Sabrina Hughes

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

FACT: openly expressing love and joy and compassion and affection are meaningful virtues in the fight against fascism.

Device hoarding is saving lives in Congo! Thank you for your solidarity everybody, this is a group effort. 🇨🇩

Old photo original. Class photo

AI versions

Sample of the same child, showing how different AI apps have interpreted the data completely differently

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology

If Evangelicals want to know why people are leaving organized religion, it's because you excuse and elevate the objectively worst people as "God's chosen," while ridiculing the poor, marginalized, and downtrodden as sinners and lepers.

And I'm talking to Evangelicals of all faiths.

The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.

A black man wearing jeans and a black leather jacket with no shirt on underneath and a very hip looking pair of sunglasses sitting in the chair with what looks like a glass of liquor resting on his knee and he is getting set to play a cassette on the big boombox next to him

Angolan Air Force cadet during training in the USSR, 1987

Oh she is beautiful, I’d love one if there are extras or even a purchase link

Bryan Danielson, Toni Storm and Tony Schiavone #aew

Yeah same

navigating an open world landscape like a gender confused hero trying to rescue myself and not sure if I’m the boy or the girl

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Block ruthlessly. Block on vibes. Don't get into pointless arguments with randos in the comments. When a profile's entire personality is pro or anti current gov, I block immediately. Every one of us is being played. Only way to win is not to play.

Self-portrait of Suzanne Valadon that shows her smoking in bed while gazing off into the middle distance. She’s wearing a peach-coloured camisole and green and white striped pants cotton pants with a drawstring. Her bed and the curtains around her bed are blue with a pattern of white leaves.

This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!

The moral of Dune is that even a scheme you've spent most of your life developing can be potentially be beaten by a scheme that started before you were born.

What's important isn't whether you can see the future or not. It's the will to make a choice.

these are not even the files lol

The so-called “Strike Papyrus” written by Amunnakht The scribe Amennakht is the author of this papyrus in the hieratic script. It is a report concerning a strike held during the reign of King Ramesses III in the village of Deir el-Medina. The workers protested because they had not received their regular food rations, which constituted payment for their work in the Valley of the kings. “Year 29, secondo month of the Inundation, day 10. Today the work squadron passed the control post shouting “we are hungry!” It is 18 days this month that (the men) go and sit at the back of the funerary temple of Tuthmosis III”. Despite various attempt at conciliation, the protest lasted a number of days. To the officials who tried to persuade them to return to work, the workers replied: “We are here because of the famine and thirst. We are not accustomed to not having unguents, fish, and greens. Write to the pharaoh our perfect lord, take note of our words, and write to the vizier, our superior, because we are in need of our provisions”. Inv. no. : Cat. 1880 TPOP Material: Plant fiber / Papyurs Date: 1187–1157 BCE Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Twentieth Dynasty Reign: Ramesses III Provenance: Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina Acquisition: Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824 Museum location: Museum / Floor 1 / Room 06 DEM / Central wall Selected bibliography: Andreu, Guillemette (a cura di)-Andreu, Guillemette, Gli artisti del faraone: Deir el-Medina e le Valli dei Re e delle Regine, Milano 2003, p. 187. Cline, Eric H.-O'Connor, David (ed.)-Cline H., Eric-O'Connor, David, Ramesses III: the life and times of Egypt's last hero, Ann Arbor 2012, pp. 67, 112, 118, 120–122, 136, 141, 352. Edgerton, William F., “The strikes in Ramses III's twenty-ninth year”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 10 (1951), pp. 137–145. Gabler, Kathrin, “Methods of identification among the Deir el-Medina workmen and their service personnel: the use of names, titles, patronyms and identity marks in administrativ…

November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...

I’m crashing after Blood & Guts! Might need to finish this tomorrow 🤼

Again, if you get a little sour cream or salad dressing on your phone, that’s good for it. That’s sustenance for the phone

NEW MEXICO HAS AURORA HAPPENING NOW! Every contiguous U.S. state and Alaska may see aurora tonight.

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SAME I do not want to be inside one!

I'm always feel that it's strange when people refer to leftism, socialism, anarchism, communism as "white ideologies" because most of the socialists in the world aren't white and the most successful communist movement in the US in the contemporary period were black.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!"

'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social.

In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."

― Ursula K. Le Guin

I like visiting my ancestral home
(dives head first into bog)

Me looking outside at pitch blackness at 5:29 pm