It’s easy to meet people at events like disc golf leagues or board game meetups or whatever but I live in an apartment complex so I’m sure there’s a few dozen people here my age that will dab and play video games and we don’t have to drive 20 minutes to make that happen but how would one sus these people out should I put...
College is such a tease before the “real world” drives you to be as isolated and atomized as possible. There’s a part of my soul that desperately wants to prop my dorm room door open again so people can just come hang out or play Melee or whatever
Bluesky was announced in late 2019 by then-Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey to develop a decentralized standard for social media and has grown to have over 3 million users.
Development activity had slowed to a trickle, and the project owner and lead developer is now stepping away. The flagship instance, firefish.social, doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It looks like many Firefish instances are planning on migrating to other Misskey forks like Sharkey....
From the grifters, to the chanlord fascists, to the pedophiles, to the people whose only crime is just being too cringe, the community is a toxic morass that is completely unsalvageable. And the creepiest part is how it’s all just beneath the surface, hidden in plain site. For example, if one browses checkpoints on civitai...
It really is a fascinating technology, and the deeper you get into manipulating it step-by-step, the more impressive it is that any of this stuff actually works. There are the super complex ComfyUI setups with conditioning and segmenting and other stuff I don’t understand, and then there’s the new turbo models that can give you a new wacky image as fast as you can type. It’s the craziest toy I’ve ever seen, a hallucinating computer with a whole patchboard full of dials and plugs and cables hidden behind a panel with a giant “make a picture” button that lets you see what you convinced it to dream about.
And then almost everything about the way it’s actually used is depressing as hell
Going to the grocery store be like (hexbear.net)
Am I wrong though 2 (hexbear.net)
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John Barnett didn't kill himself. (youtu.be)
I don't know how to meet local people
It’s easy to meet people at events like disc golf leagues or board game meetups or whatever but I live in an apartment complex so I’m sure there’s a few dozen people here my age that will dab and play video games and we don’t have to drive 20 minutes to make that happen but how would one sus these people out should I put...
ELON MUSK v SAM ALTMAN/OPENAI (www.courthousenews.com)
Musk is suing OpenAI. Musk’s legal teams’ argument in two premises is:...
Kid Rock advocates for killing "30,000 - 40,000 civilians at a time" if Israel don't get their hostages back. (vxtwitter.com)
Death to this guy in particular
Bluesky is finally open to the public - no invite needed (www.zdnet.com)
Bluesky was announced in late 2019 by then-Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey to develop a decentralized standard for social media and has grown to have over 3 million users.
RIP in peace, Firefish/Calckey (git.joinfirefish.org)
Development activity had slowed to a trickle, and the project owner and lead developer is now stepping away. The flagship instance, firefish.social, doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It looks like many Firefish instances are planning on migrating to other Misskey forks like Sharkey....
After playing with stable diffusion for a week, these are my conclusions. First of all, 90% of the stable diffusion community should be gulaged, at least. [CW: mentions of pedo shit]
From the grifters, to the chanlord fascists, to the pedophiles, to the people whose only crime is just being too cringe, the community is a toxic morass that is completely unsalvageable. And the creepiest part is how it’s all just beneath the surface, hidden in plain site. For example, if one browses checkpoints on civitai...
Magical thinking (hexbear.net)
Just wow....