evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

BUUUUUUUUG HUUUUUUUUG!

#nature #photography #bug #silly #drawing #sillyScribbles

I'm re-reading Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. I'd forgotten there's a section on how, during such crises, people become prone to irrational beliefs and charlatans promoting, for want of a better expression, 'conspiracy theories' and anti-scientific ideas, and how these obsessional beliefs engender paranoia and the threat of group violence against 'non believers'. Maybe it's just something that (some) humans do in such times...
#Pandemic #conspiracytheory

Une découverte hier soir : Rembrandt x Astérix
Quand Goscinny et Uderzo parodiaient la célèbre leçon d'anatomie du Dr Tulp.
Album "Le Devin" page 10 😉

#histoire #anatomie #medecine #histoiredelamedecine #histoiredelamédecine #BD #bandedessinee #asterix #asterix

i am dying inside after learning that this app, for booking train tickets, has lootboxes

this is Entirely Unnecessary. nobody asked for this.

Did you know 26th September is the most common birthday in the UK? It falls a little over 39 weeks after Christmas Day, which is why. Anyway, you should probably buy whoever has that birthday a gift. Here's some ideas... https://vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/

Been lucky enough to see a preview copy of Liz Truss's new book and it's an absolute knockout I can tell you…

Web site: It looks like you’re blocking ads!
Me: It looks like you’re blocking content.

collaboration with jn3008

they're porting 'Stray' to the N64

[fan oscillates towards me] Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! [fan oscillates away] Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Etymology at its finest. "Zero fucks given" in different European languages. Source: buff.ly/3fGTNqc

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers