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Tumblr post screen capture by nocryptographer about how to tell AI slop from a story that was created by a human being.

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

Many Legalist scholars are saying this!

The USPS is one of the few things left that gives me a sense of civic pride. It feels like something we could & should be united around as a country.

Watching self-styled "patriots" sneer while they harm it makes my blood boil.

Felt inspired

that's funny, I think seizing the assets of CEOs would be good for business

skyrim screenshot where the stormcloak soldier about to be beheaded says “bi girls are liking my posts, imperials. can you say the same?”

The girls are fightiiiiinnng, oooooooh

A post in r/dwarffortress titled "All my pet giant leopards are afraid of my normal sized leopards." The associated picture is a screenshot from Dwarf Fortress, showing a rectangular room carved in stone with a stone door as its single entrance. Inside this room, a group of 13 giant leopards are all clustered together and huddled in the south-east corner of the room. On the western side of the room, two leopards are standing there nonchalantly

another awesome dwarf fortress post

feels relevant

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred.

Electoral map of the USA that's almost entirely blue except for New Hampshire and Vermont

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936

Right: 1936 electoral map

2-panel comic about two guys lamenting about modern games whilst refusing to acknowledge indie games

Oh 100%. They're acting like "8008135" appearing on a calculator screen is proof it's close to sentience. It's a farce.

I think what bothers me most though is how many of the developers thought human decisionmaking could be boiled down to a simple algorithm, with none of the existential context.

Strong floor (exploited underclass), no ceiling (no limits for the rich)

Yeah that sounds like Jeffries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned...

Working to make it happen is as, if not more important than the actual result Mychal. Nothing good ever happened in this country because it was a sure bet, everything good entailed a lot of sacrifice and fuckups along the way. It is absolutely sabotage to discredit the effort itself.

"Republicans won't vote for it." "But the Supreme Court..." etc. etc.

These things aren't savvy realism. They're nihilistic defeatism, indistinguishable in substance and effect from outright support for Trumpism. Human institutions are not immutable facts of nature. We make and we can remake them.

Gilded Age political cartoon titled "the protectors of our industries" A mass of workers strain under the weight of supporting a boat containing rich top-hatted monocle wearing capitalists sitting atop huge sacks of cash

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

Sooner or later, I guess we’ll have to invent a new kind of college/university for people who want to actually learn something to differentiate them from the credentials-for-pay institutions that will suspend a professor for failing someone who didn’t meet assignment criteria.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

w.. wait what? Why would Reikland burn wizards at the stake? Altdorf's where the colleges of magic are and a bunch of the Orders have conclaves in & around Reikland.

HAPPY BDAY TRAVES

"Fight for something else!"
"Like what?"
"Something we can achieve!"
"What can we achieve?"
"Nothing!"

Y'all are weak as hell no wonder you lost everything

never forget what the patriarchy takes from you

Solland's style was always my favorite, alongside Nuln. I'm a sucker for black & gold as much as I'm a sucker for funny lions holding scales.

oh wow they're REALLY desperate about this bubble, huh

“No,” said Frog.

HOT SAUCE踊りましたっ☆ #BABYMONSTER

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

That's funny, I've never believed in the term "Walmart executive".