I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Everyone with any sense can see there are critical shortages of basic things like housing, sanitation systems, healthcare, public transit, etc. In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.

i see that post about managing your agents and think “the promise of ai is that we can all be small business owners”

I'll be honest, this isn't about AI at all, it's about the increased expectations of productivity put on tech workers due to a declining rate of profit. all these new tech cos have sky high 9/9/6 expectations for workers; AI is, like all things, just a convenient proxy for exploitation.

the crowd is chanting "machine zone, machine zone, machine zone". there's a biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that says READ NATASHA DOW-SCHULL'S 'ADDICTION BY DESIGN'

> uk parliament pushes legal and extralegal exclusion of trans women from public life > women's groups start closing en masse masterful gambit keir and joanne. surely this will protect women

get fucked starmer. i hope something actually happens.

Let this be a reminder: do not date something a company can turn off at any time

progress has been made on the mice thing but me & my gf remain extremely broke and i'm anxious as fuck. plz help if you can, thankz

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

You need to understand that for every store that gets out, there are easily 5 more. There are segments of la frontera that are known as death valleys because of the difficulty of maintaining hydration and CBP‘s institutionalized culture of destroying water sources left behind by crossers & activists

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

saw this in the replies of a post about AOC maybe running for president and. come on. there is a case to be made that we should vote for AOC despite her past decisions, but that case needs to be made honestly! it is more than reasonable for voting to fund the iron dome to be disqualifying!

Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves. Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!! act.progressive.international/flotilla/

Last night I wrote out a full artist statement/essay to wrap this thread of exploration up, then slept for like 14 hours. Here you go: THIS ART ISN'T ABOUT AI

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

Had a quest in dwarf fortress where I needed to go talk to this guy in a tavern so I get there, introduce my self, start to say what I need and he falls over dead because he had his head torn off years ago during world generation and never noticed until I made the game load his body into memory.

Capitalist progress!

I'm something of a highguard gregory myself

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To repeat. -- And to repeat: The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet, and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism, are the same faction.

getting a sharp reminder this is one of those topics where expressing any sort of sympathy towards children's right to like, Use The Internet will get you completely batshit fucking responses

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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

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please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

I just really can't get over how platforms seem to want to assemble a teen council, something that would attract the kind of teenager who wants to be in something called a teen council, a demographic who would not make every other teenager extremely mad at you for listening to their suggestions

Google Drive has targeted NSFW content in the past. GitHub just pulled a ton of NSFW game mods and sex toy plugins. People chose Discord because they could host content within the shadows, avoiding a heavy moderating hand www.404media.co/github-ban-s...

relatedly there's a strong argument that, even if you cannot RUN the models on your machine at home, any model that is based on fair use training and on the public domain should, itself, be in principle public domain and i'd like to see people making THAT argument instead of "sand is evil"

If you're a person who thinks "billionaires are evil -> billionaires own big tech -> frontier labs dominate the LLM space and are owned by billionaires -> LLMs is evil" then I am sympathetic to it. However the correct prescription is not to destroy LLM technology but to expropriate it.

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors. Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

the modern super bowl is a social experiment to see how many draft kings ads they can cram into four hours of tv

the reactions to this show—as usual—a narrowly focused AI panic distracts from questions about broader economic conditions. what she's saying is bleak but also straightforwardly true—& AI did not create the conditions under which writers compete to pump out identical books as quickly as possible !

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin died 102 years ago today

So long as we're having the conversation about why countries occupy territories they have no geographic right to be in...

Knuckles x Dale x Sandslash

a thing about universal healthcare that i don’t think gets talked about enough is that even if you kept everything else about how healthcare works the same, the simple fact that the patient wouldn’t need to pay attention to stressful logistics during recovery would directly improve their prognosis

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

But you shouldn't care anyway because this still falls under the BDS boycott of Microsoft which is absolutely still going on. Free Palestine.

One thing missing in a lot of Greenland discourse is that Denmarks claim to Greenland is as illegitimate as trumps. The rightful owners of Greenland are the indigenous people who have been suffering under European and now possibly America colonization