Seattle's Mayoral race between a progressive and a centrist may come down to a few dozen votes

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Image of "Preferences" pain for Adobe Acrobat, with the "Generative AI" menu item selected. This provides check boxes that can be unchecked, including "Enable generative AI features in Acrobat" and also "Show AI query bar on document", "Show AI video cards (this will replace the starred documetns, requires restart)", and "Show AI Summary Bar on top of the document".

Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)

Decided to check settings:

So what happens?

Well, the likelihood of the House GOP passing this bill is between 0 and absolute 0. It would be seen as a betrayal by THEIR base.

But it does mean that Dems get the 218th discharge vote for the Epstein files.

It also means that Dems can filibuster the NEXT House bill.

This means among other things, that our awaiting reps can be seated.

But it also means that Senate Republicans betrayed Trump.

He wants them to pass the clean CR by nuclear option because he wrongly thinks he'll be able to end mail in voting.

But regardless, it means the Senate betrayed him.

The ONLY way this "deal" (taken with several grains of salt) ends the shutdown is if it's identical to the house version.

The alleged "cave" by the GOP staff regurgitators at Axios is nowhere close to the house bill.

Which means it forces Johnson to convene the house to vote on it.

Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening.

So quick review:

The House passed a clean CR.

The senate has not passed anything.

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.

www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

You could, for instance, tell if someone had the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of a career criminal

Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Book banners ate shit all over the country last night ❤️🥰

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

You understand these are also the people building and funding the slop machines, yes? That the slop extruders are made, in part, to feed “content” into their algorithms?

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Sign in a LIBRARY: Fuck social media. marry books. kill AI.

“But you can give it up, stop Sheriffing, if it has stopped being a respectable job,” said Sam.

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

A teeny tiny brown spotted toadlet sits on a lily pad. Its eyes are so large and it is so small. It's nose is very pointy.

Look. At. Him.

Look at him!!!!

I implore anyone who has an audience and speaks about genAI and LLMs to refer to them as products, not technologies, as much as possible.

Keep hammering that home.

It is just completely implausible to me that the data center power rush isn't coming with systematic violations of air pollution laws. Time to bring back the militant state clean-air enforcement of the mid-20th century. Shut them down and prosecute them.

Good for her. I sent along some money.

I’m sorry. You can’t call the other party the nazi party while defending your candidate with the nazi tattoo.

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

I have blocked
the discourse
in my timeline
That you should probably
have saved for X
Forgive me
the vibes
were so
rancid

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.