‘Devastating’: Las Vegas faces ‘Trump slump’ as ICE raids drive tourists away Las Vegas is feeling the sting of a “Trump slump,” as workers and union leaders say President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies are scaring off international tourists and triggering job l...

‘Devastating’: Las Vegas faces ‘Trump slump’ as ICE raids drive tourists away

www.rawstory.com/las-vegas/

To recap: in the last 3 years, I’ve had 53 paintings scraped for training, my name violated as a prompt tens of thousands of time (likely way more), watched my income drop 30% almost overnight and hasn’t recovered since, there’s more images online using my name for slop than my authentic work…

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I don’t know what I’m going to do yet and I’m really upset that I have to pivot YET AGAIN because of this stupid wasteful pointless exploitative technology.

Any help to keep things afloat would be so appreciated. This couldn’t be worse timing.

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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

It’s a political DDOS attack.

Man, I just read a quote from Carrie Fisher that's going to be burned into my brain forever.

"Things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards."

Why U.S. politicians are up in arms about new internet rules in Britain On Friday, Vice President JD Vance kicked off his trip to the U.K. by warning about online “censorship” in the country.

well, i guess there's one thing Vance is on the right side of history with. i mean they guy's awful in a lot of ways but at least there's this.

Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

Computer Science Grads Are Being Forced to Work Fast Food Jobs as AI Tanks Their Career Computer science majors once met a red-hot job market graduation. Now, the reality couldn't be more different.

"It is difficult to find the motivation to keep applying."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

I never posted this here? I didn’t actually finish this but got it far enough that I moved on to some other stuff. This is my love letter to shawarma / night feelings and mechs I did during covid. This is the 4K square “full frame” version.

#3d #3dart #shawarma #night

Sign the Petition Stop YouTube’s August 13th 2025 Plan to Use AI to Misjudge Your Age and Force ID Uploads

A YouTuber by the name of "Deep humor" had his appeal for a video to be unbanned rejected by YouTube. And said video did nothing wrong. That's why we need to keep fighting against YouTube's AI tool. We're close to 500. We're running out of time. #YouTube #YouTubeAI
www.change.org/p/stop-youtu...

been saying for some time that this would happen as soon as the bubble started to burst and along with all the ethical issues with gen AI which there's a mountain of it's a major legal liability as well to use gen AI for anything.

YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad Ai ‘Therapist’ Told me to KILL PEOPLE!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEJ...

Full series of events

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious

change your pfp to clippy! here's why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dt...

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In New York City, 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan has become the "epicenter" of ICE immigration enforcement and detentions.

The NY Times explains why and what's happening there. 

#AbolishICE

Transgender lawyer wins suit for declaration that trans discrimination violates attorney ethics rules The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

I have no physical office and no staff, because being a pay-what-you-can lawyer isn't terribly lucrative. It *is* a lot of driving in my little Scion iQ.

If you've heard of me, it might be because I sued the state so trans people could practice law in this state, and we won.

6/

When we won marriage equality at the Supreme Court in 2015, it was the culmination of decades of advocacy from the queer community.

Families across the country have built their lives around the landmark ruling that affirmed our freedom to marry — and we’ll defend that right no matter what.

*deep inhale*

Stop 👏 Letting 👏 Your 👏 Indoor Cats 👏 Outside 👏👏👏

They do not belong out there. They destroy local ecosystems. They are more prone to diseases. They are prone to being taken or hit or attacked.

I don’t care how much they scream to go outside, KEEP THEM INDOORS.

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers.
apnews.com/article/elec...

Reuters headline from earlier today. "Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations"

Motherfucker. We're cooked.

If I were Wikipedea, I'd block access from the UK.

Goddamnit.

Unfortunately, the EU, Canada, Australia, and the US all have similar bills in the pipeline.

The Internet is dying, and it feels like it's to manage social unrest during civilization-level decline.

Trump takes over D.C. because 'Big Balls' got his ass beat by a teenage girl That's the excuse the president is using, at least, to kick off his military takeover of American cities.

Accurate headline
www.laura-bassett.com/p/trump-take...

Funny thing is I think one of the bigger issues with ChatGPT is the feeling of being productive without actually being productive.

They give three examples, none of which are actually about executing.

Also "high value problem solving" means nothing.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The UK Just Censored The Entire Internet

Thanks @taylorlorenz.bsky.social I wasn't even aware of the broader implications of this. I always appreciate your hard work

youtu.be/RFUUy0DKxvk?...

for a while as strange as it may seem i've been trying to convince people in the crypto and NFT space how bad gen AI is. there's always a few who vocally agree too but lately i've been noticing that a lot more are agreeing on how bad it is.

that's also a space saturated with slop too.

I’m a professor literally risking my own life to fight the menace of Gen AI destroying education. In this piece thoroughly backed by scientific research, I explain how Gen AI is destroying education, the environment, and the workforce.

Most profs too scared to lose their livelihoods to speak out about Gen AI.

Meanwhile, I won't be able to pay my rent soon, I'm a whistleblower

Read, share, donate. ❤️
medium.com/@kim_crawley/im-a-professor-literally-risking-my-own-life-to-fight-the-menace-of-gen-ai-destroying-education-6b3c596f55ce

you should absolutely take retaliatory action against anyone who attempts to make you remove it, and to shut down any business that bans them. they are at best eugenicists.