomo aide convicted of taking illicit payments to benefit Syracuse-area developer.

Other: involved owner of Buffalo construction firm convicted of fraud”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/supreme-court-fraud-albany-percoco-ciminelli.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Supreme Court Throws Out Fraud Convictions in Albany Scandals

In a pair of unanimous rulings, the court sided with Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Louis Ciminelli, a contractor in Buffalo.

The New York Times
Well the new brochure is back from the printer and looks lovely and has a typo IN THE MUSIC DIRECTOR’S NAME so I’ll just be defenestrating myself, see ya bye
Man who bragged of assaulting women found to have been telling the truth that time.

I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in for people that the entire "controversy" over Bud Light's partnership with Dylan Mulvaney was that she exists and the right doesn't want trans people to exist.

She didn't do anything. They sent bomb threats to beer bottling plants and cowed a brand into submission over a popular trans woman merely existing.

The right is saying they get decided who is allowed to live their lives in peace and who isn't, and they'll enforce it with threats and violence.