a pleasant nightmare

paramedic: hi, I'm Allan

me: you told me. and your colleague is Jim, and the man who found me is Peter. guess my short-term memory is okay

me: well my feet are still freezing but it's okay, I know you need to focus on getting my core temperature up first

that can be true of very big things, like your career or your love life, but also moment-to-moment things. are you enjoying scrolling social media? is that phone game actually any fun to you? are you staying up to read and your eyes are burning and your face feels all gritty and tight and bad and your anxieties are starting to swirl?

🐎 @vampireghostlawyer

in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed

🏇 @batsandbutch

[Image: screenshot of tags reading: #i love how everyone on this website is like please let me go to the secret cave with the mystery liquid]

🦄 @derinthescarletpescatarian

With my particular heart problems and flavour preferences this room sounds tailor made specifically to kill me.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.

Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.