Friendlyneighborhoodmenace - Gamma

hey do you remember that time you talked about those Silicon Valley freaks who want to genetically rewrite animals and humanity via AI? unfortunately it looks like a research lab was just founded for this exact purpose and is being funded by a former Google exec, it's called "Future House" and its goal is to "build an AI scientist" by performing LLM-generated "experiments" on living organisms (they have a wet lab), they also call biology a "playground". literally a giant nightmare in the making

Their mission statement includes somehow drawing comparisons to video games, like Minecraft so I get the strong feeling almost nobody involved is a real biologist of any actual integrity or legitimate experience and odds are exceptionally high that perhaps whatever they try to make will destroy them all or otherwise just be so irresponsible and terrible they'll all end up destitute or in prison. I'm willing to bet they'll attempt some pretty unethical things before they get any comeuppance, though, like Elon Musks's fucking monkey brain experiments. :(

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space* at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

*yes sorry i mean usage i posted this before bed :( i do not mean the hard drive is full aaaaghhhh

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

We're so back

Research

man made horrors beyond our comprehension

Palestinians' life-line is a tiny rectangle

Palestinians' life-line is a tiny rectangle because the world couldn't give less of a fuck about them.

Let that sink in.

They have to record every single moment of this massacre. Or it didn't happen.

They have to record themselves holding their dead children. Or it didn't happen.

They have to record themselves crying in despair. Or it didn't happen.

They have to record rescuing children from underneath rubble. Or it didn't happen.

They have to record the countless wounded and dead. Or it didn't happen.

They have to record speaking while surrounded by the body bags of people they know while microphones are pushed in their faces. Or it didn't happen.

They have to do this every single second for 19 days. They have had to do this even before the 7th. There is a 2014 video of a man killed by an airstrike on camera.

Their life-line is their fucking phones.

You have all reduced their lives to their fucking phones.

AND DESPITE ALL OF THAT, US-of-fucking-A Biden, and all you other brain-dead fucks still have the gal to question the amount of casualties.

You have reduced them to a rectangle in their hands and that still isn't enough??? You're all sick. SICK.

one must imagine sisyphus actually pretty miserable. because he has to roll a huge rock up a hill over and over and that sounds like it would get old fast. i dont know why you would imagine him happy

You must believe that the world is going to change. You must believe that you can change it. Not alone, like some ruggedly individualist caped superhero, but as part of a mass movement, a superorganism, a shared heart, a moment of unity. You must trust that your actions matter, even when they don’t. You must remember that even if going to a protest or opening your doors to the desperate or giving up hyperpconsumption cannot alter the wider societal patterns if only you undertake to do so, that you are just one drop of water in an ocean. And it will change you. That is often the first step. You must believe that one day all the fossils will stay in the ground. You must believe that one day war will be a distant memory. You must believe that one day women will dance in the streets at night unafraid. You must believe that one day land will belong to everyone and queer liberation will be achieved. You must believe it. Even if your great-grandchildren do not live to see it done. Prefiguration is praxis. It’s therapy. It’s all we have.