Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape.
Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.
We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.
The same government that keeps defending using Xitter despite its distribution of CSAM & fake images of women in porn is saying that the problem is teenagers & not the company that allows this shit to happen.
Meanwhile my mother, over 80 & on facebook, asks me regularly about AI-generated nonsense.
“A social media ban for kids under 16 will soon become law in Canada according to a new report…The ban is part of an online harms bill being tabled in Ottawa on Wednesday. An Angus Reid study found that 75% of Canadians support a ban on social media for kids under 16.”
I support it.
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Please help her out. One of the people who assaulted her was a Patriot Front Nazi.
Of course the cops didn't arrest him, and now she's facing charges and will need legal funding.
If you would like to SUPPORT the assault victim, Rihanna has a Venmo account up because crowdfunding websites have shut down her campaigns. You can verify her identity through the FB post or contact info she's provided.
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“Israeli officials are effectively green-lighting the use of sexual violence, when they decide not to prosecute the most high-profile case, which is extremely well documented. There is a culture of accepting sexualised assault against Palestinians.”
Members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians voted unanimously to approve a moratorium prohibiting the development of data centers on tribal lands.
Get your community to step up too and enact a ban on data centers!
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"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."
As a grad student and early-career researcher, I got a lot of grief for studying what I did. "Rebecca isn't serious," they said. "She studies restaurants." And here they are, the barometer of public health, safety, and democratic norms.
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
Absolutely FUCK AI. You know how you can successfully market your products? By disavowing AI and committing to rooting that shit out and letting it wither and die.
Romanticizing us in any context is harmful. That includes the people behind urban community. Most do not belong in our communities and have never experienced a moment of the trauma and harm but they come in pretending they can solve the issues. Start solving them by stepping back. SILENT support
Romanticizing us in any context is harmful. That includes the people behind urban community. Most do not belong in our communities and have never experienced a moment of the trauma and harm but they come in pretending they can solve the issues. Start solving them by stepping back. SILENT support
AI is bad for the planet, the continued cognitive functioning of those relying on it for tasks they completed without it before (like writing), artists, etc, but this shitty statement is exactly why we were concerned about how the fuck a banker & son of an Indian Day School principal would operate!🔥
PM Carney: "Our goal is AI for all. AI governed by Canadian values, AI accountable to Canadians, AI that serves Canadians. AI for all can make the jobs of Canadian workers more interesting and more rewarding."
Anti-Trans bigotry is such a strong force because Trans people represent a movement towards bodily autonomy that would violate everything the fascists hold dear. The fascists don't want anyone to get to make choices about their bodies. Trans healthcare is a slap in the face to patriarchal control.
1. The new IOC trans ban also targets cis women with genetic conditions.
Under the policy, it's even possible for a cis woman to be banned after giving birth with the uterus she was born with.
This policy was revoked before after unintended consequences.
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Evers signs bill to ban soda and candy SNAP purchases, provide money to keep error rate low via @bspears.bsky.socialwisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/evers...
The total hypocrisy of FILIA and other ‘gender critical’ transphobes marching in the ‘Together against the far right’ march, when they’re complicit in colluding with the far right in relentlessly targeting trans people!
They’re fascist collaborators! 😖
This is the really big news here imo, its not just the sora app thats gone but chatgpt wont be doing videos either. This is a massive hit to openAI. Hopefully this hit causes internal bleeding that kills them as painfully as possible.
and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university
On the other hand, John Yoo, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and former Justice Department official during the George W. Bush administration, says the consolidation of power in a strong executive is a return to previous norms.
This is what needs to happen.
Cancel the World Cup.
Cancel the Olympics.
Cancel your US vacations.
Refuse to support this regime and refuse to endanger lives.
After one of the biggest bag fumbles in history where they underestimated the commercial potential of an animated film inspired by Asian culture, Sony proves they learned absolutely nothing and doubles down by scrapping the next film all together.
Sony, the company that sold 'KPop Demon Hunters' for a song, has scrapped a Thai folklore-inspired feature from 'Amphibia' creator Matt Braly and 'Steven Universe' creator Rebecca Sugar two years into development, calling it “not commercial enough.”
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
just saw Iron Lung and I can't help but notice a consistent trend within Millennial art where the core thematic take away is 'Well, we might be doomed to die in miserable failure, but at least we can help those who come after', which probably means nothing
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
I'm seeing so many clueless settlers now think that Billie Eilish invented the phrase "No one is illegal on stolen land" when Indigenous people have been saying that for decades in defense of our migrant relatives.
I will never forgive the GOP for opening up the Pandora's Box that was the Trump Presidency and I'll never forgive the DNC for not treating it seriously or doing a fucking useful thing to prevent all of this shit or to effectively stop it.
Exactly this. People keep saying "well, scientists need to raise money". But almost all the academics who connected with Epstein were "entrepreneurs", creating carve-out institutes and projects and chasing big speaking engagements, who wanted to float above universities as institutions.