wow.

That's... wow.

- George - that comment hits hard.
As it should.

What is the title of the book that I read about the internment camps when I was in middle school in California in the mid-eighties - just like "1984" and "Farenheit 451" - I think it's time to read it again.

Amy - the word weird is somehow lacking the threatening quality of what's happening.

When she said weird , she means fucking racist .

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters “DEI” added to website address

^{Maya Yang (The Guardian)}

To Mr Takei and Amy Nixon,

Trust me, we KNOW it's weird. Even those of us outside the USA know it's weird

#USAFascistShitShow #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT

It's not just the US that's gotten weird, but it's definitely going off the deep end at record speed.

There were concentration camps in Canada during the war, but they were taught to us as being a stain on our history. The thought of that happening again on this continent, and for more of a bullshit reason this time is chilling

When I was a teenager, we had a plan for when the Soviets launched the inevitable nuclear attack. We lived across the bay from an ANG base, so the plan was to throw some beers in a cooler, take the boat out into the bay, and watch the fireworks. That was all we could do.

It was a dark thing to grow up under the constant threat of nuclear war, but that was the reality. Now? Our President is literally siding with the Kremlin.

When I was a child, I read what the Americans did to the Vietnamese, and this was another decade before. What they did to the black people, and segregation ended a decade before.

If you think the US had a non-fascist normal, you refer to a very short period, somewhere between the 1968s Hippie movement (which happened late in LBJ's and during Richard Nixon's presidency, and everybody agreed that this was a criminal thug, so there wasn't that much normality, either) and the end of Jimmy Carter's single term. This short window wasn't normal.

The image shows a living room with a large flat-screen TV on a stand. The TV is displaying a webpage with the title "Altbot" and a cartoon character. Below the TV, there is a glass-fronted cabinet with electronic devices inside. To the right of the TV, there is a black entertainment unit with shelves holding various items, including video game consoles, controllers, and game cases. A printer is placed on top of the unit, and a potted plant is nearby. The room has a wooden floor, and a window with sheer white curtains allows natural light to enter. The wall is painted a light color, and the overall setting appears to be a home entertainment area.

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.183 Wh

@eowyn

Yup, that's listed!

"Include text descriptions on your images, video or audio. A lot more people will share those posts, as accessibility is valued on the Fediverse."

@kevingamin @eowyn @altbot

That will use LLMs though, so it will not know the point of your image and give additional unnecessary description. It will also burn through substantial amounts of energy as it does so, damaging the environment.

If a person is able to add a description, it is usually much better that they do so manually.

Yeah, just to be clear, I do realise some people use it because they are unable to give descriptions manually 🙂

I'm only concerned about it being normalised as a way for abled people to give descriptions, as it would do more harm than good in that situation.

@kevingamin @eowyn @altbot

Oh yeah, it does look as though it's as good as it can be in this regard.

But it's still going to gobble up lots of energy, and even if energy comes from (partially) clean sources, that's clean energy capacity taken away from something else.

The worst thing is if we normalise using LLMs for people who are able to enter descriptions manually. This kind of tool ought to be reserved for those unable to enter descriptions manually.

Jalopnik:

"This may still come as a surprise to a lot of you, but the Tesla Cybertruck sucks. Not only is it bad at being a truck, it's also a bad vehicle in general. I mean, you can't seriously tell me you'd rather buy a truck that can be bricked by a simple car wash instead of a Rivian R1T? Really? I don't remember any Rivian owners complaining about body panels flying off their trucks while driving, but that's absolutely a thing with Cybertrucks. In fact, body panels flying off has become enough of an issue that Tesla has paused Cybertruck deliveries for now, Electrek reports."

👀 😂

#tesla #cybertruck

LOL

Road and Track: Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why

A Tesla owner who wraps the vehicles for a living has come up with a hypothesis as to why his truck lost a piece of its bodywork at speed.

roadandtrack.com/news/a6385720…

#tesla #cybertruck

If Congress doesn’t have the power of the purse and the courts don’t have the power of law, then our system of checks and balances crumbles and the US constitution is finished.

Either the administration faces immediate and overwhelming resistance to this, or democracy in the US is over.

#uspol