ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool
ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool
ADOBE: did you say AI?
ME: rectangle please
ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
UI update fatigue, particularly changes that greatly benefit touch screens and makes lap/desktop UX hell on wheels, is gonna be my villain origin story
We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.
Painted illustration by JC Leyendecker from Saturday Evening Post. Medieval Merry Christmas. A beautiful young woman with a halo wearing opulent robes and wimple carries a gilt casket and olive branches. A young page precedes her carrying a lit lantern and a bundle of something. There is a beautiful sense of light and shadow.
It's very Leyendecker! i.pinimg.com/originals/64...
Guess her jeans weren't so great after all
Any time this administration oversees construction or renovations. I reminded of over half of the $50 billion meant for the Sochi Olympics that was stolen, allegedly used to give kickbacks and lucrative contracts to linked to corrupt official and oligarchs.
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"Although schizophrenia has been shown to affect all ethnic groups at the same rate, the scientist found that blacks in the US were more than 4 times as likely to be diagnosed with the disorder as whites. Hispanics were more than 3 times as likely to be diagnosed as whites." 👀
1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.
The judge also blocked "any similar policy."
Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.
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The current practice of carceral psychiatry has been advised against as inhumane, & even declared torture, by the UN for a long time, which recognizes the harm those who perpetuate this system choose not to.
These CEOs who say that they are unique visionaries...and all they do is copy each other: pivot to AI, measure self-worth by mega-yacht footage, etc.
They steal everything and create nothing but misery and scarcity.
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
The cruelest people are good at seizing power and getting non-cruel people to do terrible things.
Since it's 2026 and Godwin's Law has been defenestrated it's worth noting that the Nazis didn't start with the gas chambers. They started with mass shootings, but it fucked up the gunmen.
Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Transformers! More than meets the eye!
This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.
The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.
(📷:zedasd)
Everything sartorial in that picture is such a very perfectly specific vein of early 90s. Would make a hell of a wardrobe reference/morgue photo
Ah, must be a milkshake duck
Thank you for this lore
The number of fundraising big texts I've gotten in the past two weeks
These fools are never seeing another cent from me again. In fact, I've starting throwing any money I would have at them to mutual aid asks because at least that will actually help someone's situation
*they're, ugh
It's an indictment of their own choices and we know the world hates dissidents, esp when they have a point. There are a lot of folks who think it's going to be their ticket up to whatever social or professional tier their aiming for who get a sad when you bring up ethics
Hate to departure from the pinned goal yet once again, but hierarchy of needs don't stop.
Trying to raise $100 for groceries and essential toiletries to make it to next paycheck. 💕💸
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Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are
A pretty damning moment for every hospital that rushed to pre-emptively ban trans care..... I hope everyone involved sees some pretty serious consequences for the suicides and other forms of horrific physical and mental harm they've caused.
One of the things about the various cultural studies is that their scholars are well-versed in philosophy; they have to be in order to justify arguments
White Supremacists have never once followed an actual critical thought about society to its logical conclusion; they MUST stay ignorant or crumble
I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?
when you compare this to how dismissive roberts & his allies are of human pain and suffering and planetary harm in the face of trump's massive lawlessness, you have clear demonstration of how politicized these justices act.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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‘Soe infinite is the profitt of sugar!’
As with so many old, wealthy institutions, Harvard’s early wealth was built on the backs of enslaved peoples in pursuit of the riches generated by the early “drug” trade (sugar, rum, tobacco, coffee, spices, etc).
