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Hi I'm lame! miles | 28 | she/they

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[wormkink]

do yall remember when the skies turned orange here and everyone was freaking out about how bad the air was to breathe in?

two weeks ago, the same thing happened in Gaza with a huge sandstorm kicking up all the debris and toxicity into the air, except no one had anywhere to go. this storm destroyed tents, literally ripped through the little between families and the harsh weather. people are still trying to find the means to fix what has been destroyed. and just yesterday, another rainstorm hit.

[wormkink]

my fiancé hammad (vetted @gazavetters #625) and his family, have been living in these circumstances like so many others for so, so long.

but there is really, really good news. my fiancé was able to find an apartment to rent — real walls and floors and a roof, with real beds, a real place for his little nieces to run around and actually be sheltered. how many of us take our homes for granted?

hammad signed a contract promising to pay $5000 in three months for a down payment and rent during that time. if we don’t raise these funds in time, they’ll be evicted.

[wormkink]

so take a deep breath. relax your shoulders. unclench your jaw. stretch your neck. calculate what you would be able to give.

i know this is a large goal, but we can show up as a collective and achieve this! ↪️⭐️ 50 of you are needed to contribute $100. 100 will be needed to gift $50, and 200 of you are needed to give $25 ⭐️↩️

[tiktaalic]

Arugula is some crap they found on the ground for real

[creepymutelilbugger]

thats because its plance. there are others as well

[hotvampireadjacent]

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar

[fireache]

[rabnerd28]

[redarmyscreaming]

Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?

[ms-demeanor]

Of course it can, and performance art is art, but I feel like it's important to know that the art being eaten was a series of AI generated images reflecting the artist's experience of AI psychosis and commenting on the way that AI use changes the users' interactions with the world. The images were generated by someone who has been using image generation tools in their art since 2017 and who was educated as an artist using traditional techniques.

The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn't an attempt to "pass off" generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there's an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that's just my interpretation of what remains).

[ms-demeanor]

For the record, Nick Dwyer was the MFA student whose art was eaten. "The intersection of art and AI" is a huge theme in his work.

Like. He made a ceramic sculpture of an AI girlfriend, then generated an AI image of the sculpture and called them one and two in a series.

He made ceramic "phones" and inscribed them with cuniform and ai image hieroglyphics that he carved into the clay.

I've talked a lot about how I think that AI has a place in the creation of art and I think Dwyer's work is genuinely a perfect example of someone using AI to create art.

Again, I also think that performance art is art and eating a portion of the gallery piece is certainly an interesting statement, but I wonder if the protestor would be as outraged by the ceramic phones with AI images engraved on them. How much human touch or human intention does "slop" need before it's art, or is it fruit of the poisoned tree and must always be considered slop because AI was part of the process?

[ms-demeanor]

I feel it's also important to note that Granger has been released and Dwyer has said in a reddit comment that he's not interested in pressing charges or seeing the other student prosecuted for this.

[ot3]

isnt it interesting how lesbians who are into media with male-dominated casts and are deeply invested in platonic or romantic/sexual relationships between male characters are really not any kind of rarity or outlier. but anyone other than lesbians or bi women being really into media with female-dominated casts and being deeply invested in platonic or romantic/sexual relationships between female characters is a rarity or an outlier. it is almost like there are some sort of structural forces that make mens' stories and feelings a matter of public interest and womens' stories and feelings an afterthought. probably not though i guess it's just an inexplicable result of completely legitimate personal taste that is above critique. oh well.

[self-loving-vampire]

Cannot overstate how much you do not have to ever hand it to Nintendo's copyright lawyers.

[rhapsodyxvi]

Nintendo Hoping You’ve Forgotten It Enslaved That One Switch Hacker by Now - Palette Swap

Nintendo was reportedly hoping you'd be too preoccupied with Switch 2 news to remember they enslaved a hacker fairly recently.

[done-with-your-chi]

Donate to GaryOPA Restarting His Life, organized by Gary Bowser

Hello everyone, my name is Gary Bowser aka GaryOPA as many of you know I am now in the process… Gary Bowser needs your support for GaryOPA R

Obligatory plugging my man Gary's GoFundMe

[ot3]

listen i am totally also turned off of of products by AI advertising because it suggests a cheapness in the operations of the company that i automatically assume will be reflected in whatever product i receive but i neeeeeeed i need people to stop pretending that what we were seeing from the ADVERTISING INDUSTRY before AI represented reality.

a lot of what you might naturally assume are product photos are digital mockups. i can understand not realizing that if you've never had a reason to mock anything up yourself, but it should go without saying that the 'happy looking cat' in the advertisement for your local veterinarian's office was not a real photo of an animal they have taken care of before being replaced with ai. it was a stock photo they have licensed that will have been subject to any amount of undisclosed digital manipulation before it ends up in front of you. and this is without even touching on the tactics that are used to mislead in actual product photography. "product is not accurately reflected by the images used to advertise it" has been an issue since the inception of advertising....

[rawan-soso]

Rawan’s situation is getting bad again. The infection in her ear has become very painful again, but she’s wary of going back to a doctor because she feels she’s spending too much money on that.

On top of that, some of her clothes and one of her pairs of shoes have been stolen, which is really affecting her mood, because clothes are very expensive and she already has few of them. It’s really cold in Gaza now.

She also wants to enroll herself in a new semester of university, since she wasn’t able to complete her last one due to her circumstances. She’s really eager to get her degree and find a job so she can fully support her family. Unfortunately, that will involve fees. I don’t have all the details yet.

Please contribute to help her keep herself afloat. Anything helps, even just $5, and if you can’t give that, then just sharing these posts makes a big impact. Please don’t ignore her, she’s trying her best to rebuild her life 🙏

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[rawansfamily]

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[mahrahpalestine]

Despite the suffering of the Palestinian people, the siege imposed upon them, and the lack of facilities and stadiums for sporting activities, they were able to achieve a historic accomplishment: advancing to the second round of the Arab Championship. This, in my personal opinion,

This is an achievement and a victory for the Palestinian cause, so that the world may know that the Palestinian people deserve to live like all other peoples.

Your donation helps us and strengthens our resilience. Please donate here. My family is grateful to you all.

[nighthamcollege]

[sayruq]

Donate to Menstrual Care Kits for Women and Girls in Gaza, organized by DIYALA ABDLRASUL

Goal Achieved!! #Sisters4Gaza successfully sent 2,000 menstrual… DIYALA ABDLRASUL needs your support for Menstrual Care Kits for Women

Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

[karrakazz]

i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

[ouroborosmoons]

I can’t stop laughing

[burntundertones]

[0sbrain]

the problem with how people characterize narumitsu is that they only see them as the grumpy and the sunshine ship dynamic, so they end up writing phoenix as a golden retriever and miles as an old gay queen.

but like, phoenix is such a bitch. the bitchiest bitch that ever bitched, actually. he enjoys sarcasm and trash talking, but he has this thing called "situational awareness", so he knows not to behave like a massive cunt in front of people involved in a murder investigation

on the other hand miles gets easily flustered and his fight or flight response to being caught off guard is spitting a venomous comeback. but in his head he's making puns. he's thinking about how the plants are beautiful. he's like an easily spooked horse who is also a dork that gets into a staring contest with a dog. and then loses

[internetbynight]

[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[raangmanch]

Please boost. This is urgent. There is a need for esims more now, than ever.