Anyone remember that 1988 John Carpenter movie "They Live"?
#ProtestArt in #SanFrancisco riffing on #Trump and #Musk with that movie's central conceit, using lenticular printing (another image revealed from a different angle), no special sunglasses needed:
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🚨🚨Trump just tweeted the Führerprinzip.
He is going to ignore the courts.
Class warfare is when there’s a limit to what poor & disabled people can earn before losing their benefits, but no limit to what billionaires can hoard while avoiding taxes.
We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.
2025 starts with yet another tremendous blow to political cartooning; Ann Telnaes quits The Washington Post after a cartoon criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is refused.
Although high-profile, unfortunately Ann’s case is far from unique. More details on the Cartoon Movement blog + some helpful tips on how to support political cartoonists: https://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2025/01/political-cartoons-are-on-the-brink-of-extinction-and-how-you-can-help-to-prevent-this.html
On January 1, a new law went into effect that we can't record the cops and first responders within 25 feet. For this exact reason. They want to protect police when they do shit like this.
Florida under, DeSantis.
#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.
#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angry. In the last 60 days, the diaspora* web assets received 11.3 million requests. That equals to 2.19 req/s - which honestly isn't that much. I mean, it's more than your average personal blog, but nothing that my infrastructure shouldn't be able to handle. However, here's what's grinding my fucking gears. Looking at the top user agent statistics, there are the leaders: 2.78 million requests - or 24.6% of all traffic - is coming from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot). 1.69 million reuqests - 14.9% - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonb...
Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
Arkansas book-censorship law ruled unconstitutional
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #bookban #Breaking #BreakingNews
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/12/23/arkansas-book-censorship-law-ruled-unconstitutional
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