"Being a leftist is being right too soon" is a talking point on the left made literally manifest here. Anyone outside of the "two state solution" DC bubble who has read a single book on Israeli history knew precisely how they were going to respond. Apparently you are supposed to repent for that.
We did not pursue visibility, a far right group of fascists spent millions of dollars and disseminated corrdinated propaganda to push for trans people to be a "political issue" and literally most all of media went along with it at some point.
ATF’s decision to cancel a contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of our cell phones is a victory for all of our constitutional rights.
Other law enforcement agencies must follow suit.
A24 defends AI partnership
“Our relationship with our audience is something we don’t take for granted .. We want to dictate what tools get built for artists, and so they have a voice in shaping them rather than having tools handed to them. We’d rather have a seat at the table than on the sidelines"
Hearing someone say that A24 isn't engaging productively with the topic of school shootings is activating all sorts of fight or flight instincts.
I understand why they would feel that way. And.
-A24 isn't the studio for that
-art isn't required to do anything
-there is art that does this
I empathize with the intentions of gun control. I'm also very fucking concerned about the current fascist govt intentionally disarming minority groups under the guise of gun control. Dems are currently wet noodles, who will stop them?
They've been ramping up rhetoric about trans ppl being "mentally ill" and anti-capitalists being "terrorists." This is laying the groundwork to disarm leftists. We cannot pretend that has nothing to do with the conversation.
If moderates are losing an ideological civil war it's because their ideology comes down to "I get to run this and you need to stop questioning me" and that's not a political philosophy and you need to learn to actually hide that shit if you're thinking it.
Having many friends n colleagues who work in or adjacent to things like erotica/kink/NSFW content etc., it's a slippery slope when companies like this bend to the whims of payment processors and we're one step closer to fully censoring voices, not only artistic expression, but entire livelihoods.
Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.
Heard last week that chatgpt had gotten into goblins and I thought maybe it had gotten into the ole porn. But today I hear it also got into raccoons and suddenly it all makes sense
🧵 "The internet isn’t just an endless archive anymore." 🌐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism & digital history is essential for understanding what happened online.
📚 Read the Q&A with Bump & more in VANISHING CULTURE, free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani...
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
happy #starwarsday from me and my best girl rose tico, who put her fist through a lousy beautiful town and gave hope to the downtrodden, who fought not with hate, but to save the people she loves. may we all be so inspired 🌹⚡️
Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later
www.404media.co/nature-retra...
Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular.
You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son
Going to try to Do A Creative Thing everyday this year. It's not a resolution, it's just something that feels missing right now. Posting here not for "accountability" but bc I have ADHD and will immediately forget about this in favor of something else.
Actually good CES products that should exist but I doubt they do: a thing that fits on top of a gallon of milk and gives you a countdown until it goes bad by measuring (??) gases maybe??
Even if it can't give you a like number, a green yellow red situation would be useful
App for parents and teens: teen puts in how they feel on a 1 to 10 scale since adults seem to lose all ability to read body language when it comes to their teen. Allows teen to communicate w/o talking. Once/week they can put a "do not disturb" notif that the parent can read and give them some space
One of the sins of tech is the invention of the front facing camera
Not bc of vanity or some bullshit
But bc you used to need to have friends who liked taking pics. Finding a good pfp ended up a prosocial exercise- you had to see yourself how others saw you & be honest w/others abt your insecurities
And, eventually, you had to accept a photo someone took of you, if you recruited someone to do it.
You got other perspectives on your form, you were able to exit your own mind sometimes. I've never blushed looking at a selfie of myself. I *have* blushed when a friend said "this one is REALLY cute"
And those words never leave you. I have photos I look at and yes, very cute. But what I remember is the moments of friendship and silliness taking pics of each other. I remember the intimacy and connection.
I dunno who needs to hear this but using AI at your Early Concept phase, or for ideation, is literally the worst place to deploy it
It isn't creative, what it does is hand back tropes. That's what the model does: sift for likely responses to an input
It's like building your foundation out of memes