ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Trump lost a $464M case because he fraudulently overvalued his properties -- from 200% to 3300%

Then for the bond, he found an insurer that is illegally taking on a risk far higher than they're allowed to under NY law -- by 1260%

Trump literally found the Trump of insurance

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

and i just finished another quick doodle! :) hope you all like it :BlobhajBlanketBlue:

#art #sketch #doodle

Meta’s AI chatbot informs a parents' group that it has a disabled child who is both gifted and challenged academically and attends a NYC public school. https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

It seems like a lot of people I see here need a 🫂 or few lately.

If you're feeling like you might hurt yourself, please consider a helpline or even DMing me as an alternative (see profile for contact options). I may not be able to respond *immediately*, but I will read it and I will respond.

Yes, I'm just some queerdo on the internet, but sometimes that's enough to get through a hard patch. How do I know? Because if it wasn't for the kindness of some of the people on this site, I wouldn't be here today. (thank you 💕)

You can call a peer-run warm-line for your state here: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html

If it's critical, you can go to https://988lifeline.org/ or call tel:988, but beware of the risk of possible emergency services involvement.

If you're not in the US, here's a list of crisis lines by country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

#SuicidePrevention #ItGetsBetter #YouAreNotAlone #BoostWelcome #Boost

World's favourite cuisines. 25,000 people in 24 countries were asked which nation's food they preferred. Interesting results.
(via @yougov)

Photos of Bicycles of WWII in the Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/04/photos-bicycles-world-war-ii/678086/

This was quite the cargo bike / ambulance thing

my friend's #queenofthenight did her thing again 😯☺️ #bloomscrolling

New from the Newberry Library, a collection of more than 8000 digitized postcards illustrated by named artists. Perfect for posting to Mastodon--they come with alt text! https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-john-i-monroe-collection-of-artist-signed-postcards

"This toy does what I’d hoped the first one would do, and *then some.*"

#ICYMI - my review of the @HotOctopuss Pulse Queen - https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/hot-octopuss-pulse-queen/ #SexToys #Vibrators

Feeling old... #comic #games

If you are an artist don't feel like you need to only post new work. Much of your work will be new to the people following you. And if you share a little about why you created it, or how you made it, or even how you see it differently, those who have seen it before will still find it fresh.

"I drew this six years ago, if I did it today I would ..."

"I remember drawing this during ..."

"This was the first time I tried to draw..."

etc.

I love these kinds of posts from artists.

#WritersCoffeeClub 16: Have you ever started a chapter with a quote or poem?

Does it count if the poem is in the title? Cause that happens in This Is How Immortals Die!

Otherwise, nope. Many years ago, when I was writing the high fantasy story that got shelved (for now), I started each chapter with a passage from a fictional book that described creatures, places, concepts, this kind of thing. I could see myself doing it again!

I do like the idea of starting with a quote/poem too.