i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

One of my former mentees is a tribal member and the most recent things we talked about over e-mail is that ICE is detaining Indigenous people but it goes vastly underreported.

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet. He directly cites today's MOU:

Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

PnP Games Black Friday sale is now in full swing. Our DMs are flooded with great offers. Check them all out here (ref link): pnpgamesonline.com/?...

This. Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?" We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!" Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns. #art

Guillermo del Toro confirms 'Frankenstein' will get a physical media release 💿 At least one deleted scene will be included

you should buy Y0 before this btw; the Director's Cut is a markedly worse experience and isn't even done BY the director of Y0

much of the work on AI-generated misinformation focuses on regular users/communities, while ignoring how political and economic elites can seal themselves into a hermetic slop box -- a repeat of the same mistake we made with radicalization and conspiracism in the previous decade

where you can find me in #winnipeg this holiday season!!!

Gunslinger - [Blender 3D + Procreate] #Destiny2Art #Destiny2Creator

Inside you there are two wolves...

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Book piracy is so specifically weird to me. We have whole buildings where you walk in and get books for free. And if they don't have what you want, often they will find it for you. And libraries help authors. And libraries build communities. We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.

somehow it's "hoarding" when I keep my old tech as long as possible and resent forced obsolescence but not "hoarding" when billionaires and tech companies suck up all the money and burn though the planet in search of endless growth

Drinking water sources in the far North are closely monitored. But researchers warn that the effect on Arctic wildlife is a concern. With the high cost of living in the Arctic, communities rely on food gathered from land and sea.

Tapping the sign again

“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.” A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.

That's the way love goes

A good article if you’re interested in learning about leaving the leaves. It’s possible to compromise and still have a fairly tidy yard while helping nature, you can simply move the leaves to designated areas and wait til late spring to trim dead plants!

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

this is why, as much as I fucking despise AI, I'm not really too worried about it lasting forever it's floated entirely on venture capital investments made for manufactured demand. Delete/restrict access to datasets/trained data full of illegal material, and monitor massive energy usage. easy

think of how literally everything has AI shoved into it now. The reason isn't because there's any demand for it, it's to get a quick investment payout for it. All those things will collapse. legislation could kill AI overnight. It's a very weak and defeatable monster, have faith in that at least

TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

this is such a depressing read. studios are happy to exploit the labour and creativity of women & queer people & poc but then turn around and sacrifice them to a baying mob of bad actors who they believe are their core audience. did we learn no lessons from gamergate?

this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

the worst fucking thing about capitalism is that it just totally falls apart and shows its ass as the gigantic pyramid scheme it all really is when it can't make the Line Go Up

Damn, could be worse but maaan

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!

Did everyone just fucking forget the troll farms from the first Trump election??? This has been going on for a fucking decade guys what the hell #politics

Twitter (X) has rolled out a new update that shows locations for all accounts Many 'American' political accounts were exposed as foreign users pushing controversies

Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. 🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph

“In at least three of the cases, [out of seven lawsuits] the AI explicitly encouraged users to cut off loved ones. In other cases, the model reinforced delusions at the expense of a shared reality, cutting the user off from anyone who did not share the delusion.”

☀️🌙 #jayvik

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

#JustPublished "Sex trafficking [on Zuckerberg's platforms]... was widely tolerated... IG’s former head of safety... testified that when she joined Meta she was shocked to learn that [Zuckerberg] had a “17x” strike policy for accts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

Rain the Witch #sketchbook #mouse