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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

MAP: Hundreds of Businesses & Schools Due to January 30th Shutdown Our map shows that the January 30th Shutdown is already affecting hundreds of businesses and schools across the country.

Payday Report’s map shows that hundreds of businesses & schools closed for Jan 30th shutdown:

- Grey’s Anatomy filming shutdowns work
- over 100 LA Businesses have closed
- Gainesville, Florida Businesses.

Just initial highlights - will update more

paydayreport.com/map-hundreds...

the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

The moral being "We have to live with people who are genuinely different from us" from the pro-fascist pro-ICE broadcast, meaning not that we need to defeat racism but that you, the cuck, must swallow your moral instinct and live with murderers and fascists and rapists. Do not listen.

“Oh it’s not gonna be bad any more, covid is just like the flu now!”

Meanwhile the flu:

The Bible: faith without works is dead

Bros: No problem! we will simply have Christianity without either faith or works

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

That’s why HAVN designed the EMF-blocking beanie. Powered by our proprietary WaveStopper™ Technology, it forms a barrier that blocks over 99% of WiFi, 5G, and Bluetooth radiation right where it matters most: your brain.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

The article is literally not what the headline says BTW. Their plans are, I don't know, expected?

The whole interview feels like they were trying REALLY hard to get the CEO to say something saucy and couldn't quite get the quote so they just invented something saucy for the clickbait title.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

the point of the biblical story of job is that god is a piece of shit who doesnt care about you and is undeserving of your worship. thats why we named wage-labour after the guy

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Assata Shakur

Disney says 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will return to ABC on Tuesday ABC had pulled Kimmel's show after he made comments linking the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to President Donald Trump's MAGA movement.

Very glad to once again be personally choosing not to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live instead of the government forcing that decision on me

Go, and I cannot stress this enough, Birds

Morn in S tier is so good

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

we’ve truly entered the american century of humiliation

Beers taste better if you drink them sitting on stairs. They don’t want you to know this

A longevity doctor says he reversed his biological age by 11 years.

You know one thing that really annoys me about this latest craze is that the obsession with reducing one's "biological age" is occurring in the same moment when many of the same people would rather die than consider that "biological sex" is mutable.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

unpopular opinion but we should be building pyramids