Apparently they do "cabinet organizing", and yeah, why wouldnt I trust a stranger with a recording device plugged into some anon AI company to enter and clean my apartment and poke into all the nooks and crannies, and arrange my papers. Because if there is anyone you can trust its a tech company

Oletamme Yhdysvaltain olevan vakaa ja luotettava kumppani omituisin perustein, kun samaan aikaan hallintoon pesiytyy muskilaisuuden edistäjä, hallintoa rapauttamalla. Heillä ei ole sen enempää oikeusvaltion kuin demokratian etu mielessä. Haaste hahmottaa miten suljemme tältä silmät.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

We all know this was coming now for years, right? But no, don’t call it ethnic cleansing, genocide or land theft.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

The graphics/animation used for following the competitors in city orienteering reminds me very strongly of the snake game on my old Nokia.

I have a dilemma. I discovered that a painting from 2008 has scratches that go thru the paint layers. I can either destroy or rework it. Reworking it will change the composition (and I don't remember what sort of oil medium, if any, I used for it back then). #art #painting

Saying Trump is the worst president in US history feels like the biggest understatement in US history.

Say it with me:

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

how did we go from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building data centers everywhere

"The light is too diffuse" is what I say to the cat when he trots eagerly into the bedroom to search for pinpoints of reflected sunlight on a cloudy day. He's got weird fixations now that he can't go murder small creatures anymore.

Seuraavan kerran kun saatte äänestää Suomen kauneinta postimerkkiä, niin ihan tiedoksi että nämä linnut on promptattu Midjourneylla. Apuna käytetty Photoshopin generative filliä. Yhtä kaikki, aika perkeleellisen iso lintu siellä mäntypuussa.

Every day is a reason to feel embarrassed to be American.

Love a “novel” ruling. Would love to know the number of far-right v. far-left rulings called “novel.” Then, compare that to the number on each side referred to as “radical,” “reactionary,” or “activist” rulings

I have a hunch that the bizarre U.S. response to Ebola is because Trump has a huge fear of it, as we saw with the 2014 outbreak. Whether Trump is directing this or people are just working toward the führer, the end result is the same.

”Britanniassa toukokuun lämpötilaennätys rikkoutui tiistaina, kun lämpötila nousi 35,0 asteeseen. Ranskassa tänään 37,1 astetta. Ranskassa 7 ihmistä kuoli suoraan tai epäsuorasti kuumuuteen liittyvistä syistä.” Ja taas kuvana beachillä makoilevia ihmisiä🙄 Ei #helleaalto vaan #ilmastokriisi

Tulipa Rosea, acrylic paint on canvas, 125 cm x 85 cm, 2012 Available through the Finnish online art market Taiko.art en.taiko.art/petrakaminen... #art #painting #AcrylicPainting

The always diligent @victoriastrauss.com wrote all about it over at Writers Beware, if you want to learn more. My spam filter catches most of these now (like 10-12 a day) but some still creep through.

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg! Long Live the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road!

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

I stand corrected: this is probably THE laziest pitch I’ve received today. And maybe even this week. Though it’s only Monday.

As a cyclist in Helsinki, it's pretty amazing how safe it is 99% of the time. There are a few sketchy bits in the network and Finnish parking lots are an absolute horror for any modality, but it's very safe and a joy to ride...and it keeps getting better every year with more infra being built.

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

15/ Substantive takeaway: LLMs separate the message from the messenger. State-coordinated phrasing can circulate through the web, enter training data, and reappear as neutral-sounding LLM output— the source obscured.

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

If you see strangers wearing a mask while traveling and it makes you this irrationally angry, maybe worry about your *own* mental health for a sec

And as I keep saying, sex is not a human right. Not having outside parties *interfere* with you and a fully consenting adult partner(s) who want to get busy is a human right. But you don’t have a right to partnered sex, period, because it involves another person who has to consent.

At a certain point, you GET TIRED OF BEING TREATED LIKE A SLOT MACHINE. Honestly, I hate that the term “rejection” for not sleeping with a man is the normalized one. It sounds so active, even violent, when actually, it’s passive. Your pitch didn’t change her mind.

Ihmisen oikeus kotiin on oltava aina etusijalla suhteessa jonkun toisen ihmisen oikeuteen vuokratuloihin.

There's a weekly fake Strait of Hormuz reopening so some sweaty oil trader bros can make some unearned money on break from killing the planet

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

big snooze

On a more serious note, what I have noticed about gulls, since living close to the sea, is that, sonically speaking, they are creatures who normalise drama. Noises of the volume and pitch that, from another animal, would signal a genuine crisis, are just part of everyday communication for a gull.

Asiantuntijalausunto: Elon Musk on suuruudenhullu sekopää. www.avaruus.fi/uutiset/mieh...

"I think this present government have made it a lot worse," she said. Yes, it exhibits the worst of Finnish character traits. yle.fi/a/74-20227503

I got lost taking a new shortcut and accidentally walked into a painting.

Gotta wonder if this was a project about reproducing existing research on implicit gender bias that they could only get funding for if it was about AI somehow.

Amazingly, despite literally being focused on the use of performance-enhancing drugs and technologies, the Enhanced Games still compel trans women to compete as men, apparently because otherwise it would be unfair

How did this painting not sell? Welp, Etsy tomorrow I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Around 40% of ocean shipping is fossil fuels. So many things will get better when the fossil-fuel era ends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If we had a dollar for every time scientists say "Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought," we could fund a lot of Science.

Y'all, we can go back 20-ish years and find people saying that "homeland security" was a jingoist, racist mess of a name. It was never a neutral turn of phrase.

Thread for anyone who is confused about the Vance marriage (or if you’re just interested in expanding your understanding of social hierarchy)