very cute gray squirrel looking at camera

An outstanding Squirrel of the Day for August 9, 2025 #sqrlpix

Listening to that kpop demon hunter soundtrack mood.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

a cat is sitting in front of a window with a smiley face and the words thanks . ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a window with a smiley face and the words thanks .

It's 2025, can games please have the option to not mute audio on focus loss? As a streamer, I click off the game all the time to do streamer things, and it's annoying when your beautiful game audio goes silent every time I need to tab out.

Thanks,
-Streamers

It really is the crack of hell here today.

YA'LL. CANADA. GETS. HOT.

And then gets real cold.

I Give You... Baby Squirrels!

The Windows 11 settings box is opened to System > Notifications. There is a big red arrow pointing to Additional Settings. Below that, the user has unchecked the 3 checkboxes that say "Show the Windows welcome experience after updates", "Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows" and "Get tips and suggestions when using Windows".

Today I learned you can make Win 11 stop asking you to set up your PC when really you just have solutions for things that don't use their native shit. Settings > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck as desired; all 3 options were checked by default.

A graphic with the heading, How to support small vtubers. Drop them a follow! Lurk in their streams(and chat when you can)! Like, RT & reply to their posts! Compliment them on what they’re doing well! Make and share clips! Draw them fanart(even if you can’t draw well)! Make a post bragging about them! Shoutout & raid them! Total Cost - $0, Total Value: Priceless

Reminder that you don't have to spend a dime to support your favorite vtubers (or streamers in general!)💕

Being a digital artist is exhausting 🤷‍♂️

I think I haven't posted Joy on her own here yet.
This is Joy~

TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.

A drawing of a black cat lying in ivy leaves. The caption reads, "a string of bad days does not equal a bad life; things can change"

Feeling existentially tired lately

A question I ask myself before RTing something is "Will this make most people who see it helplessly angry or despairing" and if the answer to that question is Yes, I think very hard about what the actual value of sharing it would be, and most of the time I come down on the side of not RTing

Who else is staying up late to start hunting? ⚔️🐉

my post: "weekend" comes from an 1860s misspelling of "weakened" as in "i'm weakened and going to take a nap." not many people know this merriam webster replies with an ellipses

chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

An illustration of a fairy witch with butterfly wings and a lavender space aesthetic. Her familiar is a cat reminiscent of Luna from Sailor Moon and Bob from Animal Crossing.

lavender 💜
#art #CharacterDesign

I wish @monsterhunter.capcomusa.com would post as much here as they do on Twitter. I refuse to go back to that site but that's where they're doing their hype for #MHWilds

Would it be so hard to copy/paste the same stuff here?

Pixel art: A pink frog sitting on a rock, looking up at a large round droplet of water gathered on the end of a leaf, reflecting the sunlight in a way that mimics the iridescence of a gemstone. In the background are hydrangea, lily of the valley, and a rainbow. More shiny droplets are falling to the ground in the distance.

prismatic droplets ✨
#art #PixelArt #ドット絵 #イラスト

Ending The Vote Split. One Riding At A Time SmartVoting.ca is a one stop tool voters in Canada can use to see who is the best party to vote for in their riding to prevent a Conservative win.

smartvoting.ca for all my fellow Canucks out there, here's a tool to tell you how things are leaning in your region if you're not sure which way to vote to help us reduce the Conservative party wins. We don't want to end up like America.

#canada #electionscanada #endthesplit

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

#memes #meme #pets #bird #birds #ritual

Twitch Twitch is the world

Live on Twitch with more Horizon Zero Dawn! Come hang out~ twitch.tv/scyoni

Characterdesign-commission : Mono !

So cute! (Also we totally have the same cat tree!)

The U.S. is a cautionary tale

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all