"It isn't REALLY a ban, they could always just sell it elsewhere" is fundamentally the same argument as "they aren't TECHNICALLY a monopoly" in that they both completely overlook the material realities and impacts of companies like Steam across an entire industry and ecosystem

Now that PCs are becoming ungodly expensive (RAM price hikes because of AI demand, GPU price hikes because of the same thing, and CPU price hikes because AMD is greedy), I think it's now more important than ever to Make Your Shit work on Old Shit

the rust programming language question mark ?

page 13 - still the introduction - and he's already called out hrc and task force twice each lol this is gonna be so good

one of the valences of appropriation is as a technique to defang and disempower the people whose experience of disenfranchisement is inextricable from their unique talent. for example, disco and jazz from Black american artists, house from gay chicagoans, now repackaged into mainstream EDM

not to be too reductive but i definitely think the expansion of access and exposure to other worlds is precisely what's so threatening to the slop salespeople

I’m so, so tired of AI, I’m so tired of me being against it being seen as combative and hostile, I’m so tired of wanting to use AI being seen as the norm for anyone even remotely near tech, I’m fucking miserable and nobody seems to care, just be more miserable, but use ai so you’re faster.

And if you don't agree you need to go to more contemporary art galleries mic drop bye goodnight 😌

Hang on I got my I'm gonna be annoying list here somewhere Ok ok Basically the peak is the abstract synesthesia games - REZ, Lumines, Metros, Tetris effect - cuz they're using the interactive medium to make you feel things, they're not trying to be a movie, or a novel, it's pure UX interaction

hard to even get a representative screenshot cuz i bought a lot of full discographies from friends (and i have multiple accounts, oops). i love that you can do that. you can just buy someone's whole ass artistic output at once, and you should, it's incredible

i have boycotted spotify for years but i listened to sister sledge he's the greatest dancer probably like 300 times

A preliminary reading list from Crystal Lee: crystaljjlee.com/blog/disabil.... But also pretty much most of the Disability Visibility blog, edited by late disabled oracle and now ancestor Alice Wong

You might want to start here. There are recs for additional reading meaww.com/what-is-dis-...

thanks AI

okay, I have to wonder how many of the people declaring that disability accommodations have gone "too far": 1. are disabled. 2. went through the process themselves. 3. work in higher ed at all. 4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?

Nobody reads discrit stuff. Folks minds would be blown.

It was Maggie Cheungs birthday yesterday!- This print was originally made as a bday tribute in 2020, if youll be at NYCCC next month Ill have limited copies there!

wait just a minute. if *i'm* a goofy goober, and *you're* a goofy goober, then......

It's also hilarious that there's this belief that people who qualify for accommodations automatically pursue them. There's a lot of stigma behind asking for one + figuring out the process for requesting one.

This. For much of my schooling, I didn’t have any formal accommodations. For my undergrad and grad degrees I was too scared to register with disability services as I was an international student so I relied on informal requests. Which are far from ideal.

This is honestly it, for me. The suspicion of students with accommodations is just so ludicrous; who appointed us doctor, cop, judge and jury? I went through undergrad and grad school with an invisible disability-epilepsy-and it was never easy. NEVER.

We have a small but mighty team. Each of these projects could be institutes of their own. I've been working at DAIR twice as long as I was as the two long years at Google, and it flew by because that's what happens when you love your work and are surrounded by great people 🥰A

DAIR launched four years ago today, on the one year anniversary of my firing from Google. We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️ Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵

Cafe Cuties 🥐 🤎

Latios & Latias ❤️ #art #pokemon

Standing tall 🎄✨

what's the fucking point of uc berkeley

kinda crazy how they just give disco tracks to white people now after saying disco was dead for decades. at least daft punk collabed with nile rodgers. it'll be cute seeing how they try to cop michael

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.

at some point the rubber hits the road and austerity and monopoly are shown to be utter failures compared to empowering human expertise and human labor. the job of the financial industry is to keep up the pretense long enough to overwhelm the decision makers and never let the rubber hit the road

Wonder about attorney client calls in this dataset.

US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”

Net Ghost - Adam Sanderson https://macthemes.garden/themes/24c0f39f11eb-Net-Ghost

only problem with this visualization of the construction of "AI" as a tree growing from white supremacy is that it identifies it as a living system instead of a parasite or poison. it shows a dead tree but how did the tree grow in the first place? that life is what "AI" takes advantage of

going to war against clippy pfps by using a cortana pfp. all hail copilot

Aboriginal, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5279

also i happen to be one of the few people outside of fb who is aware of an extremely similar incident that essentially took down the desktop website for several hours many years ago. why?

> Cloudflare's machine learning trains on a curated subset of hundreds of billions of requests per day to create a reliable bot score for every request. surveillance makes me feel safe!

and lmao too they actively provide a link to the product that failed as if you were going to buy it. unchanged www.cloudflare.com/application-...

traffic violence is a choice that PBOT makes every day, and PBOT is directed by the people we elect

Imagine if all the money and development on coding chat bots went to developing the specs and documentation of quality language servers, imagine if every programming language had a deterministic bug checker of the same quality as rust

You can not want to use AI for programming for purely aesthetic or moral reasons, its benefits aren’t strong enough to make a difference if you don’t enjoy using it.

and finally, you reject the possibility of other ways to fulfill the same "productivity" you mention, because you simply haven't defined "productivity", and you don't know or understand the field of tooling that others have worked in for decades

"who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them" — this applies to environments that the user can build themselves, which can then improve their ability to understand and process their work product. emacs does this emacsconf.org/2024/talks/r... but chatbots can't read code

nobody mentions this really critical issue lmao

the problem was that: to cloudflare, claiming "AI" intelligence (by demonstrating this new feature) had become more financially lucrative than maintaining the fundamentals. so the statistical system was rushed through code review, failed, and had no backup

the fault was in their statistical censorship system, which ran in the critical path of the request, in order to provide a recently added additional service feature which claimed to use "AI" trained on cloudflare requests to avoid displaying captchas.

Leonardo da Vinci's Greatest Hits, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5079

Having an aesthetic and empathy are gonna be new high creative jobs