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Dialectical materialism demonstrates that you cannot simply undo productive development, whether you find that production desirable or not. In a world with computers capable of reasoning, the cat is out of the bag. Breaking the looms may slow exploitative progress, but we need a holistic plan.

We all need to keep this handy.

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

ATProto "app store" thing makes the obvious (if largely ineffectual) social faux-pas of AI-generating banners for each of the apps they feature, and if I understand correctly, the sales pitch seems to demonstrate ATProto missing a fundamental feature it needs for adoption -- easy connection to apps.

I love how the wording of the announcement attempts to take pains to caution that Canonical is not doing the slopification people rightly bristle at, and yet lacks any of the self-awareness or core insight to see the underlying mistakes remain. Remember, it's just Debian without the convictions.

Where do I begin? A dipshit with no database experience hooking up an LLM directly to a mission-critical API is basically handing a gun to an infant. Even the laziest, most ignorant DBA would never produce this outcome. DR is THREE MONTHS OLD??

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The language here is wild. Making it very clear they aren't committing to anything. I've been procrastinating exfiltrating my content for awhile but it looks like it's about time.

I can't decide if I've been more abrasive or more tactful about it! Luckily I've found that if it's all buried in hyper dense language, nobody will read it anyway.

It's unfortunately unrealistic to just tell people to abstain, or even to get their own GPU, because even though you can hook up a $300 card to a dumpster computer, it's a mega pain in the ass to set up for yourself. People need turnkey software to leave these centralized services in the dirt.

Glaze 2.2 is out. It is an update for Windows users to support recent NVidia GPUs (including 50xx GPUs). Downloads at: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu Mac users do not need to update. We are also updating Nightshade to fix the True bug and also support new GPUs. That update is coming in the next few days.

I just got these positively garish new kicks, but they were $50 instead of $230 and iykyk

It's a living

Apologies for being quiet lately. I have been affected by a layoff and, after 9 years working at Aether Studios making characters for Rivals of Aether, Dungeons of Aether and Rivals of Aether 2, I will be out of a job starting May 1st. If you need a concept artist or character designer, hit me up.

Hey, if any of y'all are iOS 18.x holdouts like me (lots of old phones here), you're gonna want to grab the 18.7.8 update right away before it disappears -- it's probably the last one we're getting before 26.x, it's signed for ALL devices, and there's a nasty security flaw they just fixed with it.

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This week's Friendlies Friday event will be dedicated to the incredibly prolific and creative musician Jeremy Blake! We're gonna go until yall buy at least $100 worth of his music on Bandcamp!

I'm thrilled to announce I will be declining a Twitch Affiliate invitation AGAIN -- this time offered after only FIVE STREAMS. NO ADS FOR YOU. EVER. Come join us at twitch.tv/LOTGofficial

this is a concept i've been dogged by for nearly a decade now. people are more comfortable with critical systems being handled by "disinterested" ownership than having to place any trust in each other, and it's well-founded because we are collectively driven further to social pathology every year.

it's kind of an accomplishment for bluesky to have built a culture so performative and devoid of analysis that it actually validates the ill-born concept of "virtue signalling" -- otherwise-decent people recoil and turn hostile if I mention even the most oblique, legitimate uses of computer modeling

Thought I ran into the queen bee today, but I guess not? #ScreenshotSaturday #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

I am very ineffective sometimes lately but I forget you're supposed to occasionally be Tired and Fuck This

me when i'm shopping for slippers

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

When students I teach continue to have to same issue over and over again, I like to make a video trying to help. This is one about how listening to music is the key to learning how to make music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBH...

it's me, i'm internet weirdo furries but seriously unless you're introduced the wrong way and seeing nothing but thirst content (which is disproportionately loud and not at all universal), we're becoming extremely normal and it's getting weird to hate us for some reason

Whether it's sabotaging civilian cellular devices with bombs that injured 6000 people, triple-tap strikes on three successive teams of ambulance workers, or threatening Christians who hide Muslims in their homes, this is the sort of breathtaking evil that should wake us to a new terrorist fascism.

In 2026 somebody put Move Your Feet, State of the Art, and an iPod commercial in a blender, then this video happened.

Nothing I do even imposes anything on anybody. People just quietly, avowed or not, think less of me or connect less with me personally because I wear a mask when I'm out because I can't afford to pick up the neuron & lung destroyer like they calculated they could. I don't attempt sales work any more

There are absolutely covid-cautious people who are annoying assholes but the vast majority of them are people who are fucking stuck this way because society has left them behind and acting like they're the same thing is punching down to an absurd degree

I know someone who would buy your Renault Medallion, which is why I will not be telling him, because two Renault problems is better than three Renault problems

Usually you'd think being replaced by a hardware guy there since 2001 would be an improvement, but as a senior executive Ternus oversaw the locking down of Apple devices to such an obscene degree that they devised self-destructing chips to foil their use for repairs, creating massive ewaste.

Oh hell, I forgot this is happening and I need to finally finish the first game on stream soon 🤩

I'm as unhappy with the legal situation as anyone is, but Furality was absolutely required to pursue this configuration by Florida HB 3; in fact, they were not even at liberty to use VRChat's facility alone because they have to provide both "anonymous" (Persona!) and "standard" verification methods.

I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost

This is not unlike Ana Kasparian's breathless tirade, inaugurating her public transphobia, against the phrase "birthing person" which literally no one has ever used outside of a context of rigid medical specificity demanding it

Neurodivergence & many cognitive struggles aren't anything you'd necessarily wish on anyone, but I'd never wish it away from my life because it strengthened parts of me that can help other people. Masking is a complicated topic, but with experience you'll challenge a broken society & your own pain.

Luckily for society, the software I'm writing is focused on maintaining private and consensually-permanent connections between people while completely outsourcing any facilitation of their social behavior! You can completely disengage on Cursed Microblogging Website #835 without breaking community!

I'm no stranger to interrogating myself in such situations, but the pattern of how many longstanding friendships will, here, give you the quietest fuck-off when you try to reconnect, just for baring the same strain of challenging opinions you always have, is shockingly widespread. It's pathetic.

I'm only here because much of my social network went here while mocking Mastodon, and let me tell you that between the advancement from Pre-X Twittter's outward cancel culture to a self-censored cold-shoulder world, and the irony of the fire beyond the frying pan, the vibes are beyond fucked.

Much as the salutation goes disused recently, this is exactly the sort of antisocial garbage a conscious ownership class would want from you. This concedes a breakdown in communication. Long before the age of LLMs, they sold the masses on thought-terminating prejudices. What is more fundamental?

ok, i'll say it. the worst consequence of ai is that hundreds, if not thousands, of people not only believe they're uniquely qualified to identify LLM generated anything in a sea of general illiteracy and ignorance -- they're insufferably smug about it.

anyway go watch the tournament and we'll be live with friendlies friday at around 9pm edt / 6pm pdt

at least, you can't tell i'm 38 for now because the gray hair in my beard doesn't show up on camera yet. haha not at all urgently putting myself on camera this much for the first time

It's finally here! Check out our first online Rivals of Aether 2 tournament on video: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The software I'm trying to get back to writing will make sure you never have to rely on some faceless corporation to maintain your social connections. Nor will you have to run it yourself. It's not just another platform. It's a system designed to transcend platforms and keep you connected.

For a centralized platform without the same constraints, it sure is odd that much of the time my Bluesky feed is about as dead as a brand new Mastodon server with no relays.

my ultrasounds alone are costing me $700, and that’s with my insurance. If y’all could help me out, i’d super appreciate it 🙏

i love what i do This is a clip of a new song from our upcoming album. It’s called “Live Laugh Toaster Bath” video by _808pics on instagram