mrdang 🍥

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract.

Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.

ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn.

A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.

This is like letting an app do the cosplaying for you.

It's outsourcing the fun part to the machines.

reminded of when they showed the very first PIXAR short to tech guys and they all asked “what program did you use to make it funny” and they had to very gently explain that it was the people that made it funny, not the code

The vibe around Windows 10 was that it was supposed to be a final OS and the company would follow Apple in providing free updates.

That did not age well. :/

Did you have furniture to play on? 🤯

4 frame comics. One person says to another : violent radical transgender leftists are trying to overthrow the government! The other replies : you mean these violent radical transgender leftists? We see three people in frog costumes, one is holding a sign that reads Frogs Together Strong. The two guys say : i'm feeling so threatened right now. The president needs to invoke the insurrection act!

Violent radical transgender leftists

they spelled his name that way bc that's how the racists say it

Woke up and chose hyperfixation

Lolllllllllllll there are so many memes about Susan Collins being 'concerned' and ineffective. How is our governor's staff so out of touch?? 🤣

This is the right thing to do when you do when you have a platform.

Turns out not being mad that a far-right hate influencer got shot is NOT a fireable offense if you are a teacher or professor.

1A wins again.

Very nice work and extra nice that you got cited finally 👏👏

LA Comic Con, please read the goddamn room.

How it started. How it’s going

Classic Photoshop fail 🤣

Who named this? What are their standards? What are you REALLY celebrating? LOLLLL

We literally have Amazon and Starbucks in this state that are union busting.

Number did not go up enough, so it must go down.

Gotta be the story that you broke about the TeleMessage Signal clone used by the White House.

I hear the 'I'm getting canceled' money is pretty good. Fail upwards.

calling an AI marketing tool "liars" seems a little on the nose doesn't it

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Age verification doesn't achieve what its supporters say it does. And I'm glad Bluesky chose this action rather than complying with censorship laws.

Oh no.

Humans wrote this document on standards of what Meta AI is and is not allowed to talk about.

REQUEST FOR INQUIRIES: I’m looking to interview Seattle-area folks who may be harmed by Meta’s reckless Instagram maps feature, and especially folks who have previously or are currently experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.

The Kp scale goes up to 9 and the current forecast is only 6 so lower your expectations. But it's worth checking again in case it changes to something higher.

G2 geomagnetic storm with Kp6 likely on Aug 7 8-11pm PDT (Aug 8 3-6am UTC).

By far *BY FAR* one of the best things about joining Bluesky was how many people got introduced to our social media strategy for the first time.