Just a reminder Obama ushered in "too big to fail". AI as a "too expensive to own" rich privilege is a mirror of Crypto private currency in that they both need to achieve "too big to fail" bailout immortality status to survive. The rich use this cursed scheme to oppress us. That's All Folks

...and the soldiers carried out these orders. If we are serious about the military following lawful orders then everyone involved gets court martialed.

A simple "please" or "thank you" response of a query costs OpenAI millions in prompt costs. That's crazy. Imagine the actual costs of people chatting up ChatGPT as conversation. As Eric points out this is just point of use cost. Total expense includes training and more.

Had enough? Trump declaring war on Venezuela by declaring he will shoot down anything in their airspace. Congress is all quiet. Join an MGO today! irreni.social

TIL how to create a simple book from just using text and images using command line tools. git clone github.com/progit/progi...

My beef with AI is not with AI. It is with our corporate tyranny and oppression overlords cramming AI down our throats, rush to put AI into everything without testing.

AI violates the "first things first" directive. If tech can't get the simple things correct then it certainly isn't going to get AI correct. So instead of optimizing productivity it is just get in the way.

*~sigh*~ We have AI but my spell checker doesn't have "turmeric" or "microbes". A huge uncanny valley in this AI dump is that there is so much wrong with existing technology that needs to be fixed first. AI is compounding the amount of broken tech stuff we face everyday. Why!

TL;DR Kangaroo courts are now in session.

"Call your Congress people." What's really annoying is that: 1. Billions in bribes versus a phone call. Get real. 2. Equivalent to "thoughts and prayers".

The ACAB cops kill over a thousand a year and that number is rising. Plus, tip of the iceberg applies because cops don't self-report their shootings.

So the answer to less tourism is even less tourism.

"Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever..." -Thomas Jefferson The point here is Jefferson at least had a conscience about the evils of slavery as a slave owner. No Democrat or Republican reflects on the evils of war from 2001-2023.

The US: 1. Destroys their culture 2. Blames their destroyed culture as failed 3. Rinse and repeat I'm talking slavery of course and all black culture since. In 1993 the number of blacks incarcerated doubled. Thanks Biden.

It is always worth pointing out repeatedly that Al Gore was right. When asked after 9/11 that if he had won the Presidency in 2000 then how would he respond? Gore's answer, "This is police matter like any other and should be resolved by INTERPOL and the FBI." Just think of the lives/money saved.

I love how the US never takes any responsibility. We created the governments in Central America that immigrants are fleeing. iIn the 1980s Raygun overthrow them illegally selling Afghan drugs to fund the coups. Those govs never stabilized. We can't "build peace".

"An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. " Reap what you sow. costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

Odilon Redon : Vase with Japanese Warroir, 1905-08 Pastel on paper 228.6 x 184.15 cm

Obligatory Bruce Lee post:

Am I late to the not buying event today! :P

Casey Childs (American, b.1974) "Light and Solitude," 2015 Oil on linen 16 x 10.5 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Natalia Polikarpova (Russian Artist, born 1968) "The Silence of the Forest", 2024. Pastel on Pastelcard Paper, 65 × 45 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The US is facing a significant loss in international tourism in 2025, with the World Travel & Tourism Council(WTTC) projecting a $12.5 billion drop in international visitor spending. This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven

I'm old enough to predate IDEs. When they came out everyone was told to use one. I don't although I have had one set up in case I was screen sharing. The arrogance of this comment is it is one size fits all. Not everyone has the same intelligence.

It's all about the nukes.

Oh look, patent penalties are going to be another way to bribe Trump. Will it ever end?

Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), “Circle Street” (1985), oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm.

Cornelius Annor, Ghanaian (1990- ), Anigye, 2021, acrylic, fabric and fabric transfer on canvas, 192.6 x 166 cm, private collection

“One way or another…”🎶 #urbangaze #urban #graffiti #art #urbanart #streetart #ECK youtube.com/watch?v=valV...

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895): 1) “On the Balcony” (1871-1872), watercolour, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, 17.3 x 20.6 cm, and 2) “Woman and Child on a Balcony” (1872), oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm.

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Great ensemble casting. That's what attracted me to the 90s/00s Whedonverse. But Heroes quickly reached sci-fi escape velocity and turned into soap opera nonsense. Seemed to me that bunch of writers who never read sci-fi helmed it.

Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), “Clotilde at the Window” (1888), watercolour on paper, 30 x 45 cm.

Cat named "Mars" getting ready to business the business. Mars Attacks!

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Turkey Day - After turkey drowsy cure. Well, not The Cure. This is Extreme. Wha? Upbeat song to beat the turkey snoozes or help the merry guests out the door! Cheers! Also, this is a send up to Led Zepplin's song, "Hot Dog!" vimeo.com/1141158042?s...

Use a VPN. I pay annually for a VPN. I play games in Europe and access Russian sites like yandex dot com. Interestingly enough, no ads on yandex. This is primarily why I use yandex. Ads trigger my neurodivergent a**. Also Google blocks all VPN IPs from search. But use a VPN.

"Sin in the Suburbs" 1964 movie. Great title of unrequited alliteration: Suburb Sin. Also, Sin could mean all 7 deadly sins and more. Sadly title waste, just about one adultery. Want free movies? 1. yandex dot com search engine 2. "vk dot com Movie Title" No pirating needed.

I'm an anti-conspiracy guy, reduce everything to one aspect, all else is distraction. Catholic church/State one aspect, "render under Ceasar that which is Ceasar's". Similarly, Rs, Ds, and the billionaires only care about unlimited bribing of the President. Everything else about T is a distraction.

Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt

"I have altered the moon. Pray I don't alter it any further." - Neil Armstrong

ChatGPT Conservative headline review I read one piece justifying the charges and they let it slip that there is no precedence for this. No ex-military has been prosecuted under such circumstances, certainly not a Senator. I chock this up to ChatGPT writing the article and a lack of editing.

Any system within a hierarchy that is a perceived threat to that hierarchy is eventually dispensed with by money, power, and legislation. -Law of Hierarchies

Shigeo Fukuda : Mona Lisa’s 100 smiles (Blue), 1970 poster, Japan

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

View from My Window in Genets (Brittany), 1922 by Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865 - 1938). Oil on canvas Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt