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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal This is a comic about AI art.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Mood

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

- put down the damn AI.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

That's a busy street, with restaurants, shops, and schools and daycares nearby.

Exactly.

Omg

Can't believe I have to prep my phone tomorrow to go through US customs and security in case they search my phone without a warrant

If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Ok, it turns out #ShroomScrolling already existed before I thought of it this morning. Which means if you click on it you’ll get a delightful stream of excellent mushrooms. Definitely recommend #FungiFriends 🌿

LMAO. Just love how the assumption is that: "of course it will be returned to its country of origin", while African artifacts do not get the same amount of grace.

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

Finally, proof that the Romans settled Louisiana.

Good news! An update from Global Sumud Flotilla on X.

x.com/GlobalSumud/...

A mercurial sphygmomanometer with a stethoscope next to it

Pleased to find out yesterday that I'm still able to use this quite effectively :)

Looking forward to publication of this work next month!

Thread worth reading

Sigh

Need to put a smart plug or something on my fan

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

When Will the Lion Concern Himself Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

This is amazing

They tried to erase Palestine, but the world has become Palestine.

The outrage is global. The world is rising against genocide.

Thank you Amsterdam.

Like I don’t know how you simultaneously undercut your argument for being a meaningfully decentralized platform while *also* doing a racism while *also* doing a transphobia while *also* proving to everyone you’re too petty and involved in forum drama to hold your position but Graber pulled it off

That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it. That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano. I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

x.com/paolomossett...

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

Fanning and Raworth have updated the doughnut model of social and planetary boundaries - and mapped rapidly growing human inequality. While the richest exploit the planet the most, the poorest are set to cop the impacts.