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not now baby meme from the sims. baby on fire, mother ignoring it.

not now baby, mommy is thirsting over agent scully on a niche microblogging site

A promotional image for a digital wallpaper set

I don't think I ever posted this one here! It also comes with a version without the bunnies, and that version is one of my personal favorites to use. I hope you enjoy it, too!

You can grab these (plus all past sets) here: riiabrego.com/wallpapers
And prints are here!: inprnt.com/gallery/riibrego

Thanks to ‪PetaPixel‬ for spreading the word about AI photo theft. I know it is like a drop in the ocean and unlikely to change much, but it can at least encourage people to be more critical when viewing photos online.

petapixel.com/2025/08/07/a...

bsky.app/profile/wize...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The “satanic panic” is back and even dumber than before.

.tiff files are cool because a client can send you one so fucked up it crashes your computer, no other image format boasts that kind of power

handsome buckaroo with glasses and no shirt on standing on the right, on the left is the physical manifestation of a swirling blue cloud of angry comments but he seems pretty nice actually. they are in a forest

we all know this classic online way. new tingler POSTING ONLINE THAT I LIKE THE COLOR YELLOW AND THEN GETTING POUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF ANGRY COMMENTS ABOUT HOW I SAID I HATE BLUE out now and free for everyone on the chuck tingle patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/postin...

me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰

also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):

More relevant now than ever.

four panel false knees comic by joshua barkman 1. barn owl A: “do you think i’m cute?” 2. barn owl B: [staring at barn owl A] 3. barn owl A turns her head completely upside down in a fashion i assume she means to be charming and endearing 4. barn owl B: “you’re cute in an intense way”

also, lol, was reading comics this morning and found a picture of me looking for validation from the poor souls forced into friendship with me

(Ew, It’s Beautiful @falseknees.bsky.social)

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

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All three works together so you can tab through them and see the changes :>

I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done…

complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…

I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out

A character applying makeup.

A character checking their phone.

A character browsing for ingredients.

A character sitting on the stairs.

Some sketches I made through the years.

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

the donuts might actually help, at least for that day

coworker: how are you

me: good :)

coworker: how are you really?

me: a pit of misery and despair, a black hole of which no light can enter or escape, decaying more rapidly as the seasons of my life pass me by

coworker:

me:

coworker: there’s….uh doughnuts in the breakroom

me: oh, yummm :)

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Shin Godzilla シン・ゴジラ

Artfight atack for @tujiux.bsky.social mwah

#artfight #teamcrystals

Just look at how beautiful this is! The shadows on the back are exquisite!

Bloodborne fanart

Today I learned that in France Murderbot is called “AssaSynth” which is very cute

As I was lucky to be able to buy the MTGXFF Secret Lair during the pre-order, and I know many of you didn't make it, I wanted to offer you a chance to grab one.
A giveaway for a chance to win a Grimoire SLD ( foil ).
What you have to do is Like+Share.
Winner announced on July 31.
Good luck! ❤
#MTG