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Former NaNoWriMo ML with a petty streak. He/Him. 🖤🩶🤍💜
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It’s rare that a YouTube thumbnail gives me both a name for a jam band AND the title of our first album.

While there is a lot to say about this image, the thing that stands out to me the most - what IMO makes genAI a specifically right wing phenomenon - is the craving for approval. It is not enough to be able to generate robot lingerie warrior lady. They NEED to also be praised for doing it.

reddit is so great man. r/appliances user asks if his oven is supposed to be shooting literal flame jets at ankle height

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

Our biggest problem as a society is we've decided wealth is a proxy for intelligence -- when in reality, an overabundance of money causes your brain to cease functioning

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

I do think it's worth marking and remembering that these people were willing to tolerate everything we've experienced since January and more provided it didn't disrupt the economy.

why is no one forcing AI sports onto us? is it bc no one would care about sports without humans’ inherent flaws? This is the same reason ai “art” doesnt work

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

My Animal Crossing island just got hit with 10% tariffs

And, to be clear, it's almost certainly happening *because* the base has been screaming for action from elected Democrats. This isn't "relax, they've got this." This is "keep yelling, it's working."

I just got an email from someone saying “Your order is confirmed” and I clicked it because what the fuck I didn’t order anything and the body of the message says “April Fools ha ha we got you you didn’t order anything” I am never buying anything from them again.

"You should be nice to them because I would rather have them as allies than as enemies." Listen close and listen good: Fragile allies who must be appeased to be retained are worse than no allies. They limit your options, sap energy from your cause, and can disappear the moment you lean on them.

Add Kupo to all of your searches for moogle magic (Killing AI)

first of all: LMFAO. second of all, the answer is all 5 of them carry you in a palanquin

I push small figurines on a playmate and use wood sticks to determine sight lines before taking copious notes. My partner: I take it you're writing a war scene? Me: Heck no! I wouldn't break out all this for that. I'd just handwave it. This is more serious. It's a debutante ball.

“This is as fallacious as the similarly groundless claim from persnickety lackwits that my linguistic expression is somehow archaic, nay antediluvian. This is the kind of pettifoggery up with which I shall not put." www.patreon.com/posts/123513...

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I see articles about Target losing a *billion* dollars over DEI rollback boycotts. That's good, but these journalists need to frame this better. Don't give me: "Target loses billions over DEI boycotts." Try: "DEI support is a billion dollar selling feature, as Target's costly mistakes prove."

I’m not out of control. There’s one right here

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

if you kidnap me you don't even gotta blindfold me or whatever while you transfer me. you could leave my eyes open, drive me in broad daylight, and give me a compass and I'd still be like "i have no idea where they've taken me"

But that’s what I’m the worst at. #webcomic #animalart

When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.