BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Help kill the CSAM machine: 1) Go to App Store and search for X. 2) Near the bottom of that X page you'll see "Report a problem." 3) "Report offensive, illegal, or abusive content" 4) You know what to do from there.

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Another year has begun and with it I will give you the same advice my godmother gave me her whole life: Embrace a new start but remember that a calendar does not change the world, people do.

I want to make something abundantly clear -- If your idea of praxis is to disparage people committing charitable acts because you think the best way to provoke change is to sacrifice the most vulnerable until it happens, I think the human race would lose nothing of value if you simply ceased.🤷‍♂️

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

I get knocked down ... then I remember their other great songs

This is besides the point but this comic made me think of this. I love street magic and close up magic *because* there's a rational explanation. It's an expression of craft I really enjoy, much like a musician or an artist.

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

We live in an era where people who have never gone 100% on any creative project hear that AI can get them 90% of the way and think the future is nigh, not understanding that creatives spend their careers honing the skills required to navigate the last 10%.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

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Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday

In a way this highlights the worthlessness of the 'idea' Once you've prompted every thought in your brain into existence with no real work, you have nothing left. No skill, not the satisfaction of having built a puzzle and creating the work. Just the result. The meaningless artifact.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Patron Saint of Hating ChatGPT

A must watch

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

I don't expect anyone to relate to this, but Blind Melon was a genuinely great band

The fact that this is all about a man who looks like he's made of sweaty 7/11 hot dogs and talks like a risen corpse is something you MUST keep in mind

Interesting to think how Zohran Mamdani might be a lawyer in Johannesburg or doctor in Cape Town right now had it not been for the University of Cape Town's incredible racism. mg.co.za/article/2018...

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I joke about this policy a lot but I want it on the record how disgusting I find it that the situation in South Africa, a country I love with all my heart, is being twisted like this to justify such monstrousness.

A few days late but I finally watched this. Every single frame is a disaster.

Saw a tumblr post saying AI is turned on again in a hidden Google Drive menu, but its not a menu you can find on mobile; its only desktop. anyhoo. here it is with a picture and clearer directions Google Drive > MyDrive > (Gear Icon top right) Settings > Manage Apps [switch off Gemini here]

I've been really bad about promoting my sleep podcast since moving to Bluesky, but my 350th episode drops soon and is available now on Patreon Check it out if you struggle to sleep #podcast #sleep #insomnia www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

"YOU THERE BOY! WHAT DAY IS IT?" "It's Christmas Day, sir!" "So I'm not too late!?" "Yes you are, we all know you're a wife-beating piece of shit who leveraged his fame and privilege to sue his victim, and no amount of ghosts are changing that."

Goodbye Daily Maverick, it's been real.

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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

Block list of US Gov Bluesky accounts. You don’t want them seeing your stuff.

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

these bills are quite strong individually but as a group they’d combine to make california so much safer for trans people of all ages, cis californians who follow me please take a literal minute of your day to call Newsom and demand he not leave us to the wolves (bill numbers are in linked post)

One million Disney+ subscriptions to protect the human rights of a rich white man. How many people will cancel their HBO subscriptions once Harry Potter is released in order to protect the human rights of trans people everywhere?

This is the last word that needs to be said on the topic of Charlie Kirk.

Spent an hour trying to figure out why Davinci Resolve render times suddenly went from a few minutes to essentially infinite Found a forum post mentioning to check your audio device settings, and this was how I found out that I hadn't plugged my interface in. 🫠

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

his cis friends, read this thread no really READ IT

The impressive thing about Jesus was having 12 friends in his 30s 11, I guess

I love this short video of Rick Beato demonstrating how you can spot an AI-generated song. What can we do in the history community to help people spot AI-generated history texts? Perhaps there are guides already available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nlb...

The lack of algorithm on Bluesky tells me that we were fools to accept it elsewhere. We all now talk about how Musk uses it to suppress dissent on twitter, but he hardly invented it. Letting someone else set parameters for what you see is maybe the most poisonous thing that social media normalised.

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Officially 9 out of 10, but that's because I accidentally tapped on one when I was trying to zoom in.