I'm VERY excited to see the outcome of these trials.

"But I can't afford to hire a human artist for my business!"

Then you can't afford a business.

There is power in acurately descriptive language. This is why the Fae are always concerned with names.

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

The rights of teenage citizens have been gradually undermined since the 1950s, so that they now have less freedom than active-duty military personnel. Over the past decade even their rights of in-person free association have been dramatically curtailed, and now governments want to stop them...

At one point I made the mistake of using my telescoping back scratcher on Xion. Now she'll wake up from being totally asleep if I ever try and use it on myself.

<hug> Hope it gets better soon. Darn brains.

The black wind howls.

... or whatever the Chrono Trigger quote is. It's been a while.

Dumb question, but I don't know how Elite handles it: could you have approached the planet from the side opposite the angry death cones and been safe? or is it all pretty much death?

Holy shit, I guess y'all will have to continue waiting forever for the official From Beyond Press tiktok channel. This is fucking grim.

But if they don't force everyone to use AI, then people won't use AI enough and it might hurt the feelings of the like... few hundred people trying to claim it's the most important thing in computing ever.

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS
AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Important article, with Important context: X is claiming that Ashley St Clair is bound by recent tos changes because she used x to request that grok remove the sexualized images - which is apparently the only way to submit such requests.

Ah yes. That move. Also known as: "how many times through this portion of the fight did it take you to realize yiu had to press BOTH x and triangle"

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The fallout of the AI bubble won't be just a financial one, but of mass de-skilling and atrophy

That's what the 3 means in "Distant Worlds 3", right? Bring 3 ships to distant worlds...? <cough>

Man, I’d be the worst if I ever got isekai’d into a fantasy world and had to solve riddles. “So we can’t kill him in day or night or indoors or outdoors with any weapon made by a man so we’ll kill him in a doorway at twilight with… you know what, have we tried just encasing him in concrete instead?”

We're still looking for someone in the Inland Empire area to adopt or foster this little tortoiseshell kitty. I'm willing to drive halfway to L.A. if anyone there wants to meet up to take her.

"in a kind" ... uh huh
"and thoughtful" ... yes. Let's go with that.
(Kidding, I know what you mean)

digital comic panel 1/7 z'ahra, a miqo'te warrior of light, takes a hard hit from the sword of the tyrant. metem exclaims from off-panel, "oh, my! that had to hurt!"

digital comic panel 2/7 alisaie and g'raha watch the fight from the stands. alisaie is furious. "that bastard! let me in the ring! I'll finish him!" g'raha, on the other hand, is stricken by the sight. digital comic panel 3/7 the sight of z'ahra taking a severe blow seems to be having a toll on g'raha. alisaie's shouts of encouragement to z'ahra: "ahra, get up! z'ahra!" fade around him.

digital comic panel 4/7 z'ahra is laid out on the ground, blood trickling from his mouth and nose. he's unconscious. metem, from off-panel, exclaims, "oh, dear. the challenger isn't getting up!" digital comic panel 5/7 metem's next speech bubble transitions from blue to black and red. z'ahra's unconscious pose is mirrored in this panel, though z'ahra's eyes are open and blank, and something is oozing from his mouth. he is dead-- this is a glimpse of g'raha's memory of finding z'ahra after he was killed by black rose.

digital comic panel 6/7 alisaie has noticed g'raha's shift in mood. she looks over at him worriedly. "raha, are you all right?" digital comic panel 7/7 the world around g'raha is darkening. he trembles, clutching at his chest. alisaie, from off-panel, says, "g'raha?"

blast from the past... or the future you prevented #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

“We’ve all been…eager to shove COVID under the rug & pretend like 2020 never…happened. It’s totally understandable… [But a groundbreaking new study shows] COVID-19 leaves a distinct fingerprint on the brain’s microstructure & chemical balance, even in people who believe they have fully recovered.”

Oh, I'm sure it can all be justified... if you're a streamer and want that integration, but as someone who just wants to chat and do nothing on there BUT chat... makes me uneasy.

I'll be watching stream, but likely won't ever connect to chat

I'm just a bit leery of something that wants to be able to: Post as me, follow and unfollow, block folks, etc

I know that these things are often there because the finer grained controls are lacking, but... it still feels overly excessive.

... why does this service need half of the OAuth scopes it's trying to get?

baby goat centaur doodles from a million years ago still make me happy

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.