I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
But it's an old cartoon, the dog-cop should be Irish too.
As someone who grew up a religious conservative I can tell you when a non Christian "cleverly" uses bible quotes to argue with a religious conservative it's water off a duck's back because they know you don't believe it and are just playing word games. It hits different from someone who believes
Oh, so you don't care about cheese crimes? 🧀🚨
I listened to it regularly for the first two years, but bounced off when it concluded the first story arc with a live ep featuring lots of on-stage visual business: That's a crummy way to pay things off for the loyal listeners who couldn't literally *be there* and only got to listen at home.
necromancer
KAGE - Necromancer OC for #Magnagothica #Maleghast
Got possessed and had to draw the vehicular manslaughter devil #magnagothica #maleghast
buncha little freaks for maleghast
For anyone else who doesn't want to click, the phrase is "Do you really mean that?"
People are hating us more and more, folks, many are saying that we are perhaps the most hated ever. Strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes and say sir, they tell me sir, I fucking hate you
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
I guess when your only genetic material is two self-replicating polynucleotide strands, every problem looks like long twisted chains of amino acids.
It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely
It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval
No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: “I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.” And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say, no. I say no with all my strength. ALBERT CAMUS, NOTEBOOKS: 1935–42
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Corollary: If you live in a theme park, you are by definition a costumed character.
feels appropriate to bring up the "if you can walk to the cafe but the barista has to drive an hour to work there, you dont live in a walkable community, you live in a theme park" anecdote here
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
I've since evolved on the issue of playgrounds being safer than when I was a kid, but at the same time I kinda appreciate growing up with the understanding that I needed to be a little careful on the monkey bars so I didn't crack my head open or whatever.
Same! I remember the 70s and 80s playgrounds that were built out of corrugated sheet metal (that became sizzling hot under the summer sun) and splintery wooden logs sunk into hard concrete.
The stuff shown here is the soft, safe '90s kid bullshit that I remember HATING when it started going up.
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
a passage from an article by Hunter S. Thompson We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history-which is no doubt true—but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it
For that matter, how does sound know how to propagate in physical waves through the air that can then be conveniently transferred to a recording medium? The whole music industry would have been SCREWED if we'd evolved to use pheromones or telepathy or whatever to communicate.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
