paz !! 🇵🇸

This is a powerful piece of journalism.

“… each of the men were not only losing time, they were losing loved ones. They were missing major life moments that can never be recovered. Not only did the men say they were tortured during these four months; their families said they were too.”

did just post about it vaguely way before spoiler embargo was up (sorry-) but still think this sums up my feelings as the patches as a whole vs the actual base expansion (cont. in image because long thoughts)

an exchange of texts edited to be about Final Fantasy XIV characters the default Warrior of Light is saying "can you come collect your freak of a man please. he's doing things" while referring to Estinien Aymeric replies "no i set him loose on purpose. he needs enrichment"

had to make this edit after my sister sent me the original the other day saying it was literally them

#estimeric

Queen eternal✨

Kingdom Hearts

"It's just not impressive if a robot is doing it:" Soundalike voice actors on AI
aftermath.site/ai-voice-actin...

all those "nature is amazing!!" accounts were a plague before AI (unsourced/credited videos, misinformation, bad photoshop jobs), they're just gonna get worse

if you want to see cool nature stuff with proper credits and proper information, follow actual scientific accounts

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made a tiny little working bag as part of this doll project :3

"There are only a handful of companies that make nearly all of the shots children receive. Only [1] manufacturer makes chickenpox vaccines. And just [2] or [3] make the shots that protect against more than a dozen diseases ... If any were to drop out, the [US] could find itself in [another] crisis."

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Watch Out!

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

First look at Fallout Season 2

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Like @zedotenator.net says:

I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add.

Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

if you find yourself in a nazi bar you can always exit the nazi bar. hit da bricks. there's even a step-by-step guide in here

A small black and white kitten, Uni, sleeping with his face resting on my hand.

When Uni was a kitten

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In Boston, when they "cleared the camps," homeless folks had pills, medical devices, and wheelchairs thrown into the back of a trash truck and compacted.

this is what it means when someone "clears the camps" - taking what little these people have left, and destroying it. the hope is they die.

it’s so funny that people think she’s an art doll

Important thread about payment processors. The terms for high risk ones are BAD. It's the difference between taking 30¢ + 4% and 75¢ + 9% per sale, and this thread goes deep into a myriad of other accompanying problems.

Vital context for anyone discussing options. There aren't really good ones.

post a ffxiv meme made by you

the gap between some folks' declared politics and their actual behavior can get really stark and obvious when they start talking about customer service interactions

Koana holding a big sniper rifle with both hands as he kneels down to aim. He has a serious expression on his face.

Koana!!! 🔫🐱

Exclusive: Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he has a 10-year deal with Haiti to fight the country's criminal gangs, and then take a role in restoring the country's tax-collection system.

If you want to understand the plan here, you also have to understand what they’re doing in Haiti.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

There's 3 big game stores in the western world.

Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published.

One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle.

Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".

Screenshot of actor Tramell Tillman over the headline Tramell Tillman on Severance Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise

he’s gay AND Tom cruise?? he really CAN do it all, wow