The Sly Brown Fox

I need less free time.

[technofeudalism]

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.”  Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet). 

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

[breelandwalker]

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

[the-haiku-bot]

Gosh it would be a

shame if this got even MORE

visibility.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[theslybrownfox]

Oops! My hand slipped! Oh noooo...

[ayeforscotland]

If Larian is using generative AI to develop concept art which is then given to artists to turn into game assets and environments, then they can’t say there is no AI generated content.

For placeholder text - Lorem Ipsum exists for a reason.

This is super disappointing.

Source.

[ayeforscotland]

The majority of Larian’s all-star VA cast for Baldur’s Gate have been massively outspoken against AI - and not just for performances.

Concept artists are unbelievably valuable, and AI generated concept art absolutely pushes them out of work.

How many of your favourite games have had a ‘making of’ documentary with amazing concept art shown as backdrops.

At the 2024 game awards, Swen Vincke said the winners of future Game of the Year awards would be studios who didn’t treat their staff like numbers on a spreadsheet — That’s how concept artists and junior writers are treated when it comes to Gen AI.

[ayeforscotland]

Last bit I'll add - He openly admits it isn't leading to big efficiency games. What did Larian think they were missing when developing BG3 that they needed to resort to using Gen AI?

And "Everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we're using it" is such a shitty line. There have been so many job losses in the industry recently that the majority of people absolutely will keep their heads down if they thought speaking out would put them at risk losing their income.

It's frustrating when such a positive creative force in the industry pushes this angle.

[celestial-bat]

Have you seen what Sven clarified on social media later?

Idk if it makes it any better or worse. Ffs if you need to test out ideas literally have someone make a mood board with stock images. It sounds like ass covering. The "we hire soon many artists and they are fine with this" just sounds like corporate ass covering

[ayeforscotland]

Jason Schreier has followed it up and released part of the transcript which genuinely sounds worse than the original article.

Source.

“If someone finds the golden egg and you’re not using it, you’re dead in this industry.”

Dude, Larian found the Golden egg! You produced one of the best games ever made, you don’t need the plagiarism planet killing machine.

[theslybrownfox]

The Corporate World is done for.

AI's end goal is to replace every job that is not manual. CEO's don't see it yet. Or they see it and don't think in the long term. But if Gen AI's coming for the artists, you can BET it WILL come for the managers and the CEO's.

[lamignonette]

[theslybrownfox]

Gurl, same.

[c-53]

pom pom crabs are some of the most unethical animals in the ocean

this man is a serial abuser

[c-53]

His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more

[theslybrownfox]

WAT.

[the-night-flovver]

𝙰𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎

[coolthingoftheday]

In 2005, a group of artists in Italy built a giant 200-foot-long plushie rabbit in the countryside, and just left it there. It’s been there ever since. 

(Source)

[annnmoody]

i think about this all the time

[annnmoody]

Wonder what he’s doing now…

[annnmoody]

That’s his decaying body in 2011

And 2012

He’s made of natural materials and is expected to completely disintegrate by 2025. Me too, bro

[annnmoody]

This is my favorite pic of him in the winter of 2006

[worldbuilding-tomfoolery]

It’s 2025. Status update?

[steamturtle]

This was 2020:

And…..

This was 2021!

While it was expected to last until 2025, it never actually made it. It faded a few years before.

[theslybrownfox]

I have so many emotions related to this and I don't think I have enough knowledge to process all of them.

[aestum]

(by doblife)

[sleepy-bebby]

If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸

[bandydear]

Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'd recommend turning the sound on. The seal is not screaming. It's not very loud at all, actually, but the noise it's making is Much Worse.

[dramatic-dolphin]

an absolute fuckton of people at pride rn

[dramatic-dolphin]

record turnout for sure. here's some pics i stole from facebook:

the tail end of the crowd only started marching around the time the first part got to the end goal. i can't stress how fucking massive the crowd was. the perfect example of "they can't arrest all of us"; the police didn't even try. no incidents, but we all had an awesome day. 🥰🥰🥰

[littlescratches]

[pangur-and-grim]

so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

(tiktok link)

[masque-de-nox]

Alien Scientist: No, you don’t understand. Humans will pack bond with anything.

[dazzleyourmindseye]

[vet-and-wild]

If you are trying to overcome a fear of spiders I can’t recommend this TikTok enough. They never post jump scares and always put warnings if a spider moves fast in a video. All of the videos are super cute and portray the spiders in a very positive and non threatening manner. 11/10 would recommend.

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

[purringfayestudio]

I haven't posted much of my own art on here yet because I'm shy af but here's what I've made this year!

It's...it's been entirely foxes this year so far lol

I'm also finishing a wolf I started last year, and I'm designing 3 new patterns: chonky arctic fox, maned wolf (not life-sized), and a dhole. (I mostly work in life-size unless stated.)

[theslybrownfox]

OMG THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[theslybrownfox]

I wasn't expecting to cry so soon today, but... here we are.

[theslybrownfox]

[anexperimentallife]

[ahasiw-okitowin]

@ people whining about not being able to pronounce this:

Learn.

We learned English.

[theunicornincaptivity]

It’s easy!

Pronounciatipn guide from my Nahuatl speaking SO: chal chut li que e quat le

Something like that.

Way cooler than anything in English that’s for dam sure

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Image description: Skeet from SassyMetisChick that says, "The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, 'Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl.' It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico." Picture included of a map in which the Gulf is labeled Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl. End description.]

[guerrillatech]

[sealinne]

same moment different angle

[bonnibeldam]

[whitmerule]

The bullet bandolier over the skirts is a look. 😌

[zwoelffarben]

these pictures of a platoon of og antifa drag queens manning a gun bigger than my car better not awaken anything in me.

[bayouette]

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

[dduane]

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

[theslybrownfox]

Humans being humans. We are all the same, basically.