So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Me online every day

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

who would have guessed this would happen

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game

roses are red violets are terrific

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I love there's a 44-year-old Olympic snowboarder from Iron River MI (where my grandparents lived) who sounds like John C Reilly.

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

#SayHerName #BlackHistoryMonth newsone.com/6840675/sury...

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

this is just normal shit if you don’t want to get sick? there are a lot of germs floating around, go ahead and wear a mask if you want to be careful

I am transfixed by this thread.

New England is getting humiliated and I love that for them

i liked the levis ad that was just butts

I never noticed this either.

And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.

humans do not host the Muppet Show, Kermit the Frog hosts the Muppet Show! there i said it, i got it off my chest

Next time we visit the in-laws.

Me: “i could never do a phd. I simply wouldn’t be able to think of a good topic for a dissertation” Science Brain Guy: “tickle rat. hehe”

Keep reading and hitting the little arrows because believe me Bluesky has still not figured out the UX of threads but for the persistent this is amazing:

Travesty not withstanding, it's worth pointing out the care, thoughtfulness, and experience put into how she phrased the question, "It is not on you to have to respond to the details...but I wonder what your dominant emotion is...?" And that's why NPR needs their fucking funding restored.

You Know When Something Just Clicks*

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

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just a reminder: if fire hydrants near where you live are buried in snow after this week’s storms, it’s a mitzvah (and a gooooood workout!) to dig out around that hydrant so fire crews can get to it faster if need be.

Small crew arrived 6am to start digging us out. If enough staff can make it in safely, we'll open. Still a level 2 out there so be careful.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

“You guys just got to the last page?”

IYKYK

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

(Nods in less inflected Wisconsin accent)

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.

Quiet, piggy

Check in on your MN friends. Ask how they're doing. If they say: "Pretty good, you?" They're probably ok. "Just fine, howryou?" They're struggling, exhausted, hanging on but close to the edge. "Oh, doin ok" Send help. The situation is desperate.

Other people go have a drink after a loss like this but Aaron Rodgers is going to go out there and get measles

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

a writeup from someone else in the twin cities. it is shocking TBH. horrible

Dog tired of stealing socks decides to learn how to knit his own socks (commission)

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand