@ChrisMayLA6 except, there's no such thing as unskilled labour. All labour requires a level of skill.

@viticci business is hard, especially small businesses. I don’t begrudge anyone who has to make hard choices to keep their business afloat. And TBH posting on X doesn’t seem like a hard business choice to me, it’s the logical next step for MS seeing as that’s where the AI community reside.

Ironically, all you’ll get on here is hate.

@sebsauvage Salut Marylou, ton rendez-vous avec le docteur s'est bien passé ?

jacobin.social is a fully customized #Bonfire #ActivityPub server we built with Jacobin.de. It reflects Jacobin’s visual identity and lets readers interact with articles and authors according to their membership tier and much more...

Jacobin explains the thinking behind the project here:
jacobin.de/social/

And here’s our case study, which may be useful for your research:
bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

happy to share more about it 😊

Decided to take a different walk before heading to town for some errands. #mochislifeishard #mastodogs #dogsofmastodon #dogs

Winged musician riding a leopard. Anjou Bible, Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 307v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.

Avez vous déjà vu...

Des billes de roulement d'éoliennes !!!

@gwilymgj

A lot of poor Americans seem to find it easy to think in terms of luck but Americans who are above poverty and below actual middle class (I.e. the Americans who only think they’re middle class) are terrible at it.

@pluralistic

Access to water under Israeli apartheid. Imagine making fun of it.

@pluralistic “Theory-free inference works well, but it fails badly.”
And the incredible run of perfectly formulated statements that capture the state of things continues

"The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses billions of times more computing power and energy..."

Like I've been saying: Even the things AI can do can almost always* be done as well or better with many orders of magnitude less resources & without enriching fascist billionaires.
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*look at stats of what people use AI for, it's fucking ridiculous

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/world-historic-forces/#multicore

#AI @pluralistic

@eivind Tror de tenker på bandet til Zappa ("out of necessity, we became the Mothers of Invention").

@pallenberg Geht das als Reihenleichenhaus durch? 🤔😮🤪

No estoy muy parlanchín por aquí estos días, andaba en otras cosas (me puse a escribir una enorme entrada en el blog y el navegador se me colgó antes de haber guardado nada, así que me fui a dar una vuelta por el mundo: esas cosas...)

Bueno, ahora estaba preparando un tema sobre el sentido del universo y tenía la frase de (des)motivación: ¿Quienes somos de donde venimos, a donde vamos?.

El tipo cultureta en mí piensa en el cuadro de Paul Gauguin, aunque su pregunta es "D'où venons nous? Que sommes nous? Où allons nous?"

Pero el cuerpo me recuerda a Siniestro Total. Ganan por goleada con su reflexión filosóficoastronómica... Creo que ellos serán la base de mi análisis cosmológico de la semana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEnuQCEeiE

https://tbsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3mtjtziax5s2w

Activists from Standing Together and A Land For All unfurled a massive banner in the center of one of Tel Aviv’s largest malls, Dizengooff Center, with the words “one day, a Palestinian state will be established and there will be peace” on it. (1/5)

We need to say it loud and clear: Two peoples live on this land, and neither is going anywhere.

We all deserve a future of independence, safety, and real peace. (2/5)

What we seek is a just, lasting peace that enables an independent Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel, with confederative institutions and in the model of two states in a shared homeland. (3/5)

Everyone here should have sovereignty and self-determination, and our future must be built on Jewish-Palestinian partnership.

Safety and independence for Jews and Palestinians must exist alongside partnership, solidarity, and shared institutions. (4/5)

But this future won’t just materialize.

It will become a reality when we get organized, build real power, and actually make it happen.

Because the future we want depends on us, the people living on this land. (5/5)

#standingTogether #aLandForAll #palestine #israel

@nitot énorme nostalgie ! Il parait que le processeur 6502 a été utilisé dans les automobiles à une époque.

Je viens de recevoir un email :
Apparemment je m'appelle Marylou et je viens de faire une télé-consultation avec le docteur KOCHKARIAN.

2026 ça va trop vite pour moi.

One of the 'legitimate concerns' about immigration is that foreign nationals are 'taking our jobs';

but actually what is mostly happening is that skilled immigrants are replacing skilled emigrants; skilled younger workers are leaving & their 'places' are being taken by skilled immigrants.

Of course, many unskilled jobs are also being taken by migrants, but the key issue isn't really the level(s) of migration but the range & type of jobs that are on offer in the UK!

#workers #politics
h/t FT