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Copy of Slow Down by Kohei Saito

Reading today and really excited about it 👀

I just watched ARCO last night and what a beautiful, touching movie! A great balm to how disappointing Pixar and Disney are these days. And it was refreshing to watch an animated movie that was definitely for kids, but with a maturity of storytelling that doesn’t treat them like idiots

Just a damn delicious borscht with vegan sour cream and with a slice of everything sourdough bread

My partner doesn’t like beets which is a shame because I made SUCH a good borscht tonite it’s not even funny!! The perfect accompaniment to the sourdough we bought from some guys operating out of a lumber yard.

It was so fuckin good

I went to a student improv showcase tonite that a friend was part of and it was a great time! I think our broad cultural joke about improv being cringe is actually loser shit and everyone who tries it is cool and braver than me

Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Can’t have student loan relief, can’t fund public education, can’t provide public healthcare, can’t build housing, can’t get a good job, can’t fund research to cure/treat illness and disease, can’t build green energy, can’t solve hunger and illness in the global south, but at least we can have this.

I will not vote for Newsom because he does not believe I deserve human rights.

If it comes down to JD Vance vs Newsom, who are both rabidly transphobic & support ICE, I will vote for a third party candidate.

Luckily Democrats have another 2 years to make sure we select a better, viable candidate!

Every time you try to do this thing where you exactly quantify with a definition human consciousness, you take one of the great mysteries and bind it with mechanistic limits that are 1) inevitably incorrect and 2) cheapen the mystery.

You are setting a base price for your worth and driving it down.

Not to point out the obvious here but these weren’t just “jobs” — these are friends, colleagues, and former mentors.

Polite words can’t describe my thoughts.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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I’m high and having a very profound moment of feeling as if I can really imagine what it is like to see myself through my dog’s eyes. What a good feeling that is

Devastating quote:

"Unfortunately, I can’t in good faith participate in an organization that kicked off the awards ceremony with a land acknowledgement, and then proceeded to minimize the sole acceptance speech delivered by an Indigenous artist"

Photograph of cannellini beans sautéd with mizuna greens in a pan

Photo of a plate of asparagus, white beans and farro on a bed of romesco sauce

I started this meal wanting to learn how to make romesco sauce (success) but the real lesson was throwing a handful of mizuna into your beans is GOOD (especially since I got them 50% off and ready to go in the trash)

Philly Fixers Guild: Meet the Philadelphians building community through repair - Green Philly Sick of your stuff breaking? Once a month, this volunteer-led organization helps community members repair their broken items. We live in a fast-paced society. When something breaks, our first impulse ...

Sick of your stuff breaking? Once a month, this volunteer-led organization helps community members repair their broken items. 🛠️

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Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️.

But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

As many of you will recall, the poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death is perhaps the single greatest piece of literature of this century.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Wow this slaps??

This Is some art I’ve made for Decomposer, a graphic novel written by Mason McDonald. The book is well on it’s way to being finished but we’ve set up a Kickstarter to help us complete it. I’d really appreciate if you’d have a look at the page (link below) and consider helping us out. Thanks!

a man stands on a roof with solar panels ALT: a man stands on a roof with solar panels

On top of everything else, oil and gas prices are going to spike because of Trump’s war in Iran.

But guess what doesn’t get disrupted by wars?

Renewable energy. Solar. Wind. Geothermal. Storage.

I mean, who could have predicted that handing over the deadliest military in history to one of the most abusive, corrupt, laziest, incurious, and self-obsessed men in American history during the fall of the empire would be a bad idea

A drawing of two cartoonish cherubs playing a flute and a harp. Text reads “if you ain’t got no haters you ain’t poppin’”

sorry but it’s true

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

like to charge, repost to cast

Most revolutions start when bread prices get too high, just sayin’

Waitrose suspends sale of mackerel because of overfishing Supermarket chain says it will point customers to herring and other species to protect threatened Atlantic stocks

Supermarket chain says it will point customers to #herring and other species to protect threatened Atlantic #stocks www.theguardian.com/environment/...