“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Verge headlin: Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch by Sarah Jeong
"After months and months of ceaseless whining about the doxxing of ICE agents, there hasn’t been a single peep from Attorney General Pam Bondi about the future of facial recognition in Meta glasses."
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/88634...
Down by the bay
Where the watermelon grow
Back to my home
I dare not go
For if I do
My mother would say,
“The Dark Lord shall rise upon the Blood Moon of the Sixth Cycle”
Down by the bay!
Look at this photograph
- Encrypted communications
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Assistive devices for people with disabilities
- EVs
- Solar & wind power
- Open source anything
- Basically any grant research funded by NSF, NIH, or NASA
Haman was just brutally framemogged while trying to jestermaxx the Jews by gigachad Mordechai.
Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed.
With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇
jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:
www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
Disney deleted a Thread because people kept quoting its movies at it
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Terrible take. Literally every FIFA Peace Prize winner has done this.
A comic by Jadzia Axelrod in which a knight and a sorceress with horrible Southern accents fight. Panel one has SIR JESSUP, a knight with a mullet and an impressive mustache, holdng a sword and pointing at the reader while shouting "TARNATION, LULU! YOU’RE FORCIN’ MAH HAND. AH RECKON YOU BEST RENOUNCE THAT THERE FOUL SORCERY WAYS OF YOUR’N, ELSE YOU. GONNA EN’ UP EATIN’ MAH STEEL!" In the second panel,LULU, looking like a trailer trash dark sorceress, is not impressed. She spits with. a "ptui" In panel three, LULU makes a giant sword out of dark magic. JESSUP is shocked—he didn’t know she could do that. LULU: PUT UP OR SHUT UP, SIR JESSUP, YOU PALADIN-ASS BITCH. JESSUP: FUCK ME. In panel four, LULU and JESSUP run at each other, swords raised. LULU: AH WOULD IFFIN YOU’D LET ME. JESSUP: AH’M A NOBLE FUCKIN’ SOUL, AW’IGHT? JUST ‘CAUSE YOU’RE ALL HAWT WITH EVIL AN’ SUCH IS NO REASON FOR US TO GET DOWN AN’ DIRTY! In panel five, LULU and JESSUP cross swords. LULU: YOU SURE ‘BOUT THAT? JESSUP: TELL YOU TRUE, AH’M. GETTING’ LESS SUREE BY THE MINUTE!
It's the most wonderful time of the year, #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Which is an excellent excuse to indulge in hillbilly fantasy characters! It turned out terrible, and I love it!
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
Geezer and whippersnapper are energies. There are absolutely young geezers and old whippersnappers
I contain multitudes
Oh
Oh shit
My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
Superman might be the perfect movie for Mikey’s lens of optimism youtu.be/ZHF3vCXApkA?...
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Sounds a lot like what @katmabu.bsky.social is doing, making mutual aid a key component of her campaign www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/kat...
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
