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The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

Want to see billboards in every major city that just say

'Power Bill Too High? Thank "Generative AI"' and then a link to a website all about "AI" and data center energy and water use

The word "community" is generally co-opted to mean "audience" or "demographic" but when I use it, it represents mutual accountability and/or dependency between the one and the many. That grounding principle can be rooted in many things (sometimes destructive, sometimes generative)

“Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”: Mark Knopfler tells why he’s ditched the pick in favor of fingerpicking The former Dire Straits guitarist told us why he moved away from the plectrum but still regards the pick as “a superior thing”

“I probably wouldn’t be able to play them so well now [..] Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”

Legendary Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler on how SARS-CoV-2 infection affected his ability to play music

#LongCovid

www.guitarplayer.com/players/mark...

Modern ableism is a lot of taking things for granted. Of course you’ll recover from an illness; we have modern medicine.

Ah, shit, they’re sabotaging modern medicine.

But you’ll be fine! You’re extremely healthy in your habits and you have good genes!

Turns out it’s a crap shoot.

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:

"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

using the power of AI, you can now step into and even talk with your favorite paintings, like the mona lisa! she won't stop screaming. her mind cannot comprehend the third dimension we placed her in. every moment of her existence is like being smashed through a plate glass window in every direction

I already have a "team of Ph.D. level experts" in my pocket. It's called being in a discord server with a bunch of furries

EYYYYY I love that guy

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

An Alan Dershowitz tweet about his show on how "both sides are weaponizing the justice system" with "weaponizing" conspicuously misspelled.

That's... that's not how you spell that word.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

yes and people who would rather use euphemisms than confront their own ableism.

I get all this a lot.

imagine going through your whole life looking like that

Please understand that if you air even a single ICE ad on your program, on your podcast, on your stream, you will never, for the rest of your mortal life, receive another dollar or another second of attention from me, or from millions of others.

I promise you, it is financial suicide.

a dog standing on the ground. a second dog on the roof above him

as above so below

New gig alert for Sydney Sweeney?

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

This "tips and tricks" mindset emerging in emergency management as an answer to the administration's hostility towards the profession has the same energy as thinking individuals are capable of preparing for disasters on their own. EM agencies are not DIY-ing themselves out of disaster.

There is, I think, a compelling case to be made that the American political tradition thinks of free speech not as the basis of a free press but as an instance of it. A newspaper is not a giant person; a person is more like a little newspaper. If this is so, then the vast majority of Americans have low budgets, limited circulation, and few dedicated readers, even in the age of social media. In other words, speech is a resource, not an inalienable property, and as such it is subject to the same regimes of theft, privatization, and accumulation that have swallowed up the labor of workers and the fruits of the earth. We have heard much lately about when free speech ends: the moment when protesting for Palestine becomes grounds for detention or deportation in the eyes of the police state, for instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did

instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did Cotton's speech begin the moment that the Times published his op-ed? During the editorial process? When Bennet's deputies pitched the idea? At what point, in other words, did the ordinary flow of money, labor, and influence through civil society stop? Well, never. To say that Cotton was too important not to publish is to say that he enjoyed a certain social position that deserved the paper's famously discriminating attention. From the start, Cotton had more than free speech: He had actual speech, the very thing that protesters were being denied all across the country.

One of the principal goals of the protests of 2020 was therefore to seize the means of expression: protesters were not exercising their right to speak freely so much as they were trying to amass a form of social influence that could meaningfully compete at a national level. In other words, they were starting a newspaper; what Williams hates is that people started reading it. The fact is that telling a voiceless person they have free speech is like telling a poor person they have freedom of money: Nice work if you can get it! Williams might respond that a person who finds their ability to speak curtailed does not thereby lose their capacity to think.

"Expression is the exterior form and, if I can express myself so, the body of thought, but it is not thought itself, writes Tocqueville. It is seductive, I know, and highly flattering to those of us who write for a living, to suppose that thought "makes sport of all tyrannies," as Tocqueville puts it. (At least the slave, Buckley had the gall to imply, had retained his freedom of thought under the whip.) But a thought without expression, like a soul without a body, is just as good as dead. Surely we cannot comfort ourselves with the idea that the brutal neck restraint that kept George Floyd from breathing nonetheless could not keep him from thinking. For in the end, we know it did.

Obviously yes you should read Andrea Long Chu’s latest for all the usual reasons (thrillingly blistering assessment of worthy target) — but these two somewhat standalone paragraphs exploring the true nature of American free speech left me absolutely gobsmacked www.vulture.com/article/post...

the jeans hole will make u look cool

it’s true

Yep, it's a popular bit of cognitive dissonance among right wingers. You see the same with Americans talking about NYC - somehow it's simultaneously Assault on Precinct 13 meets The Warriors there, but also entirely populated by effete liberal sissies who wouldn't last five minutes in the Real World

how did no one else laugh.

Transgender people aren't even close to the real problem. We just show everyone what the real problem is, which is that standards for women are so severe society thinks it's ok to destroy you if you don't meet them.

I saw Hot Fuzz in a theater in Toronto full of people who must have all been dead inside bc they did not laugh when the Sandford elders said “crusty jugglers!”

you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye