National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
Surely I have some train dorks
A chalk drawing on a sidewalk. It's pink. It's an animal probably. Four legs. The face is a bit human like but with a carrot shaped nose. There are some pointy ears. It might be a cat. It looks a bit sad.
They are perfect and I love them
Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
baseball is the only American sport that would react this way to a goose, which speaks to both the best and worst about baseball
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.
The feeling's mutual and you know this
Sheriff Metzger says, of the big weenie he was referring to in the last image: You were right about it, Jessica. They have apparently shared the same big weenie.
lol I just realized the live image caught the next line too
I'm like really good at taking walks
Not hikes
Walks
I can walk and admire and muse and notice
A chalk drawing on a sidewalk. It's pink. It's an animal probably. Four legs. The face is a bit human like but with a carrot shaped nose. There are some pointy ears. It might be a cat. It looks a bit sad.
They are perfect and I love them
A tree line against a blue evening sky with some light wispy clouds in the Pacific Northwest For the evening walk feed
Just a gosh darned nice spring evening
A scene from Murder, She Wrote. Sheriff Metzger played by Ronald Alan Masak is talking to Jessica Fletcher at the Sheriff's station. Metzger is saying: yeah, me neither, cause that's when he hits me with the big weenie
Sir
Do I need to start a Murder, She Wrote minus context account
A scene from Murder, She Wrote. Sheriff Metzger played by Ronald Alan Masak is talking to Jessica Fletcher at the Sheriff's station. Metzger is saying: yeah, me neither, cause that's when he hits me with the big weenie
Sir
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
And let's not forget the OG Snow White whose stepmother hired a hit man to kill her.
"I made it real fuckin ghoulish, just like you asked, boss."
Disney LOVES making movies about kids who are sad about a dead parent/parents. Or they are about to be!
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Not everything is a purity test. Sometimes we’re just being asked to do better, think harder, act more ethically, be less selfish, use our power more effectively, or take risks
These are not purity tests and claiming they are delivers nothing but the soft bigotry of low expectations
Unpopular opinion:
Bread is best open-faced or just torn off but if you want a portable ingredient vessel, a tortilla or other wrap variant is superior
One more wee boost for the Monday crowd then I'll rest my repost button! :)
When someone tells AI to make a massager that looks like human hands
A salmon berry bush which has a few bright green leaves and some hot pink flowers
A wooded trail in the Pacific Northwest with a bit of sun peeking through the tall trees
Hey, you. I would take tiny compliment this evening. I forgot to post this yesterday after a morning walk but now is an even better occasion to share it.
I hear leafy greens are good for you 💚
Chicken sneezes are so good though 😭
Holy shit I just dug out this workout booklet I made a few years ago, and it's WAY more elaborate than I remember, thank you Past Me lmaoooo
I made this whole thing with images from online in WORD
(I could jever understand people hating on Word because I love making shit like this with it)
A sign reads If you hard. Then you hard. WORK[PLAY is written vertically on the side next to the two phrases Get involved with Intramural Sports!
When graphic design changes the implications of your intramural sports advertising 😜🤣
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