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How to make yogurt: milk a cow, homogenize + pasteurize the milk, heat up the milk again, let it get back down to 110 F, stir in some bacterial culture, let it sit for 8-12 hours, add fruit/sugar to taste.
How to make ultra-processed yogurt: Do all that and then add a drop of food coloring.

Hard to get new Sprawl members nowadays! So busy w/ stories that I don't have time to make proper appeals. Also I feel like I've said the same thing 1000x and am sick of hearing myself say it. Even so—if you value independent journalism, pls support our work! sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/

gay hockey is just a gateway drug for the real hard stuff: the music of wolf parade

As trans rights go, so does access to healthcare for all. Can't selectively cut off access to key hormones and reproductive medicine. You got thyroid disease, hormonal imbalance? Tough shit. Hormones are getting regulated harder than weed and alcohol at this point. 🩺 🧪

yes, we need to confiscate and tax as much income as we can from billionaires and millionaires and give working people a break, but democrats need to reclaim the idea of taxation as a civic good. the things we all benefit from — schools, roads, libraries, etc. — are paid for with taxes.

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Really kind of morally offensive how much contempt these people have for curiosity.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

In bed with the right, episode 124: Wuthering Heights.

*Kate Bush voice* New episode!

I wish the city had done a similar survey when it came to funding a billionaire’s arena.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

He does not seem to share that same reverence for humanity; his reverence is reserved for the fantastical AGI gods he seems determined to bring into being. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Many of the billionaires at the height of Silicon Valley adhere to an anti-human worldview that not only sees humans merging with machines, but being consumed by them. Altman has paid to have his brain frozen when he dies, in the hope that it can be uploaded to a computer sometime in the future, and has argued that “the merge” — where humans and machines become one — is essential for the future of humanity. This is all in line with the longtermist worldview, which argues the value of people alive today and people who might live a million years from now are equivalent. If an action today might help ensure billions of people will live in the far future, even if it means harming millions in the present, that is justified under their anti-human calculus. It’s a philosophy that seems to exist purely to justify the science fictional pursuits of tech billionaires while their actions magnify the suffering of billions of actual people. In fact, those future people they envision are not people at all, but “post-humans” who live in vast computer simulations, not as flesh and blood.

Altman’s denigration of humanity is part of a wider anti-human worldview the tech industry has adopted to justify doing whatever they want, regardless of the wider impacts on the public. If communities suffer to realize Altman’s AI ambitions, that’s fine by him.

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We don't have any money and we don't have any migration. I have the perfect idea -- let's spend millions on a referendum.

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" what in the actual dystopia is this

Solar. Batteries. Smart grids. E-bikes. High speed rail. Heat pumps.

"pro labor, pro union, and pro maga" one of these things is not like the others

Fun fact: this is covered in this text.

Cars are a net evil, and that’s before we discuss them injuring folks.

As @davekarpf.bsky.social noted for vibe coding (davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-comes...), if generative AI really works for writing novels as this person claims, then a few months from now, *nobody* will be able to earn any money by mass-producing novels with AI. Meanwhile, we drown in garbage.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.