When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

this is what we commemorate and honor on this day, october 14

i just can’t think of anything else we should be commemorating today!

i'm sure if everyone was visible to me at all times all the work would be of higher quality, how else can you build trust

uncomfortable seeing pro-AI people developing persecution complexes; the entire material economy and tech sector is lined up to benefit you at the exclusion of people who feel moral qualms about these things, and you want, what, everyone to just bow at your feet?

i've never seen anybody float into the sky after eating cheese but i'm just saying it's not impossible

being a trans woman on the internet means making peace with the inevitability of being hot allostatic loaded eventually and i feel a way about it

drainpuppet saved my life dude i had no idea any of this was going on, i just... being trans on the internet is really something

jfc i haven't kept up but madi's music has been super important to me in the past, sucks she had to deal with this

Authors shouldn’t need day jobs

thinking about this in the context of the popular "do not hallucinate" prompt add-on

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

if anyone's hiring remote senior/staff eng, let me know

my cv's over here: tef.computer

Good tip SMWC. I really took your advice on this one.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

see i'm with you except that it's also worse than useless for code. i feel exactly this same way about using it for code, and as someone who is also a creative it makes me sad to see codes used as an opening concession like this.

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

What if gem hosts had NPM-like scopes & your Gemfile could be:

source "https://gem.example"
gem "@duckinator/jim"

OR:

gem "https://gem.example/duckinator/jim"

... what if a PoC patch was 25 lines, and a 1-line kludge meant you can test it against a production server?

github.com/gem-coop/gem...

there is a Japanese saying:

I make fuck ups all the time and I always post my corrections or apologies to people instead of doubling down, and this might surprise you.

Turns out people respond positively to that, it's almost like a sign of accountability and growth as well as genuine proof you don't think you're infallible.