Dan the Gnome

He has fallen for the greatest trick in the book: mediocre white man syndrome. I cannot fail, I can only be failed by everyone else.

He honestly believes this bullshit works and he was prevented from achievement. Rather than the obvious which is this bullshit is WHY he failed.

Seriously, WHY would you let him do comms? Or even NEAR comms?

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

this really feels like the last days of social media, because if/when this place goes to hell I don't have another jump left in me.

It's really hard to overstate how wildly this departs from HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of years of literature and data, data he would understand if he hadn't failed every school he was sent to. Things like RoEs did not arise out of nothing!

P.S. Rumsfeld tried this, and he was smarter than you, Hegs

Quick! Someone find a secret unknown Florida volcano in Palm Beach!

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

have a bisque firing warming up today, but managed to get this crock all snaked up. the weather is warming up here, the toads are coming out of their burrows, and i nearly stepped on a little copperhead the other day... alll good though #pottery #handmade #snakes #folkart #clay

I'm so exhausted. Which is, I know, the point, but still.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

So. Fucking. Tired.

Minneapolis residents who pay immigrant neighbors’ rent ask city to delay evictions A council committee voted to temporarily extend eviction notice filings from 30 to 60 days; the full council will vote again.

Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

Ink and watercolor illustration of a lush flower garden. A chair is in the middle with a couple of books on it, a witch's hat, and a blanket. Some bees are flying around. The chair awaits an occupant!

Dreaming of getting back in the garden 🌿🐝🪻🐞

Especially when my area might be getting another 2-6 inches of snow tonight. 😭

alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

About time someone said it to their faces

'Potential'. A dryad holding a magnolia in front of the night sky. She looks very much like a tree, and she has dark eyes and a hopeful expression. Made with colored pencil and green and brown watercolors.

'Death'. A woman in a romantic dress lies dead on the autumn forest floor, and a crown of white mushrooms grows on her head. Made with colored pencil and watercolors in yellow, brown, and green.

'Life'. A willow fae looks directly at the viewer. Her long green hair is covered with buttercups and butterflies, and white abstracted line art representing their growth, life, and movement. Made with colored pencil, yellow and green watercolor, and white ink.

'Dream'. A naiad in profile underwater, with swirling weeds all around. She looks very much like water, is transparent, and has white line art in her hair that looks like the movement of water. Made with colored pencil, blue and green watercolor, and white ink.

Hi, I'm a mixed media traditional artist based in the US, and I'm inspired by nature, folklore, and fantasy. ✨

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Patreon post header graphic for "Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer" by Matthew Cortland, dated 03/04/2026. Title reads: "Steven Pinker Helped Epstein's Lawyers Argue Sex Trafficking Wasn't Sex Trafficking. The NYT Just Gave Him a Platform to Argue Disability Isn't Disability."

In 2007, Steven Pinker argued that "entice" didn't mean entice, to defend child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. In 2026, he's arguing that "disability" doesn't mean disability, and the New York Times is letting him do it without mentioning his history.

I wrote about it

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This. Both JD Vance and Trump are virulent racists despite being married to immigrants.

I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the ‘Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

🤔"They are narrow and they are easy..."

The historian author:
* Cites the Montgomery bus boycott
* Knows that it lasted 381 days
* Lists that as an example of "easy?"

Black people walked to work in the Jim Crow South for over a year? Easy?

Then lists "Delete Facebook" as an example of "hard?"

Today's racial wealth gap is wider than in the 1960s Average wealth in America has grown over the past 50 years, but not at the same rate for everyone. Wealth gaps, especially between whites and non-whites, are growing. In 2013, the average white family...

There are *more* innocent Black people unfairly incarcerated today than there were in 1960. Hundreds of thousands more. 🤦🏿‍♂️

The racist gap in wealth *widened* between 1960 and 2013. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Segregation is *increasing* rather than decreasing in over 100 US cities. 🤦🏿‍♂️

a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

I spent most of the 90s in jeans with oversized tie-dye T shirts with an open flannel shirt over serving as jacket/sweatshirt. I also have photos in brown jeans with a denim shirt.

The headline reads "Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses."

In a moment of uncharacteristic incredulity I assumed it was badly written. Why would Meta *workers* being seeing things through Meta *users'* glasses?

SILLY ME.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

A photo of four little ceramic frogs. The frogs are green with bluish glaze on their backs.

I little batch of ceramic frogs! These little guys are very satisfying to hold, almost like a worry stone. They will be available Friday, March 13th at 8pm Eastern time!

Dickwhistles! Now on sale for those who just need one or two. If you need 100, you can get them for free!

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