There are very few pieces of media that mean as much to me as this poem. Even if it's just for a minute, stepping away from the news and trying to find a moment of peace can be what we need to get through today.
using genAI models is training in obedience rather than "creativity"; the user cedes the capacity to imagine to the model and is taught how things are supposed to appear (by the corporate power concentrated behind the models)
on the surface, using an image generator seems like one is participating in power, at the level of infantile wish fulfillment, but in practice, prompting is more like begging than making or manifesting something
A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™.
First of all, as always:
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
The typo will haunt me forever
Writing requires imagining an audience but that’s really hard, so most people pretend they are talking to “everyone.” But writers are never talking to everyone, so imagining how every last person might read a phrase, doesn’t actually help you communicate your ideas.
I have honestly never met a man who made decisions off of logic. That's all. Have a good day!
If Window 11 is making you think about Linux, you're in luck. It is easier than ever to linux your computer.
Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.
First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.
The people defending Olivia Nuzzi also think transgender identity, all on its own, creates too much bias for trans people to cover trans issues objectively as journalists.
We taught sand to hallucinate.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice.
Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
A pie chart of ADHD symptoms with 100% allocated to distraction (what others think), what it really is (a whole list of different symptoms), and then a final pie chart 100% allocated to “not reading any of the second half of the above pic because you saw it was really long”
It got me
today is my villain origin story
I’m unsubscribing to things left and right. I don’t care if all I have left are a stack of paperbacks and a rotary phone. They’re stealing people’s work to replace them. I’m not participating.
The Washington Post: Democracy Dies.
New WaPo motto just dropped
The coverage of universities calling riot police on their students has been really feeble.
One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?”
I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
“It is much easier to bring down the hammer on anyone bold enough to violate the rules than it is to wrestle with the knotty question of how much the rules deserve to be followed in the first place.” 👈
WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!?
at some point you have to ask yourself: am i a brave truth-teller bucking the mainstream or am i simply a whiny little bitch?
One of the things that I really appreciate about The Markup's reporting is their commitment to making space for young people to share their experience with technology and its impacts on their education. The latest example: themarkup.org/digital-book...
Of course, it turned out that things were more complicated with her family than even she had realized. After Kavanaugh was confirmed, Ford’s legal team approached her with a delicate question: Is it possible that her dad sent a letter to Kavanaugh’s father — they belonged to the same golf club — saying that he was glad Kavanaugh had been confirmed? Ford couldn’t believe this was true, and when she asked her dad, he assured her no letter was written. It’s not until a later conversation that he backtracked: He didn’t write a letter, but he did send an email. “Just gentleman to gentleman,” he explained awkwardly. “I should have just said, ‘I’m glad this is over.’ That’s what I meant.” Oddly, Ford did know what he meant, and in the context of her father’s Washington, it makes sense: He was an old-school Republican for whom manners and decorum supersede everything — a trade-school graduate who was proud to propel his family into a country club lifestyle and who wanted to make sure they wou
Absolutely enraged by this detail in Christine Blasey Ford's memoir