It’s weird that my phone redirects me to that while I can post normally on my desktop.

Stellantis going bankrupt: I

Stellantis executives being fed molten gold until their greed is satiated: I

I like Twain’s work a lot. He became really radical in his later years: https://socialistworker.org/2010/04/21/the-twain-they-didnt-teach

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

• Mark Twain

Imagine pulling up to a red light, checking your GPS for directions, and suddenly, the entire screen is hijacked by an ad. That’s the reality for some Stellantis owners. Instead of seamless functionality, drivers are now forced to manually close out of ads just to access basic vehicle functions.

Sampling bias. You could say the DC crash was a direct consequence of politics- an understaffed tower with one ATC controlling both helicopters and planes. The Pennsylvania one seems like it was just pilot disorientation and this one occurred while landing, the most dangerous point in a flight with like 50% of accidents occurring then. I don’t see any FAA underfunding connection with those.

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Or not? It isn’t wrong to be homosexual. It’s wrong to be a fascist.

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CosmicTurtle0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Someone Photoshop this picture to show Trump jerking off two men.

Dealers choice as to their race.

mom never lets me play Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. I’ve beaten Environmental Plant Physiology so many times and even got 100% on soil pH challenge mode.

That’s a pretty generic closure. They sent similar messages during the moderator protests as they went public. Protesting subreddits were temporarily closed and the mods were swapped out for controlled ones.

I was looking at Colorado’s top three import/export countries.

Top import markets:

1. Canada

2. Mexico

3. China

Top export markets:

1. Mexico

2. Canada

3. China

mfw I starve to death

Cargo ships are your cheapest paid option. I’ve yet to do it, but contact the shipping companies and see what their passenger policies are. There are also shipping agents who coordinate with those companies as intermediates.

There’s also the potential of crewing a small boat if you have any skills or show them you want to learn fast. I did a lot of sailing around Panama just by sitting in a marina at either side of the canal and chatting with people who are about to sail somewhere. The work was either poorly paid ($50-100 per day) or free in exchange for a bed and food. For transatlantic/transpacific sailing though, I don’t know if you’re going to find as many yachters as I did who were just sailing in the Caribbean. That’s also a fun option if you want to build those skills since they need a certain number of crew to even transit the canal and they’re all going somewhere after.

edit: And for the latter you’ll also have luck on boater forums. I can’t remember which I used, but there was a designated subforum where people would post if they have or want crew work specifically for linehandling.

It still makes mistakes with basic Physics 101 questions, but so far it’s the only LLM I’ve used which gets it right 80%~ of the time instead of 30%~ with ChatGPT or Google.

Yeah but he ended the holocaust. How can liberals ever forgive him?

“But you didn’t” is such a powerful idea in art. The only reason European artists aren’t stuck in strict biblical representation with church-approved colours is that people pushed boundaries. The modernists rejected boundaries altogether and embraced pure creativity to such a degree that their own audience couldn’t recognise it as art. I’ve seen that same Malevich painting in the MoMA and that’s revolution. That’s a communist rebelling against centuries of only realistic paintings of idyllic landscapes and aristocratic portraits being taken seriously. He’s saying a red square is art for the sake of creative expression, an idea that would mature into “common people are alienated from art which is restrained to a professional class. Everyone should be entitled to its production and consumption” with proletarian art. He destroyed the idea of subject as a model of patronage as much as he did as a creative restraint.

Art should do that. It shouldn’t just have a message, but a call to some greater action that enables better art. We wouldn’t have modern music without Wagner violating the tonic as the most sacred principle of European music. Modern music, and especially classical music, is fucking beautiful in completely new ways because someone had the courage to reject centuries of what Serious Adults said was beautiful.

I use two definitions for the two broad intellectual trends in art over the past century:

Robert Hughes on modernism- “the shock of the new”

David Harvey on postmodernism- “The reduction of experience to a series of pure and unrelated presents”

AI fundamentally can’t create modernist art because it recombines what already exists into a crude 3rd stage simulacrum. You’ll never see genuine brilliance from how we understand AI. It’s incapable of creating a new perspective, new consonance out of dissonance, or a societal transformation through art. If the world is a shared historical trajectory where we’re discovering the same common thing, AI doesn’t participate in that. It has no investment in the nature worship of art nouveau or the class politics of constructivism or the physics of cubism. It can’t overcome the 1936 standard of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction when he was only describing crude printing presses.

AI can create postmodern art but only because postmodernism is ideologically, historically, and financially flattened into artists as bourgeois bloggers. If the world is nothing but commodified individual commentary in a marketplace of ideas with the most valuable commentary coming from wealthy failchildren, AI is a wealthy failchild that can also regurgitate what it learned from scraping art school data while still staying tailored to market preferences.

I don’t personally value the latter or see it as anything more than a counterrevolution against the future we lost in the mid-20th century. There’s no reason I’d ever pay for an AI image if I can generate a more personally-tailored version instantly for free using the same IP it recombined to shit out. It’s inherently Thomas Kinkade kitsch but somehow less valuable because they don’t even pretend to involve creative labour in it.

Using the same logic, I’d be perfectly happy if the deep south seceded and drowned in their own hubris. They’re federal tax drains that ideologically conflict with basic human decency. I’d build the wall around those states myself if it paid a living wage. It isn’t my choice in a vacuum though. For every action there’s at least an equal and opposite reaction. The states that otherwise benefit from access to the Colorado River all need that water and have a more valid claim to it. I know those same Colorado reactionaries who think California is a liberal-socialist hellhole and they’d vote for anyone who wants to impose the strictest response to Californian sovereignty. Any reactionary politician in those purple/red states will immediately seize on it as the largest opportunity to enshrine themselves to every agribusiness/real estate donor in the region.

The cliche of the 21st century is that our grandchildren will die in the water wars. That’s what a water war looks like and California’s water access is split between its own north and south. They lack unity if 60%~ of the southern half of the state’s water supply has any kind of even hypothetical risk.

According to available information, around 15% of California’s water supply comes from the Colorado River, with the majority of this water being used in Southern California where it can account for over 60% of their water supply

I don’t see Calexit happening based on water law alone. They risk forfeiting their allocated paper water or having to renegotiate those treaties with a hostile US when the market price was set during a 19th century historical wet period.

I’d be so embarrassed to drive a swasticar in 2025.

Unlimited F-35s and V-22s on the US military.