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ATL+ 徳島県 + PIT + SEA. UX designer. Ethical tech is cool. GenAI is bullshit. JET Program alum. 日本語OKかも。 Volcanoes, violins, not violence…but punching Nazis is OK. That Pirates of Dark Water (.net) lady. 🏴‍☠️💎 PFP: a rotund bird with blue and pink feathers
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Bill Ackman embracing 1900s style xenophobia and racism has always been the logical endgame of Bill Ackman

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

yes, the field of computer vision was borne out of US military and carceral surveillance, where it was historically developed to identify targets and gather intelligence in war & law enforcement

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Really bad, y'all. It's been shaky but this, what is getting announced right now? This is us losing Earth & Space Science in the US.

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early space lawyer: moon's litigious nasa employee: what? space lawyer: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's litigious

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

Very subtle www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

submitted 23 hours ago • 74 comments

Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Why is everyone mad at New York? Isn’t Mamdani just young Bernie Sanders but Muslim? Oh.

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Watching Robot Carnival, for those who remember that from the Sci-Fi Channel in the 90s. 80s anime is truly a gem, and the animation and visual detail are JUST STUNNING in these shorts. Also, I actually understand the macro/micro themes this time, lol.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I live in a world where I am simply supposed to accept that this headline exists

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 558 comments

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

HOOO DAWGIES

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So grateful for period underwear. But it’s an expensive trial-and-error exercise to find ones that work (i.e., provide adequate coverage). I order them when my period hits, and by the time I use them, 30+ days have passed so any refund offers have expired.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Get this pair to Seattle. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Are you freaking kidding me…the big 3 US airlines charge solo travelers more for domestic one-way flights than for 2+ travelers. SimpleFlying confirmed it. youtu.be/8ddKszVU4kc

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

lol @chadloder.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Wake up nerds, the first images from the Rubin Observatory just dropped! Rubin’s specialty: a wide field of view and speed. This gorgeous image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae combines 678 exposures taken in 7 hours. 📸: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Seattle has an Afrobeat festival next month?! Um YEAH I’ll go check it out. #BLASTFEST #Seattle blastmusicfest.com

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New #Muse! youtu.be/bK0bFsn8Jmc... (FYI, some strobe effects in the video.) Interesting that they’re continuing to embrace metal. I’m getting 90s-00s rock vibes from the overall sound. The melody and note intervals aren’t my favorite, but maybe it’ll grow on me the way all their new music does.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Will Burkart and Nolan Culver (opener) were fantastic tonight. Standup comedy is so different in person and the audience’s positive energy really makes a difference. This was just the first of several comedy shows I grabbed tix for — I can’t wait. :)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing a comedy show tonight, and NOT sitting near the front. 😂 I’ve started watching loads of standup on YT, but this is my first live show in years. I even double-checked what to wear (jeans, tee, either Tevas or sneakers — 60-and-cloudy = summer in Seattle). Hope you all enjoy your weekend. :)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a big space nerd & tech fiend. I spent the early oughts around some of the wannabe tech elites & lower echelon scrubs. They weren't progressive, they just wanted to be the ones who brought progress. As soon as they realized they couldn't, their emasculation turned to authoritarian vengeance.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

ICE was created in 2003 with the help of mass marketing exploiting people's fears and prejudices, and with overwhelming support from both parties. A vocal minority predicted correctly that ICE would become an instrument of mass terror against all of us. Trans people are warning us similarly today.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

submitted 4 days ago • 1209 comments

Hey, #Seattle, where’s a good vantage point to see the incredibly funky clouds to the southeast? In SLU/CapHill/Belltown, but I am willing to drive!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Screw the haters. I am absolutely carrying an umbrella with me from now on. #seattle

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I love everything about this except referring to the 90s as "the late 1900s." (Not the first time I've heard that -- when did that become a thing?!) 😭 But seriously, this is SO COOL. And reanimating PoDW using modern tools fills my heart with joy.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 7 days ago • 242 comments

Juneteenth coincides with the anniversary of losing my sweet goofball cat with no warning 3 years ago. Maybe someday I can celebrate the day-of more wholeheartedly.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

submitted 8 days ago • 166 comments

At Seattle federal building, there is a vigil and speak out for Tuan Pham, who was deported to Djibouti in Africa, where he is staying in a shipping container with other deportees in a totally foreign environment

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Heads up PDX: Unstable MAGA provocateur Jonathan Choe is at the ICE protest tonight filming agit prop for TPUSA. Choe has a history of not only misrepresenting events, but of assaulting leftists. Dude gets worked up & tries to get a rise out protestors. Be alert.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments