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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

From the iTalki community on Reddit: UPDATE: the button to opt out of AI recordings likely does nothing. Explore this post and more from the iTalki community

cool cool 🙄 #langsky

This teacher has AI recordings turned off but that AI summaries are still given after lessons. "As someone who works in software development the only way for that to happen is for at least audio to be recorded and then fed into an AI model."

via www.reddit.com/r/iTalki/com...

Hey so do we have to put the Olympics organizing teams in charge of healthcare, because why are athletes wearing respirator masks but doctors won't while they perform kidney transplants?

Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop

The things I saw and heard

the grief feels enormous and bottomless

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

i don’t want men exiled. i just want them to process through their own trauma from patriarchy.

disco elysium really phrased it perfectly

a sentimental fool. #persona5 #shuake

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

2020:
* Family in Seattle or Portland attends a peaceful protest against government brutality and violence against Black and brown people
* Cops indiscriminately fire tear gas and CS gas into crowd, harming kids
* Cops don't care / laugh / arrest parents

2025:
Same.

If you hate ICE putting kids in cages, just wait until you learn about the rest of the carceral system!

#AbolishICE
#DemolishPrisons
#FreeThemAll

“…Most white people in this country are like most people who eat meat in this country: they want to enjoy a good steak, but they don’t want to go to a slaughterhouse and put a bolt gun in a cow. White people enjoy their privilege, but they don’t exactly want to see how their privilege gets made.”

Every one of the journalists arrested by the regime in last 24 hours was Black and that is not a coincidence.

Your daily reminder that, literally, one bad apple DOES spoil the barrel, due to the ethylene reaction. And the longer you leave it in there, the faster the rot spreads.

We’ve been saying “one bad apple” about a full spoiled barrel for over a century.

I missed this; it's excellent & I agree 100%.

the root problem of "secret police" isn't the "secret" part

‘Make your statement strong’: Clark County residents push leaders to decry immigration crackdown County staff will ask other local agencies to weigh in on the statement, Council Chair Sue Marshall said.

‘Make your statement strong’: Clark County residents push leaders to decry immigration crackdown

Ones that’ll just get broken anyway!!!

The entire Democratic establishment is a bunch of inanimate bananas in people suits pretending to be legislators.

Trump could not have asked for a better house minority leader than Jeffries, frankly. Dude has actively combatted all attempts at resistance by house democrats

The nice thing about working in law enforcement is that you get to pick and choose what laws you’re into

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.

It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

if you in ICE’s crosshairs for getting pulled over or picked up, that interaction is going to stay with you for the rest of your life, even if “everything goes fine” or whatever

there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement:

they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.

a digital cel-shaded illustration of the character noelle holiday from deltarune, seen from a high angle. she is afloat and staring upwards with parted lips and stars in her eyes, and her hair floats around her. she is wearing her default dark world outfit and has a pair of white angel wings. the background is a pale yellow gradient, with small dust-like clouds that indicate motion.

✨🕊️😇
#deltarune #utdr #noelleholiday

don't know what kinds of masks work for what or where to get one? see the quote for some of the respirators i wear daily.

need free masks? want to help your community access free masks and or donate some?
check out clean air groups near you:
covidactionmap.org
maskbloc.org

“Meta spent billions just to be outdone by this Steam game made by four people”

WHAT. A. HEADLINE! 🤩⭐🔥

Sit with friends and strangers at the bottom of our screens while you work/study but with animal crossing/ webfishing vibes (and not meta hehe)

Yakuza 0 cover art edited to feature Fresh Prince Carlton as Majima and Will Smith as Kiryu

Was looking through my steam library to see what I need to add to the backlog and forgot I changed Yakuza 0's cover art to this

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.