the idea that you can use genAI that’s exclusively trained on your studios content is very silly because 1) yes that’s fine 2) won’t work though 3) a much faster and easier way would be to hand author a bunch of pieces and design a system to mix and match them 4) whoops that’s just proc gen

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

Defunding the police was always the basement in terms of a demand. Not a *slogan* but an actionable demand.

I saw this in Oslo and still have questions.

it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving

Imagined victimhood is a foundational tenet of fascism. Persecution fantasies permeate conservative politics. Their great oppressors include racial diversity, science, drag brunch, children's literature, public education, N-95 masks, electric cars, medicine, the rule of law, empathy, and Ms. Rachel.

Wizard axolotl. I noticed people tend to make them look a lot cooler than they are when drawing them, so I wanted to fix that. They already have the perfect body, and need no change. #artpost

I thought they JUST said that it was just going to be used for "ideation." That went from "just" mock ups, to in game assets real fast.

He risked a life many Americans would give anything to have in order to shoot an innocent citizen in the face three times. How do you hate someone more than you love your wife and children?

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

Reminder that the argument against GenAI has MULTIPLE points and all matter: 1. It is theft 2. It puts people out of work 3. It uses disproportionate resources 4. It removes artistic agency Do not let someone go "but they don't do 1 and 2!" Distract you from the others

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It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

This is former pro baseball player John Rocker who is harassing daycare centers in Columbus, Ohio, home to the nation's 2nd largest Somali population. What a monster. www.rawstory.com/maga-2674863...

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Doing my part, as much as it hurts to have to.

She voted to confirm a Trump judge just yesterday.

Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese

absolutely horrific, she’s very clearly trying to move out of the way and the ICE agents escalates and murder her

Jamelle Bouie posted a great video about how he's not going to engage with anyone claiming Good's murder was self-defense, or she was trying to ram the ICE officer with her car, etc. I think that's exactly right. It is not good for the human soul to humor or debate bald-faced, knowing lies.

Any studio that says they're only using their own assets for an A.I. model is lying to you, likely intentionally. Generative A.I. models require an insane amount of existing work to create anything that looks new and decent. Categorizing said data would take years.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

We must go deeper!!

Nice to see how fucked we are, I suppose.

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The bird meme will never die 🐦‍⬛ #Gladlands

Attention Bluesky elders: The artist behind the ANIMORPHS covers is here!

+ approximately half of the weight loss while on GLP-1s is muscle and bone mass. The implications of muscle and bone mass loss for an aging population are considerable.

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If you haven’t obliterated your X account by now and especially after this, I’m unsure what will move you. With grace in my heart, today would be the best day for you to exercise X from your life and never look back. Be well

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.

You may have seen reports swimming around claiming that X finally restricted the Grok deepfake/undressing features behind a paid subscription. That simply isn't true. Not even close. www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

The big tech industry is just heinously evil. Rocketed up in the rankings past wall street and defense contractors, incredible feat

The desperate wriggling to find some tolerable use case for this worthless, deeply unethical, planet destroying tech is pathetic Maybe value your employees more and the torment nexus less, dude

So, both the Guardian and WaPo were wrong, and they could have proven it to themselves by using the website for 5 minutes.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Can’t stress enough how major media outlets are continually failing (or aligned with the owner of Twitter) when reporting on this. “Grok” didn’t do anything. The owner of grok made the CSAM generator into a premium service.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

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