of benevolence and red herrings - 2020 #surrealism #popsurrealism #sculpture #handmade #mixedmedia #ooak #noai #airdryingclay #polymerclay #art #artwork #ellenjewett #botanical #slowart #maximalism #wabisabi #sculpture #salmon #fish

I still think I have the best view for sunsets in the city 🤩🌅

"I Saw a Bird" Series, in which @echomary.bsky.social and I make birds out of secondhand saw blades! Hooded mergansers are gorgeous, but I really feel like the understated female is my favorite. She has confidence and great hair. I love her.

Continuing the "I Saw a Bird" Series, @echomary.bsky.social and I have been busy bees making more #bird portraits on used saw blades. Who's that pokemon? It's a belted #kingfisher!

this is the most fucking ANODYNE post ever, the fact that they suspended Cara over this makes me see red

While I'm nerding about birds, everyone should get to know the Black-and-Chestnut Eagle, an endangered raptor from South American mountain forests. One of the Most Birds Ever.

"you better embrace Ai or get left behi-" FINE, LEAVE MY ASS BEHIND, GO

I don't understand why Google etc are destroying their own customer base like this, all they had to do was make it optional!! Those who like AI could use it & the rest of us could stay on board too, how dumb are they?? Is this "must make slide deck showing chart of fake uptake" capitalist mindrot??

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

Very thoughtful article about part of why AI usage repels people. What makes handwritten notes or gifts so nice isn't how good they are, but that they are done by the person as a genuine gesture by them: conceptbureau.substack.com/p/not-the-ai... #AI

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

It's called Vitamin K specifically because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, named it "Koagulationsvitamin" and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in chemistry for identifying its role in coagulating blood. Literally what it does, what it's for. Produced in the body. To coagulate blood.

I still hear people say they are hesitant to give their kids the HPV vaccine because it’s “too new.” It’s been approved for 20 years. It’s older than the kids who are receiving the vaccine. This new report reviews 274 STUDIES confirming it’s safe and extremely effective.

"Primary and Preventative Health Services Minister LaGrange...told attendees she had ordered Alberta Health Services to review its policies and procedures regarding the death of babies who survived abortions." ?????? Why are these people so deeply weird??? 🤪

Hey #accessibility #a11y #inclusiveDesign folks: you still have until the end of this month (31 May 2026) to propose a presentations for this year's #id24 in September inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ Reminder: as it's a global event, we'd also be delighted to have talks in languages other than English.

I heard some of you are looking for European tech alternatives, let’s not gatekeep: Chrome, Edge, Safari -> Vivaldi iCloud, Google Drive -> @proton.me, @infomaniak.bsky.social, @jottacloud.bsky.social Google Search -> @startpage.com, @qwant.bsky.social, @ecosiasearch.bsky.social, @mojeek.com (1/2)

This is a blunt summary of something I think about A LOT.

The reality: Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. Or cross national borders. They usually just go home. Or don a clerical collar. Or wear a badge. Or run for office. Or play pro sports. Or they just do it in public, wearing pants.

Typically if you try to stereotype a whole minority as dangerous predators who can't be trusted in public space, it tends to make people hostile towards them which doesn't sound very safe hmm! 🙄

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

The arguments "Will AI make College Obsolete" and "not everyone should go to college go learn a trade & fix my toilets" brought to you by the Folks Who Really Don't Want an Intelligent Population

my very favorite Richard Dawkins headline of all time remains “British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins”

Online store is open!🌱 www.koyamori.ca

A little friend I met today.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

These doofuses want to be wizards SO BAD 😂🤪

I think Musoshin may be the best ramen place in Toronto 😍 My friend and I tried their Harbord location near Spadina station and everything was perfect: my ramen with both chasu pork and beef, the karage chicken, the strawberry jam yogurt cheesecake - exquisite! 😋🍜🍗🍰 #Toronto #food #ramen

Jon Oringer, founder and executive chairman of Shutterstock @shutterstock.com, is trying to recruit comic and graphic novel creators over on LinkedIn to a new AI platform that he’s building. Feel free to let him (and them) know what you think of this, and never use Shutterstock again ✌🏻

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

The possibility of AI scraping alt text is not an excuse to throw disabled people under the bus. The goal is to get rid of AI, not to get rid of disabled people.

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

"Innovators"-stop-working–with-the-shallowest-possible-understanding-of-signed-languages challenge 2k26 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonmanu... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... etc.

it's so fun how a cishet white guy will be abhorrent and then all these other cishet white guys show up to be like "you are all being really mean and unfair, he's never treated ME poorly"

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

AI can never be held accountable but you know who can? You. Shipping low-quality or unstable outputs doesn’t just effect the product, it affects OUR credibility and jobs. We keep talking about how badly AI messes up, but what about the career risk from it's mistakes?

I don't see how Bluesky can promote composable, decentralized moderation while banning users who use the features.

Actually you know what, let me just

Some part of me gets disproportionately irritated at the term "vegan leather" - it's plastic. You are getting something made of plastic. And most of the plastic leathers flake and disintegrate within a few months/years especially under UV, completely unrepairable. Go with canvas or denim etc!

The parade of whistles might have been my favorite part of the Mayday parade in Minneapolis today. Very powerful and moving.

Recession tornado siren.

I suspect that the Powers That Be looooove AI because it disengages your brain and softens your thinking. Your free thought, your imagination, gets unplugged and into the socket, the AI node goes. And they control that node. Which means they control your mind. So: they start with kids.

..... Why did it never occur to me to think of Grey's Anatomy as a soap, it totally is! 😂

Any of you out there ever had your #PassportPhoto turn out like this #BirdoftheDay? 😭 #BirdArt #SciArt

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