Building a digital Self

[ryonm-blog]

I'll admit I'm impressed that the standard practice of "make up every possible bad thing about a person including wildly mis-stating their very words" to attack someone is still a thing in 2023.

Anyways, if you use AI image generators you support:

The spread of child pornography:

https://purl.stanford.edu/kh752sm9123

companies that access and disseminate private medical records:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/artist-finds-private-medical-record-photos-in-popular-ai-training-data-set/

accelerating global warming:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

making unauthorized deepfakes of anyone:

https://www.404media.co/andreessen-horowitz-invests-in-civitai-key-platform-for-deepfake-porn/

But sure, your burning need to make "pikachu riding trump who has been turned into a donut" is more important than all that.

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[gcballet]

Discworld Textposts III

[<-] Discworld [->]

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[hotvampireadjacent]

[shiftythrifting]

Three wolf... lamp?

Two Sisters Thrift, Farmville VA

awoo

[ryonm-blog]

it really bugs me when stores wrap cords up like this, you're really at risk for some bad

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knots.

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[bobbole]

Daniele Castellano

[anarchopuppy]

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

[byjove]

could you imagine if it happened this pride month

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[targetedknowledge]

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[podcastwizard]

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.