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Claire Keane
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Keni
Kiana Khansmith
art blog(derogatory)
Product Placement
Sweet Seals For You, Always
PR's Tumblrdome
trying on a metaphor
Cosimo Galluzzi
dirt enthusiast
Kaledo Art
oozey mess
Three Goblin Art
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almost home
Andulka
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@thistavernservesmead
"What do we learn from all this? Mostly the same thing we learned when the crypto bros repeatedly rediscovered financial fraud, or when effective altruists decided the most effective altruism was to buy themselves a castle, or when ride share companies kept accidentally reïnventing the bus. If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known."
- - Rusty Foster, Over Leveraged
researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.
That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.
all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"
why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
Capitalism is disgusting.
Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.
Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.
Its surprisingly tasty????
Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint
-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.
I have been reminded of:
-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.
I have now been informed of
-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.
"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."
-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-
"... ah."
reblogs were off
Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.
I am very tempted to buy a defunct computer and a special hammer and every day I have to spend programming I treat myself to a good computer whack session.
Occasionally my loud and near violent commentary on my hatred of programming will prompt someone in a back office client’s crew to ask me if want their help vibe coding a solution
Which is
Amusing
To their boss
who then watches me
Explain my thoughts on the matter.
Is AI a useful tool for programming?
I am honestly not professionally qualified to say.
I left the "I am the designer/business connection person with a programmer on the crew" a long time ago, and the "I am myself your web dev" even longer ago.
Why do I feel qualified to have this opinion then?
A lot of the bricks I am using to build the art studio were fired in the kiln of clients whom, themselves or previous crews, would just grab plugins and shared libraries to do basic web functions to things.
Now.
To be clear. To be explicit.
Plugins and shared libraries are an objective massive benefit to the digital ecosystem. It cannot be overstated how much functionality can be brought STAGGERINGLY cheaply -- and often for free.
Things that would normally take hundreds, thousands, more, far more sometimes, of human programming hours packaged up and sold to you for maybe $100.
It's great and I love(d) it.
And.
It is not without risk.
Things break for reasons you can't figure out.
Things have conflicts you could not have anticipated because technology changes, your business changes, your staff changes, your customer base changes, your suppliers change, your--
Your hardware changes (or more likely, the box that you are mostly invisibly renting via a host changes).
Just. Something weird. Happens.
Something malicious happens to your site.
Your whatever-bot stops being supported by the the literal one person on the planet whom built it and supports it because they got tired of it, bored of it, and/or died.
via XKCD
This is -- and I am being completely serious -- one of the most accurate-to-real-life comics you will ever see.
Now.
To be clear and fair and honest.
When your whatever plugin breaks, stops being supported, conflicts -- whatever -- you can almost always pay some weird fucker with inexpertly applied makeup and a cute haircut, a programmer whom you'll never meet that lives in the middle of the desert, and a producer whom will ensure your project runs on time, on schedule --
-- but it will cost you.
"Is AI a useful tool for programming?"
The real question is
How much time, energy, and other resourcess do you want to spend making sure your vibe coded bot...
Does what you think it will do.
Does not do anything you do not want it to do.
Does not create a pathway for someone else to come in and do things they want to do that you don't want them to do... that you eventually catch.
...that you never catch because they are better at this than you and/or are more resourced than you.
...forever?
I am impatient to get Netherworld Post to full strength.
I am frustrated that building a relatively simple company is taking a large pile of years versus just saying "ahh hell I'll just whip up a whatever!"
I can deal with it.
I am not uncomfortable.
I can process these feelings.
I would rather put in this work and have something purpose-built that will run idly in the background with regular but acceptable levels of maintenance so I can focus on figuring out the lines of eroticism I am comfortable with writing and drawing my monsters with.
While focusing on the daily adventures of a goblin grocery store.
While focusing on the haunted diner.
The mermaid eating at every pavillion on the boardwalk with her sea witch girlfriend.
The vampire sneaking up and pouncing on her unsuspecting wife.
anyway
this has been a reaction to a few days ago "Hey I can show you how to prompt!"
i do not want to prompt
i want to paint
and at some point in the acceptable timeline-of-future
that is all i will be doing
painting
writing
drawing
card making
mail making
zine making
and it'll be great
little guy missed his jump
CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.
No referendum. No special election. No public vote.
Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.
This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.
150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.
The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.
This is a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black Americans. And we need to say it exactly that plainly."
"The No Kings rallies don't REALLY do anything" Cool. Do you know what message it sends to the people in power if less and less people are showing up to protest their actions? Cause let me tell you, it's not "More people are going to do other things instead". It's "the American public is slowly getting used to our regime and we should keep it up until they wear out".
Because if you can't stand next to people for a couple of hours chanting and waving signs, you aren't gonna be doing anything that would actually disrupt the regime. Protests aren't "permitted dissent". They're that ankle bar that you have to step over where it's not impressive if you do it, but it's really indicative if you can't even manage that much.
Consider: print up materials about other issues and actions, and information about how and where to get involved (community fridge, bail support fund, custody release watch, etc etc) and hand it out at the No Kings protests. These are people who are UPSET and they are ANGRY at the things the regime is doing. They are energized enough to mobilize to a protest, often with a group, often getting together for sign making beforehand. Give them a hand with the next step: sustained and sustaining ways to resist, reverse, and repeal the harms/actions of the regime.
#also as someone who is actively part of doing activism outside of this stuff and community work#I don’t ever see the ‘no kings rallies are just parades’ folks at the food distros#or at the detention centers helping families waiting to see their loved ones#giving to fundraisers#do you know your neighbors?#these protests are great ways to get to know your communities#AND to meet the orgs doing work in your communities#I joined the groups I’m in cause I met them AT NO KINGS
tags by @cowplantblues
The purpose of demonstrations is To Demonstrate.
Demonstrations are just one tool in a greater resistance movement.
If one is activated beyond the level of demonstrating only, that is good.
But not everyone is, and demonstrations are a way to further activate and onboard newcomers to a resistance movement.
There's a place for people who are a little more activated (not necessarily the most activated in a resistance movement who may be traveling or tending to higher level state or national organizing) to attend a local demonstration to pass the word to others about further local resistance efforts.
For example, I've found information online easily about national level organizing or resistance in other states and counties, but I actually don't know who is safe or actively involved in resistance or mutual aid in my immediate local area, so events that have local events within a larger movement can help us find our people.
Maybe I'm that person for someone? I have no idea if I don't go.
"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess
And even if we did, maybe that makes it our responsibility to care
[id in alt text]
Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget
Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me
Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care
