This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Another pencil case will fix me

the term for this is late-stage capitalism, this was always the goal, never forget this. never forget capitalism is to blame for everything and none of this is by mistake. This was all on purpose, to think otherwise is to absolve the capitalists of blame. Torch it all. in minecraft

Californians! The current draft of the 2026-2027 state budget defunds several critical library programs! Please write in to express your support to get funding back: - California Library Services Act: funds Link+, the statewide inter-library loan system. - English as a Second Language Funding

New York City pals: I will be in your vicinity for a week at the end of aug/beginning of sept for a workshop, and I'm looking for a couch to crash on that won't cost me an organ. If you or someone you know has such a couch/floor, please let me know! 💙 [I have been known to give good host gifts😜]

I have rehearsal, so I can't apply to these, but both these GMs are ⭐️s, so you should!

Unironically want to start a watch-along of Wishbone in these dark times.

Tonight is our final session of A Silent Harvest!! Will our group of teens be able to save all the adults in town?? Will we learn exactly what's hiding behind the grain silo? And will we ever reveal the secrets of the Great Owl Incident? Join us soon to find out!!! @evilhat.bsky.social

All 4 episodes of Silent Harvest are up on YouTube!! If you missed any of them, you can catch the whole series now!! This show was so much fun, and the game is still in open playtesting for anyone who wants to check it out!

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Streamers: a site called 101Soundboards.com has scraped streamer clips to make AI TTS Voice boards. If you don’t think you’ve been affected, look anyway. I did and, luckily, mine was taken down before I could submit my takedown demand. Just check and, if you have one up, demand a takedown.

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Did this today. another guide: winaero.com/google-chrom...

Yes, you enter chrome://flags into the browser's address bar and it'll open a page where you can enable/disable whichever option you don't want. Here's an article that also tells you which flag to disable (note: haven't tested it myself b/c I don't use Chrome): www.thewindowsclub.com/what-is-weig...

#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano-multimodal-input #writer-api-for-gemini-nano #rewriter-api-for-gemini-nano #proofreader-api-for-gemini-nano #summarizerer-api-for-gemini-nano Like I know "Just delete Chrome" and I agree, but some folks are forced to use it for work or school

Tagging on to this comment since no one (including the article, frustratingly) mentioned what settings to change in chrome://flags to disable this #ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point #omnibox-allow-ai-mode-matches #webui-omnibox_aim_popup #optimization-guide-on-device-model #prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ...

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

So if something happens to that one strait, the whole civilization collapses? That is a great system, well done. Have you thought about colonizing Mars? You'd be good at it.

What a beautiful day to remember art is skilled labour and should be respected as such

New York City pals: I will be in your vicinity for a week at the end of aug/beginning of sept for a workshop, and I'm looking for a couch to crash on that won't cost me an organ. If you or someone you know has such a couch/floor, please let me know! 💙 [I have been known to give good host gifts😜]

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

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My first #zine is finally ready to be released into the wild! It's called "AI is Ruining Everything: The Illusions and Realities of GenAI." It's half-page format because smaller zines couldn't fit all of my anti-AI rage. Find it in my Etsy shop now!: evergreenphoenixshop.etsy.com/listing/4494...

Regardless of what really happened in Washington, DC tonight, the Trump administration will attempt to use this to call for more repression. Remember: anything you hear from anyone in the entire administration is likely a lie. That goes double for Kash Patel's FBI. crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

Now they want to ARREST us if they don’t approve of what we are WEARING, the misogyny does not stop

Warning: Do not run AI Agents on any device used to access Signal or other content that you want to keep safe + unsurveilled. We made this graphic to be posted in your Signal groups to explain what the threat is. Share it widely if you can. More at AISnitches.org

final addition to this thread: again, generative AI is a fascist technology made by fascists for their fascist needs they only want to enslave you mentally (by making you dependant) and financially (so you'll always give money to them), there's no "but it's a good thing!" side to it, unfortunately

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

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“We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost” “After just [about] 10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

As the daughter of a Marine Corps veteran, I can attest to this. The quiet part that politicians won’t say out loud is that denying everyday Americans things like college tuition benefits, subsidized housing, and healthcare is a military recruitment tool. They don’t want everyone to have access.

A few years ago I was told that my art career would be over if I didn't make NFTs ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

THIS, WRIT BIG. Mental health care is INCREDIBLY difficult to access in the US; and that inaccessibility opens the doors to some really insidious and predatory shit.

hey what the fuck

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Artists, show us how you draw black women

speaking of nyt headlines, holy shit

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.

📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸‍♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

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BlueSky deciding we need our very own AI nonsense attached to the protocol, because BlueSky was intended for dull-ass techbros, is getting it's money from AI and Crypto investors, and nobody involved can read the room.