It also has noticeably better sound quality even in my same shitty earbuds

i am so enamored by christine giraffski @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social

I'm using Qobuz (and sometimes Apple Music) and it's very easy to port over and Qobuz pays artists more per track

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If Tolkien came back to life right now, he would look at Palantir and go hit the people responsible with a car. "Charge em and they scatter!" Fucking hell

We can't let the fascists and technocrats have lord of the rings. We can't let them. Tolkien is rolling in his grave

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a skeleton army is a good guy with a skeleton army

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

jello with a skull in it. text says "i know it was the '70s, but...why would you put that in jello?"

more concept art!

Also too, to hell with this. #AbolishAI

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Highly detailed ornamental knife

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Knife with blue glass handle and ivory scabbard, inlaid with gems. Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 18th-19th century

Christmas Moomin 🎄

Batman breaking a rifle in half from a 1986 comic. The rifle has a label "AI (even if you're making fun of it)" and Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

Anyway time to post this again.

AI is a tool of fascism.

Political cartoon by Art Young 1917. Jesus Christ wanted for sedition, criminal anarchy, vagrancy, and conspiracy to overthrow the established government. Description: Dresses poorly, said to be a carpenter by trade, ill-nourished, has visionary ideas, associated with common working people, the unemployed, and bums; alien—believed to be a Jew. Alias: Prince of peace, son of man, light of the world, etc. Professional agitator, red beard, marks on hands and feet the result of injuries by an angry mob led by respectable citizens and legal authorities.

Love that this is on the Wikipedia page for sedition

My dad always talks about the good ole days of politics when a Rep and Dem could argue on the floor and then go have a beer together. So I'm sure he's very happy about this Trump Mamdani meeting (he's not)

Worked stone to look like the veggie

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Jadeite Cabbage, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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a 3d piece of a little cute round guy and his big scary sculpture

the mind of the artist

I'm so glad that chatgpt wasn't around when I was a writing tutor. I already had to fight students who accepted every grammarly suggestion even when they were wrong. I can't imagine how impossible it would be to get through to these students

the actual 14 yo I work with doesn't even six seven me

My coworker keeps six sevening me (she is a mom to preteens)

Water on rocks

Thousand mini falls

Mushroom Rim on log

Forest throne

What I think are my best 4 photographs of when I went hiking for my yearly fall photography in Oregon two weekends ago

honey where did i put my calendar gun knife

always losing the dam thing

Deep emerald green almost like a lamp

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Art Deco Ingrid parfum bottle made of malachite glass by Riedel glassworks, depicting a nude under a waterfall. Bohemia, Czech Republic. 1930's

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

Plum like glass orb

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Hellenistic Greek Cast Glass Pomegranate Vase, tinted with colloidal gold to achieve the burgundy shade, 2nd Century BCE

Left and right shark What stands out is the goofy happy smile

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Paintings of hammerhead sharks from Japan 1735 CE

Transgender for Everyone is still going strong guys, don't worry

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

The coffee shop I'm in just rang a bell and got everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I'm in hell

Roesch said she was also concerned that the chatbot may take jobs from human employees.. “Questions for academic advisors and tour guides are now directed towards a bot who can’t answer them half the time,” Roesch said. Lydia Coulson, a communications specialist for the university, said that Cornelius isn’t designed to replace jobs but rather to connect students with existing resources they may be unaware of. “That's our goal, is that you don't have to be aware of every single little resource that exists on our campus, or that students don't have to be aware of that, but that we have a mechanism to make sure they're getting connected based on what their needs are,” she said.

Idk maybe they should market their campus resources better...just a thought

I know that academic and financial advisors were a huge help and comfort for me at school in a way that an ai corncob could not replicate