Pinnku - Edwardiwyn ghost

Mamdani, correctly, refuses to say that any nation has a right to exist. As TNC said, nations don't exist by "right". They exist by power. The US has no right to exist. People in the US have rights.

Some conservatives can appear to be good, kind, reasonable people.

So long as you are in the category of human beings that they consider to be people.

But their empathy and consideration is always conditional, and that's not something you can logically debate someone out of.

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

This.

I've turned down crypto investment, because that shit is disgusting. I know where that money comes from, and what was involved in taking it. So I said no. Decent people say no.

Refusing to say no to collabs and investment from morally reprehensible people and orgs makes you complicit.

An X screenshot of the DHS profile in which they shared "finishing this fight" with a picture from the Halo video game with the text "DESTROY THE FLOOD join ICE"

For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.

Nobody wants this shit, which is why they keep sneaking it onto our devices like some unwanted U2 album.

Illustration of various animals wearing hats

Choose a tiny creature wearing a hat

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

If you know me well, you know the Golden Age illustrators are among the most foundational of my influences, and of these, Edmund Dulac is perhaps among the top three strongest. One of my artistic heroes for all time. 🥲💙

Happy birthday, Edmund Dulac!

I had my little theory that the war on porn games/art/writing was, in part, to try to make AI scraping easier, but now I can add "it was astroturfing to take out the ethical, artisanal, actually artistic competition."

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt Never attribute to Machiavellian genius what sheer brazen dickery will explain. Fascism isn't chess, it's street thuggery in office. 11:02 PM • 1/31/17

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

there likely will never be a reckoning for how much AI tech companies have stolen from sex workers, but at least we have records of it

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This is the precise reason why I make and send Holiday cards every year, no joke. I maintain a contact list. I keep up with addresses and relationship changes. It means I don’t rely on gigantic, evil companies to mediate my access to my network of support.

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

The Neverending Story poster was one of the most compelling images to me as a child. sparked my imagination something fierce, and continues to inspire even to this day. RIP, Renato!

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Homer bushes meme dropping streaming platforms and taking up piracy

In conclusion

I can draw anything. I can make characters as abstract or grounded as I please. I can put them in peril or paradise at the flick of a wrist and the wisp of a whim. I can tear them to shreds and they'll be fine because I decide they're fine. Because it's all fake. You are trying to chain daydreams

Boromir doesn’t want Sauron to win, just doesn’t understand that his skill set cannot be used to defeat Sauron. He can’t wrap his mind around the fact that what gave him status in Gondor is now inadequate, indeed his desire for military prowess and power over others is what makes him vulnerable.

Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen? • I'm aware • Wow, rude

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

Jesus Christ.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.

The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.

The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

Twitter user @_hiphoptalk tweeted: how u gonna be on the wrong side of history while it's repeating itself like bro ur failing an open note test

Every time something like this happens and I think of all the people who should be standing up to it and aren't, I think of this tweet

“Oh did I see you posting A.I? Instant unfollow Are you trying to argue with me about it? Instant block” There is a small cartoon portrait of myself, a round-faced Asian guy with round glasses and short hair, saying, “I’m just not that patient.”

UwU

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle