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a wonderful ao3 author note

Yelena: Ava’s smiling, did something good happen?

Ava: Can’t I just smile because I feel like it?

Bob: Walker tripped and fell in the parking lot this morning

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

Had a dream that involved someone suggesting freezing cubes of butter as ice cubes for iced coffee as a solution for some problem. I no longer have any recollection of what problem this was supposed to solve.

meta, bytedance, and openai (facebook, tiktok, and chat gpt) have been paying workers in africa $1.50 an hour to moderate their ai. those workers are now unionizing, which has gotten a lot of press. however the really important part will come when those workers begin negotiations. keep an eye out in the future for any support they may need. this is going to be a big fucking battle against these massive, super protected entities just to not be paid starving wages

Time

150 AI Workers Vote to Unionize at Nairobi Meeting

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union

they're family to me

So I started working again today, and me and my coworker had to squeeze lemons which usually is a really un fun job but TODAY. We had the mostly lovely batch of lemons to work with. So we rated how smoothly they cut and how nice the insides of them looked for about an hour. An absolutely marvelous time I gotta say

bitches be like “I’m a writer” and then abandon their wip for months. it’s me I’m bitches.

please god stop talking about diets and weight loss in front of kids. especially if those kids are girls. and especially if you’re someone those kids look up to. but really just stop talking about about diets and weight loss when children are in earshot at all. I promise you you’re doing far more harm than good.