It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

The fact that the majority of people don't want AI, and they keep pushing it on us says everything.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

These elites of Australian journalism do their industry no favours. Then again, most of our political class have forgotten what it is to be, not just accountable, but transparent and professional too.

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

OH COME ON @moderation.bsky.app

ICYMI: @bcrodriguez.bsky.social and I dug deep into the history of blaming moms for their kids’ autism and how some moms see echos of that dark history in MAHA

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude www.wired.com/story/autism...

A popular user has apparently been suspended for mildly criticizing Bluesky’s CEO, and since she loudly proclaimed that bans and TOS violations were HER domain… Huge mistake. She handed everyone an easy narrative. The Waffles thing is opaque but ”Lady Plushbottom bullies user for joke“ is crystal.

This has been a really bad weekend for Bluesky. The team is squandering all of the goodwill they've built up and the glossy press they've gotten this year. It's honestly pretty disappointing.

if you see a faded sign at the side of the road, that says FIF, TEEN, miles, to the,

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

Because it isn't. I see biology disrespected everyday by IT people and it drives me up the fucking wall. Ask a biologist to tell you how complex proteins can get. Or rna sequencing. Or organelles inside a cell. Or take one look at a book on histology. Computers are simple in comparison.

If you want to talk eugenics, the training process for LLMs generates many copies of models & deletes underperforming models in the process. If each of those models is a person, have you committed genocide of less able-bodies algorithms? The correct answer is, "No that's stupid fuck off"

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

once again, it's a race between whether centrist elites can capitulate faster than these fucking imbeciles can step on their own dicks

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The mystery of medical diagnosis!

this is like half of r/ups now

As much as possible, we should do things fascists cannot do. As much as possible, we should not do things fascists want us to do and we should do things fascists don't want us to do. Never accept the fascist offer. www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

hold on just a second here

Not to put too fine a point of it, but if the penalty for burning a country’s flag is a year in prison, that country’s flag no longer stands for freedom or liberty, it stands for tyranny. Canada has had its “elbows up” moment with the Trump administration…

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

Welp

Imagine someone killing your family and then saying you need to be "deradicalized"

One battle, after another, I'm gonna find ya I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

My book is about how Nazis got power, how they kept it, & how to fight it—how we fought it then, how we can now. Nazis weren’t a foregone conclusion. They were not inevitable. They want you to think so—convince you they already won so you quit fighting. Because they know they can’t win otherwise.

Continental breakfasts should be served on tectonic plates.

Queen. Icon. Hero. ❤️ 📸 Jane Goodall institute.

September 30 / October 1

September 30 October 1

Am I right?

quem é seu Jedi favorito? * resposta errada apenas *

Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

isn't the whole point of copyright that you are opting out of people stealing your work

Cast it into the fire. Destroy it!

Ask not for whom the hamburger helps. The hamburger helps for thee

The very definition of copyright is: I don't want you to steal my shit.

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

I’m old enough to remember quite a lot of mention of Project 2025 that the press refused to take seriously.