Masami Nagasawa is fierce and unforgettable as O-Ei, the woman behind ukiyo-e master Hokusai, in Tatsushi Omori’s gritty historical biopic.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship. we CAN do this. there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.

But the most important consideration may just be this: if you're right in all of your fears about this regime in its authoritarian ambitions and fascist character, then this is the most vulnerable they will be for a long while. Why would you not stay now and fight them now when they are so weak?

that's right that's why i freely admit: i'm not nice. "nice" is a social strategy.

I saw this and hoped it was him 🥹🥹🥹

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

excited for this trend to continue when 30 years from now Nick Fuentes takes a principled stance against the policies of President Triple Hitler, a clone containing the souls of three Hitlers in a single body

please stay alive, 1) so you can see a better future, and 2) so you can help make it

This is such good news for me and my fellow SAG/AFTRA members! www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-me...

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Pure gold

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

We’ve had one, yes. But what about second weekend?

This is why I’m very vocal against it and I don’t accept “well it’s here and you can’t change that because progress or something.” I don’t accept that because it’s NOT progress.

how many fucking times do we have to say no more

Not my dad casually dropping baby pronouns in the family chat 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

Tbh i had been really worried about reactions to telling people about baby, but everyone has been so kind and supportive and nice about it… I was worried I was gonna get a lot of “why tf would you do that” or judgmental comments about kids but there haven’t been any

Watching Cats and Gus the theatre cat is singing his final bit and I’m just so mad all over again at how dirty they did him in the 2019 version. Just cruel.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

I am so ready (emotionally, NOT in any other way) for this baby to be here

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid

Hey HEB who do I contact about adding more truffles to the white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream, the ratio needs some tweaks

Me three months ago:

Dear supergiant games, I know you’re hard at work but if you released hades2 for switch mid October it would mean the world to me

I miss Luna

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Got my mom to watch the “Baby Race” episode of Bluey, a complete success

I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad

Weird how certain area codes (mostly ones I’ve lived in) feel real and normal and others feel fake and wrong

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

All interactions I have with producers, studio execs, and folks who can straight up make it happen… it all goes the same way: - “Can’t wait to find the right script” - “Can’t wait to read” - “Will read ASAP” They nowhere without a script. Get writing. (and fuck AI!)

I feel like an alien when people talk about some of the stuff they watch. What do you MEAN you’re watching a three hour movie review voluntarily?? I’d rather eat glass

Everyone responding to this with some variation of “just tell AI to summarize it for you”: I curse you. I curse your lineage. Fucking never will I do that

What’s going on with my "tops" and, in some cases, "bottoms?”

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this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works