this is so cool haptics.lochie.me

did microslop consider knocking this garbage off instead, to not be slop

Dentro de mim tem dois lobos: um quer escrever tudo corretamente, com letra maiúscula no início das frases, vírgulas e acentuação correta e o outro ta nem ai quer tudo sem ponto sem pausas pra respirar sem acento sem caps lock sem nada apenas vibes e quem entender entendeu se n entender deicha assim

Kicking and screaming. #webcomic #comicsky #community

I can’t tell when things are written by AI bc I have spent my whole life trying to approximate normal human speech too

Bernie Sanders interviewed by NYT's Sydney Ember published on May 18 2019

we need other people, and the biggest lie in the genAI scene is them selling the fantasy that no we don't

you don't need code, you need someone who thinks like a programmer you don't need a picture, you need someone who thinks like an artist does but so long as someone leans on it to do that thinking for them, they aren't going to develop that way of thinking in themselves, will become dependant on it

separate from a job skill or ability to pay someone to do it, there's a critical mindset for how to think like a writer, an artist, a teacher, an engineer, a filmmaker, etc engineers troubleshoot calmly. it can't give someone that. it fosters the opposite +alt for accessibility, search, mute words

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

Me perguntando se no Polymarket já tem aposta para "3ª Guerra Mundial vai iniciar no primeiro trimestre de 2026" (com certeza tem)

Não sei quem é pior, o procrastinador amador ou o profissional

Epstein being the Forrest Gump of pedophile billionaires makes sense when you consider that he had enough money to do whatever he felt like, for decades without consequence, 24/7. *Every* billionaire could do the exact same thing if they felt like it. Each is a ticking time bomb.

all these damn ads going around "the new way to code no longer involves writing code" "you can make art without doing art" "teach a course without having to teach" jfc these clowns

Hoje eu vou é ficar só nas threads de bichinhos, sinto muito

É o favorito da galera, de longe

tipo. olha esse editorial sobre o ano do cavalo.. juro (diretor de arte: zipeng li)

A produtividade trazida pelos geradores de lero-lero é a de gente que não sabe escrever discorrendo sobre assuntos que não quer entender pra caçar o clique de gente que não gosta de ler porque isso demanda pensar. Onde isso aumenta demais a produtividade é quando a ideia é só espalhar mentiras.

I'm reminded of this quote by Oscar Wilde and referenced by Hugh Nibley. "The manager “knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing”, because for him the value is the price." speeches.byu.edu/talks/hugh-n...

hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon

Americans vastly overestimate the strength of US civil society. Around the time Bolsonaro and Trump were elected I remember some Very Smart People saying that Brazilian society was doomed bc it's such a young democracy, whereas the established democracy of the US would withstand a fashy leader.

Not to mention that, while most people get their news from social media, the people who create that content get their news from actual news outlets, often without credit. So a concerted project to hollow out these institutions also hollows out a lot of these independent creators.

Who can afford to send a journalist to congress every day? To state legislature? To City Council? None of the independent journos I know in Canada are feeding themselves off of this. But bigger outlets can afford that. So if ownership is explicitly right-wing, how does that filter down?

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

GenAI exists at the intersection of anthropomorphizing technology & dehumanizing other people. It's a lot easier to ascribe meaning & intentionality to the machine if you don't believe that other people are people. There's no difference between AI & human writing if EVERYTHING is devoid of soul.

More futzing around with halftones today I'm trying to get the main illustrations for my little zine wrapped up, but I've still got a lot to do and I don't want to stress myself about a project that's entirely for fun

Não acompanho BBB e não sei mais o que é real

"(...) we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in [tech], not only doesn’t care about their workers, they actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line." — cont.

Isso aqui é tão verdade que até dói de ler.

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

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O fato dele nunca sorrir quando está com o Trump, como normalmente faz, diz tanto....

Todo dia esta pauta precisa estar sendo falada!

Nós estamos em 2026 , "a automatização é um futuro do qual não dá pra fugir" mas dois dias de folga na semana irão colapsar a economia

@ratamero.com melhor coisa que vc fez foi montar um servidor. Provável que ano que vem eu tb entre nessa

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Ninguém se engane: as elites brasileiras estão olhando pra Argentina e EUA e se deliciando com a combinação de Estado Policial, esmagamento de direitos trabalhistas, censura e muita guerrinha cultural conservadora. Elas vão estabelecer um consenso em torno de QUALQUER OPOSITOR das esquerdas.

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

adoraria saber quanto dos ganhos com publicidade do grupo globo vem do agronegócio para calcular o preço dessa frase aqui: "não é tolerável invadir propriedades e praticar vandalismo contra empresas essenciais para o êxito do pujante setor do agronegócio brasileiro."

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.