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I have no idea what I'm doing here or anywhere. I sometimes draw, I sometimes photograph, I sometimes practice magick, I sometimes suffer my cat's wrath he/him/his I neither use nor support AI/NFT/Crypto
Time seems plenty right now but it will run out quick enough if I dawdle.
I would consider going naked but.... ticks. So. I dunno. Besides I have cool cloaks and shit and it's just a waste to be naked. :P
I also need to source trim (for hems of cuffs, collar, skirting) but since I don't really do anything SCA anymore it doesn't need to be period accurate card woven trim (period within reason -- ppl use floss and crochet thread). However Joann's went under and I prefer to inspect jacquard ribbon irl
I did buy a few yards of cloth a couple years ago for making a new tunic since the old one is
A. old
B. made from a table cloth
C. from a T tunic pattern
So I might want something a little better anyway lol
At least I managed to find some clearance pants for costume purposes today, which was nice. I want to dress up for Summer Isle burn next month but I've gotten a little bigger since the last time I got to wear costumes, so. Need to try on my old tunic again too, see if I can let it out or sew anew
All of which is to say that an AI chatbot's explanations of its own behavior are no more reliable than its description of the outside world, and that they're unreliable for exactly the same reasons. IT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO KNOW ANYTHING.
Yep. And I'd encourage folks who don't understand this to make a personal one-time exception to any "don't ever use AI for anything ever" policies they may have. Because if you actually push on this stuff, it's quite illuminating. (Quick thread.)
Please keep calling concerning this. Not just for the arts and environment but also for the increasing number of sexual deep fakes that are being made of children and to uphold the importance of state rights.
Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
Rwanda Redux.
Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports.
Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.
the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
KOSA will absolutely be used to actively target and discriminate against LGBTQIA+ people; it will be used to frame literally *Existing* as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic;" you can know this because Blackburn has admitted it out loud.
Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
8.6 million people.
That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts.
That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.
Welcome to Gilead.
BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.
Benbecula, 2023
71% of all online engagement in Ireland is far right bots from foreign adversaries attacking Irish people. It’d be great if the EU would sort this out. It’s gotten out of hand and doing genuine damage.
The cruelty hurts, but the joy they receive from their cruelty is worse.
There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.
Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up
a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting)
b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE
c) they are at odds with each other
Push Hard Now
That's 20 large butter croissants the geese won, by the way. Stolen from a group of college students in their terrified stampede for home
Who needs to have monkeys to control a town when you could just keep geese instead (you gotta let 'em out sometime)
Speaking of geese, I still think about a news story out of Waterloo, ON I saw a little while back abt a neighborhood that was terrorized by geese lol
Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw
A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war
Haha I would try to take a phone photo but I'm afraid they'd have to be awful close -- too close, according to the parents -- to get even a cryptid photo of them, let alone a clear photo. A grey pixel circled and labeled "gosling?"
alas
They don't have necks yet either, which contributes to the puff-like appearance lol
It's fun to chance seeing the family toddle over the rise from the pond and descend into our shallow valley to nibble grass under the various trees and bushes
the goslings. The geese had to warn off and threaten two deer several times the other night, which made for wonderful dinner entertainment (we were eating on the back porch).
For now we only see the goslings as tiny yellow puffs, and only when they scurry around. Excellent camouflage.
Not much going on here-- some Canadian geese made a nest at a neighbor's pond, so now we get to see a goose family with six little goslings in the backyard. We've seen that the geese don't mind rabbits joining their party to graze, but they will chase deer! Makes sense -- deer might crush or eat
I Do. Not. Trust. This. Man.
If knowing your rights didn’t matter, then 100+ right-wing sockpuppets would not show up to deny that your rights matter, dismiss your concerns, derail the discussion, and defend ICE on every single post of a Know Your Rights card
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