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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 5h

Winnie and I both got 100% on this. I think it helps if you go in with the assumption that AI writing sucks ass and human writing doesn't as much

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 22h

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 8h

Upscaling anime produced at 720p to 4k is as bad as watching a movie meant for IMAX on your phone

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 10h

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

a girl in a blue dress is dancing next to a jukebox

Alt: a girl in a blue dress is dancing next to a jukebox

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 10h

She was saying "this is an accessible station". Also important

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 11h

Just thought I heard the subway lady say "this is an acceptable spaceship" and thought yeah, we all felt that way about the Enterprise-E design, it wasn't just you

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 13h

Let's get Blessing and her family over $4k this morning!

Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

I've met Blessing a few times outside Delaney Hall, where her husband, a home health worker, has been held for months. Her baby Princess is the sweetest—loves being held and grabbing stuff off my snack tray.

This is a VERIFIED call to help a family suffering under ICE terror. gofund.me/02fea4ec8

Donate to Open your heart for this family, organized by Bernard Rous

My name is Blessing Nickerson, and I am a US citizen. My husband is a very gentle, kind h… Bernard Rous needs your support for Open your heart for this family

gofund.me

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 13h

Hahahahaaaa
Good things can still exist in this world

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

If I understand it correctly, ReaderLink was supposed to acquire the business and some of the employees while all the debt/obligations remained with an independent entity, which...didn't make a ton of sense.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

Lost was cool as a one-off but not every TV show needs to be Lost

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

Booooooo

Not because of Game of Thrones specifically but because I think all TV should have opening sequences

IGN @ign.com · 2d

The showrunner of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has explained one of the big differences with the other two Game of Thrones series, including a lack of intro credits to start the show. bit.ly/4nEf6dl

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Showrunner Says It Won’t Have Traditional Game of Thrones Intro Credits

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

I've met Blessing a few times outside Delaney Hall, where her husband, a home health worker, has been held for months. Her baby Princess is the sweetest—loves being held and grabbing stuff off my snack tray.

This is a VERIFIED call to help a family suffering under ICE terror. gofund.me/02fea4ec8

Donate to Open your heart for this family, organized by Bernard Rous

My name is Blessing Nickerson, and I am a US citizen. My husband is a very gentle, kind h… Bernard Rous needs your support for Open your heart for this family

gofund.me

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

I've met Blessing a few times outside Delaney Hall, where her husband, a home health worker, has been held for months. Her baby Princess is the sweetest—loves being held and grabbing stuff off my snack tray.

This is a VERIFIED call to help a family suffering under ICE terror. gofund.me/02fea4ec8

Donate to Open your heart for this family, organized by Bernard Rous

My name is Blessing Nickerson, and I am a US citizen. My husband is a very gentle, kind h… Bernard Rous needs your support for Open your heart for this family

gofund.me

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 2d

Lol, well done

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

Amen. The more important impact here is practical, not political

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

Stop putting your oily mucky thumbs on the shiny side of the library blurays you maniacs

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

👀
#KodanshaHouse

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

I look forward to the day when my interests no longer align with this guy at all

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

At least he's working to protect his own authority from encroachment by an unaccountable federal executive. Unlike Congress.

Definitely not a hero, but it's good that he's not letting himself get cowed into submission like so many others.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

I also came here to ask if you knew about this guy yet

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 3d

Great seeing you! Thanks for helping me take over the theater, you ROCKED it!

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 4d

Our latest foster looks a lot like your supervisor

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 4d

The problem people are mostly not leftists or conservatives opposed to Trump bc of a coherent ideology. They're ppl who went into Democratic politics for no other reason than that they wanted to feel important and who don't spend any time reflecting on what they believe in. The empty-headed center.

Shower Cat Love @shower-cat.bsky.social · 4d

The anti-authoritarian coalition needs to include people who are anti-authoritarian. That’s the only qualification. We can go back to disagreeing on everything else once this is over. Ever wonder why the anti-dictator coalition always fractures after regime change? This is why.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

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Kodansha USA @kodansha.us · 13d

The charming new adventure manga Sheeta's Little Big World is here!

When his friend Nala runs off to investigate a mysterious smoke signal, the littlefolk Sheeta must brave a world full of dangers—from rats and weasels to giants—to find her.

kodansha.us/product/shee...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

I thought that commercial where he screams "THIS ISN'T A MASK, IT'S NOT A MASK, IT'S NOT A MASK" while vomiting up thick, tangerine-colored fluid and crawling through his own filth was really daring

IGN @ign.com · 6d

Burger King abandoned its 'Creepy King' mascot, the one with the uncanny valley face and bizarre commercials, because it was too scary for families with young children who would end up at McDonald’s instead. bit.ly/4h2xppV

Burger King Says It Ditched “Creepy King” Because He Was Scaring Off Families With Kids

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