There are so many reasons these days where I’m feeling like this focus on generative AI might be one of the worst mistakes in recent human history. Whatever perceived value it could provide isn’t worth the damage it’s doing in so many areas.

Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Jesse Jackson also used his organizing skills to build Black political power w/his Presidential campaigns: registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile) Rest easy now sir www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

racist right-wing ideology is often laundered through center-left comedy because conservatives dominate news cycles and force everyone to respond to their talking points. it puts democrats on the defensive and lends permission to comedians to be racist

when i say "to some degree, that was on purpose" what i mean is that the permission structure to treat him as a nonserious candidate wasn't an organized cabal. rather, racist doctrine from republicans and democrats allowed comedy writers to latch onto talking points of the day for easy laughs

-reprioritizing the war on drugs to focus less on mandatory minimum sentences for drug users (which he views as racially biased) and more on harsher punishments for money-laundering bankers and others who are part of the "supply" end of "supply and demand"

-giving reparations to descendants of black slaves -reversing Reaganomics-inspired tax cuts for the richest ten percent of Americans and using the money to finance social welfare programs

-cutting the budget of the Department of Defense by as much as fifteen percent over the course of his administration -reviving many New Deal era policies -instituting an immediate nuclear freeze and beginning disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union

jesse jackson was constantly played as a punchline on 90s late-night TV to the point that i didn't understand his history of activism and serious left-leaning political platform until i was much older. i have to think, to some degree, that was on purpose.

in 1988 his presidental platform included: -creating a single-payer system of universal health care -ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment -declaring Apartheid-era South Africa to be a rogue nation -supporting the formation of a Palestinian state

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

proving yet again that the ppl behind ai lack an understanding of humanity. nobody wants this. the very idea is horrifying. you have to be devoid of humanity to think that this is something ppl would want.

"Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. Steam Deck LCD 256GB is no longer in production, and once sold out will no longer be available."

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

Pure unbridled incompetence. A genuine waste of fans time and money. The only good thing to come out of it was the dubs release which was done years before it even was pressed to disc.

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Latin America, can y'all help me find the 1999 Latin DVD of Little Mermaid (La Sirenita/A Pequena Sereia)? I've searched everywhere & nothing If you can send me a ripped copy, I'd be grateful #DVD #LaSirenita #TLM #TheLittleMermaid #APequenaSereia #HomeMedia #Mexico #Chile #Brazil #Cuba #Argentina

finally gave this new subs

(After 18 months constantly antagonizing everyone and calling them the R word while personally making their lives materially worse) Please subscribe to my car.

The funniest part of the RAM pricing thing is it fucks up AI stuff too. You need a phone to talk to these models. You need a computer. They increased the default RAM on the base MacBook Air in part to handle local models! You need some local computing to get to the cloud!

And there it is. As usual the party of family values first is full of predators.

Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them

Twitter/X is currently down.

awesome, age verification becoming a new scam vector

Discord's disturbing ties to the build-out of global surveillance and facial recognition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxs...

WHOA. Hold up, you're telling ME that the guy who put THIS in his movie is in the Epstein files?

why did I have to learn by myself that Michael Bay is in the Epstein files

the kicker with this one specifically going against original design intent is how he has giant glassy sonic eyes instead of beady cartoon eyes in white fur

whats really funny about tricky repeatedly being seen as a sonic oc is not long after i made him i drew him as Modern Sonic Character That Completely Goes Against The Original Design Intent as a joke

god damn, some of this is still live. here's one i manually archived: original: x.com/hiimjill/sta... xcancel: xcancel.com/hiimjill/sta... archive: archive.li/Y45r7

every last conservative is a fucking pedophile holy shit www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

We could be two years away from nearly solving homelessness outright at any time

It's for the same reason that I wouldn't consider machine translating books or interviews from a language I don't know and passing those off as my own no matter how good the machine translation technology has gotten. answering questions about my creative choices requires knowing the damn language

I don't know how those thief types did it honestly. unless you're just really good at coming up with convincing-sounding bullshit (and I'm guilty for falling for some of it due to lacking required information that'd let me catch on) it's so easy for the entire thing to just crumble overnight

I could never bring myself to be an "art thief" even before the AI age because really, all it would take is someone being just a little too nosy and asking a technical question I didn't know the answer to like "how did you pull off this brush texture" for the entire persona to fall apart

please if you have any money to spare, consider donating to the nuestra america flotilla to help bring aid to cuba.

Every trans selfie you see here is the technology not being used for its original purpose: weird dudes grifting each other for fake money and posting bullet point summaries of 100 page self help books and arguing about age of consent laws.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

Two 68 year old drunk rich guys complaining about child support laws on a show called Club Random

Perfect screenshot

Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona. Vrchat uses persona. Vrchat uses persona. Persona is backed by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.

Awwww, that's adorable. They think they can just jingle keys & make us forget they partnered with Peter Thiel & a corp that'd absolutely sell our info to the highest bidder. We're not that dumb & you're not getting those Nitro subs back. Keep the pressure on, folks ✊️🔥 #ResistAndBite #BashTheFash

The Little Mermaid's Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix found on the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD is an assault to my ears & even more so to the my when analyzing it in Audacity. Why did they put the dialogue in all 3 front channels and duplicate the instrumentals to the surround channels? 1/?

Discord might have cut ties but they're still planning to roll out age verification globally next month. Continue to cancel your nitro subscriptions, if you haven't done so already. Don't boosts servers as well. Hit them in the wallet.

The smoke suggests we throw more flasks of oil and torches.

Anywaaaay keep pushing them and complaining to them and spamming their emails, demanding they drop this BS The battle is not won, no matter what the smoke might suggest