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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 3h

“Canada’s Petroleum Industry: We’re not in denial about our own gradual obsolescence! Here’s a stock photo of a guy in a hard hat looking gainfully employed.”

Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 13h

I’m the kind of lazy that doesn’t want to waste my precious time on Earth reality-checking the outputs of a hallucination engine.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 18h

She probably noped out after they “swapped social media handles” and she looked over his profile and history.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 1d

Rejected as a Bond Girl for having too awkward of a sexual innuendo name, she made a career as a pulp writer instead.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 1d

Just went through the self checkout at T&T Supermarket and they have a slight change to the language selection. Default is English, with buttons for two kinds of Chinese (presumably Traditional and Simplified) and Québecois.

Not Français. Québecois.

Hmm 🤔

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 2d

Why not “resolution” him an Olympic gold medal and an Oscar while you’re at it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 3d

So the ONE BC party apparently thinks that little kids undergoing precocious puberty shouldn’t get medical treatment for their condition. They so badly want trans youth to be legislated out of existence, that some kindergartener starting her period is just collateral damage

B.C. bill that would have stopped doctors from providing puberty blockers defeated

VICTORIA - A British Columbia private member's bill that would have given parents the right to sue doctors up to 25 years after they provided care for transgender children has

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 3d

Reading a Questionable Content strip featuring a trans character, while being offered what appears to be grossly transphobic t-shirts for small children from Temu

A Questionable Content strip featuring a hungover Marten being questioned by his trans girlfriend Claire, above a Temu ad featuring a toddler in a fluorescent yellow T-shirt reading “YES I AM A BOY / NO I’M NOT CUTTING(…)”

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 4d

I think that part of the reason I find these so fresh-looking and cute is that they’re the antithesis of the ubiquitous suburban showboat pickup trucks. Big windows, unobstructive nose cone, low step, lots of storage space, practical.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 4d

People play with GenAI now largely because it’s free. People are going to be much less willing to generate slop if they have to pay real money for it.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 4d

This isn’t about economics. It’s about anger and lashing out.

And maybe some token appeasement/distraction for the wealthy farm owners. “This administration is ruining my business— oooh I can pay the Mexicans less now?”

Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re desperate for a job you’ll take any lead you can get. And nobody expects manager emails to be coherent.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 7d

They’re probably fantasizing about crashing the halftime show with nightsticks and screaming threats to all the brown people watching on TV while all the wealthy white people who can afford tickets cheer and applaud

Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 9d

What’s to stop some domestic abuser or stalker from using this tool *right now* to look for a “lost dog” that’s actually a person trying to escape them?

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 13d

So… Trump just declared war on anime, I guess? That’ll impress the young voters.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13d

President Trump said films made outside the U.S. would face a 100% tariff, repeating his threat made earlier this year against the movie industry.

Trump Re-Ups Tariff Plan for Movies Made Outside of U.S.

The president said films made outside the country would face a 100% tariff.

on.wsj.com

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 14d

Ah yes, Jesus never broke any Roman imperial laws, he was publicly executed for unrelated voluntary execution reasons

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d

lot to unpack here

Paula White-Cain took a somewhat different position when defending the Trump administration’s border separation policy and detention of immigrants. According to her, it’s true that Jesus was a refugee because he lived in Egypt for three and a half years. “But it was not illegal,” she insists. “If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 14d

I think it’s a lot more fun if you’re familiar enough with k-pop to catch all the nods and references (e.g. Abby is Wonho, every music video has a hype-building countdown timer to release, and the variety shows routinely humiliate pop stars and they’re expected to be good sports about it)

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 15d

So… thousands of gallons of chlorinated water… in a glass-bottomed box hanging over an art gallery? 😬

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone reposting this going OMG YES MOAR PLZ while movie executives are like “but the kind of animation I’m really looking for is Smirking Comedian But Animal Franchise, Part IV”

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16d

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet.

After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 15d

It’s not really Christmas season until Halloween and Remembrance Day are over. I don’t want to hear stores merrily jingling bells during the moment of silence for our war dead, right? (American chain stores are bad for this in particular)

Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 15d

(Petty peeve time) I went to the grocery store yesterday to pick up some lactose free Pumpkin Spice creamer. They had already switched the seasonal creamer to Candy Cane Mocha. It’s still September! What the hell!

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 18d

Can I nominate Suga from BTS for remembering he was an introvert about seven years too late? (watch with subs on)

youtu.be/PV1gCvzpSy0?...

BTS (방탄소년단) MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 'Interlude : Shadow' Comeback Trailer

YouTube video by HYBE LABELS

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve noticed for years that the Right loves backing religion-flavoured legislation that will not-coincidentally increase the number of exploitable teenage runaways at the local bus station

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 22d

I’m jumping in here to heartily recommend Slacktivist’s detailed roasting of the Left Behind series.

Left Behind Index (the Whole Thing)

Here, at last, is a complete one-stop portal to everything in our Left Behind series covering the first two books and movies. The previous versions of this index all have broken links and missing entr...

www.patheos.com

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