Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

So the problem with G-D's perception as male or female in Abrahamic religions is a linguistic one. Male and female in language does not neatly fit into biological "male" and "female". In Hebrew "av" is father and "avot" is fathers. But -ot is the feminine plural suffix! 1/n

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Bluesky built an excellent compromise that allowed peoples' preferences on NSFW content to be reflected in a pretty granular, non-punitive system. Now, in a time of rising fascism, where 'anti-obscenity' politics very often mask misogyny and queerphobia, they *are* punishing NSFW creators.

Think about it: how frequently do we joke about some bizarre error that the auto-labeller made? Today it was a *pizza* that got labelled as porn. The other day it was a Haus of Decline comic. Bluesky is making the consequences of *its own errors* quite dire for users.

I am forever annoyed about this, that movie did everything you could possibly want in an adaptation it was made by people who understand what makes tabletop gaming great and somehow made it work on screen and it should have made a billion dollars

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

Big Sippy Wanted to draw a terf exploding to celebrate pride month

#auspol If you sell your home you lose !0%, but you gain 10% on the home you buy. This is only a problem that affects property speculators. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

It's a bold move for bluesky to pick, out of all the options, /Tumblr/ as the social media site they're going to imitate. I mean, wafrn already does that better than they could, but it doesn't copy the two main features that blusky really wants: * banning trans women * scaring off anything NSFW

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

Just as some journals are (rightfully) banning authors if clear, undeclared use of genAI is evident, so to should the same be for reviews. If someone uses genAI and it is shown to be demonstrably false, that review should automatically be stricken with the benefit of the doubt to the authors. 🧪⚒️

“After more than a half a century of growth, the use of gas in Australia has peaked in all sectors and entered a “structural decline”. But use will need to fall fast to meet climate targets, according to new research from an influential thinktank.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Things Bsky could've done to improve the NSFW experience: - Let us self-label imageless posts as adult/sensitive - Let us see moderation labels without requiring the "Warn" setting Things they're doing instead: - Flagging and hiding entire accounts despite most of their posts begin perfectly fine

It took me a while to realise that when American friends spoke of the need for more walkable cities in certain parts of the US, they often didn't mean more and better footpaths so much as "You literally cannot move around on foot here. Please fix that."

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

the generation gap here is so huge. it was not kids and teenagers who fell for the ten-year right-wing propaganda campaign to erase every tiny inch of progress made on trans rights; it was their parents and grandparents. the party is not prepared for what winning a primary will look like by 2036

I keep coming back to this and it makes me feel crazy Like not remotely to laud “traditional masculinity”, patriarchal gender norms are bad no matter what, but yeah none of this matches goddamn ANY of what I recall being taught was the kind of man one should aspire to be

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

it's extra funny cuz it's not like there's NOT absolutely tons of extremely successful, widely beloved films that are fundamentally conservative in their politics, it's just guys like matty are so incurious & illiterate that they are unable to experience art at all, even art that agrees with them

There’s this weird Reddit-fueled idea that Hollywood has a problem with this when 8 years ago people were turning Twitter threads into sitcoms and movies. These are filmmakers building their own audiences and graduating into more mainstream media. They paid their dues & earned their spots. No shade.

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

From 1944: "No Hitler symphonies, no Goering operas, no Goebbels quartets, no Horst Wessel tone poems. Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."

And that's it right there- conservatives on the whole refuse to engage with modern art except as a tax dodge or money haven. Their tendency to strictly easily representational art is because they are concrete thinkers. How else can one explain the Kinkade or McNaughton collection manias?

Today: 1. A judge temporarily blocked the $1.8B slush fund 2. A judge ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center 3. A judge asked the govt to answer charges of a fraud on the court in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS 4. A judge asked DoJ to explain why he should dismiss the Oath Keepers’ charges

No, genAI isn't in every game. No it isn't going to be. Screw you and your defeatist stance. Some people actually care about artwork.

AI is increasingly moving toward a whale-oriented model like casinos and vice and all these other extractive industries.

They should livestream the removal of his name from the building - it would set records

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

Yet another example of a polling agency actively participating in spreading an actual, serious and consequential lie to the public. Fossil fuels are more expensive. Clean energy is cheaper. @yougov.co.uk is very literally lying in this poll, and there should be actual consequences for this

may everyone targeted by the right wing chud brigade receive this treatment from their coworkers, this rules

*and another thing* let’s assume this is correct, everyone just decides “fuck LA, i am moving to fargo, they have a major airport now”, and fargo somehow builds it out — do they think, in this farcical scenario, those states stay blood red?

None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have

The majority of Americans think fast food jobs are for teenagers even though McDonalds is open during school hours. They think poor neighborhoods are for starter homes and addicts despite the fact most mothers make less than a living wage. In a way, they feel being poor is a sin they have avoided.

The most inconvenient truth in the world right now is that trans people are in the early-to-middle stages of the *fourth* historical attempt to genocide our entire community.

australian politics is all about sleepwalking towards disasters that have been foreseen for literal decades never prepare, never course correct. just do the stupid or evil thing until the consequences are long-past remediable, let alone avoidable

living in australia is so cool you have to give your ID to data brokers to read your DMs it's illegal to oppose genocide unemployment is both a crucial requirement for a healthy economy and also a moral failing which must be punished climate change is going to destroy us, but we're doing nothing

Proof that Flash was a tool that let creative people make things, and AI is a tool that let's ignorant people pretend to be creative.

New research from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner reveals a “minuscule” level of trust in AI and social media companies www.cyberdaily.au/tech/13660-r...

Modelling shows 90% of young Australians will be better off under Labor’s tax reforms

It's insane to me how for decades marketing wouldn't put something out of it didn't adhere to the brand, but now with AI everything is slopped out without a second thought.

Just a reminder that Epic laid off 1000 employees which is 20% of their workforce so they can generate and promote fucking garbage like this

The government's (un)employment services advisory group has been established, and guess how many people are on it who have direct experience of the system? Somehow Kmart got a look-in though. Can't wait to see all those high quality jobs the minister is promising.

GRR Martin: hey jirt did you hear JRR Tolkien: what? Martin: you got quoted by the pope Tolkien: i got quoted by the pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: THE pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: the pope in rome?? the holy pontiff??? god's ambassador on earth????? THAT pope??????? Martin: yeah