I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger.
It should be where we start when we think about our communities.
Think bigger than theory and reading and arguing on the internet, think embodiment and art and different ways of living and moving through the world. Think sharpness and tenderness, interdependence and community.
Liberation for some is justice for none.
Photo of a ceramic tea pot in the shape of a man who is a ginger dandy looking cunty as hell in a chartreuse jacket and magenta beret. Heβs mustachioed and over it. This is in the Chicago Art institute.
You better not be a snide little teapot when I get home:
The federal government has a massive database with sensitive info for every kid involved in a state child support case -- and the current addresses of many single moms who survived domestic abuse.
So of course, Trump's DHS wants full access to it.
New @propublica.org
Hereβs a video about him if you want to know more.
youtu.be/gIkQrr8pgSI?...
Watchmen issue #1
Discussion of Watchmen is dominated by the thoughts and feelings of male writers, so @shelfdust.bsky.social paid 12 female and non-binary writers to talk about each issue of the serial instead: shelfdust.com/tag/we-watch...
An acrylic painting of a skeleton framed head and shoulders leering at a Chicago-style hot dog it is holding in its hend. The hot dog has a little face that is just two eye holes and a mouth hole, and some spooky, ghosty green ectoplasmic things are floating up out of the little face holes. No I don't know why either.
I have once again been way off w/r/t actual painting so I wanted to mess with something small and low stress and dumb with no attachment to how it was going to turn out and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that
Southeast Asiaβs first law on AI could raise the bar from voluntary guidelines to binding legal frameworks across the region, analysts say
Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille.
This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.
New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deafβand his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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NO NO NO YOU DONβT
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This is a really cool thread
"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.
If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.
Promo photo for 1979βs βAlienβ featuring Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto & Harry Dean Stanton.
Interesting to see, but, oddly, it doesnβt transmit the slightest sense of how utterly terrifying the movie is.
Drawing of hands on the ground connected with locks of dark hair. Surrounding are the cherry blossom petals and flowers.
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A red entity crawls along the ground in mid-transformation underneath a star. Their three wings appear to be melting, and their body is a confusing jumble that appears to currently have two heads, a human form, and a tail. A frame in the upper left reads 'transform' in WormrΕte.
The magician Δyen bows before the goddess Eris among a frame-filling series of calligraphic marks. The goddess MΕ«n watches from above, and the whole scene is rendered in black and white.
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DC Comic' character Janet is wearing a dress with flowers adorning it. 3 white doves fly around her and one is handing Janet an ivy sprig in her outstretched hand. There are dead bodies and rotting skeletons around Janet in a swamp setting.
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'An awful tragedy is unfolding...'
A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads βMaybe it willβ¦β, the word βHappenβ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ββ¦Todayβ.
Had a go at some pixel art πββοΈ
DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people βrecover,β all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Dorothy Height, The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Maybe the slogan "Measles will make us lose money" is what would finally break through in a society suffering from end stage capitalism.π€·π½ββοΈ
1.5 billion dollars cost annually for every percentage drop in vaccination coverage just might be what does it.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! Itβs terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...
βSINNERSβ has won Best Cast Ensemble at The Actor Awards.
See the full winners list: bit.ly/ActorWins26
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.
A digital illustration done in a comics-like ink and color style. Portraits of two women flipped 180ΒΊ from each other somewhat in the manner or a playing card. In the top left quadrant of the frame is a white woman with brunette hair done up in fluffy pigtails. She has pink lipstick and purplish eye shadow. In the lower right quadrant is a white woman with short ginger hair wearing a flower crown. She has redder lipstick and yellowish eyeshadow. Both women have heavy, thick black lines painted around their eyes. Both of their expressions are extremely neutral. The ginger woman is wearing a lime green dress that makes up the color of the background of the top half of the image behind the brunette, and the rest of the background is an intense blue. In the top right and lower left quadrants is loopy hand drawn lettering reading 'Maybe it will / Hap-pen today.' with the second half of the phrase inverted to match the orientation of the ginger woman. There are daisies set within the lettering. This was all because I wanted to draw the two main characters of the 1966 Czech film, 'Daisies'. It's really something and you should watch it.
A small victory. Let's hope there is more coming down to pipe to keep this cheating device dead.
(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.
