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And here are the close up pics to pour over. There is ringing, but very minimal stringing. I've done no post processing on this. I just pulled it from the print bed and took the pics.
It takes a special kind of inclination to view deportation detention as the highlight of a vacation. Those who don't share these inclinations would rather travel to Italy for the dolce vita.
Here's the Canadian Government's page on advisories to the United States. There is not one item on the page that references the political situation between our countries. It doesn't even mention tariffs.
The moneyed fostered isolationism in the prelude to WW2; using the same methods, silver shirted goons, tariffs & trade wars. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolat…
George the world order is slowly changing along with traditional alliances, Trump has lost Europe and Canada in less than 6 months. They will get stronger together with no doubt those more akin to European standards and past strong ties siding with them like Australia, New Zealand and other commonwealth countries. China and Russia are actively trying to destroy your economy and the whole South American continent is alienated by Yankee land. Good luck trying to make America great with Trump/Republican government .
One thing happening right now in Europe I have never believed in if you told me 10 years ago is, states so different in so many ways, historically divided through wars and economical fights, coming together and ally to get rid of american bossing, making the EU a strong opponent to both the US and Russia as well.
I believe Trump hasn't seen that coming, rather thought he can do whatever he wants and the EU will give in and just nod it off, because we're scared. But he failed in what he likes to call poker game of world politics.
We won't put up with his shit anymore, we have had enough of that. 🇪🇺
so many people around me (I am Canadian) just chose to visit another country this year, it’s very impressive. Everyone is united behind the idea of giving up on this friendly neighbor relationship, and want nothing to do with the US.
As a German, I am confused: To weaken my own country economically, to ruin its reputation in the world and to deprive its people of education and health seems to be a rather strange idea of great. 🤔
Oh so great. At least those countries are slowly, but surely rediscovering their own strength instead of leaning on the US all the time. And that's a good thing.
In that Mr Cheetohead and his cronies were right. But I don't believe they are aware of the full extent of the consequences. And no, we won't say thank you. #unplugtrump
BookWyrm is a social network for people who enjoy books and reading. It's intended as a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. The official site is at:
BookWyrm accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc. However, you need to sign up for an account on a BookWyrm server if you want to use BookWyrm's features.
@halfbakedkitcat BookWyrm is screen reader friendly. In 2017 I worked with the developer for almost a year on making improvement so it is very much screen reader friendly
@WeirdWriter can you have a reading goal on there like goodreads? also, can you import your goodreads content and kindle content cause, kindle and audible are what I use to read.
Oh this is amazing! I just wasn't quite sure if Kindle even had the option of exporting to CSV. I have an Audible account and wish they would give us a native option to export our library listings into CSV. I use Libation to export library data but will share this page going forward! I knew about the CSV import, I just didn't know how far the CSV support went! @FediTips @halfbakedkitcat
@halfbakedkitcat BookWyrm is screen reader friendly. In 2017 I worked with the developer for almost a year on making improvement so it is very much screen reader friendly
Thank you for sharing. This is great! I dropped Goodreads right after it was acquired by Amazon and haven't been connected socially with other readers for a long time. I just registered an account at BookWyrm (@JulieReads), and look forward to exploring its options and finding & connecting to like minded readers.
I think most of you that are interested in #RC2014 stuff are already subscribed to the RC2014 Newsletter. Which is great because I am really excited with the content of the one coming out next week.
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Here's an experiment done in response to recent news in the art world. Image 1 is what I scribbled right before work yesterday morning. Image 2 is what those simple shapes turned into after I came home and reopened my art app. This is proof that all you need to create strange worlds is your imagination, something genAI and its proponents can never possess or understand.
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@rc2014 It works! Thanks for all your help. Couldn't have done it without you, because just look how badly I managed on my own 😂 Now I got a SID chip, an AY/YM, and an SN76489 ready to go. Time to write! This is huge. Also talked to Quasar regarding a Phillips SAA1099 module. Hope there's enough of a demand and he makes one as I love that PSG as well. Thank you so much. I feel like I got the hard part (for me) out of the way.
I wish there was a heart-ear emoji, but I will have to settle for 😍 for now! Glad that you're up and running. Looking forward to hearing whatever other bleeps and bloops you make with it.
Anti-slip hazard tape, matching strip on the bottom. That black rectangle on the bottom left of the screen is a metal plate so I can attach peripherals with magnets.
More people need to know the true power move of laptop stickering, that you first cover the lid with a sheet of furniture or countertop protector so that when the time comes you can pull the entire sheet off, throw it in a frame and start anew.
Damn, I recently bought a new laptop & sold the old one. The sticker density of that one was closer to yours, whereas the new laptop is still early on its sticky path:
First covered in black adhesive shelving liner, so I can remove it and stick it to cardboard and display later, then slowly adding to my sticker collection.
We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the developers of Tronbyt — a replacement firmware and self-hosted backend that breaks the Tidbyt smart display f…
I went to a #repairCafe today and got my ebike charger fixed for at least another 4 years of daily usage (I hope). 🚲 ⚡
Repairing things is good for the earth, for our pockets and for society in general.
have to check that fixit site, I think people were downloading the whole site in case it went dark? I hope @pluralistic advice comes to pass, and Canadian and European start jailbreaking stuff, so repairs are more accessible and cheaper
It's not that long since women authors had to use their initials to avoid being remaindered. For instance, C L Moore, E Nesbitt., or adopt a male nom de plume such as Ellis Peters.
I mean what the hack happened to capitalism? If Target makes a better profit offering "chick lit" why should they block their shelves with "male-centric" slow-sellers? Is capitalism dead in the land of the free? Maybe he should buy his stuff at "Incels'r'Us"?
1. What an idiot broflake 2. I can't read the peoples replies as they are just privacy Badger boxes. Comic Sands need to screenshot Tweets. I'm not letting Musk script run in my browser.
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It's not that he's entirely wrong, but why does he think that's a bad thing? If you want to shop for a broad selection of books, perhaps Target isn't the best venue.
so, is he admitting he isn’t a good author? Why doesn’t he, as an author who used to be a young man, write one and sell it? I looked him up, he’s well published. Should be able to get it done if he threw his weight around even if they didn’t think it was going to be a chart topper for them.
interesting , I went to the Amazon Fantasy & Science Fiction best seller list to see which gender was selling there. I got to 61st place before I saw an unambiguously masculine named author. I doubt Amazon is pushing any woke agenda.
#ElonMusk said on Friday that his xAl has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including debt.
The Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are holding hearings about what's going on at VA. I was invited to testify at one of the hearings (will post more about this later) and was told, "If your friends and family want to watch live, this will be streaming on the SVAC Democrats Facebook and X/Twitter feeds." That the Dems are streaming only on Facebook and Twitter is another illustration that they're not up to the moment we're in. #politics #USPol I sent them this:
"The United States has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming, which has made it hard for the U.S. Navy to persuade Congress of the need to commission icebreakers. The United States only has two functional arctic icebreakers; “
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I’ve been spending some time lately testing out high-speed Ethernet adapters, and the latest one to land on my desk is a 10-gigabit model from a company called Maiwo. It connects over Thunderbolt or USB 4, and is plug and play on the Mac and Linux.
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Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
Clearview saw an opening in the facial recognition market and took full advantage of it. While most tech firms offered face-matching tech of dubious accuracy, Clearview went further, matching its A…
@Hyperactivist It's not an original design - I copied one I'd seen online, but I did generate a high resolution print file for it. Happy to share it when I'm back at my computer tomorrow evening. If I don't post it by Monday, message me a reminder
“There was no court reporter and there still is no public transcript or recording of the proceedings.
“Seven of the 11 [jurors] had ties to the fossil fuel industry. Some had admitted they could not be fair, but the judge seated them anyway.” #fascism #greenpeace #climate
«OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach. It is a display of power: You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we can.»
A great writing on the fascist politics of generative "AI" by @tante
«OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach. It is a display of power: You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we can.»
A great writing on the fascist politics of generative "AI" by @tante
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world around us. But also about the levels of cruelty that humanity can be capable of – and how there still are grace and love even under those conditions. Studio Ghibli’s work is distinct. In the level of quality over the years, in their very recognisable art style.
Hayao Miyasaki also is know for his reaction to a few technologists showing him something we’d call “AI” today to generate “creepy” moving figures:
His reaction to the proud developers showing an animation of a thing using its head to move forward claiming “Artificial intelligence could present us grotesque movements that we humans can’t imagine.” is very telling:
“Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find it interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.
I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Hayao Miyazaki
He capped that off with a scathing remark about what had happened:
“I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”
Hayao Miyazaki
Now of course he wasn’t looking at modern “AI” systems like the ones Microsoft/OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. are trying (with little economic success) to sell. But his argument would apply just the same: “Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.” Or joy. Or love. Or hunger. Or longing. Or need. Or want. All the parts of us that define our humanity and our way of interacting with the world. The things that make us care, that push us towards doing something, finding something out. Saying something and hearing something.
For the longest time OpenAI’s systems would try to block people from generating images in the style of certain artists. This was obviously for copyright reasons, the didn’t want to get sued (even more than they already are). Which is something they just changed very explicitly. You can now easily generate stuff in the style of Studio Ghibli and Sam Altman made his avatar on X-The Nazi Network a ghiblified version of himself.
This means OpenAI has to make more and more announcements so they look to the investors like they’re still cool and interesting. Any old garbage will do, like a literary fiction writer bot or something.
David Gerard
But I do think it does go further. There is a reason they chose Studio Ghibli. Sure, its style is very cute, very distinct, but that is not the whole story. It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart. OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach.
It is a display of power: You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we can.
Because we can. This is the idea of might makes right. The banner that every totalitarian and fascist government rallied under. OpenAI luckily is no government but their ideas, their thinking has influenced many current governments all over the planet. “If we are not allowed to take everything we want without payment and against people’s will, we will never create the machine god to solve all our problems.”
OpenAI’s move is an attempt to see what the reaction to them explicitly, willingly, gleefully breaching another boundary, acting against the explicit and known will of the people they use their machines on. And many in the public seem to eat it up, turning their holiday pics into “Ghibli-style” images.
The scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder (who just left his position at Yale University going to Toronto in a very non-subtle reaction to growing Fascism in the US) write his book “On Tyranny” to give people 20 lessons about how to react to and resist tyrannical movements. The first rule is: “Do not obey in advance.“
This is what many are doing here. Submitting to this logic of injustice and domination in advance. Because it plays well on Instagram or because “it’s just pictures”. But this is submission to a logic of dominance by those who have power. It is a submission of democratic rights and understandings. It is a submission to a vulgar display of power.
And that is why the White House used that tech to [content warning about the following link: It’s a obscene display of violence] illustrate their cruelty against migrants. The cruelty is the point. But so are the other forms of violence displayed.
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