Read this you muppets: why AI art looks like shit and that’s the point
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.New Socialist
About that Signal Chat
To learn more about the scandal, Justin Hendrix spoke to Just Security co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman and EFF senior staff technologist Cooper Quintin.Justin Hendrix (Tech Policy Press)
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🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ They know what this leads to! Gaaa!
SHAME on them.
“They’re all bending and saying, ‘Sir, thank you very much,’” Mr. #Trump said, adding, “Law firms are just saying: ‘Where do I sign? Where do I sign?’”
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Law Firm Skadden Arps Seeks Deal to Avert Trump Executive Order
The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House.Michael S. Schmidt (The New York Times)
New study shows impact of foreign aid cuts on HIV/Aids treatment
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342509/new-study-shows-impact-of-foreign-aid-cuts-on-hiv-aids-treatment?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Muslims in Altadena look for normalcy at the end of Ramadan after mosque burned down
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5339811/muslims-in-altadena-look-for-normalcy-at-the-end-of-ramadan-after-mosque-burned-down?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ukraine is at the cutting edge of drone innovation, but Russia is catching up
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5338557/ukraine-is-at-the-cutting-edge-of-drone-innovation-but-russia-is-catching-up?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Famed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas holds last concerts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5336439/famed-conductor-michael-tilson-thomas-holds-last-concerts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How Selena's Texas hometown continues to honor her 30 years after her death
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341354/how-selenas-texas-hometown-continues-to-honor-her-30-years-after-her-death?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Surprise surprise:
“AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say”
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#Bias
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If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response on their own?
FEMA pools national resources to help states quickly manage disasters. Without that federal support, each state would be left to build its own expensive response capabilities.The Conversation
The image is a three-panel comic strip featuring two characters sitting at a table with drinks. The first panel shows a character asking, "WHACHA THINKING ABOUT?" The second panel depicts the same character with a blank expression and thought bubbles, indicating confusion. The third panel shows the character responding, "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ANSWER THAT." Above the characters, there are two books labeled "Classic?" and "Fresh?" with the text "5e OR 5.5e?" in the center. The "Classic?" book is the Player's Handbook with a cover featuring a dragon, while the "Fresh?" book is also the Player's Handbook with a cover showing a group of adventurers. A small creature with a tail and a staff is positioned between the two books. The comic humorously illustrates the dilemma of choosing between the 5th edition and the 5.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
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Ok, here's my #MusiciansDay pitch:
I make electronic music, but do try at times to give it a human touch (despite my appearance 🤖 )
Sometimes I dabble in making #DAWless music. This video gives you a good idea what that is like:
v.basspistol.org/w/jszVbAjYtDp…
To check out my DAWless and my awfully DAWful music, head to my #Faircamp at faircamp.axwax.eu
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Non Heralded Awesome Music
Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.nham.co.uk
If you like your oontz a bit darker here is heaps of #industrial, ebm, powernoise, #synth, #dance, techno, dnb, house, noise, soundscapes, various dystopian bangers and noisier horrors. Most of my releases under various monikers from the past few decades and a few sound and loop libraries too.
Dig around there should be something tolerable.
Take what you'd like in #solidarity. If you have the means, a donation is very helpful and well received.
control freak studio / control.org
dark disko, ebm, industrial, synth, powernoise, synthpop, tech, house, noisescapes, dystopia, horror, commissions, sound design, game assets, installation sounds, noises, remixescontrol freak studio / control.org
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More than 800 objects were unearthed in a field near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire. They date back to the 1st century and are almost certainly associated with a tribe called the Brigantes who controlled most of northern England.
Photo credit Durham University/PA
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Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years agoMark Brown (The Guardian)
Dead Kennedys Live San Francisco 1984 (full show) VHSrip
FREE LOSSLESS DOWNLOAD ? http://clkme.in/qTFPRlThis DEAD KENNEDYS' Performance June 16.1984 marked the closing of San Francisco's DMPO's ON BRODWAY Avant G...YouTube
Hi! I'm going freelance and I have a basic website for it now! 😁 fogwave.design
You might hire me if:
* Engineers have made a prototype or first version of your web app but you need someone to "make it Good™"
* You need a graphic design jill-of-all-trades: one-pagers, t-shirts, swag, marketing sites, publication covers, etc.
* You want someone to draw a cute mascot!
If you're interested, email me: hello@fogwave.design
And another announcement: I have my own sticker store now, where you can get semi-official stickers of the semi-official Rust mascot (among other things)! fogwave.bigcartel.com/
(I also take commissions for custom art and sticker designs, so hmu if that's of interest!)
Fogwave Stickers
I sell durable, UV-protected, waterproof vinyl stickers. Some stickers are nerdy, or techie, or politically minded. Some stickers are transparent...Fogwave Stickers
That was another fun #MusiciansDay 🎶
Thank you @Kitty @bestiaexmachina and @thomas for this cool initiative 🤘
If you like to hear #music with a banjo, double bass and mandoline, then check out our music on: mirlo.space/moonshine-brigade/…
I bought a piggy bank!
It's currently empty so it doesn't make much of a sound, so I decided to record a little song to go along with it.
If even one person buys this track, that will give me at least four quarters to put in my bank so I can shake it and record a new track!
If I can fill the piggy bank, I will then smash the hell out of it and record that, too.
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The piggy is so full that I had to shove a twenty dollar bill in the slot because I couldn't fit the rest of the quarters.
Somebody's getting smashed!
isn’t Putin a Christian? If so he has Eternal Life in the Bag
Also 2050 will be
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Browser Extensions - Privacy Guides
These browser extensions can enhance your browsing experience and protect your privacy.www.privacyguides.org
uBlock Origin might be a better choice, as Privacy Badger seems to generate an individual fingerprint that could in turn be hijacked by a website:
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Privacy Badger: Ein individueller Fingerprint
Aufgrund der vielen Anfragen zum Privacy Badger: Der Privacy Badger der EFF arbeitet nicht mit statischen Filterlisten, sondern auf Basis…www.kuketz-blog.de
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Root, root, root for Opening Day! What the upcoming season looks like for MLB
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342505/root-root-root-for-opening-day-what-the-upcoming-season-looks-like-for-mlb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett
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Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, poet, and…gritty television detective? Sadly, no, but he had the makings of a great one, at least as cut together by playwright Danny Thompson, cofounder of Chicago’s Theater Oobl…OC (Openculture.com)
North Korea sent 3,000 more troops to Russia to offset Ukraine war losses, South Korea says
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#news #politics #Russia #Ukraine #northkorea #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini
North Korea sent 3,000 more troops to Russia to offset Ukraine war losses, South Korea says
Pyongyang has also reportedly supplied Moscow with more short-range ballistic missiles, 170 mm self-propelled howitzers, and 240 mm multiple rocket launchers.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
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Creating Low Quality Facts written in lower quality handwriting.Low Quality Facts (Patreon)
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#novelty #classic #fish #puns
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Wet Dream - Kip Addotta
It was April the forty-firstBeing a quadruple leap yearI was driving in downtown AtlantisMy barracuda was in the shopSo I was in a rented stingrayAnd it was ...YouTube
Metroid comics from Bluesky today
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Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa - Maldives Purple Travel Guide
The Maldives have many great resorts and choosing the right one is difficult. Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa is one of the best and it has wonderful overwater bungalows.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
There's nothing like playing #jazz with random people encountered on the streets !
For #MusiciansDay here's a video of that: makertube.net/w/sKjqfwHQaJNLRL…
More info about me and music: strk.kbt.io/poetry/music.html
MAGA chaos agents play government the way 2-year-olds play Jenga.
Samples in Reels and on BesideTheTimes.Substack.com (‘Ken’ lives there too)
the list of which senators voted which way if anyone is curious
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S.J.Res. 18: A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by … -- Senate Vote #153 -- March 27, 2025
Senate Vote #153 in 2025, in the United States Congress.GovTrack.us
#MusiciansDay on the Fedi! 
I happened to put out something unusual for me today: a live recording and video of a protest song I wrote yesterday.
I usually make electronic music that's on the experimental side, but I've always loved playing guitar and singing for myself, and to write songs. My songs are almost never topical or political, and I don't usually release music this raw, but I guess I just needed to get it off my chest.
dear mr trump | alison wilder | Mar. 27, 2025
I've never written a political song before, but it seemed like time.Grab my music for free on my #Faircamp site. https:://alisonwilder.net/musicMe on Mastodo...YouTube
Judge accuses Trump administration of trying to undermine judiciary
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/g-s1-56739/judge-trump-howell-judiciary?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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