Jessica

Jessica

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I'm playing with the ArtCraft tools and, um... Look: I am pretty anti-AI. I've been of the opinion that even if you set aside the ethical issues with it, the best use-case propositions are not code generation but support tasks. But PhotoCraft is basically Photoshop but with an 80 MB footprint.

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They just basically cloned every major piece of commercial productivity and creative software out there. Yes, this software is still technically an alpha build, but it is the cleanest, most complete alpha software I've ever seen. With community support, this is likely to be at production very soon.

I'm still anti-AI, I want it gone. I'm just accepting the scale of it's coding capability, which I think is a mostly bad thing. But IF somebody is going to use the climate-disaster plagiarism machine to make software, it might as well be to destroy the rentseeking SAAS model once and for all.

I'm playing with the ArtCraft tools and, um... Look: I am pretty anti-AI. I've been of the opinion that even if you set aside the ethical issues with it, the best use-case propositions are not code generation but support tasks. But PhotoCraft is basically Photoshop but with an 80 MB footprint.

And a guy did this in a month with Claude. It's open source, Adobe has nothing they can sue over. It's cross platform and compiles natively. GIMP, meanwhile, has existed for decades with many contributors and still hasn't reached feature parity with Photoshop. And this isn't even all of ArtCraft.

I realize y'all are only doing this because you're traumatized by grammar scolds growing up and I am not trying to make that worse. But it IS correct to say "X and me" in the objective position. Easy way to remember: you can replace WE with "X and I," and US with "X and me."

When you see a slew of TV ads promoting yes or no on a state proposition in California, you're usually safe to vote the opposite way. The people running ads are the ones with the money, and when rich people are willing to spend millions on ads, it's because they stand to lose billions.

Part of this is the fault of consultants. They're all pigeon-brained cargo cultists who saw something 34 years ago work once, that never worked before or since, but are all convinced it is a cannon event for any successful Democratic candidate. These people need to go learn a trade.

I'm absolutely shaking with anger. This is the stupidity of the bathroom debate laid bare. They'd rather let a trans child die violently than take shelter in ANY locker room, either out of bigotry or fear for violating transphobic laws. And they still have no resolution, just apologies and promises.

nbcwashington.comTransgender Student Excluded During Lockdown Drill, Group SaysOfficials at a Virginia middle school are facing criticism after allegedly barring a transgender student from using the boys’ or girls’ locker rooms during an active shooter drill.

There are two wolves inside of you: one listens to pop radio and wants to eat Ed Sheeran. The other has never heard of Ed Sheeran and also wants to eat him. Which one will win? The one you feed Ed Sheeran to.

This is what happens when you let a war profiteering finance tech bro run your space agency, instead of someone who, like, knows how cooling in a vacuum works. But sure, let's just double the energy cost of compute by literally adding rocket fuel.

Cops everywhere lookin at Bloomberg like, "Damn, what dat passive voice do."

Guys, can we please be serious? Lindsay Graham is not burning in hell. Because there is no hell, because there is no God. We know there's no God because Lindsey Graham existed.

Trump's 4th of July speech had big "grand opening of a doomed mall in a dying town." vibes. And I guess that is what America has become: a dying mall full of canvas printed to look like marble and empty storefronts.

Does anybody fucking remember over a year ago Chuck Pancake-Dick Schumer tweeting and going on camera to say Trump was chickening out by negotiating with Iran at all? 'Cause I fucking do.

China and Russia are starting to design and build actually competent desktop processors. Meanwhile we are dumping so many of our resources into feeding the AI monster that AMD's and Intel's x86-64 are actually going backwards.

Academics: "This new [religious] gender gap reversal in America poses an explanatory challenge." Christofascists: So our plan to make The Handmaids Tale real is making great progress... Academics: Yep, just a total mystery.

psychologytoday.comA Reversal of the Religious Gender GapAcross a range of cultures and faiths, women tend to be more religious than men. Surprising new data suggests that may be changing in the U.S., at least for young adults. What explains the shift?

We've said for years that there's no left-wing grift because there's no fucking money on the left. But we've been thinking about this all wrong. All you have to do is convince fascists that you have a modest lib/leftist audience to whom you can start pushing cryptofascist propaganda, for money, ofc.

The Woke Ginger@thewokeginger.bsky.social

I’ll reiterate: I did not accept $1,500. I have financial documentation confirming that. My focus is on real issues affecting everyday Americans—not rage bait from social media influencers. I’ll share more about the funding networks around Kat after Tuesday.

Corey Booker would watch the Gestapo shoot a leftist in the head and say, "The problem with our secret police is that they don't have enough training or vetting."

I know this is hard to see in the moment, but we need to be prepared. We think we've caught a pedophile in the white house. He's just mainstreaming pedophilia with the right and the media.

Survival tip: If you have to go without refrigeration, you can bake your cookie dough into discs of slightly less delicious but more shelf-stable cookie dough jerky. This is what our ancestors did to preserve the cookie dough they could not eat on the day they hunted it.