The week got going and ended with major Trump legal news, in Colorado and DC.
Here’s my big look at all of this — and where we’re going — at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-cases-courts-and-accountability
A new project I helped with! #AIArt and #Midjourney involved.
Because, unfortunately, their votes have more power in the Senate and Electoral College than most other people's!
Excellent punches!
"AI companies are implicitly betting that their customers will buy AI for highly consequential automation, fire workers, and cause physical, mental and economic harm to their own customers as a result, somehow escaping liability for these harms." 💢
What Kind of Bubble is AI?
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
What a CRAZY coincidence!!!
My foreseeable future between now and September going to be reading very sincere replies asking if we're aware that this logo looks like a cock and balls https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/111618907852811289
I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj
I'll settle for desecrating his corpse.
What do you think of Dead Kissingers as band name, and what kind band would it be?
#quote #anthonybourdain #kissinger #henrykissinger #deadkissingers
Trump is taking aim at Taylor Swift
Let’s break it down:
TayTay:
A billionaire with a mobile economic booster on wheels
12 Grammys
Time’s person of the year
Prompted tens of thousands of young voters to register
Trump:
Lost money owning *casinos*
Defrauded students with “university”
Ran an airline into the ground
Faces 91 charges including trying to overturn a free and fair election
Sold our nation’s highest secrets (possibly lost money on it)
Stole from charity
been thinking about my approach to saying critical things about open source projects
I'm always trying to balance 2 things:
1. I want other users to know that if they're struggling, it's not because they're dumb. There are real problems.
2. I don't want to downplay the work people are doing to make it better.
this has been coming up a lot with Nix, which I find useful but incredibly difficult to use
(no advice please, but curious to hear what your personal approach to this is)
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Bird of the Day — Hermit Thrush, Kansas 2017
Skeptical
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #FlyoverCountry #Thrush
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