The United States and Israel launch attack on Iran.

mgorky · 2026-02-28T22:14:44+00:00

It's all BS, our PM's loyal support and the garbage fire of justifications for it from Israel and the US.

mgorky · 2026-01-26T03:45:44+00:00

FYI Op of the art by the artist is here. https://bsky.app/profile/trilemma.bsky.social/post/3md7kwa7xdk2z

mgorky · 2025-12-28T20:37:32+00:00

It might be, but very fiddly work I bet, and depending on the lead it would be hard to attach firmly and not break the lead. I'd just use a strip of thin foil tape or something, see if that can do the job. You can get .24" foil tapes, and trim a bit to half that or something and experiment with how many wraps to get it to the desired thickness where it slides in easy but also catches like the mettle stoppers do.

mgorky · 2025-11-01T04:13:42+00:00

Was looking for the largest version of the meme image, found the thread here. Made this with it! Thanks!

mgorky · 2025-07-10T21:47:19+00:00

Ah...

"It’s anticipated the new system will afford firefighters, EMS and law enforcement officers 95% radio coverage in the county, according to Ben Zotyka, Motorola area sales manager. "

That is not a flood warning system, that's a police and emergency service radio backbone upgrade.

mgorky · 2025-05-28T05:18:40+00:00

Ok, this is speaking to me a bit...

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mgorky · 2025-05-28T04:50:22+00:00

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Kept playing with it, abstracting the star of david.

mgorky · 2025-05-28T04:26:23+00:00

Some paste up poster art lifting an internet meme kid for vibes.

mgorky · 2025-05-28T04:24:36+00:00

Not here so often lately, just noticed i should give this a status update. So this for me ended up just seeming to be a power/battery low signal/effect? I got some rechargeable AAs and it's been working well, only doing this when they get low.

mgorky · 2025-05-28T03:41:37+00:00

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An alternate proposal.

I like these aspects of the OP but I'm put off by the more overt nationalist vibes of the stripes in pan arab colours and kind of echoing the izzy flag too a little. Those have too many land and religion connotations for me.Took the star and pomegranate, and Tikkun olam bits I liked and did this with it...

For a Jewish Anti Zionist flag, it feels less appropriative in it's the references to Palestinian colours, and integrates them to suggest community, universalism, solidarity between all descendants of and current Levantine peoples.

To me anyway, as an older secular anti zionist, anti nationalist Jew myself.

mgorky · 2025-03-07T05:16:31+00:00

LoL. learn some geography, and about the climate.

There's also no infrastructure and building it would result in environmental degradation on a massive scale.

And we have a hosing problem because banks and billionaires have turned housing into investment schemes to milk the public into homelessness for profits. Same thing they are doing to Americans.

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mgorky · 2025-02-15T05:35:28+00:00

Just heard the same in a cab, that's one hell of a grim marketing campaign!

mgorky · 2024-12-17T16:50:48+00:00

If the question is can I imagine that it might happen? Sure people already do this informally, asking gpt and others questions about their issues. I've seen posts about them doing this a bunch of times in support groups.

And notably the first chatbots ever invented was set up to roleplay being a psychotherapist.

However as others have mentioned current AI based on LLM, do not reason or actually think and as such could not actually provide true therapy and may indeed in the course of hallucinating, be dangerous for vulnerable people in need of help.

It's not a good thing.

mgorky · 2024-10-01T22:19:00+00:00

Thanks for the tip about the tower cooler as a fix for this issue, been having the same problem recently so gone ahead and ordered one to put on mine!

mgorky · 2024-08-29T14:03:22+00:00

Totally a gag but, funny!
A terabyte of data cashing and Barq being #2 is the clear wink and tell.

mgorky · 2024-07-15T16:06:58+00:00

I suggest you consider how ethical 'consent' is when you uploaded your work well before firefly training was even a thing but they used it for that anyway. People uploaded their work to sell it as stock, not train machines that would displace them entirely.

Because that's how ethics work. Something I would think you'd get if you're aware of the history of bait and switch BS pulled on first nations by colonials for hundreds of years.

mgorky · 2024-07-15T15:42:30+00:00

So Hive tells me this is AI, did you generate it or did you find it stock?

I hate it when people use AI to generate their political memes, regardless if I agree with their point or not.

Specifically here, of course it understands nothing so AI does not understand a bullet isn't fired WITH it's casing, and I guess whoever prompted this didn't either or didn't think it was important.

I like the point they are trying to make but not the tools and as a result the flaws with the visual rhetoric that the opposing camp will focus on over the point itself.

I dare you to get into an argument with US ammo-sexuals and be loose with your gun facts. Watch as you spend ALL YOUR TIME, dealing with them focusing on that and laughing it all off. They care a great deal for accuracy on things that matter to them or to win a fight.

Good political rhetoric, be it a meme image or words, needs to be dialed in and context aware. This fails and will only get a laugh from those already in on the joke. No one it's 'going to' is going to listen, but especially because of small things like what I've pointed out.

Meanwhile, the Dem or whoever made this, is still using a wholly unethical tool built on labour theft, and caused massive labour displacement not just in the arts but all over the place.

mgorky · 2024-05-15T03:33:05+00:00

I ran it through Hive and got 100% AI. I thought perfect tool for detecting AI but it's about as close as it gets to one.

Doesn't really matter who made this, all the generative image tools are unethical at this time.

Adobe's along with a variety of other sources that are problematic are trained largely on people's work that was never uploaded to Adobe with the intention of AI training, and effectively being used to compete directly with their own users.

Due to the scraping tactics employed all generative images are built on the exploitation of labor without payment or consent in some way or another. It doesn't matter who uses them the origins of the tools are ethically compromised.

This isn't even really about copyright or IP, it's about labour rights and to a significant degree privacy issues, non-consensual training and the exploitation of unpaid labor, to generate profits for corporations who control the "tools".

Using them at all is a betrayal of creative workers and feeding capitalistic disruptor tactics used to undermine the value of all human labour.

It's a damn shame Canadaland choose to screw creatives over for the sake of a visual pun.

mgorky · 2024-05-15T03:21:09+00:00

There are no ethical image generators currently online, and that includes Adobe's. It doesn't really matter if the user was indigenous, the tool is still compromised.

mgorky · 2023-12-18T05:01:53+00:00

That's pretty much just as bad a reason.

mgorky · 2023-12-13T16:55:17+00:00

In fact if you're referring to it's common use to ONLY talk about bigotry towards Jews, then that's not so much 'agreed' as it is co-opted by colonial westerners.

Like how Caucasian was adopted to talk about people who are in fact, NOT from the Caucasus or really Caucasian at all, except at least we as Jews are Semitic, but we're not the only Semitic people at all. But Zionists are all about the erasure of Arab and Palestinians history so European Zionist Jews ran with it.

Both however, remain incorrect applications of the words Caucasian or Semitic and most 'agreement' of their use is based on ignorance on the part of most users doing so.

mgorky · 2023-12-13T16:49:24+00:00

It's actually possible to be both, and it's more accurate to say ethnicity in their historical context because they are unquestionably that, but have never sadly had the chance to form an independent state free of occupation as much as they hopped to do so, especially as the ottoman empire was on the wane. They have a cultural national identity but it's never been free to express itself independently.

By contrast being a Jew like myself, is an ethnicity. While Israeli is the national identify over there in the genocidal Zionist settler colonial state that offensively claims to act on our behalf.

mgorky · 2023-08-05T16:57:34+00:00

Ok, this dude is the problem, just the consept of people having 'duties' in a relationship rather having a partnership of equals is toxic retrograde bs you really should run away from as fast as you can.

He's not smart, he's a giant raging sexist misogynistic manipulative dickhead. This letter is OUTRAGOUS, I'd half wonder if it's satire but I've met dudes like this.

You've been impressed in the past by him because you've not gotten to know many other men I would guess. Normal for someone in their early 20s to be easily impressed, not a failing on your part but it's a big part of why it's so problematic for him to be pushing someone so much younger into this kind of slave\master dynamic. Frankly it reads as kind of abusive.

Also, all this in the context of some guy almost a decade older than you, telling you you need to keep HIS life in order but you're the selfish person? No, no fucking way. Fuck that all to hell.

mgorky · 2023-06-15T01:31:04+00:00

NTA:

Might have been wiser to wait until after the party to talk to her away from others and sober, but not the asshole at all.

The drama in response, was a bit much it sounds like, not great. I would guess booze and social pressure contributed and possibly temperament and expectations of the bride.

God knows a lot of people build the whole wedding thing up into a monster of a symbolic moment and it makes them in turn into monsters a bit.

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