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Tax the fucking billionaires into nonexistence and feed the hungry children

"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort

I need to start working on my night shift material for the burgeoning Japanese audience.

UPDATE: New Bluesky signups in Christmas Day are on pace to exceed 100,000 for the first time since the fallout of "Liberation Day" Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet. bskycheck.com

Is anyone aware of literally one fucking instance of an ICE agent this year quitting in protest

County police in Maryland say federal immigration agents shot at a moving vehicle on Christmas Eve during an enforcement and removal action.

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Here we go with all the same process-based excuses people use when we talk about the DOJ's failure to hold the coup plotters accountable. Now they're all pardoned or in power, and Trump will probably pardon Maxwell on his way out too.

as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,

One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.

This is fucking crazy. Bluesky COULD capitalize on this insanity from Twitter by being more lenient with NSFW art etc and welcome in refugees from Twitter but they won’t.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Get off Twitter. And destroy AI.

AI is a cancer.

Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

elon musk event incoming. and yet people still will not leave the diarrhea forever website

Okay so, every single image on Twitter now has an "Edit Image" button on it, visible to all users, which brings up a Gen"AI" prompt.

For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art

how to use this site for new ppl 1. you're going to be on here less. use that extra time on the computer to draw or write or make music or program or play games etc! 2. don't look at the discover tab 3. follow ur faves 4. follow the people your faves repost + reply to 5. build a feed like that

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

There was a female prison nicknamed the rape club. It got closed (eventually) and the Trump administration is trying to reopen it as a migrant detention center I don't think I need to provide further details. It's all the same stink

The amount of open anti-Indian racism on US software engineering forums (esp related to hiring) has really cranked up with the latest collapse of tech hiring + AI-driven labor displacement (and I guess the broader cultural turn). And people wonder why there is a reactionary culture foothold there.

“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?” For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid. Because I care about people. You dipshit.

Now Im not saying Nicki Minaj has the same job as bari Weiss What i will say tho? Black folks successfully bullied Minaj into deleting her IG in 48 hours And Weiss still has a job Some people understand the assignment and some people refuse to acknowledge the assignment

I wonder to what degree the clearly Satanic Panic coded "the president fed a baby to an alligator" type allegations are (as they were during the Satanic Panic) hyper-literalized emotional reactions to the fact that the system requires us all to watch people get systemically discarded every day.

yes, this is why when you see actual artist time lapses (not ones where someone just hides the AI image they're tracing) there is a ton of time spent just on figuring out the blocking and fixing problems on a structural level. Slop is slop because it is noise without problem solving

Up until literally like november this year I was convinced that I wasn't a writer and so couldn't make any solo games with a narrative, and then I was challenged to make a VN so just, spent some time learning how to write a story. Its literally that simple. You can just, learn how to do a thing

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything. It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

An easy way to explain this: Which is easier to do, bake a cake from scratch, or fix a cake that someone baked after they accidentally used salt instead of sugar?

it also helps push the idea that energy guzzling data centers are needed for some reason more valid than having the chatbot respond in seconds instead of minutes

The large-stolen-content algorithms want to be called AI for the same reason cops want to be called “first responders” - stolen valor that replaces criticism with undeserved respect

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

(CW CSAM/sexual harrasment) Give this girl a fucking medal. Rename the school after her.

So, why is Replit advertising themselves as a general purpose consumer product for laypeople rather than a tool for experienced developers? Most common YouTube ad I get now.

As promised, here are some clips from the speakers for open comments about the construction of the data center. Bluesky limits videos to under 3 minutes so most of these will have to be segmented.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

"Elected officials must ensure that funding for technology and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning." No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.

Perjury. Contempt of Congress. Lying to the public. It’s all there in the files. Documents show that federal investigators knew of at least 10 co-conspirators. Why were they never prosecuted? Why is the Admin shielding their names? Why did they lie to Congress? We will get to the bottom of this.

Well said. I've been against this tech being placed in schools ever since a horrifying conference where a local principal... A) bragged about his requiring English teachers to teach prompt writing B) complained about a cheating epidemic which he blamed on young people not wanting to work anymore.

Abolish ICE.