Calico Barbarian

mamdani: we should improve society somewhat cuomo: yet i am a hypocrite sex pest! curious!

cuomo's campaign strategy, from what i can tell

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

Then they won't see it coming when I mail them a box of hornets. Assuming there will still be hornets in 20 years.

got reminded of one of the all time best moments in Jem. a rube goldberg machine of accidents that could kill everyone

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

DING!

“ attention economy” isn’t just a fun buzzword .
It’s an economy
.

you aren’t “ignoring” them . You are placing them CORRECTLY within the context.

They are randos who can’t let people do a job and are risking public safety to exert dominance

‘AI slop versions’ of books on retailers like Amazon ‘risk harming consumer confidence’ Low quality AI books “risk harming consumer confidence”, the Publishers Association (PA) has said after comedian Rhys James shared online that he had found a number of “AI slop versions” of his upcoming memoir You’ll Like It When You Get There: A Life Lived Reluctantly for sale on Amazon.

ICYMI: Low quality AI books “risk harming consumer confidence”, the PA has said after comedian Rhys James shared online that he had found a number of “AI slop versions” of his upcoming memoir 👇

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

stupid bonus #polytrix

There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.

Had no clue. She's a demon.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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having a bad morning so sharing again to do something about it - almost at 80%!! soon i will find out when this dog will be coming home (in the next few months). thank you for your shares and support

OpenAI is now openly suggesting people use chatGPT for mental health, to „untangle their thoughts” to help them „think more clearly” or if they need to decide whether to „break up with their boyfriend”.

This is unacceptable. Somebody will die. They know that. They don’t care.

Fuck them.

MY BOY

Blue tiger from kpop demon hunters

Doodle poop between work.

Riot Games Accused of Blocking Mastercard Discourse in VCT Chat As multiple different parts of the art, entertainment, and gaming industries are being impacted by ongoing crackdowns from various payment processors, it appear

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A digital sketch of a woman reaching into a pool of water. She wears a bone-like crown and decorative jewelry. Approaching her hand are a variety of women, some of them appearing injured in various ways. They approach her hand with reverence.

Conclave of the Drowned Sisters

#dailysketch Day 118
#art #illustration #darkart

hades 2 got me back in it

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Sketches for two types of werewolves from the same setting 🐺

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

Post from user closet-keys showing booty shorts with 2 qr codes 1 - leads to a PDF of the communist manifesto 2 - page where you can stream scooby doo

if bluesky had merch

Interior’s Renewables Attacks Snag Power Lines Nevada's Greenlink North is hit with a short, but ominous delay.

Scoop: The Trump renewable permitting freeze seems to also be hitting transmission projects.

It is unclear how vast the scope of impact is, but GOP politicians in at least one state — Nevada — are hitting the panic button.

@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky

this thread (in response to colin kaepernick's "make comics with AI" venture) is just spot on.

for extra context, great coverage from the beat and popverse last year:

www.comicsbeat.com/colin-kaeper...

www.thepopverse.com/comics-colin...

dance rehearsal #polytrix

It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement.

The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

"Baman Piderman" episodes are now available on their creators' YouTube channel :-]
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A crude drawing by reddit user MetalGearTom of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables breaking a chalk slate over the head of Frieza from Dragonball Z

Wonderful things are happening in the Anne of Green Gables subreddit

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