Lauowolf
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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Lovely day in the watershed for my epic south end vs north end battle.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Lovely day in the watershed for my epic south end vs north end battle.
🌊🌊🏈
🌊🌊🏈
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You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
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Honestly if we funded silliness instead of STEM we’d all be better for it. Get those kids into pratfalls and goofs.
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Honestly if we funded silliness instead of STEM we’d all be better for it. Get those kids into pratfalls and goofs.
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One of two chambered tombs near Newton Stewart, Galloway - this is Cairnholy I.
Tombs for ancestors were important to farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period, 6000- 4000 years ago.
A curving facade of standing stones fronts the tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Tombs for ancestors were important to farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period, 6000- 4000 years ago.
A curving facade of standing stones fronts the tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology
📸 my own.
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One of two chambered tombs near Newton Stewart, Galloway - this is Cairnholy I.
Tombs for ancestors were important to farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period, 6000- 4000 years ago.
A curving facade of standing stones fronts the tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Tombs for ancestors were important to farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period, 6000- 4000 years ago.
A curving facade of standing stones fronts the tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology
📸 my own.
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Old Bay Crab Seasoning was invented by a Jewish immigrant.
*That* is what made America great.
*That* is what made America great.
This is a fun holiday read. Who made Rudolph happen? A Jewish copy writer; his Jewish composer brother-in-law; the BIL’s neighbor who happened to be Arthur Rankin; and a Japanese animator who had pioneered new stop motion techniques. Now that’s an American Christmas
The Magical Animation of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Old Bay Crab Seasoning was invented by a Jewish immigrant.
*That* is what made America great.
*That* is what made America great.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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78% funded with 5 more days to go! This is going to be REALLY cool!
Support African animation!
Support African animation!
Only 5 more days left to pledge! bit.ly/croc-dance-ks
Crocodile Dance is a 2D/3D African animated thriller about a cursed musician who must confront a water goddess (Mami Wata) to reclaim her power.
#Kickstarter #animatedfilm #crocodiledance #afrofuturism #africanfuturism #africananimation
Crocodile Dance is a 2D/3D African animated thriller about a cursed musician who must confront a water goddess (Mami Wata) to reclaim her power.
#Kickstarter #animatedfilm #crocodiledance #afrofuturism #africanfuturism #africananimation
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
78% funded with 5 more days to go! This is going to be REALLY cool!
Support African animation!
Support African animation!
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If you use AI to discuss my books with you, please know that my books and all the characters in them hate you.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you use AI to discuss my books with you, please know that my books and all the characters in them hate you.
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Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
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Things like this are also helpful - vets are often expensive & most of us can’t afford to take our cats for every (little) problem. But I wanted to know how to differentiate as best I could what demanded a vet visit versus what I could manage if I understood her problem well.
Things like this :
Things like this :
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Things like this are also helpful - vets are often expensive & most of us can’t afford to take our cats for every (little) problem. But I wanted to know how to differentiate as best I could what demanded a vet visit versus what I could manage if I understood her problem well.
Things like this :
Things like this :
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This means we have to learn to see it when it's unsaid. It takes practice.
Don't feel bad about the dog video. Someone manipulated you. Shame on THEM, but learn from it for next time.
And I'll go touch snow if you will.
Don't feel bad about the dog video. Someone manipulated you. Shame on THEM, but learn from it for next time.
And I'll go touch snow if you will.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This means we have to learn to see it when it's unsaid. It takes practice.
Don't feel bad about the dog video. Someone manipulated you. Shame on THEM, but learn from it for next time.
And I'll go touch snow if you will.
Don't feel bad about the dog video. Someone manipulated you. Shame on THEM, but learn from it for next time.
And I'll go touch snow if you will.
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Somebody who's up front about their motivations being like "this is my background and my point of view, and this is what I, as the sort of person I am, advise" is a thing we're seeing less and less of and that's unfortunate. The media has been trained to hide bias but they still have it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Somebody who's up front about their motivations being like "this is my background and my point of view, and this is what I, as the sort of person I am, advise" is a thing we're seeing less and less of and that's unfortunate. The media has been trained to hide bias but they still have it.
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My entire generation is going to cut apart can rings as our last act on this earth. It's 2075, senility has set in but dammit if can rings exist we'll remember not to strangle shorebirds.
That's the result of propaganda and it's fine.
Question is: what is being asked of me and am I ok with it?
That's the result of propaganda and it's fine.
Question is: what is being asked of me and am I ok with it?
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My entire generation is going to cut apart can rings as our last act on this earth. It's 2075, senility has set in but dammit if can rings exist we'll remember not to strangle shorebirds.
That's the result of propaganda and it's fine.
Question is: what is being asked of me and am I ok with it?
That's the result of propaganda and it's fine.
Question is: what is being asked of me and am I ok with it?
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Which brings me to propaganda in general. Which sounds like a nasty word, but it isn't, always. Propaganda is information provided with the intent to change belief or behavior. Which still sounds pretty scary but that includes Smokey the bear telling you not to start forest fires.
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Which brings me to propaganda in general. Which sounds like a nasty word, but it isn't, always. Propaganda is information provided with the intent to change belief or behavior. Which still sounds pretty scary but that includes Smokey the bear telling you not to start forest fires.
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Does it matter?
Not directly, in this case. Probably not. But it's training you to see five lights.
The problem is lying about the framing. A work of fiction with a dog shelter that worked this way would have been fine. Telling you it's real isn't benign.
Not directly, in this case. Probably not. But it's training you to see five lights.
The problem is lying about the framing. A work of fiction with a dog shelter that worked this way would have been fine. Telling you it's real isn't benign.
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Does it matter?
Not directly, in this case. Probably not. But it's training you to see five lights.
The problem is lying about the framing. A work of fiction with a dog shelter that worked this way would have been fine. Telling you it's real isn't benign.
Not directly, in this case. Probably not. But it's training you to see five lights.
The problem is lying about the framing. A work of fiction with a dog shelter that worked this way would have been fine. Telling you it's real isn't benign.
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In the case of ai, it's not that good yet and even if someone's cleaned it up, they miss things. Think about what you know. Look at the background. Are there chairs floating or that have three legs? Do the windows on a building match? Do you have subject area knowledge- does that car even exist?
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In the case of ai, it's not that good yet and even if someone's cleaned it up, they miss things. Think about what you know. Look at the background. Are there chairs floating or that have three legs? Do the windows on a building match? Do you have subject area knowledge- does that car even exist?
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If you'te stretched too thin to pay attention, you're vulnerable. If someone slides something subtle into your awareness, you won't notice.
Does it matter? It might not, in the short term, but gosh darn it you want to be able to stay in a state of mind to know when you are being lied to.
Does it matter? It might not, in the short term, but gosh darn it you want to be able to stay in a state of mind to know when you are being lied to.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you'te stretched too thin to pay attention, you're vulnerable. If someone slides something subtle into your awareness, you won't notice.
Does it matter? It might not, in the short term, but gosh darn it you want to be able to stay in a state of mind to know when you are being lied to.
Does it matter? It might not, in the short term, but gosh darn it you want to be able to stay in a state of mind to know when you are being lied to.
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One of my best pieces of advice is counter intuitive but if you're scrolling tiredly on your phone at the end of the day, maybe don't?
It's not really the break your mind needs at that point. Lately i've been making myself actually go to bed when I'm too tired to read. It's been helping.
It's not really the break your mind needs at that point. Lately i've been making myself actually go to bed when I'm too tired to read. It's been helping.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One of my best pieces of advice is counter intuitive but if you're scrolling tiredly on your phone at the end of the day, maybe don't?
It's not really the break your mind needs at that point. Lately i've been making myself actually go to bed when I'm too tired to read. It's been helping.
It's not really the break your mind needs at that point. Lately i've been making myself actually go to bed when I'm too tired to read. It's been helping.
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Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
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All while insisting they're "just asking questions" or "maintaining neutrality.
They're not doing either, and I'm not okay with any of it.
They're not doing either, and I'm not okay with any of it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
All while insisting they're "just asking questions" or "maintaining neutrality.
They're not doing either, and I'm not okay with any of it.
They're not doing either, and I'm not okay with any of it.
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Which is the question: whether it's ai or not.
Newspapers have been encouraging us to support Trump, view AI as inevitable, entertain the possibility that trans people don't belong in public life, consider Christisnity the national religion, and think of Spanish speakers as foreign...
Newspapers have been encouraging us to support Trump, view AI as inevitable, entertain the possibility that trans people don't belong in public life, consider Christisnity the national religion, and think of Spanish speakers as foreign...
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Which is the question: whether it's ai or not.
Newspapers have been encouraging us to support Trump, view AI as inevitable, entertain the possibility that trans people don't belong in public life, consider Christisnity the national religion, and think of Spanish speakers as foreign...
Newspapers have been encouraging us to support Trump, view AI as inevitable, entertain the possibility that trans people don't belong in public life, consider Christisnity the national religion, and think of Spanish speakers as foreign...
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if you also have ancestors who left Austria due to prosecution by the Nazis, the application process is here
it wasn’t that bad for us but my cousin had already done a ton of the legwork on getting documents related to my grandmother and having them apostilled
it wasn’t that bad for us but my cousin had already done a ton of the legwork on getting documents related to my grandmother and having them apostilled
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
if you also have ancestors who left Austria due to prosecution by the Nazis, the application process is here
it wasn’t that bad for us but my cousin had already done a ton of the legwork on getting documents related to my grandmother and having them apostilled
it wasn’t that bad for us but my cousin had already done a ton of the legwork on getting documents related to my grandmother and having them apostilled
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[on the set of Scarface]
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
[on the set of Scarface]
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT