@deadDuck AFAB demiboy, heel to butt
and I feel like doing it the other way would be actively unhelpful

wondering if it's an assigned gender thing

@HeptaSean Er schreibt sogar: "Die Lehre muss lauten: Nie wieder." und er meint damit das gleiche wie ich.

Germany aims to further reduce tourist visa issuance for Russian citizens due to the ongoing war. The German Foreign Office plans to coordinate more stringent entry controls and decreased visa volumes with European Union partners.

https://www.dw.com/ru/minimizirovat-riski-frg-hocet-ese-bolse-snizit-cislo-turviz-dla-grazdan-rf/a-78756884

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany

One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.

"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."

Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.

Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.

We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.

And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.

No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.

How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?

@jbz some creepy version of a Nazgûl ? a creepy charakter from The Labyrinth ? something creepy and confusing.

A Nebraska city voted to ban Flock cameras. The county wants to keep surveilling drivers anyway.

The City of Ord voted to remove Valley County-owned automatic license plate reader cameras after backlash from locals. The county has agreed to take down cameras in the city, but others across the county will stay – for now.

#ALPR #FlockCamera #Nebraska #OrdNebraska

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/a-nebraska-city-voted-to-ban-flock-cameras-the-county-wants-to-keep-surveilling-drivers-anyway/

"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’"

Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the creative power of uncertainty: https://t.co/hc5SIu1VKE

“ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy.’”

Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-medical-care-22384190.php

@fahrni let me upgrade to golden gate first then absolutely!!

you can send it to my first name at mac dot com. i don’t use that mail address for anything other than apple dev account now. but its still active.

Ayé,

I seriously want to do a round table on "how writing groups can support their neurodivergent members". If this sounds like a panel you'd like to be on. Reach out.

I just had a very rough experience and want to prevent it from happening to someone else.

💙📚

#SpoonieAuthChat #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic

Anarchist Library: **Rob los Ricos - Karl Marx was a Smart-Ass!**

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rob-los-ricos-karl-marx-was-a-smart-ass?v=1788334980

Author: Rob los RicosTitle: Karl Marx was a Smart-Ass!Date: 8/18/2026
Karl Marx spent a lifetime avoiding being caught up in a ‘working class’ lifestyle. To put it bluntly, he was a ‘work-shy boy.’
Was he as brilliant as many of his worshippers believe? Not at all, actually.
At the least, his characterization of what he

@mariellequinton That guy you described. He was sitting two rows before me on the plane!

I'm going to give you a sense of the breadth of the products on display in the store, but I'm honestly not even going to come close to covering it properly.

Let's start with this utterly terrifying 750W maiming machine.

THAT IS A 1HP IMMERSION BLENDER, FOLKS!

Perfect for all of your home improvement needs, right?

@fahrni it’s less impressive when you know i’ve been in business for 30 years.

it’s like 15 per day or something. i did have to toss out like 50,000 when probably opt in rules rolled out. so it would be maybe 20/day.

and the vast majority came in a couple big waves that peaked in 2012. i was rolling in dough for like two weeks in 2013. lol

Once the weather gets cooler, I'll be unstoppable. Unless it gets too cold, then I'll be stoppable again.

@stefano that person's loudly announced decision to defederate might be best taken with the context that they seem to be running an instance composed almost entirely of sock puppets.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong. maybe.

I wouldn't want to be the maintainer of the #Jekyll Minimal theme. There are hundreds of open and closed pull requests from people that adjust the theme for their own use-case but end up creating an accidental pull-request in the process 🫣 https://github.com/pages-themes/minimal/pulls