I generally feel like I don't need to nag Congresswoman Pramilla Jayapal on most things. But if you live in Glusenkamp Perez's district, I'm hoping you will nag her on EVERYTHING. This is one of many shitty votes she's cast.

Once the data centers are built, all those construction jobs disappear. Only a minimal number of people are on-site because the goal is to pay for as little human labor as possible.

PSA: Somebody is posting false reports to ICE tracking apps in Seattle. It’s possibly right-wing trolls or ICE themselves. This one, posted today, included an AI generated photo of ICE at a 7-11. Use caution before sharing.

This is why parents in Seattle took their kids home from school when they heard ICE was in town. Perceived ICE activity triggered a call to shelter in place in the Seattle schools.

Sometimes you get to report on a win

Good forecast of aurora.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

it is done almost a year later Paper Chrono Trigger is done proper photo session this weekend made from bristol paper, cardstock, sketchbook paper, toilet paper, & matboard (Also bit of clear resin, colored gel, LED strip, & microLEDs)

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

Also the reason why PC gamers, though this will effect console gamers eventually, can no longer afford to build gaming PCs is because the price of RAM and GPUs are through the roof. Due to AI.

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

they think we're fucking stupid www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

This is so funny because the body of historical weather data is MASSIVE and names of geographical locations do not change too frequently. It's such an easy use case and yet 'AI' fails LOL

It's so cringey when a developer talks big about the 'privacy' of Apple's Foundational 'AI' model COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS or WILLFULLY IGNORANT of the how generative 'AI' models must violate the privacy of artists and writers to have enough data for more accurate outputs. Tech has a diversity issue.

this site needs a saved drafts feature

Intentionally bad Photoshop NEVER gets old. There is no need for hyperrealistic images spit out by gen-AI. This is why I follow CPSC 🤣 Go tell them about a landmark that you want to appear in a graphic.

Not sure how to pose in cosplay? This gesture tool lets you cycle through a set of poses based on criteria you set. It filters from the library of photos from TrueRef. Lots of sword poses in there AND by multiple models!

This is gonna be one of my favorite pieces of movie trivia.

Trump Vows To Reopen Joann Fabrics As Prison https://theonion.com/trump-vows-to-reopen-joann-fabrics-as-prison/

@leftistgamermemes.bsky.social ending 2025 with a banger. This one is my favorite.

Roughly 80 Lincoln High School students marched from their downtown campus to Portland City Hall, where they gathered to chant, give speeches, and observe a moment of silence for those who’ve died in ICE custody.

WA friends, you HAVE to respond to this survey on 'AI'. Set aside time on your calendar now. You do not want regrets from not speaking up.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

Using AI art for reference material is just...dumb on a level that I can barely comprehend. If you build the foundation of your house out of shit, that means your whole house is gonna be sitting on a big heap of shit.

It's very telling what a corporation's future plans are if they don't want to commit to reasonable proposals from labor like this. Like, dude, your business depends on writing. You don't write NEW things without a human actively investigating and doing interviews.

The AI Civil Rights Act Bill does not solve this. 1. It normalizes 'AI' decision making and presumes there are algorithms that do no harm. 2. It leaves it up to the dev and deployer to audit themselves. 3. It doesn't require disclosure of training data. We need a GDPR-level privacy law NOW.

Update on the clickbait headlines and descriptions that appear in Google search results for Instagram handles: "Google told me that it is not generating the headlines, and that it’s pulling the text directly from Instagram." Thank you @404media.co and @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for investigating!

Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.

FINALLY one of my electeds has said something against unregulated 'AI'.

Deny, defend, depose

Slight clarification to my last post: It's more accurate to say that text is appearing in Google searches that neither I nor the cosplayers pictured wrote. It's mediocre and sounds as if an LLM was involved. Whether it's generated by Google or Instagram is unclear. But it's problematic either way.

“Bring up AI in a Seattle coffee shop now and people react like you’re advocating asbestos." 🥲 I love this city.

This is your regular reminder that execs don't know shit about what their workers actually do and how to make it better. Do not be afraid to tell your manager and their leaders that they are wrong and are making a mistake if they try to incorporate 'AI' into your workflow. YOU know your work best.

Today I learned that Business Insider is going to have a byline for an 'AI' bot. This throws credibility out the window. ACTION: Sign this petition to send a signal to newsrooms that you want human journalists for accuracy and accountability. actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Over the summer, artists packed the CA statehouse to support a proposed AI transparency law that'd require tech co's to alert creatives and rightsholders when their work is used in AI models and offer a mechanism to remove it. They forced another hearing. It's next week, at Stanford. I'll be there.

This is the difference between making the park safer and keeping it “in tact” for the preservationists that the Landmarks Board said was just not possible to approve Before (dangerous). After (safe).

People keep saying that driverless cars will end congestion. In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.

Meta is creating and serving these ads for their 'AI' with your own photos.

THIS is the story. That the feds are spying on people doing completely legal stuff and characterizing them as “anarchist violent extremists.” The story is NOT that you need to be afraid to court watch or patrol your neighborhood for ICE activity. DO NOT SELF-REPRESS.

Your First Amendment right is being surveilled.

Saw a lawn sign that read "SLOW THE FLOCK DOWN" with an image of a bird on it. I thought it could be about community resistance to Flock automatic license plate readers, but it's reminding people to slow down on a turn that should be done at 25MPH. 😅

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation. If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc. We got 3 days to stop this. Call now! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

ICYMI, state and local cops are NOT supposed to be collaborating with the feds yet they searched Flock ALPR databases on behalf of ICE. THEN it turned out ICE was doing their own searches in a pilot program with Flock. @404media.co has been making FOIA requests for stories. Livestream here:

Gen AI is a FastPass to cheapen your brand.

Flock should have no business anywhere. Fuck the surveillance state.

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract. Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.

ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn. A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.

This is like letting an app do the cosplaying for you. It's outsourcing the fun part to the machines.