One of the best uses of #AI / #LLM I've seen illustrates how it's the human-in-the-loop crafting the training data who is the REAL GENIUS. This #SpecialEffects artist used an AI/LLM to solve the many problems with green screens ... and made it OPEN SOURCE.
#Film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Plo...
U.S. Secretary of War signing an artilary shell. Behind him is a banner wrapped around a wall so the large words on it say "The ARSE of FREE."
Depicted here: The biggest ARSE feeling FREE to sign evidence of his international war crimes.
#PeteHegseth
A watchdog group received 100s of complaints that #USMILITARY COMMANDERS are CELEBRATING that #IranWar will bring about --END TIMES-- because "#Trump has been anointed by Jesus to [ignite] Armageddon." #ISRAEL is happy for us to do all their KILLING and DYING.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
This spoof of GoFundMe hits hard (but true).
Only in America where healthcare is run like the Hunger Games could you hear a CEO say out loud:
βI run a popularity contest where if you lose you die!β
#USAHealthcare #UniversalHealthcare #MedicareForAll
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsX...
BREAKING GOVERNMENT:
How DOGE and Trump Cost Taxpayers,
Federal Workers, and Public Services
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...
![Real Legacy of DOGE:
DESPITE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO'S
LIE THAT β[N]O ONE HAS DIEDβ AS A RESULT OF
USAID CUTS, REPORTING HAS SHOWN THAT THE
ABRUPT CUTTING OFF OF FOOD AND MEDICAL
SUPPLIES DIRECTLY LED TO THE [DEATHS] OF 90,000
ADULTS AND 200,000 CHILDREN.
This analysis demonstrates that the high costs of DOGE
unequivocally erase any verified savings it can claim,
raising concerns that President Trump and Mr. Musk took
advantage of the public's demands for a more efficient,
effective government to instead serve their own personal
interests.
A FIRM SPECIALIZING IN HELPING
EMPLOYEES TRANSITION AFTER
JOB LOSS IDENTIFIED DOGE AS THE
LEADING REASON FOR JOB CUTS
IN AMERICA IN 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mulysniaeocuyzfr3mzavlax/bafkreiakoe7moxxrrzsbra3vgautxkw7pkksutr6t3vl2hxv5oql5frbhu@jpeg)
Real Legacy of DOGE: DESPITE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO'S LIE THAT β[N]O ONE HAS DIEDβ AS A RESULT OF USAID CUTS, REPORTING HAS SHOWN THAT THE ABRUPT CUTTING OFF OF FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES DIRECTLY LED TO THE [DEATHS] OF 90,000 ADULTS AND 200,000 CHILDREN. This analysis demonstrates that the high costs of DOGE unequivocally erase any verified savings it can claim, raising concerns that President Trump and Mr. Musk took advantage of the public's demands for a more efficient, effective government to instead serve their own personal interests. A FIRM SPECIALIZING IN HELPING EMPLOYEES TRANSITION AFTER JOB LOSS IDENTIFIED DOGE AS THE LEADING REASON FOR JOB CUTS IN AMERICA IN 2025.
Final Verdict: #DOGE was a death-dealing, jobs-destroying waste of time and tax dollars. (Link to full report in comments)
No. 40-21 (Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, πΈ via
@V0LofTheWild): www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...
This is catching on. Thereβs nothing Trump hates more than being ignored.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Truest political quote you'll ever hear. Galbraith first said this in 1963, although today the "moral philosophy" of current conservatives dispenses w/ both the "moral" & the "philosophy" part. It's all just self-justified cruelty, for its own sake now, like the roar of dinosaurs going extinct.
A short message from me about the documentary, why I want to make it, and how you can help it get made.
OK, puzzle friends. Here's a fun daily game that's fiendishly simple, just higher-lower for words. It scores like golf, where your guesses are strokes and low score wins.
#Game #DailyGames #wordgame
purpleword.com
Black and white stereo pair of images of a woman in Asian clothing, long shawl and a headdress. A man in native dress and a hat in the background along with another women in native costume.
Black and white stereo pair of images of acrobats performing near a wall. Women acrobats in matching striped dresses stand by the wall with two acrobat men doing an elevated handstand in the background
Black and white stereo pair of images of a strong man or muscular boxer posing defiantly with arms crossed over his chest. A punching bag hanging nearby.
Black and white stereo pair of images of an elephant submerged in a lake up to its shoulders, its head raised and mouth open with a man posed perching with one foot on the elephant's neck and one on its head. He's holding its trunk arched back toward him.
Found this terrific collection of #stereo images from early 1900s around South Knoxville, Tennessee mostly taken by C.A. Wayland
Pictures include animals & acts from the Appalachian Expo of 1910 and Prohibition Parades of 1907.
#Stereography #Tennessee #Exposition
cmdc.knoxlib.org/digital/coll...
Weather station on mantel withego flowers Display shows -12F outside, 48% hunudity
Still Life with Lego & Weather Station
Chicago-land, USA
(-12F, high of ~8 expected, -30F to -40F windchill)
Title: Pollution & Profit - are everything People & lives - mean nothing Text: Trumpβs EPA will no longer consider impacts on human lives when setting pollution limits, focusing instead on costs to businesses. Since the 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used a metric called the βValue of a Statistical Life,β which essentially assigns a value to human life, when considering cost- benefit analysis of pollution limits. As TechCrunch simplified, βlowering pollution can prolong human life, so if the health benefits of reducing pollution outweighed the costs, then there was an economic argument to be made in favor of reductions.β The Trump administrationβs EPA has now decided to reverse decades of practice when it comes to considering the impacts on human lives when setting pollution limits on fine particle matter and ozone - two of the most widespread air pollutants. (Long-term exposure to both pollutants is linked to asthma, heart and lung disease and premature death.) The agency will instead estimate -only- the cost to businesses. Per reporting from NYTimes, who obtained internal documents of the plans, βThe change could make it easier to repeal limits on these pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country, the emails and documents show. That would most likely lower costs for companies while resulting in dirtier air.β
Choose Life? Protect Life? Nah, profit is everything
#EPA #Profiteering #Environment #Pollution
Truly Awful. Temps right now (43C = 109F) in Australia & New Zealand have killed Flying Foxes in the thousands. That's on top of 20K+ of these lovely "sky puppies" that died in last April's heatwave, especially nursing moms & pups.
#ClimateChange #Australia
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you read ONE THING about #AI and the #AIBubble and its impact on jobs, creators and artists, then read #CoryDoctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) 's speech where he calls out the dangers and delusions behind it all.
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Why #Venezuela isn't about DRUGS or DICTATORS and the attack is NOT now and never has been A RESCUE. It's PIRACY. The chief pirate is #Trump and the booty is #OIL.
youtube.com/shorts/QNuZM...
I feel like I havenβt even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
Leftover pizza is MAGIC: The fridge turns BAD carbs into FIBER. So what if it tastes like cheese on cardboard? It's kind of HEALTHIER-ISH!
#Pizza #nutrition
www.scientificamerican.com/video/why-le...
FAFO: Vote for the "Leopard that eats faces" party & don't be surprised when it EATS YOUR FACE. Honestly, I FEEL for this guy. NO ONE should be deported for what their PARENTS decided when they were FOUR YEARS OLD.
#Immigration #DACA @parkroseperma.bsky.social
heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01/r...
ABSOLUTELY GENIUS: This dude figured out how to make a #Commodore64 sound like a pipe organ.
In his words: "I had an epiphany: Organ pipes produce very simple waveforms, much like 8-bit chips β... [I just added a spring reverb tank to mimic] a church organ."
www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/
#DragonTuesday
Fractal Dragon
#AIγ€γ©γΉγ #aiart #synthart #sci-fi #dragon #fractal
Woot! Federal court just threw out Texas's blatantly racist and suck-up "anything you want Daddy Donald" voting maps. CHEATERS LOSE - DEMOCRACY WINS.
#gerrymandering #Texas #GregAbbot
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
Zero evidence of sick South American cows infecting American herds much less ones brought by immigrants
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
3D cartoon of Mexican man pulling a six cow over a high border fence, the cow has a haze of green sickness around it and dripping off its tongue. The caption reads "Sec. Bessent's Excuse for Trump's HIGH BEEF Prices" and underneath "It's all those sick cows illegals are bringing (not tariffs)"
Trump's multi-millionaire Treasure Secretary (a #PeterThiel money manager) went on talk shows and tried a laughable excuse for high beef prices (totally debunked in link in comments).
(Image by me)
Night sky dominated by a large glowing red plume of light over a green glowing streak of an aurora plus a few stars.
The news said an aurora was visible tonight even in Chicago. So, I went chasing it here in the NW 'burbs. Here's my shot away from house lights as best as I could get.
#Aurora #Chicago #ChicagoLand
Bas relief stone carving of mermaids embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks
Bas relief stone carving of angles embracing
Bas relief stone carving of angels embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks
Bas relief stone carving of mermaids embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks
Embracing Angels/Mermaids
#AIArt by @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy using #artspace
Partial prompt:
Abstract shallow bas relief cracked granite tile, carving of the upper bodies of two beautiful female [angels|mermaids] embracing, [wings|tails] visible, one European and one African
yes
