Friend.to.All.Creatures

Framing AI as liberatory is, I must say, evil, because what you are actually doing is selling a tool that is not only built on the stolen work of others but one that actively steals and stunts your own potential

hey it’s easy to feel hopeless right now with all these violent images of ice cubes shooting our neighbors but hey did you know you’re loved? you’re cared for? that i love and care about you? that we’re happy you’re here? it’s important to remember. ok u can swipe down now back to the scary

::tap tap tap:: 👇

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Bluesky may be the one place on the internet where you can be like “my hobbies are politics and mental illness and cool bugs” and everyone is like omg follow

Ford and Carney are marching in lockstep. Look at Federal
Bill C5 and Fords Bill 5.

Amnesty Canada 🇨🇦 is warning us about our government, please pay attention.

Canadian economy bled 66,000 jobs in August as unemployment rate at its highest since 'pandemic days'

Canada elected a neoliberal banker who scrapped the carbon tax and paused the EV car mandates while the country is on fire. He's demanding austerity for social programs while pouring billions into the military.

While corporate profits soar so do mass layoffs.

This sets the stage for fascism

This is vital now, and going forward.💜

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Really not enjoying the combination of “nobody has a job” and “everything is expensive now”

It is my birthday tomorrow! If you want to do something for me, I have a big request.

Think of somebody in your life who is struggling. Make them soup. Play a videogame with them. Help get their window unstuck.

You don't know how far a little goodness can go. But I believe in you.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

HerediGary

a bit ago the organizerz for my cities pride parade reached out to commission a sticker design for the event & i just remembered im allowed to post it now teehee

An image of a robot with a "NO" circle around it and the text "AI IS FOR LOSERS! REJECT FASCISM! THINK FOR YOURSELF! I CAN MAKE ART THAT'S UGLY AND BAD ALL BY MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

Because they don't see them as hobbies through the process of which joy is created, they see them as arduous processes which rewards one with goods, acclaim, and success at the end. They're not trying to acquire a new hobby, they're trying to optimize the time and labor out of a productive process.

🚨 you cannot be neuro-affirming and be transphobic at the same time

these are mutually exclusive terms
diametrically opposed states of being
not possible to embody concurrently

thank you for your attention to this urgent matter

If Meta's glasses used AI to blur images of every human form until that human gives them a "I consent to being filmed" signal, I guarantee sales would plummet.

They're perv glasses, made by pervs, for pervs.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

They just want to conquer a thing like always. They don't give a fuck about anyone who built it, they just want to say they did/can

Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

Get some of the death pheromone on him so he keeps getting thrown back on the dead ant pile

"ai isn't going away" ok but neither is death and you don't see me here drinking poison and hitting myself with a hammer