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Brasil fan! Climate alarmist and writer. Author of award winning, Emergência Climática: o aquecimento global, o ativismo jovem e a luta por um mundo melhor. Corinthiano. Posts in Portuguese and English. Based in São Paulo

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Trump’s healthcare plan has been “two weeks away” for so long it technically qualifies as a pre-existing condition.

26.11.2025 06:31 — 👍 905    🔁 182    💬 38    📌 7

Women being attracted to RFK Jr is how you know heterosexuality is NOT a choice.

25.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 3392    🔁 406    💬 6    📌 60

Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way

26.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 2549    🔁 234    💬 184    📌 30
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Sigh

Listen.

Vote for democrats.

26.11.2025 05:09 — 👍 7211    🔁 1272    💬 213    📌 86

Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.

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AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.

I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration. 

And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it. 

Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it…

View Amanda Gautier-Ronopawiro’s graphic link Amanda Gautier-RonopawiroAmanda Gautier-Ronopawiro • 2nd2nd Medical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific IllustrationMedical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific Illustration 1d • Edited • 1 day ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration. And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it. Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it…

a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used

a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used

"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"

A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->

www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

26.11.2025 11:31 — 👍 172    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 6

The principal occupation of the entire Trump political enterprise is whining and bitching.

26.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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Trump Cancels Release of Third Economic Report to Hide His Failures Wow, he is one pathetic loser.

I feel like this story isn't being discussed enough, so we jumped on it for our live coverage today.

26.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 1276    🔁 323    💬 34    📌 11

This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup

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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.

25.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 11523    🔁 1873    💬 224    📌 126
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

26.11.2025 01:49 — 👍 13589    🔁 1748    💬 138    📌 92

Breaking:

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

25.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 6748    🔁 942    💬 307    📌 200

Immigrants aren’t taking your homes, they’re building them.

Immigrants aren’t driving food costs up, they’re working to put it on our tables.

Immigrants aren’t making healthcare unaffordable, they go without it.

Billionaires are driving the affordability crisis. Not immigrants.

25.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 236    🔁 74    💬 3    📌 9

every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity

25.11.2025 13:08 — 👍 5086    🔁 670    💬 158    📌 18
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Retired 4-star Army General Barry McCaffrey said the Pentagon's threats to Sen. Mark Kelly are making the U.S. start to look like the government of North Korea.

25.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 7207    🔁 2748    💬 276    📌 124

Marrant qu'il y ait un encadré généré par IA en tête de cet article sur des méfaits de l'IA générative

25.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

25.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 13023    🔁 3487    💬 131    📌 129
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Exactly

25.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 8536    🔁 2109    💬 400    📌 124

ICE is and always has been a terrorist organization.

23.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1013    🔁 222    💬 19    📌 5
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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

Citizens United has nothing to do with Citizens uniting. Its all about massive unverified sources of huge amounts of money in Politics! It needs to be overturned ! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

24.11.2025 11:47 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 11/24/25 YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Trump's DOJ suffers another humiliating blow as its cases fall apart; Trump is mocked and laughed at during a series of high-stakes global summits; DoD threatens a senator with a military trial; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

25.11.2025 00:52 — 👍 1431    🔁 333    💬 30    📌 5
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James Hansen: Candid Truth About Global Warming "Substantial underestimate"

"Dr. Hansen, the former director of NASA Institute for Space Studies, warns humanity has a larger price to pay than currently expected & criticizes institutional failures to communicate the true scale of the crisis."
@climatecasino.net @michaelemann.bsky.social
www.collapse2050.com/james-hansen...

25.11.2025 01:45 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Cool stuff 😎

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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

24.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 5057    🔁 2123    💬 243    📌 190

Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick

23.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 74    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 0

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.

He’s going to kill people for oil.

24.11.2025 02:58 — 👍 8592    🔁 3581    💬 962    📌 375
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X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...

Twitter’s new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts

The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.

24.11.2025 05:27 — 👍 1619    🔁 592    💬 88    📌 25

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