@swte
Noise, cats, naps. Portland community radio DJ, noisemaker maker, and man lurking about town. katheudo elsewhere https://www.FreeformPortland.org https://spinitron.com/KFFP/show/276909/The-Great-Pain-of-Space https://swte.bandcamp.com/
But this is the essential difference between us and them.
We see 20 strangers and think "oh good, mostly normal people" they think "oh shit! Stranger danger" and the more strangers the worse they think it is when exactly the opposite is true.
They're just afraid of everyone.
Maybe Cymbaline, probably Echoes
The inverse of the U2 album was when iTunes switched over to Apple Music and if you didn’t have your settings right it automatically uploaded your entire library to iCloud and converted it to mp4s. Absolute nightmare.
Believe it!
This is the root cause of Dem's ineffectiveness: being beholden to corporate interests that enjoy the spoils of the status quo.
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
By moving right on immigration & other key issues, and generally coming off as incompetent (esp on cost of living), UK Labour is losing vote share to left-wing parties AND to right-leaning ones. This is what happens when a party appeases its opponents & loses its core identity.
“We already stole it”
A tall shot glass containing dozens of cat whiskers
Reminder that you will never regret collecting your cats’ shed whiskers and keeping them in a little jar or shot glass. This is easily the most magical item in my home.
Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:
Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality.
Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.
I am looking for 12k friends :)
Why not just uh disallow blocking the mods
New and newish stuff from Monolith, Amanati, Out of Place Artefacts, Mansur, Kinzua, Special Guest DJ, Chimehours, and a grip of other fine tunes.
Pretty happy with how last night’s episode of “The Great Pain of Space” turned out. Started with atmospheric/psychedelic techno and bass music, and made my way into ambient drones and folky sounds by the end. Have a listen!
spinitron.com/KFFP/pl/2206...
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK WHEN ERIC PASSES BY… NANCY: HI ERIC ERIC:FELICITATIONS SLUGGO LOOKS TOTALLY DISGUSTED
NANCY PANEL BY
ERNIE BUSHMILLER
https://www.tiktok.com/@ah_y2213/video/7610066316413734151
THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March
This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.
But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.
To reconsider a fundamental of American history, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not an act of war, but merely a strategic strike. It needs to no longer live in infamy, perhaps.
you want to save the world and go to college you can join the peace corps
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.
The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.
ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you
What if all those years of life were not just an investment in capital growth but were actually the entire point of all of it, what then.
Okay so the thing about humans requiring energy and resources to grow & learn is that that is good & fine because we are humans and it's good to be human whereas computers that cannot do math but can tell children to kill themselves after generating CSAM of said children are not human, and are bad
