i should be gripping rat
Controlling women’s bodies is how they control women. The best way to fight it is to remind all the people in our lives that all body shapes are beautiful, and weight is not an accurate indicator of health. Spread the word, and the skinnytok message loses its power.
this is fucking me up. that is MY Speaker of the House. I’ve been getting her legislative update emails for years. I have never voted for her specifically on a ballot, but i’ve been voting for her team for over a decade now. She guided MN to passing all those amazing measures during the 2021-2022 session, stuff like universal free school lunches, state-mandated sick-and-safe work leave, and legalized cannabis. The kinda shit that gives me hope in local and state politics as an antidote for our national sickness. The DFL’s recent work was undoubtedly a group effort, and our state has many great leaders (like Tim Walz) that were necessary to see it through. But Hortman has been such a force, and I wonder if the DFL would have been nearly as productive in those two years without her at the wheel. I barely knew who she was as a person, but I am grieving this loss today.
The suspect left behind a fake police vehicle when he fled on foot.
PM’d! this is a good crew, i’m sure we can pull together enough mutual aid for an emergency rideshare.
And if not…just steal a cop car, put it to good use actually serving the public good 
this is really wild. we live in an era where a cyberattack can break the food supply chain. I hate how dependent I am on grocery stores, but also i don’t really like or have time for any of the alternative solutions.
Midjourney is a product that is being sold for money. Midjourney is making money off of providing users with unauthorized images of Disney and Universal characters. Midjourney is not making up original characters that happen to look like the licensed characters; they are just producing the characters themselves:
For example, if a Midjourney subscriber prompts the AI tool to generate an image of Darth Vader, it immediately obliges, according to the plaintiffs, and the same occurs for images of Minions.
Furthermore, we know that Midjourney obtained the ability to generate these images by training on Disney’s and Universal’s copyrighted properties. This is why Midjourney knows these characters by name.
To your example, I think one big difference is that if you make a digital drawing of Mickey Mouse and then print it out, you are not going on to share that image with a global marketplace of other Epson users. Additionally, you also need an uncommon level of drawing skill to produce a drawing that is so convincing that people may confuse it for Disney’s own work. Midjourney has a social page where users share their creations, and those pages are littered with people’s low-effort generations of licensed characters:
With Midjourney, any doofus can generate an image of Mickey Mouse flipping off Goofy, and it will look good enough that most people will think Disney made it. If the internet is littered with images like this, it reduces the value of Disney’s properties.
Thx for this tip! It’s really saving me on a specific show that I wasn’t able to find on any tracker.
Interesting. I figured since this post is in a Beehaw community they would be invisible to everyone, but good to know.
It is important to do demonstrations like this in the hopes that the general public will understand the limitations of this tech.
THIS is the thing. The general public’s perception of ChatGPT is basically whatever OpenAI’s marketing department tells them to believe, plus their single memory of that one time they tested out ChatGPT and it was pretty impressive. Right now, OpenAI is telling everyone that they are a few years away from Artificial General Intelligence. Tests like this one demonstrate how wrong OpenAI is in that assertion.
not sure why people are downvoting this
downvotes are not allowed on beehaw fyi
all good, i can appreciate wanting to keep it close to the chest! Just wanted to say that the beeple care about you, and you ever feel like you need mutual aid or anything, I think a lot of beeple here would be happy to support you!
yeah it absolutely sounds like it. i’m sorry to hear it, i didn’t realize you were straight up homeless 😟
He picked me up midafternoon to let me crash at his place for the night and do my first load of laundry in months.
Pete you doin alright? I’m gathering that you have maybe been living out of your car?
How did u find 25 public trackers that aren’t blocked by cloud flare?
Wow, finally, a feel-good tech story.
That is THE guide afaik. I think it has some outdated advice, but largely seems still accurate.
Aha got it, thank you! Fwiw, you sent me down a rabbit hole on fmhy so I’m learning lots today.
what wiki article? just browsed and i’m not seeing anything other than a glossary entry
I tried airvpn, but found it confusing in some regards. ProtonVPN is easier to use and it has served me well, despite the recent controversy around it. The only real annoyance is that it randomly selects a new port to forward every time you connect, so you have to manually update that in your client. Quantum is a nifty tool that will read your ProtonVPN logs and automatically complete this step for you, if you use qBittorrent.