And now a word from AOC.

This is fascinating!

I have posted about this before, but... Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 1/6

The complete edition of Transformers: Battlegrounds with all DLC included is currently 70% off on Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. If you want a decent little XCOM-like featuring the Cyberverse cast for under $10, now's the time to grab it before it goes away forever!

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

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they should invent a nap that does your chores

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Oh yeah those sure do look like totally legit messages from USPS 🙄

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

I used to write and make commercials so I always assume I'll know the punchline from the setup but this one got me good. What a lovely, lovely spot.

I like pseudoepehdrine in terms of being able to breathe when I have a cold. But oh gods, why do people take stimulants recreationally? I am so jittery. It is awful. Better than being stuffy, but still awful.

Mind you this exists because of assault. The bag is being blocked because other men are assaulting women at such high numbers that the company HAS to do something. The men in Japan aren't happy about the women only train cars either but, such is life.

Its getting scarier by the minute out there. Protect yourself. Turn off biometrics. Learn the magic words. Share with others.

It has now been confirmed that the US invaders that crossed into Mexico to illegally place DOD signs on Mexican territory were US military contractors (possibly Marines disguised as civilians), the US has yet to issue an apology but admits to the action calling it a "mistake."

If Paypal asks for your opinion, you do NOT say it was NSFW or a commission! Spread the word, because we need to innoculate ourselves to this paypro bullshit.

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

Consequences are not cancel culture. They're just a new concept for parts of society, who have never actually had to deal with them before.

WHAT. 😡

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

hey! if I send you an invoice, shut the fuck up. do not mention NSFW stuff or even the word "furry" or anything, Paypal is company of dickbags searching for any excuse to harass creators. using invoices is the smartest/best/safest way of working as a comm artist, and this is explicit targeting

Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane Support Blender today!!!

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Wish Dragon #sculpture #cardboard #artprocess

Posted this before, but in my not so humble opinion you can never have too much Mongolian heavy metal throat singing.... The Hu, Wolf Totem. Side note they also do cooking videos "Hu's In The Kitchen". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8d...

Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are. It does the same for everyone that excused them.

Fuck :(

Apple: Here, use some AI Scrivener: I would prefer not to.

SNAP recipients have to provide documentation, be interviewed, frequently recertify, and are subject to onerous restrictions and made to jump through hoops. Yet we’re accused of fraud and our lives threatened by people who provide not one shred of evidence.

hell yes!! more of this!!! we are protecting people, but also our own time and our own brains!!!!!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said they've never seen a backpack on a set of moose antlers, until now. https://tinyl.co/3zWx

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

Obviously this should be called hosting an Executive Function

I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE

Corruption right in front of your eyes: 1) Bennet says he wants universal healthcare. 2) DaVita drops $50K into his Super PAC. 3) Suddenly Bennet claims he “can’t do anything” on healthcare as Governor. This is what bought-and-paid-for politics looks like.

Of course it’s airborne. This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.

“Why do authors always—“ I’m gonna stop you right there. Because it sells books. Because it sells books! If a large group of authors is consistently doing something, it’s because it works. You can hate whatever it is, but don’t shit on authors for making business decisions.

Reading a long story and the secondary couple has just got together. Which would be fine if this wasn't literally their first scene together. I understand the urge to pair the spares, but even the second fiddles deserve a little more than this.

WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

this is hilarious and SO TRUE (did they build it at hengdian???) #cdrama via tumblr www.tumblr.com/xiao-hudie/8...

Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk. DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai. Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.

The worst for me is they aren't even recommending thrift, but misery. "Grandma doesn't need slippers." I could find dozens of free patterns for slippers. Knit, sewn, crocheted. Most beginner friendly and easily using scraps or upcycled materials. They just enjoy the suffering.

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I wish this were so much less true than it is.