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social media accounts are already pushing the 'dont believe iranian media when they show you photos of the bombed school', it feels all so familiar and dire.

Because the mass murder of Iranian children helps the us and israel feel safe? And you will never convince me this is a "mistake," with the kind of technology available to militaries today.

So now you genocidal fucks are suddenly concerned about "unprovoked acts of armed aggression," huh?

Get the fuck out of Ukraine.

This is how the "NATO expansion provoked Ru" crowd tries to wiggle out of evidence falsifying their theory again! After Finland/Sweden's NATO accession provoked no reaction from Ru, they said it didn't count because Ru's afraid specifically of Ukr in NATO. Now that taking Ukr NATO membership off...

View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

If you're not a native English speaker or have a non-Anglo name, publishers and journals will try to make you pay extra for editing services (now also with AI tools you didn't ask for), and editors will be biased against you. Don't fall for this. It's not you, it's the bigotry.

a pair of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushy fields. the finch on the right has some flower seeds in it's mouth.

a couple of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushes 🍃 i haven't worked with gouache in a minute, but fell in love all over again with this piece

little cranes

Four years of devastating, full-scale war as the rest of the world sends barely enough support and propaganda is rampant. My wish for Ukraine is that this nightmare ends, and soon. Slava Ukraini!

At the AI conference, Altman also downplayed concerns about the water datacenters require. “Water is totally fake. It used to be true. We used to do evaporative cooling in datacenters, but now … we don’t do that,” Altman said. “You see things on the internet, [like]: ‘Don’t use ChatGPT. It’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever.’ This is completely untrue – totally insane.” CNBC reported that “some newer data centers no longer rely on water at all”. The director of the Southern New Hampshire University office of sustainability, Mike Weinstein, told the Guardian he was skeptical of the argument from Altman and other AI advocates that the power such infrastructure demands is justified because the technology will help alleviate global problems.

Effective Altruist blogger Andy Masley is single-handedly responsible for creating this scoffing line among billionaire tech goblins (notably a bunch of leftist accounts here seem to repeat it too)

Water consumption issues are not just real: they're crippling

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My brain got stuck on soup and pierogi as similar dishes

Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country

It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor

Is there a technology that “the left” is excited about? Not this leftist. This leftist wants to retreat into the primordial forest and communicate with the world through poems whispered to the wind

nice to have a list of all the jobs they don't value and don't understand, very handy

John Frow, Genre

Reframing "Frugal AI" Timnit Gebru What happens when scale isn't treated as the ultimate marker of progress?

@timnitgebru.bsky.social tells us how “frugal AI” is actually an old concept—what’s new is the billionaire pipe dream of building a machine god. www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

Pekka Siitoin (1944-2003), the Reichsführer of Finland (self-employed), a satanist and a "raunchologist" in his latter years. In the photo, an old man dressed in a red cape and shorts, wearing long "horns" on his head and holding a wooden cross upside down, is making a hand gesture. He is sitting on a porch and looks very, very silly. Among other things, he declared he would be the first Finn to have sex with an "ufo woman," and also knew nifty spells like how to drink a lot of booze but stay sober ("drink two glasses of milk and eat 200 g of cheese. Then say: 'Oh cow, in You I trust.'") But he also was convicted of a bombing and arson of a printer of the newspaper of the Finnish Communist Party. Fuck Nazis. Picture from https://mubi.com/en/cast/pekka-siitoin , details from https://turunaika.fi/jutut/okkultistista-naantalin-natsiksi/ and https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000006441407.html

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it.

It has:
✔️beer (lots)!
✔️hijinks!
✔️weird occult Nazis!
✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!"

Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

Great piece.

"Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."

My photo shows a frontal view of a marble head of a female statue, possibly the goddess Aphrodite, on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The head dates to the Roman period and is probably a copy of a statue from the Greek Classical period (5th-4th century BC). The face is oval with smooth cheeks and symmetrical structure. The marble is a warm cream colour. Her eyes are large, with ivory inlay, black stone irises (now missing), heavy eyelids, and bronze eyelashes. The oxidisation of the bronze eyelashes has produced dark stains which have run down her cheeks as if they were tears. This gives the statue a haunting, almost living presence. Her nose is worn and partially broken. Her mouth is small with softly defined lips. Fragments of wavy hair pulled back from her face show traces of red paint. The head is mounted on a simple metal stand. Height: 0.237 m, Length: 0.19 m, Width: 0.145 m. Found in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the slopes of the Athenian Acropolis in 1857.

Marble head of a goddess, probably Aphrodite, 2nd century AD.

Her “tears” are due to the oxidation of her bronze eyelashes.

Acropolis Museum www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/head-godd...

📷 by me

#Archaeology

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Link to auction in bio.

this is literally the critique of crypto that was offered when it was launched, so please, fuck off into the sun

in this house we celebrate Ben's publication news because it's going to be brilliant

Yes!!! More of good news like this please

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I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you!

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You’re most welcome to use it!

BREAKING: Belgium implements a partial military embargo on Israel.

The BDS movement calls for escalated civil society pressure on all states to impose legal and targeted sanctions against Israel.

I miiiiight be tinkering with Szpony!

Leafing through your debut novel, published some years ago, is such a weird experience. Like it’s written by a familiar person that you lost touch with for a while. Genuinely moving and kinda cringe at the same time (but I love the cringe too)

basically, yeah

Three small drawings: One of a shrine under a pine tree with a stone inside, one of a salamander on the forest floor, one of a coastal path with stone steps, two tall trees, stone columns and two hikers in the distance. The overall feel is very late summer to early autumn.

ok I will stop fiddling with this now