Condemning LLMs and generative AI isn't quite enough, you have to also actively uplift human art and support human artists. There are plenty of free ways to do this 🧚🏾‍♀️

"The terrible person's work was terrible anyways." No. People who are terrible can still make pretty things. That's the problem. People who equate "good things = good people" is the reason why so many are exploited, tricked, fooled, harmed, etc. As if all goodness is perceivable in any industry.

The quality if Florida candidates

A society that rewards cruelty, excuses corruption, and mistakes wealth for virtue makes someone like Trump possible. What disappoints me most isn’t Trump himself. It’s how many people still defend, excuse, and enable him despite everything they’ve seen. I find that truly shameful.

We always liked their products on quality. Now we can like them even more on a integrity.

Today is International Asteroid Day! ☄️ Why does the UN recognise this day on June 30? Anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusk... Russia is no stranger to airburst events - in 2013, there was also the well-documented Chelyabinsk event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyab...

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👻PSA FOR CREATORS👻 I was made aware that pillowplay.ai is scrubbing people's audios and using AI generated thumbnails to advertise them. Not only does this violate my terms, but of several of the scriptwriters I work with as well. According to their website, you can request audios to be taken...

Hey, quick question: if they are asking for blood donations, does it have to be MY blood?

The World Cup being here was a LAYUP that he fucked up. Nation of immigrants celebrates its 250th birthday with an international sports tournament viewed by essentially everyone everywhere celebrating how unique and special the USA is specifically. Instead… we’re bombing competitors.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

We will never have everyone housed. But we can be so much more humane about helping to try.

Australia banned social media, which hasn't worked and leaves them more exposed. Facing harrasment as a 14-year-old online? Best not tell the police (or your parents/school), because you're doing something illegal in the first place. Not great news that so many other countries are following this

"You can't install AC in old buildings" Picture is of an ancient roman building in Croatia with ductless mini split heat pumps installed. Source: bsky.app/profile/urba...

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

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Can your LLM cite sources like this?

"Far from the spotlight fixed on Iran, Ukraine, Lebanon and other global conflicts, Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation of about 50 million people, has quietly collapsed."

OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD NFT CRYPTO AI BROS COME ON

Maryland, New York, and Utah! It's your turn to vote on June 23rd so go vote!

Hormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

For those interested, Penzeys is having a sale on all their GREEN spices in "honor" of the reflecting pool swamp debacle and you need the code "FILES" to get the deal. Also, you'll get some Black Lives Matter stickers in honor of Juneteenth. www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/...

"Its swimsuit season", I whisper, eating another swimsuit

Okay, okay, I finally gave in and listened to a few folks' advice here to set up a proper author site. Pretty basic, just a landing page & about page for now, but WP has really gotten crazy with the cash grabs, so...feel free to bookmark & sign up for the newsletter! selenearkadia.wordpress.com

Solidarity with these interns! ✊🏽 It's not just the right and ethical thing to do because the labor of interns has worth and deserves respect, but because we know unpaid and underpaid jobs in public service create an economic barrier that excludes those who cannot afford to work for free.

Microwaved liquid mouse

You…you spelled mousse wrong? 😐

It wasn’t supposed to be liquid, I overdid it reheating a frozen mouse

Go read this long thread by an expert on what Juneteenth entails and does not include.

It's the most radical change in my 26 Toronto years. I hop on & off at my pleasure, total freedom. Walk a while, take toddler/stroller to daycare, the hop on a bike. Off. On. Last evening had an event at Carlu. Ebiked to baby, took him home, change into suit, hoped on ebike, back downtown. 👏

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

if you are living in Britain, and you're 17 year old, and you've gotten into game dev, and you're trying to figure out how to do volumetric fog because you think it'll make your cave level look sick, and it's 10:30pm: you can ask a chatbot but you can't watch a video tutorial or look on Reddit.

An excellent thread on projected population growth versus actual growth. Using real facts.

Conversation at the beach: BLACK WOMAN: Now that’s how you cook! A little of this, a little of that, that looks interesting, then add seasonings until the ancestors tell you to stop. WHITE WOMAN: Unfortunately my ancestors were also white.

And kudos to York Revolution first baseman Jacob Teeter, who came to the ballpark tonight and talked about why it was important for him to be there for Pride Night despite his bigoted teammates causing the game to be canceled. 👏👏👏 www.ydr.com/videos/news/...

This is the biggest challenge when people come in & wonder how to massively grow their accounts, get more interactions, or get higher numbers. It’s a different thing. It’s not inflated. There are far more people than bots, and we *talk* to each other here. It’s not $. It’s people, and it’s fun.

You can’t just get _insert thing_. You gotta talk to people, interact with people, understand the vibe and roll with it. It’s like old internet. We weren’t looking for algorithm hits and inflated numbers boosts. We were looking for like minded people to talk, vibe, celebrate, and shitpost with.

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

It is a good day. Took some pictures in the back yard of the blooms. Also disturbed this poor little one while doing so. (Picture feom previous day) It is very heartwarming to know they like our yard enough to trust and sleep in it.

What we used to take for granted. That we had moved past this.

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

I really want some knock offs of these medieval socks from Egypt (12th century CE?) at the GWU Textile Museum. collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio...

Just in time for the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Nuevo York, Mayor Mamdani cut an incredible video about my people's history in the city: this is how my grandparents came to New York. My mayor is Muslim and he can pronounce Spanish.

Please remember to go get some water. 💧