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cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 4h agothis is so funny I can't stand it
Post Mo Thóin (Dave)
@davebrowne.bsky.social
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but its father is laziness. Pronounced "post muh hown", or "post me hole" in Hiberno English. Dipshit of the first water
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 4h agoNot like they need money for disaster relief or anything
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 5h agoTrump Brags He’s Taking ‘Billions of Barrels of Oil From Venezuela’ Because ‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’
Immunity Deal Support editorial cartooning—follow my work and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com @contrariannews.org
Like most insects, the wings of tobacco hawk moths are covered in tiny hairs. But the tobacco hawk moth’s wing hairs do something researchers haven’t documented in any other insect: they help the animal smell. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4fLx1Mk
"Videos that suck are the future. If I could make a video that sucks this much in one hour, imagine how hard I could make something suck in two hours, or even three." buff.ly/WtuKYLD
I Used AI to Make a Video That Sucks
“Videos that suck are the future. If I could make a video that sucks this much in one hour, imagine how hard I could make something suck in two hours, or eve...
mcsweeneys.net
Now to see if THIS is the time the party realizes this is their path to victory.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 11h agoOur 3 endorsed candidates in Michigan faced over $70 million in combined outside spending. Their people-powered campaigns faced the full weight of a Democratic establishment that’s desperate to maintain the status quo. And all 3 of these real Democratic fighters won! This is a political earthquake!
"On Bullshit" should be required reading.
Nina Zeelen@ninazeelen.bsky.social · 3h agoBullshitters “Frankfurt concludes the bullshitter 'does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all.' The extensive spread of bullshit is therefore a far greater social and political problem than the occasional use of lies."
"Make the thing we thought we had as kids" is one of the biggest driving forces behind art.
Raven Lyn Clemens@ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · yesterdayi think about this all the time
"Every accusation is an admission" never steers you wrong with them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoJD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
Wait… who is making this political? David Ellison, you need a new crisis management team. You are doing untold irreparable harm to the Paramount Brand.
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
New images of the Sun so detailed you can almost see its face! Textbook Kelvin–Helmholtz instability patterns in images with resolution of ~20 km. With quotes from @manicule.bsky.social and @hannahschunker.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/science... ☄️ ⚛️ 🔭 🧪
We've never seen the Sun in this much detail before
The highest-resolution imagery of the Sun's surface ever taken reveals dizzying currents, and clues about our star's magnetic fields.
abc.net.au
"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com
If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.
rogerebert.com
It's easy to build an isolated sandbox. If you want to.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h agoif you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
However, also remember that you're not Jane Austin.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 7h agoJane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
"Your neighbour has it worse so why are you complaining!" is always used to lower your standard of living but never raise your neighbour's. Funny how that works.
Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · yesterdaySo apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?
Paired with cocaine tampons (yes, look it up) and I'm surprised men survived the Victorian era.
TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd for all those who doubt this'll work, please know they regulated the length of hat pins after women used them in self-defence: "The following year, legislators in New York argued that hatpins should not exceed 3 inches because of the physical damage they were doing to men across the nation."
Profits to private Costs to public That's conservatism 101
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h agoICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
I did the same with music. I got a DAW with my audio interface so decided to figure out how to record songs instead of just mucking around on guitar. I still suck, but it was so much fun to do and I can't imagine letting AI steal that from me.
Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 8h agoOne of the things about generative AI that particularly infuriates me is that some of the most fun I’ve ever had has been teaching myself how to do things around my own constraints I’m bad at art too. But I have PaintShop Pro! So I found some tutorials and *taught myself to make book covers*
Sarnia police are searching for 76-year-old Lynne Velma Choromanskis after she left her residence at around 8 a.m. Wednesday and hasn't been heard from since.
Police concerned for welfare of missing Sarnia woman
Police are searching for 76-year-old Lynne Velma Choromanskis after she left her residence at around 8 a.m. Wednesday and hasn't been heard from since.
sarnianewstoday.ca
As usual,.if Biden or Obama had done this their heads would have been on pikes.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 9h agoThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
Good review that makes plain my fear that they'd done everything already and bringing Sudeikis back means they'll be doing it again. When S3 ended I was hopeful a (Ted-less) S4 would be about the women's team coming up (maybe with Nate as head coach, trying to find his Ted-ness). Oh well.
Angie Han@ajhan.bsky.social · 10h agoif hating on ted lasso, the tv equivalent of widdle baby kitten with big wet anime eyes, makes me a bad person, then i am a bad person sorry
Notably that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly apologized to the government of India over CSAM ads running in that country. The ads @wired.com covered ran below in the US, UK, and several EU countries: www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...
Zuckerberg apologises to India over child sexual abuse content on Meta platforms
The Meta Platforms CEO also apologised for deepfake content and operational lapses on the company’s platforms, according to a report.
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Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 12h agoNEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...