As always, this sort of tone policing and pearl clutching about civility have always been and will always be a form of social means testing. You can care, but by golly don't care too much. Don't be so affected that you say a naughty nono word or have feelings of anger, fear, or indignation.

"I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff."

Throwback to when AI bros were saying they were digital artists because they both used technology to make art. So as a digital artist I found a rock, burnt some sticks, and made a busty dragoness out of nothing but shit I had in my backyard. Nothing will stop real artists from making real art.

in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it

Paige Thomas, 34, really should know what to do when faced with a mess she herself made - but settles for hyperventilating, then rearranging the mess into a slightly different mess.  Tidy this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/127118...

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

I love how our financial apparatus is designed to do everything possible to make sure we aren't committing fraud on a micro-level but ignores anything in the 7-digit range. Hope this gets sorted out for you soon.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Also, I’ve been looking for more efficient ways to draw animal ears lately. So far, I feel like this method lets me draw them with the best balance and 3D volume🧐

This is good on how the tech/VC industry is essentially a giant collusion, but this kind of stuff reminds me of the Levy Wired piece - clearly, if it popped up this suddenly and was this successful, this kind of mind-pickle was at least pretty heavily latent in tech sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...

once more with feeling

I remember saying months ago that the reason you don't see Proud Boys anymore is because they're all ICE agents now and I had a bunch of people poo-poo me and say I was reaching. And now the leader of the Proud Boys is in the list of ICE agents that a whistleblower just leaked.

A good discussion examining the nuances of car-centricsm vs car-as-a-hobby. #Motornomativity #ClassicCars

Welp did the math and I am still feeling the aftershocks of work going "Hey we don't need you for two weeks and we're not paying you while you're off :)" and am going to be short for rent and various bills this month... again... Any bit helps, I really appreciate it ;~; ko-fi.com/mentova78312

Reject all claims that either government or the private sector is intrinsically more competent. Both can be run well or badly. Both have ways of rewarding either competence or incompetence. Focus on the people in charge, and their incentives.

For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

What do you mean if? 🤣 This is funnily enough fairly close to what gladiators actually did. www.youtube.com/shorts/kwWLq...

“In like 95% of situations where a disengagement or accident happens with autonomous vehicles, it’s a very regular, routine situation for humans.” Tech companies claimed autonomous vehicles would reduce congestion. They add to it. Why would we believe any of their claims, especially about safety?

“They [lie] badly, which alone really makes the lie a moral offence against the other. It implies his stupidity, and so serves to express contempt...

Data centres consume enormous amounts of energy, can destabilise already under-maintained power grids, and contribute to rising electricity costs. At the same time, they create very few long-term local jobs once construction is completed. It’s encouraging to see communities defend their interests.

I'll essentially just walk through the whole "you only buy the solar panels and batteries once and then they harvest energy from the sun for free" thing, contrasting it with "can't stop slurping oil outta the ground or all the machines stop" and stare intensely at camera while I ask which is better

I had chicken pox in 1995 at age 10, old enough that it was far worse for me than my younger siblings, literally a week before the vaccine was approved in the U.S. — Bad enough that to this day when I imagine dying it’s basically just “having the chicken pox”

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

The individual choice to swap a car for a bike is the easy part. The hard part is finding a city that prioritizes that freedom of choice through infrastructure.

Woke up to a $100 dollar overdraft. I'm already in debt (300) and my husband got laid off from his job this month, unemployment still pending. I'm fucking scared and I don't know what to do. Help #mutualaid #transcrowdfund Paypal: [email protected] Cashapp: $lmt4

It saves money to deal with the root-cause of problems, rather than trying to treat the symptoms Same goes for “too much traffic”

this has been my secret for decades.

So new apartment has been achieved and my god it's already making a huge health difference. In the last 7 days I have spent more time there than at my old apartment and have actually been able to stop taking allergy meds. I have had to take them for years at this point.

Without their valiant efforts at sowing division and discourse people might be able to talk to each other and conclude both reasons suxk and the entire right wing movement should be thrown out on their ass

For the first time in a long time Apple is probably not releasing a new iPhone this year. This is because the cost of RAM has risen so much that it's either not profitable enough to produce a new phone or they'd have too charge too much. Because of AI data centers. Apple, yo. Fucking Apple.

"MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Short, eye-opening Sky News segment on the declining density of U.S. oil as a result of the shale revolution. Refineries in the South are specialised in processing heavy, dense crude; to keep running, they rely on constant imports—and the easiest sources they can tap are Canada & Venezuela.

The advert, which claims that the company values honesty and direct communication, and “fosters a culture of respect and integrity” might as well have followed on with “THIS IS A TRICK” in bright-red 72-point font.

Let me provide some context here: GenAI shills have over promised GenAI and their cousin platforms as the digital equivalent of a multitool that can be applied reliably to solve almost any problem encountered in the world. Moreover, they've convinced the public that this is the case.

Crooks, thugs and madmen run the United States.

I posted this on Instagram and after a few minutes it disappeared. I didn’t get a notification that it was deleted either. It literally just vanished. 😐

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Sorry about the frequent posts. I feel like I'm only half here. But seriously, finances are going to be a mess and until I have a good idea exactly what I need, I have to share this old GoFundMe,

morning/for the australian crowd reminder, this sale's still going on! over 600 photos of maine, for cheap cheap cheap!

I heard folks taking like "you've gotta check out this 'slurmcore' stuff, the videos are so surreal, there's definitely something wrong with the Gen Z kids", and then I looked it up and it's literally identical to the shitty animutations I was watching on Flash portals in 2001.

those who say "time heals all wounds" probably never suffered from childhood trauma.

attention new bluesky users: pick up that can