"Digitally handmade" is a useful, vital distinction. Collage work of existing images, authored in an image-editing platform (and done within the bounds of fair use) is the actual remix culture. Typing "make me an image in the style of this creator" into a generator trained on unlicensed art is theft

Thinking more about this piece. There’s a feeling I’ve tried to write down and haven’t figured it out yet, but a feeling from the MN occupation that rang true to something i felt previously: that we can have an enthusiastically positive vision of change based on fighting for a better future

And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.

The HPV vax is a 🏆 vax. "Notably, there were no deaths from cervical cancer in women aged 20–24 years in 2020–24, compared with 23·1 expected deaths based on the average rate...observed between 2000 and 2014—a reduction in cervical cancer mortality of 100%." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Another dad here. Completely 100% endorse this message.

C’mon Curaçao- I like Ecuador too but really love how this team is throwing haymakers and putting up a serious fight

"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...

Málaga makes it back to Primera after 8 years, including a trip down to the 3rd division and a miraculous playoff win 2 years ago. Funes brought this team from the relegation spots in November all the way to the playoff and now promotion back to Primera!! So proud of this team and the fans of Malaga

100%. i've been sitting on elondeathtoll.com for like a year waiting for the data to come in on this.

Given the way Elon Musk speaks of nonwhites, particularly from Africa, I would argue we should view his actions at DOGE to destroy USAID—which has led to the deaths of 600,000 and the millions more to come—as intentional acts.

it is frustrating to see calls for a general strike when people having no understanding that there isn’t a lot of power in that if people don’t belong to some sort of organizing home. you need a way for people to have collective power for more than a day.

literally just shed a tear at jozy altidore, a usmnt player whose parents are haitian immigrants, interviewing ricardo pepi in spanish. this place can be so fucking cool if we let it.

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."

My question is: Do we have a mayor in DC currently, or did she just leave town after the primary? A City Council? How do you allow this?

This is such a good thread

This has already been demonstrated in a major study. Using Xitter's algorithmic feed is correlated to increased right-wing ideas www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While discussing the U.S.-Iran deal, Abir Al-Sahlani, Member of the European Parliament, didn’t hold back: “I’m tired of watching old men destroy the international rules-based order… It’s always women, children, and people with disabilities who pay the price.” 💔 #SheShed

I’ve been watching Telemundo instead of Fox, but every one of these Henry reactions combined with Zlatan’s contempt for Lalas are tempting me. But then, I know I’ll catch these here. Henry is so memeable

CALL ALEXI LALAS IGNORANT AGAIN, ZLATAN! 😍

DOJ announces list of Minnesotans who will never pay for their own drinks again

Super HMart was our go-to for produce when we lived in the DC area. Pumped it might be coming here.

They knew this would happen and carried it out with this outcome in mind.

Two people got murdered in broad daylight by their own government and more and more Minnesotans kept showing up on the streets to protect their neighbors. When you don’t have any moral principles, it’s hard to understand other people who do.

I love that there’s a Tunisian named Hannibal

Great call by Cantor too- a proper 3 gooooooolllll call to underlie the significance of the moment. I didn’t necessarily like the expanded field for the tournament but this is the best reason for why they did it. Phenomenal for Curaçao.

Pretty fun to see all the Curaçao fans and the team belting out their anthem before the game against Germany. Rooting for them today

One of the best reasons to learn another language is to never have to listen to Alexi Lalas - pick up some Spanish! Andres Cantor is a sublime announcer (others on Telemundo are good too) Soccer Spanish is fairly easy to learn too! Derecha, izquierda, pase, tiro, saque de esquina… ya está

Random comment seen on Mastodon: "AI artwork looks the way Christian Rock sounds."

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

That is as good as I’ve seen the USMNT play in at least 15 years… such a good showing.

Today: we don't need designers, we just need to SHIP Tomorrow: we don't need designers, we need to get out of all this technical debt

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

I loved the 2nd half of that Czechia-South Korea game.

Hey Minneapolis and St Paul friends. I've been checking marketplace but maybe I'll have better luck here. I'm looking to buy a classic Dutch bike, or as close to one as possible. Ideally something like this Gazelle step-through. 5-8 internal gears, fenders, drum or disc brakes, & a Dynamo hub.

When you accept that Elon Musk turned the once-Twitter into the new 8chan, the enduring presence of democratic (and Democratic) organizations on there becomes gross and delegitimizing. 8chan had normal context mixed in with the owner-approve abuse, just like X. We need to treat it the same way.

it sucks that they're trying to ruin the world cup for everyone because this place rips, there is so much cool shit to do here

How teams/delegations are received in Mexico versus the US

You know what's crazy? This guy sells almost everywhere in the US EXCEPT MINNESOTA. Minnesota's public health dept is famous in the food safety world for being #1 at tracking down the source of outbreaks- way faster than any other state. What an interesting coincidence!

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.

I’ve played and followed soccer my whole life and I’ve known FIFA is corrupt. This is not a surprise, but still a disappointment. It’s the strangest paradox that the world’s most miserable people own the world’s most beautiful game. They don’t deserve it. Fuck FIFA, long live the beautiful game.

Are you a Twin Cities area adult who doesn't know how to swim? This summer there are drop-in lessons for adults, on Fridays, 6-7 p.m. at the Highland Park Aquatic Center. $10/week, no registration required. www.stpaul.gov/departments/...

Nearly 100 fans from Morocco applied to go the USA. The US blocked nearly 90% of their applications. This is the most racist World Cup ever and it should be boycotted by everyone, the USA is refusing to let non-white people come.

The last two were and the next two years are literally just going to be endless rounds of “lol get wrecked nerd“ swiftly followed by “Ooooh, THAT’S why you were doing that” because our entire country is being run by pompous assholes who literally do not believe in expertise

if you're within a 100-mile radius of Boston, LocalTV+ has all the local channels you can get from an antenna, which means up to 90 live World Cup matches are available to you for free. Also on Android.

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...