Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

this is really fucking funny. why would i use these tools on a daily basis if i'm anti AI? early on i generated some silly things and lost interest. as time has worn on i see them as a danger to myself and everyone.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

worst line dance ever

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h ago

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

i'm no expert, but i think this is a good look for mamdani and a bad look for everyone who ever fell for shit like this

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 15h ago

Oh well

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

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election night must go so hard if you're a secretary of state with ADHD

what's missing is everyone in the white house sitting in the corner licking their ass whenever there's company

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

stating that women and girls need to be protected from trans people is absolutely hate

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

hi! we're the credit card you keep open with exactly one recurring charge. we recently made changes to our payment system and deleted your automatic payment. whatever you tried to do last time we sent this email didn't work. please drop everything and do this now before you forget. or better yet

you're a fool if you don't use AI for knowledge production. AI can add slop to the knowledge pile more efficiently than any human, forever poisoning our information ecosystem faster than previous generations thought possible or wise

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

one of the most infuriating things i learned while working for a big company that serves ads: there is a strong incentive to show *more* ads to people who pay good money for stuff. sometimes what they paid for is explicitly the absence of ads, so the company looks for "non intrusive" options

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

Did someone finally top Apple’s U2 on everyone’s iTunes?

I wish we could have non-shitty social media. Alt text added for the images.

it's traditional to crash a 9/11 party anyway

OK! Magazine@okmagazine.com · 4d ago

Patricia Heaton backed a petition urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from New York City's 25th 9/11 anniversary.

extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

i did. it's going far better than it was, which is to say it's not going great

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3d ago

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

every time i rewatch Inside i am compelled to look up whether Bo Burnham's egg has cracked. lot of extremely suggestive signs in there

i stopped watching after hatgate, and it doesn't look like i missed a good time. transition has completely ruined sports for me

Grant Marek@grantmarek.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The Giants being the major part of KNBR programming — which they are — and they have held that very much on top of KNBR’s throat. Like, ‘You get your ratings because our games are on your freaking channel.’” via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...

ken jennings

i'm at the british-american linguistic cooperation convention. someone has moved to table the motion on whether "table a motion" should mean considering or ignoring something. wigs have started flying and there are stray u's all over the flour. quite good as we all expected

basically, transphobes accidentally made a deeply unserious pratfall gif account into one of our greatest and most vocal allies

syracuse university ca. 2004

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d ago

Orangeman bad

bluesky is the "we loved lockdowns" website? there's obviously some consensus that they were necessary. i certainly found a silver lining, which is that i've been isolated by my mental health my whole life, and for once the whole world could relate. six years of deliberately cultivated amnesia

we all know appeasement doesn't work. and in 1946 no less

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

one policy debate we deserve but are never going to get to have is what demands to be done to make blue states and cities whole after this presidency

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

this absolute scumbag www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

In the millions of years before fungus evolved to consume cellulose, all the trees that died and fell in the forest were backlog.

i was looking for a non-hateful writeup of ken jennings's crashout. i found three or four distinct articles, and they all refer to the trans woman who interacted with him as a "transgender activist." for having an opinion and being trans at the same time.