My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

Please keep contacting your representatives and demand they oppose repealing sec230, and oppose internet censorship/surveillance bills Get friends and family involved, february is when they are going to make a major push

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

That time of year again!

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Dota 2

attention new bluesky users: pick up that can

YOURE NOT DRAWING MISTLETOE!!! YOURE NOT DRAWING MISTLEYOE!!! THATS HOLLY!!!! THE BERRIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WHITE FOR MISTLETOE!!! THATS HOLLY!!!!! THE BERRIES ARE RED!!!!! NOOOOOOO

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Got a new mouse and keyboard for chims. It feels SO GOOD having a scrollwheel that works. :D

For all the newcomers here: please post regularly. I'm tired of dudes migrating here, posting once every other month, and then going back to Twitter complaining that Bluesky is dead. Please repost your friends' stuff too.

As a reminder: Anyone leaving twitter ONLY JUST NOW, was willing to tolerate full blown mask off conspiratorial fascism, massive AI presence, basically every fucking bot account under the god damn sun, and two oligarchs in a relationship spiral in public. And nothing of value was gained this day.

I worked in advertising and marketing for close to a decade. They hate you. They view you as a wallet, and nothing more; to be drained of EVERY single cent, and they do not care one bit about your well being - no matter how many hashtag "we care" commercials they put out.

Hey if you for some god forsaken reason still think you have an audience on Twitter, now is the time to reconsider. Don't give uncreative fuckass grifters any chances to be let into your heart and soul. Leave Twitter. Now.

Just learned that neuroscientists have turned rabies into a lab tool. Replace the parts that makes it deadly with tracer dye and suddenly instead of the worlds most lethal pathogen, you have a perfect tool for mapping neural connections. Why bother inventing nanomachines when Nature did it for us.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Spent today browsing free assets on various sites and inspecting the wares. As I suspected I'll either need to get something custom made or make it myself if I want something that suits my tastes properly. I'm trying to make a more human avatar to use so I can stop bellyaching about my Boop model.

it would actually cost SO MUCH LESS to just do this instead of throwing trillions of dollars at technofascists too, who would've thought

Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.

easy to feel demoralised seeing all these game company CEOs talking about genAI but remember a bunch of rich people will lose a lot if we don’t suddenly develop an unquenchable appetite for slop so they’re actually the ones on the back foot and have every incentive to lie about everything

It feels like all too many people are still unaware 🗣️ STARBUCKS BARISTAS HAVE BEEN ON STRIKE FOR OVER A MONTH DO NOT BUY STARBUCKS "Yeah, but my store's not striking" "My stores non-union" DO NOT BUY A N Y STARBUCKS PRODUCT ALL STORES ARE A "STRIKING STORE"

FNAF is the zoomer equivalent to terf wizards for millennials, and I have seen zero evidence to the contrary

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

Don't mind me, just installing over 150 GB worth of games purely because I can. I finally realized that because I now have an 8 TB HDD, I can actually just install my ENTIRE steam library, so I've picked out the games I actually want to play at some point and installed them. :P

as a reminder, Bill C-12 has passed the house and will be moving on to the senate. it will be up for debate in february. if you are canadian, you need to contact your Senators and demand they oppose this bill! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Man. How hard is it to actually just...learn to draw. I have always had the belief that anyone can do it if they put the work in. JUST PICK UP A PEN. IT'S EASY.

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

I'm tempted to take another stab at game engine building, purely so I can have an engine with the basic features I want, without it being tied to an unstable, inconsistent, power hungry, money grubbing bloated corporate leech pretending to be an asset to it's formerly loyal community.

I've realized why I don't like working with Godot. Premade nodes for everything demanding a high-dive off several walls of text to get your bearing on every step of every project. Upside: If you have experience with them, it's like legos. Downside: I'm here to code. Not read. Just let me code...

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

We’re not here for wizards who punch down. Instead of purchasing the HP Collab, I would suggest donating to the Trevor Project to support trans & LGBTQ+ youth, because protecting our queer siblings matters more than protecting JKR.

Again so we are super SUPER clear The party got a report telling them to choose voters over donors and they said “no thanks”

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Clair Obscur’s now confirmed Gen-AI usage during the development process has caused their IGA debut and GOTY wins to be retracted.

Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...