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French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

crimethinc

We've prepared a zine version of our text, "A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds."

crimethinc.com/gunshotzine

Please print these out and distribute them in communities that may be targeted by right-wing violence. Make sure they reach street medics. Thank you.

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

bsaka7

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

i-wear-the-cheese

"No one is asking men and boys to undergo these tests."

Meaning:

You are not a feminist even by a twisted trans exclusionary definition if you think equality for women means being tested, ridiculed, being put at risk of blackmail, and driven to consider suicide, while somehow men avoid this entirely.

I cannot even begin to imagine the levels of fucked up logic that allow that to make sense. It would not make sense even if men were also being tested but for the love of fuck there has to be a foundation to this crappy reasoning and this doesn't even meet the abysmal level of "separate but equal"

lobstabear

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

knittingontheroad

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

odyver

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

odyver

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

odyver

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

i-wear-the-cheese

Hi OP! I have a friend who works in the heritage sector and thought you might find this useful. The place they work was having an exhibit on Experiences of a Certain Demographic Group in a Certain Period of History (vague to avoid doxxing) but instead of using human written copy from archival examples of real humans, the company they hired to build the exhibit used AI copy derived from archival examples.

What it did was make it impersonal, inaccurate, and unacademic. The voices and stories of the people weren't real so they didn't relate directly to the materials on exhibit, nor were they fictionally derived from a specifically curated amalgam and the experiences ended up a mismatch of class and racial norms for the time so a human copy editor had to fix it for a sum that far exceeded the original budget.

It cost them a lot of money but it also cost them audience attention and the "yes and" factor because stewards working the exhibit couldn't easily relate the work back to the artefacts they displayed (as the LLM had no ability to do this) and the public couldn't on their own initiative look up more about a person.

The friend in question is really pissed because the heritage sector is not all that well funded and he works for an organisation that is well known for its positive approach to rural life and natural preservation. And then the higher ups dumped more than he earns in a year into an initiative that funded environmentally disastrous data-centres, left skilled copy-writers out of a job, and alienated visitors. It was Bad.

liberalsarecool

The bubble is nigh.

leebrontide

do-you-have-a-flag

Microsoft ends Claude Code licenses and shifts developers to its in‑house Copilot model, signaling a strategic move toward AI self‑sufficien

Microsoft is ending its Claude Code licenses because it no longer wants to rent the intelligence inside its own products. Instead, it is pushing developers onto a homegrown coding model built for Copilot, a shift that signals where the company believes power in AI will actually accrue. In San Francisco this week, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft will show off that model — a coding system it build for one purpose: to sit at the center of GitHub Copilot. For two years Copilot was the default AI coding assistant, bundled into the platform most of the world’s developers already use. Then the market moved. In the nine months after Anthropic released Claude Code in May 2025, developers followed it, and in one major survey nearly half of respondents named it a favorite. The incumbent got overtaken. Here is the part worth slowing down on. Microsoft lost on model quality. Instead of putting the better model inside Copilot, Microsoft is building its own. That choice only makes sense if you believe the thing that decides this market is not the model. Microsoft is betting that distribution beats the best model, and the early enterprise data says the bet is reasonable.

sorry to read beyond a headline everyone, but this is just another case of a company deciding to just compete instead of outsource, ai is still in it. and as far as i can tell the "it costs more" framing is just a few articles speculating

derinthescarletpescatarian

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

thetetra

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

derinthescarletpescatarian

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

allthingswhumpyandangsty

bannertanks

ghosthierophant

mulderscully

For a moment I knew cosmic love

#I was like why do those lyrics seem familiar?#googling it I’m pretty sure TS watched DW and then wrote this song?

depsidase

do-not-u-dare

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

ivecarvedawoodenheart

what if the better version of you was a you that overcame your demons and what if the better version of you was a you who had no demons to begin with. and what if both versions of you met and had a nasty passive aggressive relationship for 4 years on a hockey team at a small liberal arts university in Massachusetts.

#omgcp

captain-price-returns

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien