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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2h

creating art is like, the worst use case I can think of for AI

art is fun! art is the stuff that makes life worth living! art is good and cool and human! it doesn’t even matter if you’re “good” or “bad” at it! why on earth would you want a machine to do the fun stuff for you??

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AnnaMolly @anna-molly.bsky.social · 9h

*Brings a first aid kit to a knife fight

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 6h

A rite of passage!

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, that too. Basically the combo of schwa-ing up the vowels and pronouncing the 'll' like in Spanish.

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 7h

(Most Arizonans I know pronounce it like 'muggy yawn' or 'mug a yawn')

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 7h

'Mogollon' definitely comes to mimd

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12h

Want a deal on ebooks that'll get you in that Halloween mood? Consider: eerie historical fantasy stories of a wandering Appalachian conjure-woman in the 1900s, facing supernatural threats in an increasingly fractured and unnatural landscape

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Aug 2

a typewritten note, bisected by a vertical line.

it reads: "trade proposal"

left side: we receive money

right side: you receive custom art

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8h

AAAAUGH! The lithops is doing a thing! I was not informed that lithops did things! I thought they just sat there and occasionally sprouted pups like a normal succulent!

A lithops plant in a small terracotta pot, producing a green flower bud thingy.

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 8h

Your mistake is in assuming the constitution matters. It turns out it's just some random words on a parchment.

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JoJo Screams @jojoseames.bsky.social · 8h

October Comes to Puppetland, day 8! Mr. Kite! #PlayhouseTober #Drawtober

A mixed-media artwork of the Pee-Wee's Playhouse character Mr. Kite surrounded by different colorful shapes and patterns.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

doomscroll break

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 10h

I have been on a bus in Himachal Pradesh and imagined this very scenario. Those mountain roads are scary, and the whole landscape looks like a landslide waiting to happen. What a horrible way to go.

Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 10h

Landslide kills 15 after striking bus in northern India
->Al Jazeera | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

Landslide kills 15 after striking bus in northern India

NewsFeed Landslide kills 15 after striking bus in northern India At least 15 people have been killed after a landslide hit a bus in India’s Himachal Pradesh state...

www.aljazeera.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 10h

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 23h

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 10h

This is something I miss about being a student. Popping in, asking questions, vibing with profs. It's great!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 11h

The Feds just arrested the arson suspect for the Palisades fire earlier this year.

What no one else is mentioning is that he was apparently arrested at his FLORIDA residence??

So the Palisades were burnt down by a frigging MAGA white domestic terrorist.

Way to bury the lede here. 🙄

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A Pagan in Arizona @apaganinarizona.bsky.social · 11h

Another nice thing that happens when the worst of the summer heat passes. Hens start laying again 🥚🐔🐓
Today's are especially pretty.
#chickens #poultry #backyardchickens

A bowl with six eggs laid by my hens. Two pale tan, one dark brown, three in different shades of light green.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 11h

I hope this message from the FOP goes big, because it does a lot to sell the idea of "defund the police" to regular folks who've spent their whole lives blithely accepting that cops are on our side

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 10h

Your alt text is very good, thanks for doing it

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Tidal Flat" another new #painting which sold last month. I’m drawn to the spaces where land and water argue over sovereignty but peacefully, as in I like the space where there is no resistance and the water comes in and goes out largely as it pleases. #TidesOutTuesday #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on backing board. The bottom two thirds is land, a large olive green-brown triangle in the bottom left and the rest is yellow cut up into segments by a network of water channels. The yellow is separated from the olive corner by a midnight blue channel of water which cuts across the yellow sand in a narrow channel near the bottom right and another from the left side, to join up in the distance from where two more thin lines of blue channels head to the very thin sliver of the pale blue sea along the horizon. On either side of the sea are low long dark alizarin promontories and further back in the distance beyond the sea along the horizon is a solid dark blue mass of an undulating mountain range. The sky is mostly a smokey dark grey, albeit lighter than the mountains, with a dark sky blue in the top left corner and touch of pinkish red in the top right. Signed bottom left in magenta on the olive green-brown, Liam Daly

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Solarpumpkin Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.bsky.social · 12h

I would share this if it had alt text

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 2d

Surprise!

Air #pollution from 30 years ago is still killing you

Ergo, air pollution today will still be killing you in 30 years
#health

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/170739/...

We've known a long time - we need clean air just like we need clean water

(Unpolluted speech is also a critical thing)

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