Digital files also corrupt, linkrot sets in because a server or page is not properly kept up, Gizmo gets lost amongst the server racks, licensing agreements sunset. Maintaining the effort would be as big, if not bigger, than effort itself. This would be a whole shebang larger than AI to effect.

And it's another short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's inventory selections, paired gemstone-bead necklace and coil bracelet combos to match the featured imagery. First, greens/reds:

And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs. I have GOT to get this off my desk TONIGHT without fail. 9 ppl, $25 each; it's DONE.

I and so many other people have been calling these war crimes out for many years now, me 13 atp and you know, I'm not shocked at the fragility and denial of liberals responding the way they are to verified, factual reality. It's not just conservatives who create their own alternative facts.

Self-examination nothing: y'all need to confront the fact that you owe your academic career to the unique expertise of librarians and archivists. Who do you think organized those LIBRARIES of texts that you're drawing upon?

by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints

If you haven’t yet, it’s time to cancel Paramount plus. The owners are pure evil. Make them feel the pain Disney felt when they tried to fire Jimmy Kimmel.

happy to allow Republican converts who have seen the light and realized Trump is a monster to come groveling to us and apologize for all the years of calling us hysterical *taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number

Way too many blue wave liberals on here sharing AI images making fun of Trump or whatever. Please stop.

Is this the right time to point out that in the world that copyright maximalists want, we would not be able to view the cecot documentary?

Quite frankly this should result in a CSA conviction for the faculty who allowed it to happen

People are still wondering with a straight face how the United States has ended up with a government stuffed with sex criminals, paedophile party pals and domestic abusers like the world's most perverted Christmas fowl? Just can't shake that Biblical observation about reaping as you have sown.

Since disability in science has come up a bunch lately, I thought I'd share my upcoming trip to the AAS, our winter conference. I'm on a panel, moderating a panel, and giving a talk on disability justice. I fly on January 3rd. Prep starts now.

In so far as people might not have personally seen it to understand what a colossal failure they are both as film and as colonial fantasy. Refusing to take Avatar seriously is not a bit, it is the correct response to reactionary trash.

Not Human, just Human-passing.

As someone who has also been a staunch marvel hater since I was like 14, I can say with authority that I will never take the "sad disabled white American war veteran becomes a blue fantasy native so he can have sex and learn that indigenous people deserve rights" movie seriously

There's nothing wrong with OP (i don't agree with it and it's provocative, but it's a fine skeet) but man there are some incredibly racist replies talking over indigenous folks, & also several supposed leftists who think Hollywood white savior movies are a critique of imperialism, somehow.

Gotta be twice as good for half the reward. Every fucking time.

""I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife,"

The only thing you can really take seriously about Avatar is how hollowed out and devoid of meaning the enterprise is, an endless string of signals towards a culture that Cameron only cares about insofar as it translates to box office.

It is legitimately shocking that a company's $1.6 trillion valuation is based on 5 cars in Austin, Texas and an unlawful marketing scheme. Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.

Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE "I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"

Add another one to the list.

It's very easy: Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz. Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.

Like There's no reason to These goddamn platforms have been proven, over and over, to get basic facts and figures and math wrong. Why in the world would you want or need that for BUDGETS or DESIGN DOCS?? NOT TO MENTION that any information you enter is fed back into the machine! Goodbye NDA!

Turning nerds into nerd werewolves.

Happy holidays to my trans homies

Detroit folks, my friend's dog Clover is missing, southwest of Grandriver and Greenfield, near Prevost St. He's a 75 lb, 6 year old black lab mix and his tail curls at the end. He has a collar and he is chipped. He's a gentle, silly escape artist. If you see him, I can connect you to his owner.

Made by a white man, who is a billionaire, who didn't hire Indigenous and Black actors despite being "inspired" by them, who pushes a westernized idea of Indigeneity while using the same tired racist tropes

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Incidentally this is also why your boss and middle management tell you that discussing your salary is gauche and unprofessional, because if most of you learned about your salary gaps you might get mad as fuck at them. The only ones that benefit from decorum and professionalism are power brokers.

The banned 60 Minutes episode about the CECOT torture prison used by the Trump admin is now exploding across the internet. Be sure to watch so you can see the excellent reporting done by Sharyn Alfonsi & her team at 60 Minutes:

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

if you missed it, i released a new zine today about gay cyberpunk shit

These people are monsters. Deliberate, intentional, gleefully CHOOSING to be monsters. Where is the Dem leadership, save the Black NJ pols, Al Green, Van Hollen, and Lander?

Surgery is 12/31. I expect to be in bed for week at minimum during recovery.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

And the campaign to get a trans person banished from their job and education worked

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I've long maintained that the brand of reactionary centrism that figures like Weiss peddle is a calculated move to try and preserve their standing in culturally liberal spaces. They plainly have highly reactionary views, but they also want to enjoy the trappings of more cosmopolitan social spaces.

Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.

We live in a society that spends money on building tiny boxes to stuff people into and cutting their bodies to make them fit, telling them they’ll never get out. Then they throw those people into smaller boxes. Yes, I am talking about both CECOT and trans people.

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Under the bill, hemp products cannot include more than 0.3% total THC, while hemp-derived products like gummies and vapes would be limited to 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. Products exceeding those limits would be treated as cannabis and be regulated as such. via @newjerseymonitor.com

From the indispensable @propublica.org: "The central clues that prosecutors relied on to connect him to the murder crumbled as soon as anyone checked. But it took dozens of delays, agreed to by a revolving cast of lawyers, before the state finally dropped the case in 2022."

Here is a great starting point. The linked post specifically details dozens of such sources… bsky.app/profile/harm...

What makes me so mad about the Bad Art Friend piece (also known as kidney gate) is that people are encouraged to talk about their organ donations as it encourages other people to do the same.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5