רֵנֵסַנס

mortimer. they / she. 31. bi, jewish anti-zionist, & mostly absent. marxist-leninist.

[thydungeongal]

This the last straw: I just heard that the company that hired paramilitaries to assassinate union members in Colombia recently used generative AI in an ad

[plaidos]

wait until the anti AI generated art people find out how shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time etc get animated and why that part of the process doesn’t happen in the united states 🤔 considering how often they frame AI art as a labour issue you’d think they would have massive problems with the fact that the majority of western animation is outsourced to other countries where they can get away with paying a lot less for a lot more (backbreaking, unethical, underpaid) work in the same amount of time. oh.. whats that? you’re saying it doesn’t count when massive corporations build their entire business model off of exploiting people in non-western countries, it’s only bad when you’re collaging a scrapbook i mean sampling music i mean violating a megacorp’s intellectual property claims

[anasabdin]

Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

[txttletale]

its very funny when people talk at length about the horrible environmental impact of ai and give a big scary sounding number of electricty or litres of water or datacenter floor space without any context and then you investigate what that number means contextually and it always like pales in comparison to what's used by like. online gaming

[txttletale]

this is less a comment on ai art per se and more on how you should be skeptical of any number (or percentage!) given to you that you have no context for

[waltermeadows]

I just happen to think that online gaming is (sometimes) a positive addition to our world and things like crypto and ai are just a net loss and devoting planet-destroying energy to things that are actively harmful is a damn travesty

[txttletale]

this is such a funny argument lol. our noble and socially necessary fortnite servers vs. their evil wasteful midjourney servers

[transmutationisms]

i'm worried that palestinian fundraisers have been slowing dramatically the past few weeks because people think their goal numbers are 'a lot of money', and ignore them.

so, as the one-year mark of this ongoing genocide approaches, i'd ask you to think seriously about how much money it costs just to keep yourself alive for an entire year. $15,000? $10,000? could you live off just $5,000? for a whole year?

since losing his job and his house to the israeli bombing, mohammed iwais has been supporting his 27-person family on gofundme donations equivalent in total to about $50k USD, or roughly $1,852 per person.

i am asking you to think about the reality of what this means for a family undergoing repeated displacements, bullet wounds, other medical emergencies, and now homelessness—in an occupied country that is being brutally price-gouged and cut off from even basic humanitarian aid by military border blockades.

mohammed's fundraising goal has not yet been met, and he's going to update his gfm page to reflect that as soon as he gets a stable internet connection. until then, there's really only one question.

could you live off what the iwais family has raised so far?

verified / donate

[transmutationisms]

i'm extremely worried about this family and i'd like to get them to kr525,000 by thursday. please keep sharing & donating!

[divyx]

"Every donation, no matter how small, will make a significant difference to my family's safety."

This morning I had a call with Mona, where she showed me just a glimpse of the difficulties they are surviving - but we have a chance to help them!

Mona is a mother of three children. She has lost her home and so much of her family, and is now trying to take care of her kids and her sick mother. Displaced in a tent, daily life is difficult, with healthy foods expensive and hard to get, and no space for the children to play. They are urgently raising funds for evacuation permits for once the crossing opens again.

How to help:

1. Give: tiny.cc/HelpMona

2. Can't give? Join the power hour on Mondays, with pre-made graphics, printable flyers, and an email template. We spend 1 hour contacting 5 people to each give $5: tiny.cc/HelpMonaPowerHour

As always, you are welcome to claim a free ebook/paperback/hardcover of my book if you give $10+: divyampersaud.com/chapbook/

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[gendergem]

me: there are no signs that i could have autism or overlapping adhd traits

also me: had a friend at age 19 who said they were going by they / them on the rp site we were on and i took that hyper literally and so only used they / them on the site and their previous pronouns in dms and instead of ever correcting me the entire friend group thought i was doing it maliciously and randomly kicked me out and i was so hurt and confused bc i thought i was doing exactly what they told me

young adulthood is… wild !

also it worked out bc they turned out to be weirdos but the issue is over 10 years old now so who cares,, occasionally i do think back and laugh now tho bc how stupid was i 😭😭😭

[catmask]

smthing i can just never believe when ppl (mostly twitter users) complain about a girl character being made to look 'mannish' or 'masculine' and talk about the death of femininity and every time i get excited and think 'oh okay cool did we get a butch character or-' and its literally jusg a regular fucking woman like you would see at the grocery store. like jusyt a normal woman

[lolita-wardrobe]

When Dragon Loves Pink

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[lakevida]

going thru mood swings makes me feel like a sim its so embarrassing

[lakevida]

(weeping on the floor for ten minutes immediately followed by cleaning the kitchen with a placid smile) sul sul

[txttletale]

the thing about israel and palestine is that only one side has the power to end the conflict. israel could end the occupation, end the blockade, stop the settlements, stop the apartheid, and let palestinians return to their stolen homes. an end to israeli violence--to israeli occupation of palestine--would mean an end to the conflict. an end to palestinian violence, on the other hand, would see the bombings and evictions and ethnic cleansing continue unabated. so when someone calls for "an end to violence on both sides" remember that only one side can end 'the violence'--all the other can do is roll over and die.

[txttletale]

like, you think it's bad that hamas are extremely reactionary religious fundamentalists? okay, me too! however if you want to foster progressive and humane forces in palestinian politics the first step is to stop keeping millions of people in an open air concentration camp that's bombed daily and steps two through one hundred are dismantling the israeli apartheid state. but of course the 'end to violence' people aren't advocating that because they don't really want an end to violence, just for the israeli colonial project to proceed unimpeded and for palestinians to politely not make a fuss about their own genocide

[rnoonjelly-archive]

Lady Amalthea

❤  Speedpaint  ❤

[eileennatural]

it's so important for your health and well-being to get overly attached to a fictional man who is both deeply amoral and unbelievably, pathetically sad

[ruiwen-art]

Genshin Impact x Suits

[puttingherinhistory]

Misogyny kills: Analysis of mass shootings finds hatred of women a key factor

Living in the United States gives you way too many chances to develop theories about what drives mass shooters. In recent years it’s seemed notable how many mass shooters had histories of domestic violence, for instance. A new Mother Jones analysis of...

“The 22 mass shooters in the analysis killed 175 people between them, and injured another 158. And yes, 86% of them had histories of domestic abuse, but, additionally, 50% targeted women and 32% had histories of stalking or harassment. The 22 shootings Mother Jones analyzed account for more than a third of the public mass shootings since 2011″

[charamells-deactivated20220424]

Eeveelution drinks and parfaits

[wuggen]

Interesting to me that lmao is thriving but rofl is critically endangered, perhaps even extinct in the wild