For more than a few things in my life: I don't know how I got here I don't know what part I had in it I don't know what "here" even is I don't know how to improve or change it and I don't know if anyone, at all, cares even a little
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For more than a few things in my life: I don't know how I got here I don't know what part I had in it I don't know what "here" even is I don't know how to improve or change it and I don't know if anyone, at all, cares even a little
Oppression has come speaking Trojan-Horse words of Liberty and Justice for All a candy coated poison pill mummified by rotten tatters of a flag that once stood for a nation that once stood for something once called Freedom
Can you call the Police on ICE? Like, "Hey 911 a bunch of masked, armed, unidentified people just rushed into a such-and-such!!!" ...to cause confusion and chaos and protect Resident Human Beings? ...or would the so-called Thin Blue Line end up making things worse; they all get pissed and go nuts?
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I will hold hope that it will be repainted. And many in the community choose to display it prominently on their personal property. I don't know this symbol or community, but I do know when individual voices speak together in unison they can drown out any ignorant controlling voice of fear.
Dangit. They just repainted it last year: www.sshca.org/post/a-fresh...
I hope they adapt the part where he says "It‘s Franken time"
Timing is spot on in my post reel Watching anything good?
This has been a rather surprisingly and obviously "off" season with frustrating choices and weird character whiplash. It's a bummer but not surprising to see your comment here that a new episode brings a similar reaction.
Empanada Shop in East #Rochester Ladies there will hook you UP. Six of these for $30 and say goodbye to your socks 'cause POW. You... you gotta get these. Spicy beef/pork outta this world. They're huge, unique texture.
Watching an Ai-generated trailer a dear friend made for our new D&D campaign (😶), while watching thought "wow this is just how I imagined it!" And then I thought, this is just how I imagined it. No doubt it looks cool AF – it does in my imagination. I love using my imagination! Needs the exercise 🧠
😅 perfect Cue Dr Frankenstein: "It's ALIIIIVE!" while pulling the string on a vintage See 'N' Say
No it fucking can't. Because it's not alive; neither thinks nor feels. It's a program, a large language model. Ai is not alive. It never will be. It can easily present a response that says "ow, life is brutal" but it will only be spat out from scraped human experience. Brook no such foolishness.
The biggest of freelancer facepalms: "We haven’t forgotten about your outstanding bill. Still on our books and will take care of it as soon as we’re able. Thanks for your (continued) patience!" #freelance #design #hustle #entrepreneur
Andrew sorry for the non sequitur - is The World Before Your Feet on your radar? It sounded up your guys' alley and looks like a delight. Wouldn't be surprised if you've seen it. I can see it tomorrow (with Matt Green Q&A) and would love your take thelittle.org/worldbeforey...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This state of being, known as a quantum superposition…
What a shock - Ai that we KNOW gets things wrong and gives people a false sense of accuracy - continues to potentially get things wrong. Who could have predicted this.
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is Nate Cavanagh a state sponsored cyber terrorist? Now *I'M* not saying he's a pathetic fuck who absolutely is engaging in repressive terrorism, but I hear SOME people are asking these pertinent questions and I think we need to hear some answers.
Oh hey I did not know that! Thank you for that info.....alright - I'm redistricting my spite to focus predominantly on Musk!
Sharing a couple projects from the last few years of graphic design work - designs conceived and developed by me, from scratch, without AI, on behalf of my lovely clients. Would you like to know more? Visit carlh.com #marketing #tea #cannabis #canna #graphicdesign #design #advertising
I think the painterly paperback cover remains my favorite though I love these contemporary colorful new styles too! How can a designer nerd like me be lucky enough to design a book cover for an author nerd like you?
I was bummed when they took the name of Dyson for the vacuum company in a similar way I'm bummed Elon took the word "grok" from Heinlein for its lame Ai. It's a great disservice to words, names, people that/who are far more interesting than their abuse in marketing techy products.
oh wow, the shadows (cell shading?) and lines on this render specifically These look so good, for real!
a 75/25 mix of Vinegar and Isopropyl Alcohol will remove most minor curses after a couple applications. For more stubborn curses, add lemon juice and scrub vigorously.
ooh that looks good
Seeing silent film with a live performed score - including sound effects - is such a treat. Unique, gothy, spooky, funny. Love when Montopolis visits Rochester! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAW...
Leaf if to Beefer is a great name for a burger with lettuce
Those label designs look choked by committee...borrring
the cool kid who had this JLS box must've had it MADE in grade school - she or he ruled the schoolyard, no doubt
If you're at #worldCon GO VISIT @fridaytea.com !!! They are SO GOOD and have the purest and most thoughtfully curated tea & tisane blends! Seriously WorldCon people go check out all the tea.
Heck yes
Fumbling baby steps on creating YouTube video content. I recorded a 20 minute long video and chopped it up in After Effects. The video seems to lag behind the audio in most areas. What's up with that? Kind of annoying. It does not lag in the original format.
That is such a uniquely pastoral ceiling mural (fresco?)! Gorgeous clean architecture inside and out. Lovely.
So glad to hear - and I missed it releasing! I've been looking forward to it.
Seeking new clients on Upwork. Literal (edited) posting: We are looking for an experienced designer.....experience in packaging design...guarantee that the final product is in line with our brand. Strong attention to detail and creativity is essential. Offered hourly rate? $10-20 Are you kidding.
40 minutes to hit $1.1k more so we can make a payment on time to prevent another late fee!
I've come a long way this year. But the Universe is taking away a lot of things that were in front of me. I can accept things happen, but still struggle hard with not knowing WHY. My neurodivergence makes me overthink it's largely communication failure on my part. I accept yet wish I knew why.
keep 10,000 artists warm; set a billionaire on fire
STOP you're killing me that's amazing
those cookies look so delicious - molasses? 🤤 🍪
Oh my - abominations! Whatever shall we d- just kidding twinned chromatic orbs and bladesinging, that's what we do. #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #ttrpg Also my shirt looks rad in my lighting
oh my what is happening this is not good
Your shirt is amazing!! Also sorry Luma hope you get to go tubing soon
(IMHO) Linoleum > The Life of Chuck Sometimes films from Comedians tell us truth in a unique way. Sleepwalk With Me from Birbiglia. The Big Sleep from Kumail & Emily. Linoleum's Gaffigan was perfect for the roll...of a lifetime? (wink)
I've lived in #Rochester since 1999. Today I'm finally taking myself out to Artisan Works. First time, baby! #ROC
Necromancer, eh? How much of your spell components budget did you blow at Hot Topic for that adventuring outfit?
Ramona's filigree and arabesque work is top notch! I love all this detail spanning Art Nouveau & Deco and Gothic and Victorian and more. There's styles for every Hogwarts house, every Magic: the Gathering mana color, every genre of fantasy writing, art, or music.... Her work is a great resource!
A polite reminder:
Spawn and Houdini got a thing goin' on (or: Todd likes drawing hands this way 'cause he does it a lot)
Amazon the Giant grinding the bones* of industry Creatives ) to make their Bread (*training Ai on their work while cutting out pay)
A lot of project posts on places like UpWork read like they're generated by ChatGPT which should not surprise me, maybe it doesn't, but it does rankle a bit
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on a same track as "pains-taking" it's interesting to learn that "resentment" as a combination of the French "re" (again) and Latin "sentir" (to feel) that resentment literally means to feel hurts from the past again, or to continue to feel them.
how do you brush mummy cats with a catacomb
You've misunderstood what I wrote and what I intended
I recall my 8th grade World History class - big point by my awesome teacher: Teaching ABOUT religions (educationally) is NOT teaching religion (doctrinally) Same thing with NSFW and other sensitive topics. We can have tough art w/o endorsing the material.
ugh - I need a good URL shortener since bit.ly started serving ads screens and a hard-to-find clickthrough link. Random internet website says these ones are options but...c'mon This needs to be easy for elderly folks and the not tech-savvy.
Good recommendation I will check it out - Descent was AWESOME I still remember the feeling of power when getting the Vulcan Gun
100% It's a huge roadblock that progress is a two-step process, as well: most laypeople need gentle yet thorough education on why tech regulation is important, then separately that anything can actually be done about it if enough people *did* know. Spot on with "happening and guaranteed to happen"
I remember when we were moderately concerned about Net Neutrality
Happy birthday dear Ms Potter!
This is great - we started leaving dedicate leaf pile areas because fireflies thrive in these kinds of safe habitats for them. Plus throwing out leaves is kind of dumb anyway. No pesticides plus safe leaf pile = yay fireflies!
sorry for the late reply Steve but I just used your code 🍄 I had already purchased the starter kit and need to re-stock! I found the Matcha blend sample really delightful too. We loved the Chai sample but it doesn't appear to be available on the website anymore. Oh well! Thanks for the code share!
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
No kidding - now I'm even more curious. I hope "cool" wild and not "oh my gosh what a nut" wild? I hoped it was some eccentric goth podcaster.
Please yes share the Turkoogeyman(?) that would be a hoot! 🍗 😱
As a graphic designer with 25 years of experience building brands I have the exact same response as everyone else seeing Games Workshop's new logo: what the fuck Wish they had asked me to take a swing at it. Really genuinely I would have LOVED to work on this. #gamesworkshop #design #rpg #wh40k
Someone bought a church in my neck of the woods, painted it black, and won the prize for the most metal thing ever 🤘 #roc #rochester #rochesterny
Onyx the Fortuitous looks like an incredibly fun indie film!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMy...
Pinhead takes over for Michael in The Office: we have such dwights to show you skend skeet
Is it really that Kal-El gains his Superman powers under the yellow sun of Sol, or was it maybe that his home planet Krypton was largely made out of.... Kryptonite? Otherwise it's kind of a dick move to name the material after his home yet by its very nature and presence harms the guy.
Aside from anything else, they're "valuing" a backpack at $250 and a jacket at $175? I mean this is just another yadda-yadda seminar about monetizing a hobby, so, whatever, but this all feels exceedingly cynical even for a troupe of various social-media influencers.
First Person Hellraiser game?! After how AWESOME the 2022 #Hellraiser film was (after a long string of tepid garbage) I have high hopes for this. Looks like a return to form and has Clive Barker's involvement which bodes very well. He has such sights to show me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88Q...
omigosh omigosh omigosh 💚💚💚
Iechyd da! Wales is wonderful. My spouse and I visited Wales a couple years ago and had a lovely time. Lots of family history. Have fun on those narrow roads! Legit Welsh cakes are of course amazing; traditional cockles and laverbread are fun to try but not something I'd do regularly.
Me, looking at a kickass sword for sale: Sure I've wanted a sword for decades, but what am I gonna do with a sword? Also me:
Nearly 60% of the way to clearing our early covid cafe survival debt! Once this is off our shoulders we'll be breaking even again, not wasting a substantial chunk of our revenues on expensive debt fees. We're already in much less danger of having to close the brick & mortar! square.link/u/La2AFWmg
yeah what's the bombadil with that
Ahh yes, the "privileged class" of starving artists.
I think if he didn't follow it up a beat later with "Not!" you're safe. But my lingo may be out of date.
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Sober is one day/hour/now at a time; if today sees you pillow to pillow without that drug of choice...that's being sober - congrats you did it. You are doing it. DMs open
I have space to meet with a new client for serious design projects! Visit carlh.com With over 25 years experience in Branding, Packaging, and Advertising I consult, concept, & deliver profit-oriented Marketing. Freelance flexibility; Agency capability. #business #comics #dnd #rpg #science #stem
Don't over-read this. Support of today's Republican party squats beyond ignorance into reprehensible abdication. HOWEVER, we can neither serve today's oppressed nor save our planet's only future without them casting Democrat votes. Extend a Hand. Tell them: NOW IS the 2nd Best Time to Plant a Tree.
Accurate yet incomplete meme The third path: Don't give a shit about them admitting being "wrong". IT DOES NOT MATTER. Don't hold out for hearts & minds. All we need is, literally, their votes. Build a liberal platform that speaks WITH Repubs; not moralizing TO or shaming AT them. It does not work.
That's like driving without a front license plate in New York It's a misdemeanor but you'll never get ticketed for it
You're the tip of the spear in your area for nudging energy grid upgrades - way to go! Good luck rolling with the chaos 🖖
the concise summation: [[Science FICTION Ai/Robots/Androids]] are neat valid stand-ins for human issues. [[REAL Ai/Robots/Androids]] are compared to humans so we don't see the disenfranchisement of capitalism funneling profit upward. /🧵
Ex Machina is about misogyny. Chappie is about friendship & slavery. It's never about TODAY's Ai or Robots (or Androids). CONCLUSION: these are fun & valid metaphors, HOWEVER don't let today's CEOs use these metaphors of humanizing Ai to trick you into granting "rights" to TODAY'S shitty Ai.
please tell me they make an adult size onesie of these
It's not about the robots. They're not a stand-in for immigrants, scabs, mercenaries, different races/creeds, nor welfare. John Henry isn't about the Human Spirit. "Something strange can be alive & worthy" is a great convo. "Displaced from work by a new technology" is a totally different one.
Robots in 2025 are not human. Rather than movies demonizing anti-robo-mobs in favor of an EASY "Ai thinks just like us", I'd like to see mobs railing against Corps & Govts for not ushering in Post-Capitalism. Plots in media humanizing robots subtly teaches us to let Corps & Govts off the hook.
False Equivalency: Robots oust human workers who in CAPITALISM *need* to work to live. No new job creation for the displaced is THE GOAL in a POST capitalistic society (star trek) but in a capitalistic society, it's a death sentence. The rage here IS JUSTIFIED because it's against Corporations.
In media, Robots displacing human workers is a FAIL POINT OF CAPITALISM, NOT HUMANITY. Ai is such an inappropriate stand-in for "humanity without having to point only to one specific (racial/gender/class/etc)" that it muddies waters of VERY separate Civil Rights and Ai discussions. Let's discuss.
