I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. And, yes, this is real.

at PN, wrote about trump's policy of murder for murder's sake in Venezuela. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vene...

Also he built the trophy holding claw thing for the new Battlebots seasons which is 110% rad.

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

posh cat cant resist the brushies

Also see: "Yes, this corporation should probably go broke because of its foul, unethical decisions, but doing so will put a lot of people unconnected with these decisions out of work"

The biggest ethical problem we face in modern society is that innocent people must suffer massive consequences before the powerful people will even consider reversing their terrible decisions: time.com/7317385/abor...

I think the problem is there is just too much going on domestically. Epstein, Kirk, government shutdown, it's hard to give attention to foreign affairs. Ukraine and Gaza persist in our attention b/c they predate Trump 2. In a different time this would be a scandal. But this is wrong AND endangers us

love all the new windows 11 features like "argue with it after every monthly update as it berates you for not using a backup when the only two choices are 'give microsoft a copy of everything you own' and 'nah I don't believe in backups' regardless of the fact that you use a third party solution"

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Steam may be clamping down on post-launch NSFW content for adult games. I take a look at the issue, whether Steam Early Access NSFW titles are actually going away (spoiler: it's complicated), and analyze a leaked copy of the Steam Mature Content Survey nsfw.beehiiv.com/p/steam-is-c...

Ezra Klein’s most recent column gives the game away: he talks about how horrified he was by Kirk’s assassination because he identifies with Kirk. Kirk, like Klein, talked for a living. So even if they had different policy positions, to some degree, Klein sees himself in Kirk. /1

if only there had been like, literally fifty straight years of very clear warnings about this exact thing from countless global and domestic media academics

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Just let us live. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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americans talk about the homeless like they're vermin and it's TERRIFYING. I never hear more casually dehumanizing language than when homeless people are the subject of conversation and that's saying A LOT.

Eee... I'm so excited. I've been wanting to have a vtuber avatar for me to do TTRPG streams with, amongst other things, ever since I first ran across the concept, and thanks to @arht.bsky.social and @sumirenolive2d.bsky.social , the artist and rigger respectively, that dream is now a reality.

Please proceed to the chamber and observe the Aperture Science Semi-Automated Rotary Equine Manipulator.

the umamusume are reincarnations of the horses with the unquenchable desire to run and be champions. and when an umamusume dies a new one is born with the same name and spirit. its sort of a purgatory of horse girl racing, the track is a wheel of samsara they perpetually encircle

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly! Heads on straight, gang!

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

I think Ds should ask for the firing of RFK in the budget negotiations. It's a big, easily understandable ask, which would massively benefit the American ppl, and I think it would split the gop, many of whom want rfk gone anyway. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/demand-the...

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

Farewell/送別 #umamusume #ウマ娘

Make no mistake about it, modern "papers please" implementation includes facial recognition technology, digital ID including mDLs, and various scoring databases akin to what has been taking place in China (to Uyghurs) and Gaza (to Palestinians). Every call to ban those tools was correct.

this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

There's a sentiment I have seen jokingly expressed various ways that amounts to: LLMs know everything you don't know and nothing that you do. The greater your expertise, the more obvious the failures are and the more time you spend fixing its errors. But if you can't see the errors, it's all good!

Good morning! If you're someone who's interested in pony play, let me recommend a new podcast by my local herdmate Kylian: Straight From The Horse's Mouth. It's really well done. The latest episode is with Tromper who's always great to listen to! ^^ rss.com/podcasts/str...

i remember people RANTING about how cohost is boring and sucks because "it doesn't give me what I want out of a social media" and when pressed they basically identified constant notifications and an endless unlimited timeline as being what they Want like Bro a decade of algorithms has POISONED YOU

Another shot of the new claws

you used to have to be as powerful as a sultan of Arabia to have yes-men as obsequious as ChatGPT, Grok, Claude or the other sham-AI tools And now everyone can have one for a low low price

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

Hank Green did a great video about it. TLDW; BBB also threw a wrench in renewables and put more American natural gas up for sale youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA?...

I've had a lot of people optimistically come up to me being like, "Yeah! We're gonna be OK!" but I don't see them taking any action like, spreading the word or making calls or sending letters and like I'm sorry but no, we will not be OK unless you put in with us. We still need you to be loud.

In January I reported that anti-wind orgs floated a draft policy roadmap to the Trump transition team to completely destroy the U.S. wind energy industry Much of the roadmap has now already come to pass, down to RFK Jr commissioning a study on whether wind turbines make people sick