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Or a tanker full of oil, adding to the environmental disaster that's unfolding.

🤯 Well, I know what I'm doing later...

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Did you know Twin Cities Pride throws away clothes that are donated to Rainbow Wardrobe if they're deemed to not be up to their standards?

Instead of passing those clothes to other clothing closets in need within the community, they load dumpsters week by week with clothes.

Every time.

Opt-out is not nearly enough, of course. This should be opt-in only --- and for pay.

Poorly drawn sketch of a large computing machine connected to electrical wires and three stick figures kneeling in front of it. Text above the stick figures says: "O Deep Thought what is the ultimate answer to the problem of the climate crisis?"

Same sketch, now with text above the machine saying: "You should have stopped burning fossil fuels"

Same sketch, zoomed out to see three smoke stacks and text above the stick figures saying: "How could we have known?"

I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.

Please stop asking the machine that cannot feel about feelings. I don't think this is a useful experiment. At best, it just shows that the chatbots people apparently use to get info don't share currently known info. At worst, it runs deeper ruts on the incorrect notion that an AI can think or feel.

Thank you for speaking the truth, Congresswoman.

The United States gave Netanyahu billions of dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza.

Now, Netanyahu and Trump are teaming up for an unconscionable war with Iran.

The American people are sick and tired of funding atrocities to appease Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime.

No. AI does not and cannot write. Stop the shilling. Nobody cares to read or hear words from a machine that cannot and does not feel or understand. If nobody took the time to write it, it's not worth anyone's time.

Stop putting this man's noise and face on the Internet. He's gross and his moment is over.

"all my homies hate jacob frey" embroidered beanie — ziibiing A slim, cuffed acrylic beanie embroidered with a subtle, low-profile design — the kind of quiet competence Minneapolis residents have learned to rely on when City Hall… occasionally forgets to deliver...

i made a beanie! it's embroidered! all the profits will go to powderhorn neighbors rent fund!

Trash. You basically just said: "People stole my photos without compensation or credit, so instead of taking a principled stand in solidarity, I'm going to engage in massive theft and environmental destruction to compound this problem."

Just permissive abuse, rebranded as a tech-assisted process.

"Theft may be harmful, but since it has been easy to do for years, it is therefore totally okay for me to debase myself with TheftTech AI" is not the winning argument you think it is.

Absolutely hilarious to see an AI shill decrying human laziness because he's too lazy to mentor colleagues.

Honestly, I don't know why you wanna tell on yourself like this, because there's no world where a coin toss result from a destructive AI is better than a thinking, breathing coworker.

This loser: "I've wasted my life in service to technofascism, and I'm gonna pin failure on people who don't use AI the way I think they should because I refuse to critique the products I have a financial stake in even as they actively destroy the environment, skilled knowledge, and social trust."

Call again today!

If I can endure his gross voice on the outgoing message, you can too.

DO NOT VETO

Huh. Well, I guess that's about as logically consistent as I expect that toxic crowd to be...

As one does

AI can't write. It's a plagiarism machine, and you just mangled beloved works of art for what? To use a product built on theft, and which consumes massive amounts of resources, to make a bad clickbait quiz?

The "quiz to boost online engagement" ploy is over 25 years old. No innovation, just 🗑️ + 🤡💩

Personally and as a human writer, I don't want anyone - but especially not a *news organization* - dumping my prose into AI without consent just so that it can shit out an approximation for the throwaway amusement of some vapid quiz consumer.

This is not a fun or justifiable use of AI. Get a hobby.

Fuck you. For many reasons, but this is basically asking people if they can tell the difference between art and raw sewage.
How about y'all take my quiz?

1. Why does the NYT hate people and devalue skill to sell AI?

2. What's the point of you if you don't respect humanity?

3. Who does this serve?

Yeah, I feel this too. I really don't want to be the jaded journo, but the pessimistic pattern recognition is pinging a lot lately.

So *this* is why truckloads of blacked out Chevy Tahoes have been arriving at Whipple, eh?

Sounds like a disaster in the making. Won't take long for a billionaire joyrider to crash their flying car in a populated area.

I filled out the survey. Give yourself time to do this one, there’s open are open-ended questions that merit reflection

It started with getting kicked out of Sunday School for asking too many questions and quickly became, "Huh. Everyone in this church is really into doing sins while telling us we'll go to hell if we sin, so I am gonna get as far away from these hypocritical creeps as I possibly can."