You're two and a half months early!

Sadly that's marketing. The exemptions put in place make the law largely toothless.

I painted a coat! Dye-na-flow from @jacquardproducts

Very high power :^)

Sketches in felt tip pen of various leopard gecko, heads from different angles and also full body geckos

Leopard gecko studies

Skrunkly Skranklin' Space Gremlin is finally finished !! WHEW! See you at @neotropolisevent

These creatures were pests with a habit of chewing on docked starship guts, a behavior that caused dread in pilots, reminiscent of Old Earth wartime " gremlins". It was discovered they ...

Such a regal, majestic dragon!

The tech is here to stay, sure. The histrionic promotion of it? Not as guaranteed

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

The aggressiveness with which it's been pushed and the efforts to remove options that do not involve using chat bots is really aggravating to put it mildly

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

I feel the same way spending time with Ren, you, and the others. Of course I feel much more than that as well with you all than I do with a group I'd mostly only just met, but still!

Just being around people that I can share mutual love for something makes me feel blessed. Something I do not need to question people's intentions over.

Ahhhh, it's a challenge for me to explain my emotions at the best of times. I feel like I live multiple lives at times and it's...incredibly disconcerting what has become of what had been such a tremendous influence on my life growing up - the hacker scene.

Went to a theater performance and was invited out to dinner with the cast!

It was a surprise to have the topic of Discworld of all things come up while there - was nice bit of nostalgia and made me feel not so alone - at least not for that part of my life

It was a big thing for me in grade school!

Tonight's been nice. Part of my life that makes me feel blessed.

It gives predictability. Something that much of the modern tech industry treats like a sin.

You mean longing for not having to log into something or be relentlessly harassed to consume content someone else wants me to consume?

Ending the night with anxiety and concern.

Bets on the interpretation being "it's okay if we have a machine read through everyone's personal chats and emails without a warrant and only need a warrant (that's always granted) to read each and every summary the machine spits out on anyone and everyone within the U.S.?"

...are concerned about the likely interpretation by the FBI just spying on Americans in bulk without a warrant and tossing everything into a chatbot for answers on who they should target.

This is someone who, for years, had it as their primary goal to argue the 4th Amendment should have no practical value - only an academic one. And even they...

A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.

Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

gecko onesie?

Say NO to mass warrantless surveillance. Reform Section 702 now! Section 702 of the FISA allows intelligence agencies to collect emails, calls, and messages from foreigners abroad, but in practice, it also sweeps in Americans’ communications when they interact…

Congress is set to vote this week on the law @wyden.senate.gov has been warning about, Section 702 of FISA.

Use our action center to tell your lawmaker not to renew Section 702 without major reform to protect Americans' privacy rights: freedom.press/action/refor...

A model that “refuses less”, you say?

Named “cyber”, you say?

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Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

From @smbccomics.bsky.social

Clover, a dragon, birds, tomatoes and stars

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