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I am currently in a Christian men's night shelter. I can stay for tonight but at 7am they will put me out until 430pm. I didn't know where I'll be able to go during the day. As always, anything helps linktr.ee/gardrek

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either.

Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

My new edition of How To Draw has a chapter on how to draw women. Uncensored of course. Social media. It's on Kickstarter now. The lessons are for the newbies who want to see the way forward and the intermediate artist who wants to improve. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ter...

Hey all! And folks more familiar with Kansas able to help Gardrek find supports and resources?

#helpsky #mutualaid

Also, Illusory Wall does great work generally, in the unlikely event you’re unaware. I can never get enough of Dark Souls design dissections, and IW’s work is really comprehensive but easily digestible.

Confusing what is and isn’t Derivative AI only serves the interests of the scumbags pushing it. They *want* confusion, it provides cover for their wholesale bootlegging.

If a thing’s not confirmed to be AI-poisoned yet, wait before grabbing a pitchfork. It never takes long to be exposed.

I missed this until today but want to share it because it’s great.

I’ve been increasingly conscious of anti-AI witch hunting, as well as the conflations and equivalences tarring legitimate creative tech with the same brush. It’s gonna hurt the fight against Regurgitative AI.

Reel that shit in.

Once again:

Normalize this reaction
#art #artists

All this talk about genAI, but not nearly enough on its weaponizarion against Blackfolk.

I miss when racism in AI was “just” faucets not recognizing our hands.

Ironic how we went from being invisible to being targeted—ignoring us for free to commodifying synthetic caricatures of us for profit.

CEOs: Oops we got 👀 tricked into laying off half our workforce 👀 accidentally creating an industry-wide employment crisis 👀 for tech that does not and cannot even work right 👀 so we have no choice 👀 but to rehire human workers 👀 at much less pay 👀 this was unintended 👀 as we said 👀 we were tricked

An image of a notification from Twitch to a Streamer that says "Viewers are at risk of losing their streaks with your channel. Post stories & clips from your livestream to help save their streak."

Its almost like Amazon requiring Twitch to make profit at any cost, leading to over half their staff being let go, various services cut, and pushing them to FOMO bs was a bad idea.

Who knew.

I think about this a lot.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

It's my hope that someday I, too, will have the opportunity to hammer the shit out of the Moon

#NoKings Miami!

To be clear, it's not that bitter online dorks assumed it was about them. It -is- about them. They just don't like that it is calling them out for what they are.

Ah, a classic moment of @nature.com recognizing the scientific contributions of both genders: man and machine.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

you folks need to be aware of how convincing this shit is getting

Surprise! Hollow Knight was a psychological horror game in disguise all along!

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

"But we already do a lot of damage to the environment with other tech" whataboutism will never work on me cause i cannot be convinced that a nonessential thing should be allowed to do this

I knew these age verification laws were gonna lead to people's sensitive data being leaked but like, wow it took like what? Less than a month? This is why we were taught back in the day to not even give your real name out online, let alone your id and face scans

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed

old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look