Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of those people WILL notice. It will have a massive impact.

*But, also Amazon does notice. Especially as more and more people do this.

Sometimes anti-fascism looks like having tamales for lunch.

#chicago, #fuckice, #chingalamigra, #tamales, #nooneisillegal, #keinmenschhistillegal, #refugeeswelcome, #YourBordersKill

Stay tuned for details on upcoming 'Emergency' World Naked Bike Ride in #PortlandOregon.

This is how Portland protests ICE and Trump.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/emergency-world-naked-bike-ride-planned-in-portland.html

So it’s been over a month since iNaturalist first announced using Google's genAI…
…I signed up for the q&a they were going to do, and have not heard one thing. There is also no updates other than a forum post from iNat staff saying they hope to have a working prototype at the end of the year.

I don’t want a “prototype at the end of the year" released and then have it be too late to retract what I have given to the site so it doesn’t get eaten up by a genAI machine. If there is a working demo, that means the data’s already been fed, I would think…?

Thus, at this point, it’s just how long do I wait until I pull the plug? Because there is a total lack of transparency, a lot of double talking, and this is far too big an issue to just leave to chance. And for everyone saying “but science!” we functioned as scientists far before iNat existed, and there are other ways to manage datasets. If you are that conditioned to needing a computer to think for you, maybe rethink being a scientist.

iNat has done great things, getting into bed with genAI is not one of them; instead it is a nail in the coffin of science, thinking, and reason.

#nature #science #ai #genAI #llm #iNat #iNaturalist #biology #ecology