"...as households' perceived probability of attaining homeownership falls, they systematically shift their behavior: they consume more relative to their wealth, reduce work effort, and take on riskier investments." This new paper seems very pertinent papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

*Rolls up sleeves* All available in the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social store! store.ironcircus.com

A tool for battling depression I don't see referenced enough: Listening to music - and at least some of it has to be stuff you've never heard & wouldn't normally listen to.

metal jacket / psx bandit, 1995

"Stop Unhoused Death" Seen in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

"your honor, I was actually testing the law when I killed those people"

Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum (also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)

Bluey Adults. nebula.tv/videos/linds...

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 1 Angel Attack Angel Attack

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

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Dr. Barr from the TOP FUCKNG ROPE

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Smut artists and sex workers are crushed underfoot while AI gets a green light to steal your yearbook photo to make hard-core porn with the caption "AI GIRLS NEVER SAY NO"

AI is inherently anti-human Please stop using it

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💯💯💯 It is EXTREMELY way past time for people to stop saying "the economy" when they mean "the stock market." The stock market is fully divorced from reality. It does not represent anything meaningful about the actual standards of living.

In the wake of all this Epstein stuff, you need to be extremely dilligent about information and media you share There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims

Labour are willing to do anything to win Reform voters, except for literally the only thing their own voters would ALSO like them to do. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

“Libraries generate $3.75 for every dollar invested.” So many public goods are like this. Housing. Education. The arts. However much tax money you invest, you get MORE tax money back. All of these pay for themselves. The only conclusion is, govts would rather make less money than have more good.

Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism

Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere

Ah. I see we've now officially returned to the "cartoon villany" zone of the immigration & refugee reaction.

If some motherfucker has a full-time job and qualifies for government assistance, that's welfare being paid to their employer

PROTUIP: It is not the poorest and/or most vulnerable people in society causing all your problems, and anyone who's trying to convince you it is? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

“unc” is what zoomers say when diddy kong jumps on their head

I love it when old conservatives say "you don't understand the way the world works" because the problem is that we do understand and think it should work differently

"The UK government is complicit in genocide + Palestine will be Free" Spotted in Reading, UK

Foundational figure in PC games. One of those load-bearing creatives where things would look very different for entire genres if she wasn’t around. Please help her out

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 7 The Works of Man A Human Work

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 7 The Works of Man A Human Work

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context