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We live under plastic sheets and wooden poles. This is not peace, it’s survival in disguise._ 💔 _Every night feels like a battle, every sunrise reminds us of what we’ve lost._ ✅
*Help us rebuild our lives* 😞🙏
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Hello Trixie, this is Muhammed from Youtube. I don't have permission to DM you on here.

This is fucking fabulous! You have a great sense for color design Big Sis.

thank you oomfs

This incredible team is going to make paid family leave a reality for all Minnesota families starting January 1.

Grateful for their work to make sure Minnesotans get the time off they deserve – whether it be for an illness, a new baby, or a family member in need.

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What computer technology has revealed is that the rules are fake, and that we can create anything.

There are no mediums, only mediums.

Arc System Works defied 3D logic with Guilty Gear Xrd, and changed an entire art form overnight.

There is no idea too crazy in this world to not make real.

It doesn't necessarily mean use AI, but what it does mean is learning Blender, Godot, Processing, animation, videotronics, kinematics, photography, etc.

It's challenging our very identities as artists, daring to evolve into new frontiers, as Gene Youngblood and Roy Ascott advocated for 50+ years.

I don't use GenAI. But when I stumble on anime images created by these models, what it inspires me to do is to create these aesthetics with my own two hands.

I think to myself, "artists can create this shit. But in order to do so, we need to rise to the challenge of learning emerging technologies."

It's producing anime aesthetics that I've never seen before from any artist, anime, video game, comic, or illustration.

This technology is creating new aesthetics, not being burdened by cultural baggage or the material constraints of traditional mediums.

AI, unlike humans, has not been taught limitations from experience. It doesn't treat "2D" and "3D" as separate categories, but embraces both.

It doesn't delineate between "high" and "low" art, but synthesizes them.

Despite genAI's well-deserved criticisms, what this tech is revealing is that we now have the ability to create any kind of image.

These models, albeit unethically, have been trained on virtually every movement, medium, theory, and style of art.

Then throws all those rules out the window.

Here's where queer and trans people can find support when relocating in the US Grassroots efforts help queer and transgender individuals resettle in sanctuary states across the country.

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Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.

But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

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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

Donate to Contribute to Heba's Family's Survival story, organized by Mouhamad Diallo My name is Mouhamad. I am a US citizen living in Boston. Since the w… Mouhamad Diallo needs your support for Contribute to Heba's Family's Survival story

gofund.me/1845a552b Please donate or share to support Heba and her family to afford groceries and essential items.

Okay. Time to sleep. Usually I would delete those posts before sleeping but I think I'll do it tomorrow because I want people to know that my work is still very much at risk even though the last month was quiet. Please call and mail to push back against paypros.
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Repost your posts. Brag about your accomplishments. Get yourself treats. Be weird as fuck. Above all, do all these things for those you love too. Life is too short to try not to take up the space you need

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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But what if you play brainless game and then draw? 🤔

Please share, there's always someone who needs to know.
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Oh wow. What a combination of colors.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

I say this with all sincerity: teaching how to recognize and critique AI-generated media is a key to teaching anti-racism.

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[Text on an yellow octagon meant to look like the output of an overhead projector.] The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.: A TIMELINE [A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.] 1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate. 2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies. 3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed. 4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed. 5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January. 6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program. 7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3. 8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?