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[zawehzawah]

Hey guys. Thank you again to the folks who have shared so far as usual, and those who have donated past and present.

Things arent looking good. We've not really gotten any donations, and I'm out of time. My bank account is significantly overdrafted at the moment, so the rent is paid but now i'm on a crunch to actually put the money in my account accrue debt.

If anyone forgot whats goin on: I'm a disabled and black trans man who is no longer able to work due to long covid. I am currently waiting for my disability determination, but have no other income. My partners full time job is not remotely sufficient to support us.

If you'd like to help us stay housed and fed th8s month, you can donate to:

Paypal: [email protected]

Venmo: @ zawehzaweh (remove space)

Any little bit goes a long way and i am so grateful for that help and the aid that has been provided in the past!!! We...dont exactly have anythin to sell or many people to turn to irl, so other options are very limited. One of which I'd like to avoid unless absolutely necessary, but i will do anything to keep my family safe.

[cottaegecore]

[hopepunk-humanity]

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.

there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.

there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.

doing nothing is good for my soul.

i am not defined by what i produce.

my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.

i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.

i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

[alice-is-annoyed-deactivated202]

[celestialowlryxs]

Два трамвая / Two Trams (2016) dir. Svetlana Andrianova

available on youtube

[nuclearbummer]

[wiigiwaamcore]

David Cusick was a Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) artist who self-published the first known English-language record of Indigenous stories told BY an Indigenous writer-illustrator. His book is called David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations and you can read it for free online.

[lostinephemera]

if the bood casting is real. god .

[puppilya]

is this good or bad i havent seen anything about this????

[lostinephemera]

if it is real, it is amazing

[sleepyloon]

Oh. Oh my.

[thatchickwiththebook]

Zane Boodram is Indo Trinidadian but if this dude turns out to be mixed I’m here for it

[sconesfortea]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)

[sophsun1]

Happy Pride 🌈 | The Golden Girls (1985-1992)

[rylandsgrace]

Ncuti Gatwa The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (March 2025)

[magpiesketchins]

Every year he forgot

[bluecontactlens]

"At this time! In this place!" 🪻🥚 Happy Glorious 25th of May to those who celebrate. GNU Terry Pratchett

[nuclearbummer]

[wiigiwaamcore]

David Cusick was a Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) artist who self-published the first known English-language record of Indigenous stories told BY an Indigenous writer-illustrator. His book is called David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations and you can read it for free online.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[zorbakpants]

After making the switch off of Windows and towards Linux I've managed to avoid chromium on my personal devices. It's just a pity so many of the tools I need to use on my work PC don't work on Firefox or its forks so I can't cut them out entirely

[three--rings]

Here's a link with info about how to disable AI features. For those of us who cannot simply uninstall.

[occasionallysubtle]

some new & some old ~ if you're opposed to *gestures everywhere* plz delete chat gpt cuz they're funding some atrocious shit i'm fully anti-ai but it's by far the most impressively evil ~ k thnx love ya'll byeeeeeee

[pnglove]

[areyoudoingthis]

the importance of being earnest gdrive link for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again ✨