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A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Who is ‘fedora man’? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux was captured looking suave in a picture outside the Paris museum on the day of a crown jewels heist When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger. Continue reading...

Who is ‘fedora man’? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked

Let me return to the feel good moment of the night.

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

What is happening, Marge? Either this is the most epic Trojan horse troll game of all time and she will unveil herself as an alien who wants to eat us or she got visited by three spirits overnight recently.

"Don't get too excited, because-" Nah, how about you shut the fuck up. All the way up.

Let people have a crumb of joy, you miserable fucks, my GOD.

I promise, you can go back to posting "We're so fucked" and then not doing anything to stop it thrice daily tomorrow.

we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.

I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.

Love you all 🥰🫶🏽🎄🎅🏽🎁

#1031魏無羨生誕祭
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If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Just did this with my Drive settings, and yeah it had Gemini ticked by default without ever asking me if that was something I wanted

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

Fuck yes. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

I don't want to exaggerate or be controversial but it kind of seems like AI is a huge steaming shit taken on everything by techbrahs who are not fully normal or human

Updating my LEGO White House

wake up babe, new Ouroboros just dropped

It’s amazing how much we have to bend over backwards to excuse white male—and let’s be honest it’s white males—awful behavior. Nothing bad they do is their fault

The rest of us somehow managed to go through puberty and all the emotional ups and downs that come with it without becoming fucking Nazis

Something that strikes me about Platner and similar is how obvious it makes the hunger for different-and-more-progressive Dem candidates, but how we’re still the most thrilled by one who’s a white guy. Lots of good & solid progressives we could run, too bad they’re POC/ lgbtq/ ladies, or some combo.

Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels

Meet the "Japanese snow fairy" (shima enaga), a subspecies of long-tailed tit native to Hokkaido.

It's no wonder Japanese anime characters look like they do, when actual Japanese wildlife looks like this:

I ❤️ my hometown.

Well done…

man with a cardboard sign saying “you sucked in home alone 2”

hit him where it hurts 🫡