🐲​​Friday ACAB🐉 @dragonmagic@computerfairi.es

It's just disheartening to see people patronizing artists who don't want to, how they tell us, adapt to AI art.

No, we want to DO art, we actively want to do art. We don't want a computer to do all those creative steps for us. It's a really shitty vision of the future.

And we won't sit still while big corporations want to redefine what art is. This is not comparable to the invention of photography or art programs or 3D animation - those opened up more creative directions for artists.

Hey. My family hasn't eaten in 48 hours again and we're trying to get anything we can. #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

We are completely broke, sick and behind on bills as is with nothing to eat. Simply put, we didn't get paid last month and it doesn't seem like we will.

Anything helps. Thank you for reading. 💞 #MoneyRequest #Help #Emergency #EmergencyCrowdFund @mutualaid

PayPal - npjasek@proton.me

Ordering checks for the first time in like 15 years and noticed you can get a little icon printed on them and the selection is like a massive weird clipart archive from 1996 im losing my mind

How long does it take to get infected with #COVID19?

STUDY calculated “an indoor air model for calculating the time needed for a susceptible person to inhale one infectious dose when being in the same room as the infectious person. This time can be as short as 6 min when a highly infectious individual enters the room or only 1 min if the infected person already has been in the room long enough to reach steady-state concentration of viruses in the air.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47829-8

Periodic reminder to use the Library Extension if you want to see what books are available at your local library / libraries - not only using sites like GoodReads but also if you find yourself Amazon'ing.

This is not an ad, just a PSA for to help rekindle relationships with libraries and save

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Edit to add: you do not need to enter any data / library card info. It uses public search for whatever library you choose.

https://www.libraryextension.com

Cross Posting this from Cohost

One of the most mangled phrases on this modern internet of ours is the phrase "accountability." It's often weaponized by community internal culture warriors who refuse to acknowledge that growth, development, and change are a thing a person does (or worse, that these things don't matter), that people are frozen in time and solely a product of their mistakes.

This has gotten so bad that this phrase has become a red flag.

The phrase accountability was originally meant to be akin to paying off debts and squaring away accounts. To that end, there is an end state that needs to be respected by all parties. While people aren't fully required to forget their mistakes or trust them again, acting like they "weren't held accountable" is blatantly wrong provided the offense isn't still happening and the agreed terms were met.

The idea that mistakes are permanent and personal growth is irrelevant doesn't serve to hold people accountable, it paradoxically tells them that accountability doesn't matter since even if they do end up doing better or changing as a person that this mistake will permanently haunt them no matter how different of a person they are now. If that's the case, why bother changing at all, and to that matter, what does accountability look like when literally no measures are considered good enough.

If we use the metaphor of "settling accounts and paying off debts" (which is where the phrase accountability comes from) then this is the moral equivalent of loansharking and putting people in a debt trap. They don't want accountability, they want a sense of power and control over people they see as threats, so they use the social equivalent of organized crime tactics to do so.

Title: Imaibashi in Late Autumn (1939)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/13/a-city-built-on-water-the-hidden-rivers-under-tokyos-concrete-and-neon #KasamatsuShiro #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #Autumn #Tokyo #Chiba #Edogawa #Japan