Sy

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92 Posts
CountryUSA
GenderMasculine
EducationBachelor of Science, Evergreen State College
Values & AspirationsCuriosity, kindness, patience
SyMay 25, 2023
Show threadJulian OliverMay 25, 2023

Worth mentioning that folk often assume climate change is the primary culprit of terrestrial extinction. While atmospheric warming is indeed a new stressor on the block, it is habitat loss & land change that is doing the most harm to the wild. And it so happens the primary driver of habitat loss is animal agriculture & its feedcrops (Living Planet Report, 2022).

In other words, the 6th Extinction event on our home planet cannot be averted wiithout changing what we eat, and how we produce it.

SyApr 11, 2023

Cling to what you won’t

And you will have it
I promise you

By and by your laying waste
Becomes a habit
And while you’re at it
It follows you

Spring ahead and hope to hell
A fool’ll chase it
You always do

Try and hide your saving grace
The silver bracelet
She gave to you

Drink to what you’ve lost
And paths mistaken
When you were free

If sorrow is what wisdom costs
Whose the fool?
Who was she?

Blink away a tear and bless
The heart you’ve broken

Cold and dry, a bitter taste
Has awoken
A memory
softly spoken
something sweet

SyMar 18, 2023
Dan GillmorMar 17, 2023

This superb article by @maria connects generative AI's tendency to make stuff up and present it as facts with Big Publishing's vile efforts to shut down libraries it can't control. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-chatbot/

Read it, please, to understand how dangerous the publishers' lawsuit against the invaluable Internet Archive really is.

(Perhaps unsurprisingly, Big Journalism has mostly ignored what's at stake.)

Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie

Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.

The Nation
SyFeb 24, 2023
Abandoned AmericaFeb 23, 2023

The abandoned City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana

Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/gary-indiana

Gary, Indiana: City of the Century | Abandoned America

Originally a thriving steel town and home to the Jackson Five, the city of Gary, Indiana now lies in ruins. | Abandoned America

SyJan 21, 2023
Jon BakerJan 21, 2023

Oh hey! I made my 4th comic video compilation for my webcomic Alarmingly Bad

(Link to YouTube because I can’t upload videos more than 40MB)

#comic #videos #funnyvideos #AlarminglyBad

https://youtu.be/0Kwo4dMk3_c

Alarmingly Bad Compilation 4

YouTube
SyJan 3, 2023
OutOnTheMoorsJan 3, 2023
The eighth wonder of the world is the internet; ephemeral cloth made of gossamer thread and controlled by glass spiders at the heart of the web
SyDec 29, 2022
Jon BakerDec 28, 2022
Norway implies the existence of Neitherway
SyDec 1, 2022
Cousin on the big island sent me this pic of the big volcano
Show threadSyNov 29, 2022
@CriticalCupcake nice! I got a sunrise glimpse
Show threadSyNov 25, 2022
@andrlik “Where did all these sages get the idea that a person needs some normal and reasonable, some virtuous wanting? A person needs only independent wanting, whatever this independence may cost, wherever it may lead. This wanting only the devil knows. He wants his own way, and if he does not have the means he will invent destruction and chaos. He will invent all kinds of suffering and still have his own way. He will launch a curse upon the world.” Dostoevsky, notes from the underground