Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI Policing In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.

You're only surprised if you haven't been paying attention. This is not safety it's about overreach and oppression of a very specific demographic. #Atlanta #ACAB #StopCopCity

Georgia's 13th district: 6 challengers seek to fill now-vacant seat Incumbent Rep. David Scott was running for his 13th term, but died at age 80. Six candidates are looking win the Democratic primary.

Rep. David Scott had dominated his elections in this Democratic stronghold since the district first elected him in 2002.

Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory.

i'd already started switching / buying all my tools in Makita because I'd heard they were better for small-handed people, but i'm delighted to know they also haven't been vulture-capitalized

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I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists.

We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't.

Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

okay here’s my pitch for my food truck concept POT8OS, wherein you can get a baked potato and a rotating assortment of eight daily toppings. it’s cheap and filling! it’s vegan-friendly and gluten-free! it’s kosher and halal! everyone loves potatoes!

[Scene is a child’s bedroom, at bedtime. Dad is reading a story with child.] CHILD: Argh! Dad! There's something in the corner of my room! DAD [Who is Andrew Garfield because of course he fucking is]: Good lord… it’s… It’s… a small magical Judi Dench! [He’s right, there’s a tiny wizardy elf Judi Dench in the corner] DAD: What are you doing here? SMALL DENCH: I’m here to invite you… to a magical land… …filled with all the British National Treasures that have ever been! [silent pause] DAD: *All* of them? DENCH: Mm. DAD: Cos I’m assuming you mean, like all the British national treasures who haven’t turned out to be non- DENCH: LET’S GOOO! [She whisks them away somehow] [They are now travelling through some magical realm, maybe they went into the cupboard or something] [Mid-trailer titles lettering]: THIS SUMMER... [back to trailer - they are still walking through magical land] DENCH [gesturing around]: A land filled with old British actors your child doesn't know! [We see British National Treasures hiding in bushes, Stephen fry, Joanna lumley, etc] DAD: Look there’s Michael Palin… Jennifer Saunders... Lenny Henry… CHILD: I don’t know who these people are DENCH: This is a special place… a safe place… Filled with all the British National Treasures who haven’t gone mental from social media Or popped up in the Epstein Or just gone turned into a bit of a cunt! [Mid-trailer sting lettering]: BELIEVE AGAIN... DAD: Wait - Simon Callow! What’s that stone you're sitting on ? CALLOW [dressed as an goblin or whatever]: WHYYY… 'tis the Sequel Wishing Stone! Where we all cast our deepest wish... That half the cast aren’t dead before the second sequel. [Trailer ends, Movie title logo:] The Magical Land Of British National Treasures Who We’re Confident Won’t Either Be Dead Or Insane Or Just A Bit Of A Cunt By Release Date - Rated U Dad [quick cut after end of trailer, staring euphorically off-screen]: I still believe! [Ends]

A painting of a chicken in the style of Rothko on black paper. a red line a white rectangle and two yellow feet.

bok bok

Hey #Atlanta and #Georgia. I keep a list of Atlanta and Georgia people posting on Bluesky. Please suggest more. bsky.app/profile/did:...

a square painting of a small island on a very blue lake, a ring of stars floats above the few trees on the island

a square painting of blue mountain against a blue and pink gradient sky, the mountain is covered in water ripples and several stars dance above them

ultramarine blue has my whole heart 💙

Panel one: Three teenagers are in a graveyard. Teen one says, "You're going to get in so much trouble" to Teen 2. Teen 2, holding up a shovel, says "That's a future me problem." Teen 3 looks to the right to see a strange figure in a distance. "Wait, who's that?" Panel 2: Teen 2 looks confused. She says, "It's... me? What is this?" Panel 3: The stranger looks a mirrored reflection of Teen 2, but wounded, scarred, and harried. She is holding a cleaver. Panel 4: The future version of Teen 2 holds up the cleaver threateningly, face blank with rage. "It's your problem now."

Future Me Problems

A comic drawn for @readtinyonion.bsky.social! Thank you so much for the opportunity!

"The image relies on the unsettling nature of AI animation to tell its story without really saying anything new about AI imagery or the industry behind it all."

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

PDF is a garbage file format that should never be used for anything other than printing

happy to report that i finished reading Empire of Ai just in time for the recent news cycle of “Sam Altman kinda sucks actually” stories

i think perhaps the weed and booze were a larger factor than the road diet

Car headed to strip club crashes into Avondale violin shop A car crashed into Ronald Sachs Violins, a violin shop on North Avondale Road, at a high rate of speed while allegedly driving to a strip club on the early morning of April 8. The driver fled the scen...

This is the most local news story that has ever locally newsed.

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everything still fucked? gotta call my rep tomorrow? all righty. until then, i cope by watching Lee Pace chew some beautiful scenery

Dear @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov and @repnikema.bsky.social - i urge you as a constituent and an American do try to stop Trump’s criminal killing spree and pledge to hold accountable every person who participates or enables it. If Trump pardons them - send them to The Hague.

because marketing generally won the argument over every individual change until it was too late.

we got entirely non-metaphorical margaritas and nachos on the patio at Santo Cocina, which was a good decision

in a metaphor that would be a tad bit much in a Lifetime script, all the plants i got last Oct just before my SIL had an emergency bypass and a stroke, which had been languishing in their nursery pots in the yard ever since, just got planted on the same day she finally goes home from rehab

surprising precisely no one, it's gardening

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Refuge Coffee cultivates new paths for refugees, immigrants The shop functions as both a cafe and a paid job training program for refugees and immigrants, many of whom are navigating their first jobs in the United States. But its founders draw a clear distinct...

Refuge was designed to fill that space while also offering a path into the workforce.

i have an office holiday tomorrow and I am Drunk With Power contemplating what i will do with my wild and precious day off

staring into the void. the void has a newsletter. the void wants me to subscribe for $8/month to access the full void. the first three paragraphs of the void are free. i have read the free void. i need more void

every. single. time.