Renn Kane

While there is a lot to say about this image, the thing that stands out to me the most - what IMO makes genAI a specifically right wing phenomenon - is the craving for approval. It is not enough to be able to generate robot lingerie warrior lady. They NEED to also be praised for doing it.

i meet art spiegelman, author of Maus. “oh, hey Art Spiegelman” i say. art spiegelman, drawn in his anthropomorphized mouse fashion, says “oy, twink boychik, ive finished a new book, a real gesamtkunswek about the war and my father i tell ya” he hands me a copy of the complete Maus, “i call it 'Maus'” he says. “oh wow, Art” i utter, stunned. “the swastika is like... a literal nazi symbol... i think i have to block you dude...” END

They handed me a mat and a folded-up sheet of aluminum foil. "What is this?" "Your blanket." "I don't understand." I was taken to a tiny, freezing cement cell with bright fluorescent lights and a toilet. There were five other women lying on their mats with the aluminum sheets wrapped over them, looking like dead bodies. The guard locked the door behind me.

text There were around 140 of us in our unit. Many women had lived and worked in the US legally for years but had overstayed their visas often after reapplying and being denied. They had all been detained without warning. If someone is a criminal, I agree they should be taken off the streets. But not one of these women had a criminal record. These women acknowledged that they shouldn't have overstayed and took responsibility for their actions. But their frustration wasn't about being held accountable; it was about the endless, bureaucratic limbo they had been trapped in. The real issue was how long it took to get out of the system, with no clear answers, no timeline and no way to move forward. Once deported, many have no choice but to abandon everything they own because the cost of shipping their belongings back is too high. I met a woman who had been on a road trip with her husband. She said they had 10-year work visas. While driving near the San Diego border, they mistakenly got into a lane leading to Mexico. They stopped and told the agent they didn't have their passports on them, expecting to be redirected. Instead, they were detained. They are both pastors.

I met a family of three who had been living in the US for 11 years with work authorizations. They paid taxes and were waiting for their green cards. Every year, the mother had to undergo a background check, but this time, she was told to bring her whole family. When they arrived, they were taken into custody and told their status would now be processed from within the detention center. Another woman from Canada had been living in the US with her husband who was detained after a traffic stop. She admitted she had overstayed her visa and accepted that she would be deported. But she had been stuck in the system for almost six weeks because she hadn't had her passport. Who runs casual errands with their passport? One woman had a 10-year visa. When it expired, she moved back to her home country, Venezuela. She admitted she had overstayed by one month before leaving. Later, she returned for a vacation and entered the US without issue. But when she took a domestic flight from Miami to Los Angeles, she was picked up by Ice and detained. She couldn't be deported because Venezuela wasn't accepting deportees. She didn't know when she was getting out. There was a girl from India who had overstayed her student visa for three days before heading back home. She then came back to the US on a new, valid visa to finish her master's degree and was handed over to Ice due to the three days she had overstayed on her previous visa. There were women who had been picked up off the street, from outside their workplaces, from their homes. All of these women told me that they had been detained for time spans ranging from a few weeks to 10 months. One woman's daughter was outside the detention center protesting for her release.

When we arrived at our next destination, we were forced to go through the entire intake process all over again, with medical exams, fingerprinting - and pregnancy tests; they lined us up in a filthy cell, squatting over a communal toilet, holding Dixie cups of urine while the nurse dropped pregnancy tests in each of our cups. It was disgusting. We sat in freezing-cold jail cells for hours, waiting for everyone to be processed. Across the room, one of the women suddenly spotted her husband. They had both been detained and were now seeing each other for the first time in weeks. The look on her face - pure love, relief and longing - was something I'll never forget. We were beyond exhausted. I felt like I was hallucinating. The guard tossed us each a blanket: "Find a bed." There were no pillows. The room was ice cold, and one blanket wasn't enough. Around me, women lay curled into themselves, heads covered, looking like a room full of corpses. This place made the last jail feel like the Four Seasons. I kept telling myself: Do not let this break you. Thirty of us shared one room. We were given one Styrofoam cup for water and one plastic spoon that we had to reuse for every meal. I eventually had to start trying to eat and, sure enough, I got sick. None of the uniforms fit, and everyone had men's shoes on. The towels they gave us to shower were hand towels. They wouldn't give us more blankets. The fluorescent lights shined on us 24/7. Everything felt like it was meant to break you. Nothing was explained to us. I wasn't given a phone call. We were locked in a room, no daylight, with no idea when we would get out.

Canadian victims of the Trump regime have witnessed and documented first hand the inhumane conditions ICE keeps its victims, subjecting them to psychological and mental torture and degrading living standards. Many victims are kept locked up for months and even years. #StopICE

We should try it

I want 10% of the self confidence of a mediocre man on the Internet

...he says to Signal's president

Invitée - Clara Chappaz : comment protéger les enfants de la pornographie ? À 12 ans, un enfant sur trois a déjà été exposé à la pornographie. Face à ce fléau, une loi a été promulguée qui oblige les plateformes pornographiques à vérifier l’âge de leurs utilisateurs. Clara Ch...

Me and @clarachappaz.bsky.social on @quotidienofficiel.bsky.social agreeing that there's no such thing as a safe backdoor 🤝

(In French)

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#furry #art #furryart

Son commentaire commence comme un début de discours pour féliciter d’un oscar 🏆

ネムウェルさん！

Oh by the way,

If there's a case disproving the transphobes' argument of "archeologists will know you were a man from your bones", it's Pamela's case.

Her HRT had modified her pelvic bones so much, they literally thought she was a cis woman who gave birth.

Il y a toujours des gens pour défendre ça ?

Acermendax @acermendax.bsk... • 1 h Voilà pourquoi Dieu n'existe pas n°11. La prière est un acte foncièrement illogique et immoral qui est incompatible avec les définitions admises de Dieu.

Un pote partage ça sur Mastodon (pour critiquer hein). Pardon mais quand je pense que c’est ce gus qui m’a attaquée en « expertise », je trouve ça vertigineux. Un élève qui fait une rédac de ce niveau en philo, c’est même pas qu’on lui met 0/20, c’est qu’on lui dit de tout reprendre à zéro.

Et le pire c'est que ça se voit que les entreprises de la tech forcent à mort sur l'IA générative, quitte à pourrir leurs produits de l'intérieur (Cc Google). Et ils peuvent pour l'instant se le permettre grâce à leur quasi-monopole dans le secteur.

L'Histoire n'est pas une flèche qui va irrémédiablement vers l'avant. On pourra pas ad vitam aeternam construire des datacenters, rouvrir des centrales électriques et injecter des milliards pour que Timéo fasse des images de mammouths animés pour son exposé sur la préhistoire.

J'arrive pas à saisir la logique des gens qui te disent "c'est fini, on ne reviendra pas en arrière avec l'IA générative".

Je suis pas sûr que cramer du fric – et la planète avec – pour générer des images Ghibli soit "l'avenir" ... ou alors faut aller dire ça aux investisseurs de OpenAI ptdr.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Ugliest man in human history being called a pedophile while gaming

Hairless white ape being called insecure while gaming

Disgusting human/pig hybrid being told he ruined the country

Stupid ugly moron being called ugly while gaming

Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.

"S'il te plaît, immense LLM qui se contente d'aligner des mots à partir de données aspirées un peu partout sur internet et très certainement biaisé par les actions d'un milliardaire fasciste, aide-moi à me défendre j'ai la flemme de faire des recherches moi-même"

Making Plans~

"In Brazil, the bald uakari is known as 'o macaco Inglés' which translates to 'the English monkey'" Image is of said monkey: it does look like a gammon: bright red face, looking moist.

La pression du « ratage » 😖
Avec une autre petite série de croquis ^^

Comme bcp je trouve irritant quand des enfants font du bruit dans le train. C’est pas leur faute, c’est comme ça, donc on souffre en silence (ou on vent à nos potes quoi). EN REVANCHE, les vieux dans le train qui téléphonent oklm et mattent des trucs sans écouteurs, c’est EUX le vrai fléau.

Le président des USA qui annonce un crime contre l'humanité sur un réseau "social"
L'esprit d'une époque

Eden today ~ (they/them)
#furryart

Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames > ladies' bridge's balls
Crève-Coeur-en-Brie > heart tearing in cheese
Chanteloup-en-Brie > wolf singing in cheese
La Ferté Gaucher > the left handed ford
Mort-Cerf > Dead Deer (ok 0 effort)

mon 77 a du talent

mais pas laredoute.fr #doublestandard

Every "Gender Critical Feminist" is like this. They are just conservative women who believe that they personally deserve equality but that other women don't