Trying to get into a new art hobby that isn't digital art is so disheartening nowadays because WHAT DO YOU MEAN ETSY IS OVERFLOWING WITH AI CROCHET PATTERNS. D:< That needs to be some sort of crime if it already isn't, as there's no actual product there, and to a newb the AI is not always obvious.
Photo of the night sky silhouetting trees. Sky is clear and dark, with many stars visible such as the three that make up Orion’s Belt and an exceptionally bright one that is Jupiter.
I love the views from up here
Look at this absolute queen
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
*popping joints, winces* it was a calculated wrist but not an i bad at math
We’ve been doing a cycle of energy drinks at home lately (since our local store has trouble keeping our preferred ones in stock) and I’m so happy to learn that ultra-violet monster tastes exactly like grape laffy taffy
Outlook for the new year ...
Stones. On an asteroid. The view is distorted because of the camera lens. The bright splotch at the top is the Sun. Honestly this looks like a riverbed.
This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
(1/2)
In fact, folklore is resplendent with stories of simple heroes who defeat seemingly omnipotently powerful beings by simply convincing them to make themselves small and containable, and then simply pressing the stopper closed. Maybe we need more stories to meet this moment. And better readers.
Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.
I'm sure that there will come a time when some company somewhere makes an AI product that I will trust to do something more ambitious than create a spreadsheet.
But I doubt, I very much doubt, that there will ever come a time when an AI can do what humans do better than we do it.
Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.*
Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery"
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
Got certified as a caregiver for a disabled family member
Maintained friendships long distance for another year
Wrote story ideas down and expanded on some of them
Learned a new recipe so i can share the food former roommate introduced me to with my family
Neat!
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
Gotta love boxes of chocolate that don’t tell you what’s what, so you carefully cut each open before eating so you can avoid the nuts, only to somehow miss the nut bc it was to one side so now you’re carefully monitoring your anaphylaxis to see if the ER is needed 🙃
Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. 12:11 18 Dec, 2025
From the Firefox for web devs account over on mastodon, re AI / LLM features
mastodon.social/@firefoxwebd...
If you can't help, a reboost from my 2100 followers would be amazing. Thank you!
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
I have a severe phobia and am freaking with a months-long wasp issue (we can’t find where they’re coming from) and this post just shot my anxiety through the roof. I’m so sorry, because yeah the disappearing pests are the absolute worst
*stares at blurry photo* Is this a butterfly?
illustration of a hybrid pig/fish, or merpig on a sea green background. she has pink flesh that shimmers with rainbow colors, and large brown eyes.
i might never finish the big mermay picture i’ve been working for three years, but i did make a cute li’l sticker of my merpiggy, Iridessa.
Blessed Beltane to those who observe, and happy International Labor Day to everyone in this capitalist hellscape!
One of the bees appeared to die when big sis came out, only to VALIANTLY RETURN TO ITS BUZZING as soon as sib was back in my parents’ place. At least it’s only like 50 feet between buildings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I’m a big ol’ coward and have a huge phobia of bugs and arachnids so it’s panic inducing to head to bed and find three bees in my bedroom. Of course i ask my siblings to help get them out and my lil sis started to do it before remembering faer allergic 😅
truth
A large grey house cat curled up asleep on a chair with a lap desk with laptop on it resting above him across the arms of the chair
He loves it when we make it a little cave
Thread.
illustration of some submarines in the shapes of fishies and a crab the further you go down the more ocean pressure there is so drew my Mako shark in some submarines so he can explore 🌊
sharks in submarines