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There’s not a moment to lose! Would watch, 10/10

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

This was my youth, as well. Still close to a few people I met only in plain text.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

You are epic. I love it. For the prize!

The lesser of two weevils!

Ok, but I fucking love your shirt, dude. It’s my comfort series of books and my comfort movie. There’s not a moment to lose!

tl;dr? Okay: Let us do our jobs.

I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.

One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.

I love everything about this

Stop trying to hack my email, weirdo hackers.

If you want my identity, just ask. Can’t imagine what you’d do with it, but I’m not using it.

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software. Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

IMO this is a big but underappreciated piece of the resistance to ICE occupation in the Twin Cities.

Our Authentic Midwest is one of big cities and pluralism and we're proud of it. Our Heartland values include standing up for our neighbors, no matter where they were born.

Doors and corners, kid.

Doors and corners.

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Amazing numbers for activism in Minnesota

Q: "Since December, have you participated in any neighborhood group discussions, either in-person, by phone, or online, in response to federal law enforcement activity in your area?"

Minneapolis/St Paul, 49% said yes
www.startribune.com/poll-results...

Thirsty Star Trek The Original Series scene. Ol' pointy ear Spock is "piloting a shuttlecraft" if you know what I mean. He's looking up and concentrating hard. Closed caption reads, "The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive."

#HappyValentinesDay

Forward!

Oy.

The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.

("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Wait, what, is the OP satire??

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for “beaver conflict resolution technician”

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

As a Sconnie, I apologize to the rest of the country for the plethora of fucking imbeciles we’ve sent to Congress recently.

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold!

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little bit above the level of a farce and gives it some of the grace of a tragedy." Steven Weinberg

It’s really weird getting stoned in your childhood bed at your mother’s house while talking with your mother, who is just now watching you get stoned.

Twenty five years ago I’d be in trouble.

““The truth is, we’re very scared,” he said in an MPR News interview conducted in Spanish. “My family, my children, are very scared of what might happen to us and of what we're going through now. We’re still hiding.””

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill