Stuff I See Around The old Interweb

Just storing all my anxious screenshots of news stuff that I see. Posts and reblogs are not endorsement. This is my archive of the news as I saw it.

[sprinkledsalt]

Man, I agree and I don't care if it's cringe to say so. My mom has been saying that she remembers the bicentennial when she was a kid, and people were hyped up. She said sidewalks and poles were painted with the colors of the flag. Now? You only see mentions of the 250th anniversary in advertisements trying to cash in on it, really. But among people, nobody’s heart is in it. It could've been great. This person is right and this was part of what was so gutting about 2024; it was the best of American ideals vs the worst of American society...and the worst won. It's still hard to sit with.

It’s just fucking infuriating that we’ve had to deal with this pig ruining everything he touches for 10 years straight because, for various reasons, people refused to take the world’s biggest walking red flag seriously. I know nihilists will say "well this is Good, you see, cuz people shouldn't celebrate America ever cuz America Bad" but here in reality, we're allowed to be angry because it never had to be this way. It was always so avoidable. There are so many people I will never forgive.

[femalegothic]

give her citizenship and sign her to the USWNT

[recurring-polynya]

never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.

[zoi-no-miko]

This is oddly specific yet I feel so called out

[femalegothic]

unironically how I feel about birthright citizenship and a/c

[afurioushawk]

And Fahrenheit

[mariacallous]

[newsandstuffisee]

[captain-price-returns]

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[youtube-privacy-union]

Tidal isn't banning AI music, but it won't pay people who upload it, which will go into effect on July 15th

Tidal isn't banning AI music, but it won't pay people who upload it - Engadget

Tidal's new policy says that 100-percent AI-generated music will be demonetized.

“100-percent AI generated music will be demonetized”

The policy for AI music has been released

“Tidal isn't banning AI music, but it won't pay people who upload it”

"Tidal's priority is ensuring royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by people," the policy read. "We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated."

They will put tags on music that have a “substantial amount” of AI, but only once they have better AI detection

“For now, Tidal said that it would hold AI content on its platform to "a higher standard of content integrity."

More specifically, Tidal said that any AI-generated music that "exploits an individual's or group's music, name or likeness, deceives listeners, or diminishes the quality of our service" would not be tolerated, along with any fraudulent activity like suspicious streaming or upload activity.“

[itsapmseymour]

Still wrapping my head around the fact the phrase "Hold Your Horses" is a play on the word Stable...

To be stable.

[zzoupz]

[zzoupz]

[actuallyapathy]

obsessed w how none of these are the real origin of the phrase

[swanpaw]

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

It's what Uncommitted thought was best.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Awwwwww I love happy endings

[lover-of-mine]

Some gifs of him getting to eat it because this legit got me tearing up when I saw it

[therainbowgorilla]

😭 He's so happy he gets to have treat eggs like his owner, people always talk about how cats want to share your experiences but so do dogs! They wanna try what you try!

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

One worry of longtime pols in the state is that Sherrill’s ranks of advisers do not include many of the expected names—few have written bills or wrangled over bond issuances in New Jersey. Ball, a former national campaign operative and chief of staff to a Colorado congressman before she ran Sherrill’s office in D.C., is now her top staffer in Trenton. Ball suggested that their theory of making policy in the statehouse would simply look different from that of previous governors. “Obviously Mikie had really long coattails,” she said, so legislators will “understand that she’s coming in with this vision and agenda that the majority of the state is bought into.” Current officeholders, Ball continued, are “gonna have to figure out how to work with us, because we know that the voters are expecting progress, and I think, you know, people are going to be smart to join the team.” This includes, she said, Republicans, who hold a handful of state Senate seats that will be up for grabs in next fall’s election in areas that Sherrill won.

Sherrill has shown little patience for the idea that she needs to articulate a grand philosophical vision. Instead, her pragmatic, slightly ruthless conception of the job recalls the “get shit done” campaign that got Josh Shapiro elected in Pennsylvania, and Gretchen Whitmer’s “fix the damn roads” in Michigan. When I asked Sherrill which state executives she saw modelling her preferred approach, she immediately pointed to Shapiro, noting how, in 2023, he’d led the reconstruction of a stretch of I-95 in less than two weeks, rather than the predicted six months. The Massachusetts governor, Maura Healey, had also caught her eye by fighting back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s attempts to release insurance companies from paying for vaccines. In practice, Healy’s maneuver looked less like picking a national fight than taking advantage of local rules: she ordered insurance carriers operating in Massachusetts to cover vaccines recommended by the state’s own health department. “I think there are a lot of governors who are making movements in a pretty critical time in a way that feels to me very different from what’s going on in Washington,” Sherrill said.

Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast: Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”

[ibetteracethatinterview]

*looks him up*

convenient! he’s lucky he’s in gerrymandered R+24 Texas

[afurioushawk]

Besides the Texas Values (TM) of that statement, what's craziest is that his twin brother is going to replace him in this upcoming election.

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[afurioushawk]

Take a good long look at that alien face and just remember he thinks he's genetically superior to Michael B. Jordan.