We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
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We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
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THIS. And its DOUBLY frustrating when they SURRENDER the issue to the Right. Its the same line of thinking with people supporting the UK’s “Online Safety Act” because a twat like Farage opposes it. Heartbreaking.jpeg sometimes, for the briefest moment, a broken clock IS right. (1/2)
JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war
This is a huge mood but also...I MUST say. There is no higher honor than seeing someone in my notifs like One Post...and then proceed to DEEP DIVE into *everything* I've ever drawn Thats like winning the "hey I like your art a normal amount" lottery you have NO IDEA how MOTIVATING THAT IS
I just recommended your book "Wild Faith" to someone. Does that help?
I recommend the italian herb base as well
My high school English teacher congratulated me on an essay I wrote about smut. I think that’s beautiful.
That's where you get hyperinflation. Fascist regimes are especially prone to it. But we've got a long way to go before we get there, and plenty of space to recover as long as we don't cross that line. This is also not unique to capitalism. Any monetary system has the same core elements.
Fascism does this all the time, assigning arbitrary value to things that don't actually have that much value, saying things are assets when they are in fact liabilities. The danger is that they will print CURRENCY backed by the money that isn't backed by value, which requires severe corrections.
There is no way in hell that the current state of AI is worth what has been invested in it, let alone how it is being valued, and that's not changing anytime soon. All that money is fake, and it's going to disappear once people realise the value isn't there.
This is based on a fundamental misunderstanding: money is a proxy for value. When the economy speculates value where it doesn't exist, money appears that isn't real. When the value proves to be false, it evaporates. This happens all the time, most obviously in the AI field at present.
youtube tried recommending me a video where there's footage of terranigma is in 16:9 super eagle and I slammed that do not recommend channel button so hard
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Isekai where the protagonist has come from a world exactly like the new one, but now becomes heroic and celebrated simply because being from another world gives him access to opportunities he didn't have in his own.
Even when we have the technical pillars of the new system, societal adjustment is not going to be trivial and people are going to try and use them to game the old system.
The important thing is that we would stop having HUNGRY people. There would be food for everyone. Clothes for everyone. Our big problem would continue to be housing. And before we even get there, we have to somehow break the seal on the system so it's accessible to everyone and can't be hoarded.
A lot of people think the post-scarcity society will flip the wealth narrative, making the poor wealthy and the wealthy poor, but the wealthy mostly don't have physical commodified wealth. If the value of gold went to zero most of them wouldn't care.
Unlimited free energy is, incidentally, the first pillar of the Star Trek future. The second pillar is effective AI. And the third is replicator technology. With those three things we can have a post-scarcity society. A lot of the AI problem right now is we simply don't have the energy for it.
But if we can improve our ability to generate power from wind, water, and solar, we can put more of our spaces on that power. And if we improve our ability to move that power around, we can put even MORE of them on it. And we're very close to a tipping point where fossil fuels lose.
Fossil fuels are objectively the most cost-effective way to do that. A truckload of coal will produce more energy when burned than a truckload of almost anything else, and poses less of a risk in an accident than anything that would be better. It's literally the correct middle ground right now.
The problem with giving the world unlimited free energy is the problem of taking the energy from point A to point B which is excessively lossy and expensive. I used to say "why don't we just fill the Mojave with solar panels" and it's because you need to move the electricity to where the people are
But, hear me out: PEANUT BUTTER and a SPOON
How did this publication manage to find the *one* person who doesn't know "Frankenstein is the REAL monster and not in the literal way"? Honestly, I'm impressed.
There should be a rule that you're not allowed to review Frankenstein unless you've read Frankenstein.
I've only seen the first two episodes, but this is a pretty good thread based on what I've seen so far and expect going forward. Incidentally, I do love all the Alien movies, although I can OBVIOUSLY rank them from best to worst.
It's easy to see why this happens. - Unlimited $8 salad bar has no meat on it - Single-serving salad with meat on it costs $12 - Whole rotisserie chicken costs $5 - Unlimited salad with chicken is $8 + $5 = $13 I see why the restaurant doesn't like or want this, but I also don't care.
this is what's so strange to me. the news has a material incentive to sensationalize, and this is huge stuff without any exaggeration. is journalistic ideology really that impenetrable?
I can't stop reposting this because WHAT. Like every time I see it, WHAT. It comes across my feed and WHAT. I never stop staring wordlessly at it because WHAT. I can't even. I literally cannot even. I have lost my ability to even.
????? This is why I won't let this go. These people are so fucking proud of themselves. A MILLION DOLLARS FOR A RACIST GRIFTER??
The R34 will be INSANE
I fear @priscillapage.bsky.social 's tweet from the old hellsite will be getting a lot of play this fall
evidently a lot of people on here missed this speech when nebraska state legislator megan hunt gave it in 2023. it was after weeks of filibuster against anti trans legislation. this is the vibe i’d like to see a lot more people who sit next to levers of institutional power bring to the party.
Pepsi is too sweet and you can't just swill it all day long. Also it's too bright and citrusy for most people to pair with a meal, and a lot of people say it's too fizzy. (I seem to recall tests showing it is no more fizzy than Coke, but people still perceive it that way.) Anyway that's the problem
My basic advice on subject matters for games is to pick out a few things you can't let go, just some scabs you absolutely will never stop picking, and figure out why they connect in your mind. if you're lucky they'll spin into their own momentum from there
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
they’re so close
Yeah, see, that's smart. Everybody smart is going to end up agreeing with you.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Bold of you to assume I can make it look good at all
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
That window doesn't open, come to the front door like a normal person
This is pure damage control. CollectiveShout is trying to smear resistance to their efforts by labeling those in opposition rapists, in hopes of turning opinion against them. It's a naked attempt to justify their censorship which means the fight is working. Don't stop the pressure & keep calling.
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
you guys care way too much about things nate silver and will stancil say imo
That's because all the smart people are on your side
bluesky hasn’t become massive but it’s not because we’re an echo chamber, it’s because we’re annoying in a ton of other ways and i think that’s beautiful
What we have built is an ongoing parlour trick where it LOOKS like the machine can think and reason and make decisions and have ideas, but it can't. It's just pulling cards out of a very large deck using a very complex shuffle. It's tarot reading for the anti-mystical.
We still have the same problems we had in the 1990s: not only is the machine incapable of HAVING an idea, we haven't even worked out how we would recognise an idea or how to tell whether it's had one when it does. But there's simply no facility for it. The machine can't do it because we won't let it
I'm sorry there are HOW many of them and they have been there for HOW long and this is ALL they got done?
Short form posting is easy to misunderstand.
BRO. THAT’S THE BOOK. THAT’S LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.
Important to realize that if you run a company and you actually have an "A.i." strategy that makes people use "A.i.," no one likes you.
Trans Rights are Human Rights. Bodily Autonomy For All is Nonnegotiable.
Yes, that's what I said. The people running the scam say "you can make your money before we get shut down," because the system is designed to automatically shut down the scam. Every bullshit scam is designed to exploit a vulnerability before it gets closed and without getting caught.
When I am on Pixiv or Cara everyone is posting this amazing work and everything I do looks like dog shit next to that so I don't post anything at all ever.
But it doesn't. It doesn't work. It thinks 2025 - 2010 is 14. That is not "just how the algorithm works," it is wrong. The algorithm is not supposed to be wrong, and if you think being wrong is a feature you are a fucking idiot and you should shut the fuck up.
All it can do is develop a skin that makes it worse
also, I'm willing to bet this is why we see so many "articles" about how bluesky is actually dying and we should leave the platform The nuclear aspect of the block feature in this website pisses them off
Isn't that just "guy who still smokes a lot of weed"
It sounds to me like the Knight Rider movie is going to make some subtle references to these properties and someone decided that means they exist in a shared universe.
I'm not going to name names but... It is VASTLY UNDERRATED how all these art shares on BlueSky are surfacing art WORSE THAN MINE that encourages me to maybe post some of mine. And I am sure my art is doing the same for someone else who is better than me but doesn't share. That's really awesome.
This is, incidentally, an important part of the system working as intended: the crash is supposed to punish the people who engaged in the economic bullshittery. But if you knew it was bullshit, you could get out early, and not be punished at all. This is the promise of all such bullshit.
This sure takes its time with the fact that he was specifically encouraging people to assault anyone they believe to be trans using the women's room
I hope every health-related profession that does this is sued into oblivion and that therapists, in particular, are walked into a public square to have hard socks thrown at them. technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
The curse of anti-war writers is that to criticize war you have to depict war well and to do that you have to show the ways that the state uses kinship (brotherhood) and eroticization (war is sexy) to sell war to young people. Inevitably, people miss the criticism and just want to fuck the Gundam.
As a community grows, it becomes a collection of subcommunities, each of which has an incentive to elevate itself to "privileged" status. As more trans people come out, various clusters within the community will try to argue they are more legitimate than others. Because people are awful.
TikTok all of the sudden enabling their “anti-bullying protection tool” content filter — across the platform, in the middle of the night — seems rather suspicious
Was fucking around trying to make a galaxy brush for nighttime skies, doing a really bad job, and just arbitrarily scrawled Art the Clown over top of it for no good reason because I had just watched Terrifier 3.
Quote with your black and white #art 🎨 🖤
This, too.
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
As always, the answer is Dracula.
This is why I keep reminding everyone to keep calling. They're not backing down, they're doubling down. I know you're tired of seeing it, I am too, but we can't afford to stop. They can't be allowed to get away with it. Don't stop calling.
I'm trying not to be weird about this, but the fact that they're still making new episodes of "Salad Fingers" actually makes me angry. Of all the fixtures of the early 2000s Internet that could have inexplicably become immortal, the fact that THIS is what we get is almost offensive.
I'm a little late on this but if anybody in comics, and let's be real, /especially/ somebody who doesn't draw them, says let's embrace AI? they're a traitor and a scab and should never be trusted /ever/ again by the people who actually put the work in to making this genre and industry worth anything
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He's coming out as a trans woman
That was a fantastic movie, in terms of "making me squirm repeatedly" which is exactly what I wanted from it. I still think the magic sword bullshit is stupid, but if that is the price I have to pay for the rest of the movie, it's worth it.
The practical effects are fucking amazing
Netflix doesn't know shit. When Studio Trigger did the Netrunners anime, Rebecca wasn't even in the script. They had to fight for her inclusion until finally Netflix went "OKAY FINE, TINY HORNY MURDER HOBO" and when the show aired every single weeb immediately pointed and said "BEST GIRL"
Holy shit this is a good movie, and not having it rated was 100% the right call
One of the key disconnects on social media is whether a person is there to post their shit for others to look at, or to look at other people's shit that they post. To be SOCIAL you have to do both, but some people are only here for one or the other and they get mad if you're here for the wrong one.
When I see a video all about how to get the most out of the latest AI tool that just came out
Facepalm central. Holy crap what a bunch of idiots, they're losing their shit over LITERALLY ONE WORD
Yes. That is great.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Brilliant and amazing
Skeleton Dance!!! 🤘💀🤘
I am mostly lecturing myself so don't feel like I am trying to tell you what to do. I am reminding myself what to do more than anything.
I am still missing some pieces (texture and layering, in particular) but when you only have some of the pieces you can fake it by doing work that doesn't need so much of the ones you're missing. Just don't forget you still need the missing pieces.
All of these fundamentals are important and you can't skip or neglect any of them. If you try, you will struggle until you finally pick up enough of the missing ones to "click" and then you will think that last little bit was some kind of secret. It's not. It's just the piece you were missing.
And composition can be divided into FLOW, CONSTRUCTION, and LAYERING. We typically think of these in terms of bodies: gesture, anatomy, and drapery. But that's just a specific case of the generalities that things move, and complex shapes are made of simple ones, and objects layer over other objects.
For lighting, you need to understand how VALUE, COLOUR, and TEXTURE combine to again trick the viewer's eye into thinking they are looking at light hitting a physical object. Again, nothing can be skipped. Everything is important.
For perspective, you need to know how to use LINE, SHAPE, and FORM in a 2D space to convincingly represent 3D objects. You cannot skip any of these. They are all important. And assembling them into a coherent whole is the overarching PERSPECTIVE fundamental.