David Vienna's Blog, page 7

Some other dad: “My kid is doing great in school and he’s incredibly musical and athletic.“

neuroticdad:

Some other dad: “My kid is doing great in school and he’s incredibly musical and athletic.“

Me: “My kid failed gym.”

Boone’s band The Infinity Project co-organized and played a local all ages show over the weekend and…

Boone’s band The Infinity Project co-organized and played a local all ages show over the weekend and they fucking killed it. They had other teen bands and special guests, plus lots of fun stuff to do. And Wyatt ran a Mario Kart Tournament between sets. The venue was packed with kids just rockin’ out. What an epic night for the guys.

[📸 by the boys’ friend Karim.]

I’m reading Adam Cesare’s Clown In A Cornfield and I’m upset for not reading it sooner. I never knew…

I’m reading Adam Cesare’s Clown In A Cornfield and I’m upset for not reading it sooner. I never knew this fun YA slasher novel is also a full-throated allegory for the damage done to younger generations by Trump and the MAGA cult.

My wife and I wrote our own wedding vows. For mine I didn’t promise to die for her or stop a train…

hellolovelyscientist:

hubblegleeflower:

animentality:

The great thing about huge declarations is that the most times you’re ever going to have to deliver on them is ONCE. And even that is vanishingly unlikely. The dishes happen every day. My feet hurt now. The kids need a lift to piano lessons every week. The grenade is hypothetical.

The grenade is hypothetical.

My wife and I wrote our own wedding vows. For mine I didn’t promise to die for her or stop a train for her or any of that bullshit.

I promised things like I’d always get her a blanket when she’s cold and the dog is in her lap, I’d always get her a tissue if she has the sniffles, I’d always laugh at her jokes (as long as they’re good), etc. Y'know, shit that actually matters.

And by the way, this Sunday is our 22 wedding anniversary.

They’re saying the quiet part loud. They’re saying the loud part loud. They’re saying the normal…

They’re saying the quiet part loud. They’re saying the loud part loud. They’re saying the normal part loud. Everything is loud now.

My son said he and his friend were “speed-running Wikipedia,” a game in which you pick two very…

My son said he and his friend were “speed-running Wikipedia,” a game in which you pick two very disparate topics (i.e. the game Elden Ring and the NY City Subway Bombing) and try to be the first to get from one to the other solely via links on Wikipedia pages. Sounds both joyously educational and extremely chaotic.

“Covid game me narcolepsy” no you fucking pervert it didn’t. You’re just a weirdo with a gross fetish. Covid didn’t make you suddenly want to fuck dead people. Keep that shit to yourself you gods damned weirdo

I have type 2 Narcolepsy. Studies have shown that serious viral infections can cause people to develop Narcolepsy if they are already genetically susceptible to having it. This includes covid. That is what happened to me.

You on the other hand might want to google the difference between Narcolepsy and Necrophilia….

junglejim4322:

I’m gonna be real this might be a contender for one of the best posts of all time im going to be thinking about the anon who thought narcolepsy was necrophilia for months

Talk about being dead wrong.

Looks like some GOP politicians are finally standing up to Trump by refusing to back his “Big…

Looks like some GOP politicians are finally standing up to Trump by refusing to back his “Big Beautiful Bill” and now he and House Speaker Mike Johnson are scrambling to get them to fall in line.

Also, fun fact: Big Beautiful Bill is also the name of the sex worker from Trump’s pee-pee tape.

You know how all of these companies are cutting staff and letting AI do a lot of the work? Well, it…

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don’t Exist

You know how all of these companies are cutting staff and letting AI do a lot of the work? Well, it doesn’t exactly pan out, like, ever.

I, for one, keep getting texts from an “AI assistant” where I get my car serviced about an upcoming appointment I never made. And when it asks if it should connect me with a service person to deal with the issue, I point out it’s an issue the goddamn AI created, so it can fix it its motherfucking self. It’s a fun little dance we do about once a week.

Anywho, the venerated Chicago Sun-Times published an insert with an article on summer reading suggestions. This article was created using AI and many of the books suggested simply don’t exist.

*sad trombone noise*

Some will argue that this was for a seasonal insert and not exactly officially part of the actual paper. In fact, the Chicago Sun-Times did just that…

But, see up there at the top of the page?…

…Sure makes it look like an exactly official part of the actual paper.

And sure, this could be just a harmless and embarrassing lesson for the self-proclaimed “Hardest Working Paper in America” (and the other papers that picked up the article and also ran it — oops!), but it does speak to a much larger, much more serious, much more complicated problem.

A huge swath of the country simply don’t trust the news anymore. It’s a problem that has many sources, a few of which are:

The Trump administration’s repeated use of the phrase “fake news” whenever there’s a hard question or critical articleThe very fucked up fact that billionaires own most of the news outlets in the country and are killing stories about Trump as they line up to suck his deformed little knobThe sad truth that these outlets are more and more turning to AI for some of the heavy lifting, a tool that has been proved easily manipulated and horribly flawed again and again and again

Why should you care?

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Journalism Saves Democracy.

Journalism is the only profession mentioned in the U.S. Constitution for a reason. It’s supposed to keep power in check and inform the public. That’s why people call it the Fourth Estate.

Now, one silly reading list won’t topple journalism. But, it’s one more mistake, one more small reason to be dubious of the Chicago Sun-Times, and one more thing that supports “fake news” claims — all because some rich guy decided to save some money by firing staff and handed the keys over to AI.

And it comes at a time when we’ve never needed the Fourth Estate more.

whenever a popular post has a minor typo i use my warrior’s soul to go to the original post to…

egg-on-a-legg:

kururu666:

egg-on-a-legg:

kururu666:

whenever a popular post has a minor typo i use my warrior’s soul to go to the original post to reblog the version where they fixed the typo. its what i would want, were i in their place…

it’s*

now brother will you do the right thing and reblog the corrected version or is glory all that you want

i want your penis to explode