Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

An absolutely incredibly pull quote that should inspire every decent human to prove them wrong. (For those unfamiliar, it’s a visual novel/tactical RPG/board game with 100 endings and roughly 60 novels worth of text.)

Show me a fictional character that altered your brain chemistry (allowed me to forgive my grandmother)

some solutions that would probably make things easier: -being able to add alt text to posts after-the-fact -being able to approve community-sourced alt text -allowing people to exclude images without alt text from their following feed

telling *other disabled people* they cannot participate in social media because of their disability is ableist. not to mention "if you can do x, why can't you do why?" is a particularly grating type of microaggression i assume most disabled people are familiar with. 🙃 don't be that person.

something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end

Sometimes folks ask why I writing unsolicited alt text for other people's posts. Yes, it's a bit of work (and I always transcribe it by hand unless I can find a primary source), but I'm not doing it for them. I'm doing it for the people who need it and just yelling at them doesn't help those folks.

(And yes, this is a gentle call out. If you have the capability to write alt text and you're yelling at folks for posting without it without actually posting any, you should ask who you're doing it for because it doesn't sound like it's for the folks who need alt text as much as the superiority.)

gAI is like someone saying instead of using a calculator to do math calculations, try asking a magic 8 ball what 2+2 is and the magic 8 ball tells you a recipe to drink bleach

the truth is before gAI we've been using AI scripts to automate repetitive or inefficient tasks just fine for decades, gAI makes those same tasks absolutely impossible or dangerous to do. it basically rendered decades of technology unusable. and it kills the planet and ruins economies as it does it.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

It's actually pretty cool to be able to remotely control a robot and could be useful for dangerous work (bomb squad, radioactive materials, etc), but it's wasted on pretending AI is real.

One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.* * So long as they're a Republican.

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

OH THAT IS INTERESTING

Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy". The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

Sometimes you don't need to break down the language intricacies of right-wing extremism Sometimes you just gotta go "this was insanely racist" so that other people can go "oh shit yeah it was" and then we should not let people say that stuff without consequence

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FOR? GAVIN GAVIN MY DUDE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE GUY WHO LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE THE CONSERVATIVES, THE MODERATES, THE FENCE-SITTERS? THEY WILL NEVER, EVER SEE YOU AS ANYTHING BUT THE GUY WHO LEGALIZED THE FIRST GAY MARRIAGES YOU BETTER EMBRACE IT CUZ YOU WON'T ESCAPE

PS IT WAS A GOOD THING AND YOU COULD'VE BEEN THE GUY WHO SAID "WE'RE GONNA FIGHT FOR EVERYONE THE WAY WE FOUGHT FOR GAYS" AND YOU WOULD'VE BEEN AN ICON, YOU FUCKING DINK FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE

Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed. But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.

Shot and chaser

Nobody tell me what One Billion Americans guy is posting now, I don’t want to hear it bsky.app/profile/theo...

From a while back but... evergreen

rationalists be like:

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

Sex workers have been saying this would happen for literally YEARS. We've been yelling it as loud as we could. What would the world look like if we were actually listened to?

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

it's cool how every day there's a news story about the CDC changing vaccine recommendations and it's right next to a news story about how a kid died from a disease that last killed in 1893 but any reporter that tries to connect the two gets fired by a venture capitalist for taking up ad space

In a landmark deal, Saudi Arabia acquires EA. Soon after, Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Not to be outdone, Tencent acquires Ubisoft. Nintendo, throwing darts at the board, acquires Namco Bandai Singapore. Disney, not planning on getting involved but in a "what the hell" sort of mood, acquires Gumby.

At this point, companies are desperate - Sony buys Grindr, Comcast buys IHOP, and Hasbro buys Gex. Canada acquires North Dakota, but is asked to give it back. With little left on the table, Paramount is forced to acquire Doug. Capcom, in a panic, accidentally acquires itself.

The Yankees acquire LeBron James. Microsoft attempts to acquire Shonen Jump, but gets laughed out of the meeting. Ominously, Ikea acquires Northrop Grumman. Platinum Games releases a statement reminding everyone that they are "very much up for sale", but at press time, there were no buyers.

unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever. no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't. anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.

GOD. Did you listen to anything memorable over the past year? -> You did? Then why do you need the computer to tell you that you did? -> You didn't? Then why do you spend so much time listening to music on a service that gives you no memorable music?

Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

Relax. Flu is *checks notes* just a flu. Or, you know, clean the air FFS and stop minimizing infectious diseases. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

this is easily the most fucked up thing i've read all day this rules

Control (2019)

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS. The coup was over in hours because people said no.

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was federally indicted after an anti-ICE protest, is taking a unique approach to fundraising for both her campaign and legal battle: twitch streaming. so far, it's working

zionist ceasefire = You cease, i fire

Someone finally tied it all together.