My Chihuahua has seen things

They really don't. They also don't care about dead American girls (and boys). #Uvalde

"Because the bird flew before there was a word for flight, there will one day be a word for what you and I do"
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Nice article, lots of info. Couple things it made me think of, that Orwell quote about the last final essential order of the party, and how the right's obsession with magical thinking helps them online where they can craft it into existence. I do hesitate to call LLMs AI, guess that ship has sailed.

I don't miss anything enough to drive to it.

JFC, let's just shoot every one of these AI content creators and the Spotify executives that enable them straight into the sun. Fuck them with barbed wire. #BoycottSpotify

Is Spotify Enabling Massive Impersonation of Famous Jazz Musicians? How did trumpet legend Nat Adderley become a white guy playing with a three-handed bassist?

www.honest-broker.com/p/is-spotify...

A partially wrapped in seaweed slice of grilled spam on top of a block of warm rice ready to eat.

A batch of spam musubi for the fam this morning. #photography #hawaiian #food

A little over a half inch sized spider sitting on some weathered metal inside an outdoor electrical box. Brown legs that are black at the knees, with a rounded abdomen decorated with a white/black/beige pattern.

Saw this chonky gal inside my outdoor electric box. I think she's a False Widow, common in north California, an invasive species that competes in the same niche as the Black Widow but is far less venomous. If anyone knows for sure, post a comment. #photography #rural #wildlife #invertebrate

Please be kind to the blowhard community. A lot of us have had a very exhausting week transitioning from amateur Constitution scholars to armchair Iranian government experts.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Green frog sitting in the leaves of a shrub getting some sun. Closeup.

Saw this little one today, just warming in the sun. #photography #rural #wildlife

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

Just think how much more reach y'all would have if you used alt-text on these pictures all you engagement farmers like to pass around. Hint: there's a setting you can toggle to make sure you provide alt-text before you post.

Didn't we all have this debate back post-9/11 when so many proto-MAGA were pro torture? I think 60 minutes did a segment trying out waterboarding on various people.
Some still try and claim waterboarding isn't torture.

i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later

About four conglomerate owning billionaires control virtually all original foreign correspondent news in the US. If the news is bad for business it won't be shown.

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

A lot of us veterans are not ok right now.

Do not EVER ask a veteran if they killed someone.

Do not ask us if we wish we could go fight again.

No human should experience war. Period.

If there was a ever a time to try to get 60 senate seats- it's this midterms. I don't want a slim majority. I want to silence the GOP.

We Lived Happily During the War And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war. BY ILYA KAMINSKY

Wish this was just a repub problem. Around here there are otherwise liberal folks that voted for Trump specifically because of RFK and his anti-vaxx stance. Medical science is so successful there are now generations of people that think it was unnecessary.

Most of the media is demanding that everybody supports the war effort. Well, sod that. This is an illegal conflict, launched by a decrepit American to distract from his domestic problems, which has already killed hundreds of women and children. I didn’t back the Iraq war in 2003. Nor this one!

Her writing was hard for me to get into, so dense, but was very much worth the effort, and for me it was an effort. Great books.

I mean, Spotify platforms Nazis and exploits artists, and now even cuts out artists by backing AI, so as far as I'm concerned the algorithm can kiss my ass. #boycottSpotify

They cannot comply with returning the tarrif collections bc they have already stolen it

There's a hubris I've seen over and over again, over decades, in some young tech professionals, particularly those who are good at coding. It's like mastery of a single niche aspect of STEM confers laurels of wisdom in all things, and the self perpetuating insular bubble they thrive in doesn't help.

Djembe Funk - Wales, The Song | Free Bandcamp Codes

Some codes for free downloads of great jam band tracks Kelly Kintner just released, a collab with some folks in Wales. I didn't work on this, but if you like Phish or the Grateful Dead you'll like this. getmusic.fm/r/djembe-fun...

Don't even have to boil it down much, lol.

Exactly. And on top of that, not even people who study intelligence have great definitions of what that means, so I'll take the coder-bros breathless statements with a heavy dose of salt.

I'm confused about who the audience is? I guess Donald Trump only?