Doug Warren
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The "No Generative AI" Pledge: "I oppose the use of so-called generative AI. I will not willingly interact or transact business with individuals and organizations that promote its use. Where alternatives exist, I will use them. Where they do not, I will support their creation."
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Meme acquired elsewhere, applicable here
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mayonnaise boy
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who the fuck is “we”, my good bitch? I’ve got plenty of good ideas, many of which include a guillotine
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Allyship
about 17 hours ago
This message cannot be emphasized enough. "Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." ~ George Orwell
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI
2 days ago
this might be the puppiest puppy ever actually....
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I've seen enough. I'm calling it. That ottoman has lost.
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Goonies never say AI!
add a skeleton here at some point
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www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Fight to Stop Data Center Creep - Truthdig
Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-fight-to-stop-data-center-creep/
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Rebecca Solnit
1 day ago
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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Sheila Jenné
2 days ago
This infuriates me. They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately. We have no recourse.
writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
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Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you c...
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/
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Food & Water Watch
3 days ago
More and more people are speaking out against AI data centers in their communities. Alongside 200+ groups from across the climate movement, we're calling for a moratorium on these centers until they're properly regulated.
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200+ Environmental Groups Demand Halt to Construction of New U.S. Data Centers
More than 200 environmental groups are demanding a national moratorium on the construction of data centers in the U.S un
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11/headlines/200_environmental_groups_demand_halt_to_construction_of_new_us_data_centers
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Morgana Ignis
3 days ago
Using a VAs voice in AI “song covers”, or for any other non-consensual use, is not a compliment. It’s not an homage. It’s fucking disgusting. Trust me when I say that there isn’t a single VA I can think of that doesn’t absolutely despise that. No true fan would do that.
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Ben Fry
3 days ago
Super impressed with this extremely well-documented, and well-designed, open source hacking project. What a pleasant surprise:
www.typeframe.net
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Typeframe
A collection of open-source hardware and software for building writerdecks/cyberdecks.
https://www.typeframe.net/
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[Swanson Food Laboratories, 1989] DESSERT RESEARCHER A: Uhhh... what if... no... DESSERT RESEARCHER B: Okay, listen, let's... no, that's stupid. DESSERT RESEARCHER C: [bursting in three hours late, clothing rumpled, hair wild] Guys! GUYS! ICE CREAM LASAGNA!!!
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collectaBK7
4 days ago
It's gonna be fun to see just how much the AI industry collapses when they finally start making it a paid service. Who is actively gonna use this stuff if it's a subscription fee?
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Jake Broe
2 days ago
Trump is forcing America to betray all of our European and democratic allies right now to form a new alliance with Putin and Russia. All decent Americans must resist this!
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DAD: Son, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned? Will you defeat them, the demons, and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? SON: Say, Dad, where are your meds?
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Holidays Jennifer/Aster 🏳️⚧️🐧
4 days ago
Psst, Disney. We’ll ruin your reputation and only charge you $750 million for the service instead of $1 billion. You can’t pass up savings like that!
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"Killing Yourself Is the Bravest Thing You Can Do", starring Disney's Rescue Rangers.
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Eugene Day, DSc
3 days ago
Sooo Disney is farming their IP to OpenAI. Glad that I abandoned my subscription when the price doubled last month. I like Marvel, but not enough to pay $160/yr for a soulless corporation actively investing in the demise of art.
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Joshua Holland
3 days ago
If you commit murder you should definitely fear "personal legal blowback."
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U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes
Staff officers and at least one drone pilot have sought advice from outside groups over legal concerns about their own involvement — or potential involvement — in the strikes against suspected drug bo...
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5629164/boat-strikes-service-members-legal-risk
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Normalize strumming a tightly-stretched spring in a cardboard tube.
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Public Citizen
4 days ago
OpenAI & Disney announced a deal to license more than 200 copyrighted characters to OpenAI’s Sora platform. This deal helps mainstream an unregulated & dangerous technology and raises concerns about displacement of human writers, actors, and directors. So much is at stake.
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My own take on billionaires, which I like to think of as common sense, is that you shouldn't take money from them if they're also unrepentant and unpunished murderers.
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amos
4 days ago
github's down, time to push stuff to
codeberg.org
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Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
https://codeberg.org/
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Dr John
4 days ago
capitalism without consumers is going to get spicy
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Christian Wolf
3 days ago
Ok, I have a strong opinion on this, perhaps you can convince me otherwise: if you need an LLM to understand a paper for reviewing, perhaps you should not be a reviewer. And your argument is saved time, then perhaps you planned to not read all the details. Then again, you should not be a reviewer.
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The D20 Future Show
4 days ago
It’s my old boss’ leaving do today. The speaker asked Chat GPT what made him so special. Urgh! When it comes to my time, I really hope my colleagues can see asking an LLM is an insult not a compliment. You are supposed to be able to think of your own nice things to say!
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[arca xmas remix] 🎄
4 days ago
this is what every hallmark christmas movie is like to me
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Dev Petty
4 days ago
I hope businesses start to figure out that dumb references to AI and cross-branding with AI bullshit is prohibitive to many of us.
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How to Blow a Hole in the Boat to Propitiate Poseidon with Souls of the Drown'd
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Kimiko Shibata
4 days ago
“I should not walk into a room wondering whether decades of training and years of caring for a patient will be dismissed because of something they saw on social media.”
www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
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Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/anti-vaccine-rhetoric-doctors-emotional-toll/
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I'm cool with Supergirl being portrayed as a cynical detached party girl, but as an near-adult-expatriate of late-stage Kryptonian culture, she should also have a strong unplaceable accent and deeply problematic and embarassing political opinions.
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4 days ago
Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.
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WholesomeMemes
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Jane
5 days ago
#SomeGoodNews
A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine. The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning
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Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future
A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid washing machine
https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
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Max Colbert
5 days ago
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds
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Marcie8🎅8
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No, Del Monte, this is in no way pizza adjacent. Two pounds of canned beans plopped in the middle of a bundt meatloaf that has been splashed Jackson Pollock-like with ketchup and cheese is a food crime
#VintageFood
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J from 3 Minute board games
5 days ago
Then don't make the game. It's a simple as that. If a game needs to use a plagiarism machine to exist, it doesn't need to exist.
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Benjamin Harnett
5 days ago
I have been pitched on so many AI jobs now, and they are always variations of “something that will never ever work” or “something that should be illegal if it ever does work.”
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Felix O'Kelly
5 days ago
I see that Google AI is trending. I would just like to say fuck Google AI, I hate seeing it shoved at me constantly, rather than just having an easy turn-off option. I try to step on a proper result, I can do my own research!
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Jesi🃏♠️🔥
5 days ago
It’s baby giraffe time. 🥰
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Iris van Rooij 💭
5 days ago
"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0
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Cooper Lund
6 days ago
Masculinity is crying when things don't go your way now
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Scott Semegran
6 days ago
Not only am I receiving a shit ton of AI marketing emails tailored towards my books, but the AI reviews are now appearing on Goodreads. They say shit like, "My review for your book just landed on Goodreads! Can I interest you in putting your book in front of avid ..." WTAF?!
#writerscommunity
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Jamie Smart
6 days ago
The guy who cut my hair yesterday was lovely but he did suggest I use AI to make my books as it would be a lot quicker, so now I can never go back :(
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PREDATOR: [bursts through the door of a suburban house at night] THE "TO CATCH A PREDATOR" GUY: Hi. Sit down for a moment. PREDATOR: "HHII. sIiiiTt DoWN foR a MMoooment." TCaP GUY: Tell me, what did you come here tonight to do? PREDATOR: [activates self-destruct countdown]
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Alan Baxter
6 days ago
Well, that AI McDonald's ad is huge steaming pile of shit. The artistic value of their advertising now matches the nutritional value of their food, I guess.
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Thisfox
6 days ago
The absent teacher left work made by A.I. for the students I am teaching today & it is wavering between wrong & VERY wrong. It asks questions about characters who aren't even in the novel they are reading. It would be so simple to use a real textbook.
#AIeducation
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