With the advent of the camera, mass production, and AI, art I'd constantly revising the question: #WhyArt? This is one answer. This is why we make art.

That place is horrid. Room after room of bad choices.

Image of plane with red dots commonly used in discussions of Survivorship Bias

You're only analyzing released data

Thoughts?
1. Speech can be abuse. It can be intended to abuse and it can have destructive consequences. When repeated, it can deeply traumatize.
2. Verbal abuse is a continuum from acceptable to horrific
3. There is no "freedom to abuse".
4. Abusive speech should have limits and consequences.

I like drafts. I don't have to use them often, but when i do, they are wonderful. Most common usage: needing to leave the editor to find and copy specific wording from another post, then return to editing.

Does the "great man" theory of history precondition a population for the fascist cult of personality?

Our engagement with #HistoryMatters more than we realize.

It’s Presidents Day here in the US, and I’d like to remind everyone that our current President most likely raped multiple children on multiple occasions.

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Resson #N why I love Bluesky. I love being exposed to a breadth of academic interests.

Syenite rocks with sodalite fluorescing orange when exposed to UV light. They are often called "Yooperlite". [📹 greatlakesrockhounds]

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First I've heard of her. Fascinating life

A portion of the Strøget pedestrian street in Copenhagen that widens into a grand people-place.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

The common kestrel has the ability to use headwinds to hover perfectly in one spot in the air.

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Roses are red
Chose what you do
Love who you love
Be true to you

I was in Tallahassee Florida before the first Trump election and I met somebody who actually said "I don't like Trump , but I can't vote for a woman."

That's some pretty deep misogyny.

A bit? Looks like you should keep an eye out for alligators. When did you visit Florida?

Measles is running rampant because there aren't consequences for lying and broadcasting lies.

Words have deadly consequences; they should have legal consequences.

Some people (e.g. Nick Fuentes) need to be deplatformed.

Ergo there must be consequences for giving them a platform.

Jail time for hate speech + for broadcasting hate speech + for algorithmic promotion of hate speech.

'Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape,'

'“This is 100% and exclusively about abortion,”'

Yup. beavers eating wood down by the river. Canadian as fuck.

a black and white photo of a group of beaver mascots wearing lab coats Alt: Scientist beavers from "Hundreds of Beavers"

We planted one and a beaver took it down within a week.

#BadIdeas

Reduce election costs with AI agent mediated voting and vote tabulation!

Let a swarm of agents self-organize to collect your votes and announce the winner.

Running an election is faster and easier than ever!

This is dodgy in the extreme. They throw in fluff like blaming ffmpeg for shortening a clip. And the "reconstructed video" is conveniently a screen capture, meaning the actual video file can't be meaningfully analyzed.

Scott Bessent warns Carney to stop 'virtue signalling' amid looming trade talks | CBC News The Trump administration is once again ramping up its rhetorical pressure on Canada, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issuing a fresh warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney over looming trade...

Hey Bessent , why don't you try some virtue signaling? You know, display some moral quality that inspires others. I know that sounds foreign to you and all but impossible. Maybe, just maybe, you can find something virtuous in yourself.

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Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics over banned helmet | CBC Sports Heraskevych came to the Olympics with a customized helmet showing the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches who were killed during the war, a conflict that started shortly after the 202...

This is a fucking joke.
I don't care what pressure she was facing, Kirsty Coventry should have let him slide.

What's to fear? A flood of memorials to the unjustly killed? I doubt it would happen and even if it did, what is wrong with that?

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fucking amen

Not that it matters, but I think that Lively is highly likely to be in the right. It all hinges around "did she complain at the time"? If she did (and the only evidence points to "yes"), why didn't they hire an intimacy coordinator at that time? That they didn't is very revealing.

Omg I just saw that he has died.

Trump's approval ratings are so low they are unmeasurable.