Queer Pride

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

It's easy to laugh about an AI not knowing Frankenstein, but let's look at the rest of the "AI checker" photo, okay? I don't think it's checking AI in the sense of punishing someone for using it. The button at the end reads, "Humanize text." The fine print below the button reads, "Make your text human with undetectable AI" (I edited out the title capitalization, sue me).

This "100% AI GPT" finding is practically an advertisement. The website was made by people trying to sell you something. Specifically, they are trying to sell you a special, magical tool that will let you use AI but not get caught. The target audience for this magical tool consists of people who are already using AI to write shit but who do not want to get caught; rather than just writing the stuff themselves, they are turning to a second AI to "humanize" the AI-generated text so that they can use AI without getting caught. By artificially inflating the % to scary levels - "Oh no," the AI user might think, "my teacher will be able to tell I used AI on this essay if it scores a 100%!" - the seller of the magical tool creates a strong need for their magical tool. "Yes," the seller says, "It's very scary that it scored a 100, but it's okay, I can help you, just pay me money and I'll get that 100 down below <idk, some threshold like 20? 10?>."

The target audience for this magical tool does not include anyone the Isi Breen tweet assumes. I seriously doubt that teachers are using "humanize AI" products for their own students to help the kids not get caught next time, because teachers don't normally teach kids how to get better at cheating. I seriously doubt that employers are using "humanize AI" products to, what, help prospective employees improve their materials for their next job application??

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

I'm a fan of really immersing myself and the characters in the world I'm writing about. So, I'll describe it! I'm nothing like Dickens, that's over the top, but I like to set the scene and then have the characters interact with that scene so a reader can get a proper image of it in their head. I've been complimented on it many times! But I'm worried now, because it's fic, that I'm doing too much. Fic tends to trend towards minimal description/thoughts/feelings, more script like stuff these days, and I know attention spans are somewhat not great too.

Click thru and watch him. It's less than 3 minutes.

Beloved meteorologist on the air for 34 years stops his show to deliver education about Trump's Musk's cuts to science and the National Weather Service. How, this year, for the first time in his career he cannot forecast hurricanes with any confidence.

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

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