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AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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I have been contacted by a number of Palestinians and am in this thread going to share their fundraisers. If you can donate, please do. If you can't, share. We must do what little we can to help those who are suffering through an ongoing nightmare.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

DnD rival pledges meals to World Food Programme for each Pathfinder Quest backer Paizo, publisher of Dungeons and Dragons rival Pathfinder, will sponsor the Power Word Meal Campaign, a tabletop initiative fighting starvation.

Pathfinder Quest is special to me for many reasons. One reason: I’m Edit Lead. Another reason? It’s supporting Power Word Meal.

For each of the first 10,000 backers, Paizo will pay for one World Food Programme food basket to go to people in need.

Thank you for supporting Quest and fighting hunger!

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

OH MY GOD I AM SO HONORED

The way MAGA is using Charlie Kirk's death to bully people is gross and anti-American.

Bunch of free stock character art so yoy dont have to use generated slop for your ttrpg games💚

Appreciate any reposts

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The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

The Pathfinder Quest board game sits vertically on a path in a forest with the Adventure Book, Challenge Book, and Rulebook from the game laid out in front of the box.

Do you have what it takes to defend Falcon's Hollow from sinister undead perils? Join our Launch Party to support our new co-op board game, Pathfinder Quest - launching in just 4 days!

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i am once again begging actual play & podcast platforms to please list your cast & staff members somewhere — in your bio, an "about us" page, a pinned post, anything — i promise you it will help you get more clicks, partners, & sponsors in the long run. it adds accessibility & safety to your brand!

Elected Democrats in Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, & Rhode Island, the DNC national headquarters, and 6 HBCU's have all been targeted by bomb threats today

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

we just need 5 more backers till we reach 700!! please consider helping your local asian artists and creators

happy BMG launch day to those who celebrate - they completely funded in 20 minutes!!!!!! congratulations!!!

if you enjoyed the folklore in k-pop demon hunters, you'll be able to sink your teeth into more korean mythology thru BMG & the first book Undying Corruption available in add-ons!

We LOVE to see it

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Hey Firefox users.

DS9, command center Sisko: You okay? Kira: Okay? I've forgotten "okay." I haven't seen "okay" in what seems like years.

Talking to people in 2025

See also the romance genre-- romance novels are huge sellers, romance comic books were insanely popular before the Comics Code killed them in the 50s, look at manga and Bollywood movies and K-dramas and and and

Pathfinder 2e APs will stop being monthly and are now quarterly hardcovers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮

This is literally the biggest and best Pathfinder news since PF2e was announced