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• Post #4488327

  Today I will mostly be painting with mardi gras beads, recycled condiment bottles, and a chopsticks. Also, I have some expired D&C colors and glycerine. Let's see what happens when we add them to paint! Why? Because I have them, that's why. What could go wrong? Hold my espresso, I'm going in!

• Post #4450728

  I have a luncheon to attend in a few short minutes. It is 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and it feels like 108. I tell you that story so I can tell you this one; there is no way to apply socially mandated makeup for women of certain age in this heat. I would need a trowel, a quickset concrete and spray cans. I’m going bare faced and I dare anyone to say something.

• Post #4433946

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/117050577370979278 I think this is a solid analogy. It gives people the dopamine hit of "creation", but without any real connection to the art the "creation" plagiarized. There's no emotion, no meaning, no skill, no mastery, no muses...it's a machine spitting out predictive tokens that teach the user nothing of value. It's a slot machine that kills the planet and never has a payout for anyone but the house.

• Post #4361113

  So, #Shopify CEO Tobias #Lütke, whose company commands a market capitalization near $154 billion, told his social media followers this week that a tax-tiered voting system—one that would strip #voting #rights from anyone who pays no income tax—would be a “good system.” Under this proposed system, the disenfranchised bloc would encompass all retirees living on Social Security and pension income, students, caregivers, disabled Americans, and millions of low-wage workers who owe no net federal inc...

• Post #4300660

  Y'all remember back in the days ago when an #OpenAI model "escaped" and it was all the news for a minute? #Anthropic said "hold my beer" and admitted that its Red team had left access to the internet open, and allowed the models to commit felonies unsupervised. The model performed actions that if you or I did it, we'd be getting a visit from men with dark glasses...but with AI companies it's just "Whoopsies! Sorry about the infiltration, stealing your cre...

• Post #4256769

  Y’all, we need to talk about the #AI-bros and the fact that they don’t think other people are humans that have value as ya know, people. “We hosted a YC Startup School afterparty at the #LemonLime office to meet exceptional people, and find out which of them are just as crazy as we are,” wrote Zietz in a now-deleted #LinkedIn post. “That’s why we brought an actual tattoo artist to our party and offered an instant interview to anyone who got a LemonLime tattoo.” Yep, an AI company said it woul...

• Post #4209208

  Hey, do y'all remember when the Secretary of Scotch Pete #Hegseth was roaming the seas with his bros in the #Navy and blowing up fisherman for fun? I know it seems a lifetime ago, in this, the age of the Kakistocracy Firehose. Turns out, it was all for naught. Cocaine prices, purity, and supply have not diminished, in fact, prices are going down at the wholesale market. (Good news for the Venture Capital set!) Honest to Bob, these failsons are so absurd I'm beginning to doubt any of...

• Post #4205367

  Ya know how the Right Wing is always out here telling us we can't have socialized medicine because the wait lists would be too long and we'd never get to see a doctor? Y'all remember them saying that, right? Y'all, I have been chasing a rheumatology appointment like it was the holy grail being held aloft by a jester with 7-league boots. November 23. That's the first available appointment. That's not a treatment appointment. That's a first visit. This timeline s...

• Post #4170086

  Let's talk about Sam #Tunick. Sam is an #Atlanta activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest, aka Stop Cop City. SCC had great #infosec, and the feds were hoping to bypass need for a #warrant by using border patrol. Most news stories are missing the fact that this was an #FBI action using #ICE as cover. FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer Burnham and Special Agent Andrea Coble arranged for US CPB to question him and search his phone when he landed. The unidentified searching officer in the...

• Post #4128027

  Hey, #Texas buddies. The #TX Supremes have decided to make life miserable for everyone connected to #hemp or #cannabis in the state, banning flower and seed sales as of the end of this month, in a couple of days. I just did a quick buying survey of the headshops near me, and stocks are low...I may have just cleaned out a store, and I didn't spend a whole lot. (Granted, my dude gave me a 50% discount.) ;) #THC drinks, gummies and topicals will all still be legal. Why...I cannot even begi...

• Post #4120101

  Ok, I was fully prepared for this to be completely made up...and yet... it is true. Fritz #Zwicky really did coin the phrases "dark matter" and "spherical bastards". What a froopy dude! #physics #language #semantics #sphericalbastards #darkmatter #astrophysics

• Post #4095889

  Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, a radical Puerto Rican human rights group modeled on the Black Panther Party, which Oliver-Vélez was also a member of. She later became the first Black female program director in public radio and taught at SUNY New Paltz. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/17...

• Post #4071514

  So y'all, #Section219 of the #NDDA passed the #House. The #Senate has their own version. Section 219 would require the secretary of defense to designate an “executive agent” at the Pentagon, tasked only with cooperation with #Israel. The technology domains named in the bill include data sharing, missile defense, counter-drone systems, cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, directed-energy weapons, biotechnology, and defense manufacturing. The bill also includes...

• Post #4070524

  I think we should start a think tank. And a pac to fund it. Maybe call it "The Center for What the Fuck is Wrong with You People." Our first white papers can be "How Boobs broke the Boomers; a retrospective on counter culture", "The Rise of the Yeehawdists; how fake cowboys changed the West", and "Stephen Miller; a case study in how an abandoned victorian doll haunted by unrepentant nazis terrorized Americans while the GOP smiled." I may be feeling a t...

• Post #4042369

  Y’all, I’m running around in the public, and after my shower, I applied a new sunscreen. I didn’t realize it was glittery. Y’all I am out here twinkling like I’m a bad fanfic vampire. I have proven my commitment to sparkle motion. That is my point.

• Post #4027112

  Hey gang, if you still have anything parked on a #wordpress install, make sure you've updated. The latest in a long list of security issues is a pretty serious critical vulnerability. The critical #exploit abuses the WordPress REST API’s batch-processing feature, allowing remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable installations without the need to authenticate. Administrators of WordPress sites should immediately update to the patched versions, review logs for wp2shell-related request...

• Post #4017437

  Y’all, last week, #AI repository #HuggingFace disclosed that it had been the victim of a cyber attack conducted by an autonomous AI agent. Well, turns out, #OpenAI had models break containment, escape the lab, and grab prod data and certs to solve a problem it had been given. So, that’s fun! The attack used a combination of OpenAI's available #GPT 5.6 Sol and a more powerful, unreleased pre-release model. The models were able to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in OpenAI&#3...

• Post #3997749

  Hey, do y'all 'member when the White House directly intervened to get the #Tate bros released from Romanian custody? And then #UFC president Dana White welcomed them back to the United States personally? A few days ago, the #UK said "Yeah...naw, we're prosecuting these monsters." and filed extradition dohingles and then the Tate Bros were unceremoniously dragged off to the hoosegow to await justice? I just want to help any of the brosphere that are out here wanting to r...

• Post #3992054

  Today, I had mostly planned on making ma’amoul. It’s a Lebanese shortbread cookie, in this case filled with a homemade fig jam and a mahleb spiced dough. They are traditionally made using a wooden mold. The molds are passed down for generations. I tell you that, because it goes some way to explaining why I was climbing on top of stacked, full laundry baskets to reach the top shelf of a remote closet to find my Sitto’s (grandmother) mold. Which has stubbornly remained invisible. What was not...

• Post #3967368

  Guys, and in this case I mean this gender specifically, we need to talk about gooning. Gooning as a phrase started somewhere in the brosphere...it's too sticky in there for me to do research, but basically the origin was to masturbate without orgasm to the point of a trance like state. Like a shortcut to tantric yoga, is my take away. So far, so good. Y'all do you! Self exploration is great, more of that please. Where it becomes problematic is that it has spread into the public sp...

• Post #3964973

  RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116951883831142915 This is so good. Quote: We must recognize that a narrow conception of software freedom — the traditional “use, study, share, improve” — is not enough. It’s a necessary condition for convivial technology, but not a sufficient one. Even 40 years after the principles of software freedom were formulated, we all depend on proprietary, coercive services to live our daily lives, whether it’s taking the train, making a bank transaction, having a job...

• Post #3921122

  Last week the #StateDept gave a big hootenanny about how they were proudly opening the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism. (I did not make that up, that's all them being dystopian on their own.) Their first move has been to demand that #Spain extradite James “Fergie” Chambers. Spanish authorities arrested Chambers, a US citizen, last Friday. He has been transferred to a prison in Madrid. The Trump administration’s #DOJ is seeking his extradition for alleged financial su...

• Post #3916653

  RE: https://c.im/@didgebaba/116940320333068577 One should note that this message is coming from an Abandoned Victorian Doll Haunted by the Souls of Unrepentant Nazis...and Not A Real Boy. Stephen Miller going off about people not looking normal is.... ironic doesn't even do it justice. #Miller #USPol #StateDept #Madness #kakistocracy

• Post #3892434

  Y’all, someone sent this to me without context, and … I have *so* many questions. #cowsOfMastodon #cow #why #Whatdidthebabycowdo

• Post #3850579

  RE: https://sfba.social/@BoredomFestival/116924916906649520 Y'all! I just did this, and I thought we had defunded Flock in our town, and if I zoom out from my house, there's one on every road you could use to get out of my neighborhood, and no others nearby. Not at the parks, not at the schools, not at the intersections...just placed so they can see any car that enters this neighborhood. The people who organized against them live here. That's not creepy at all.

• Post #3839032

  An update on Swans (untitled). I have achieved base coat on everything! (I did shoes after this shot, but trust me, they’re done!) I have smeared this painting so many times with my brace that my brace looks like a Kandinsky, but I think I’ve fixed the canvas. We are nearing completion, and I still don’t know what to call it… #painting #oils #art #swans #silly #surrealism

• Post #3830200

  Hey, can I get a #chemist on the line? Maybe one with #cosmetic or #polymer knowledge? So, I have psoriatic arthritis, and a manifestation is a degradation of my nails. And I was looking into a product, which is advertised as "beneficial" to one's nails, which is not a thing associated with manicure products. It is a #uv cured gel, but rubberized in some way. Here's the thing, all of these "gel" or uv cured products appear to be #resin. Am I wrong in assuming t...

• Post #3823015

  Why I Am Not A Watercolor Artist: a photo essay. Alt: A folding table is open against a wall and another area. The background is a messy set of bookcases, ignore them and pretend they are dusted, organized and filled with treasures. Upon the table are watercolors, brushes, and two wet paintings, one of which is completely covered by the other studio cat Purrsephone. While Athena is best known for her work in deconstruction, Purrsephone has an improv, always say “yes and” approach, and believ...

• Post #3817470

  So, we’ve talked about #Flock cameras and why they should be destroyed on sight. And it seems some folks are listening. Lots of towns have cancelled their contracts, but now the big boys are starting to cancel. The #LAPD, a department that has never seen a technology they won’t abuse, has dumped Flock. “This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these camera...

• Post #3791732

  I know we're all mourning the loss of Ladybug, but it's hitting some folks harder than others... #memes #silly #lindsayGraham