An archived version of the account shows that he had "he/him" pronouns so they are straight up lying here to push this smear on trans people. web.archive.org/web/20240724...

They're running cover for the rapist pedophile president by trying to manufacture more pretext for going after trans people. They're digging up anything they can from years old cases to try and tie it to trans people despite having absolutely nothing to do with trans people.

“I only used it for placeholder assets until I could finish the real stuff.”

“Then you’ve fallen afoul of a bad practice. Programmer art exists for a reason.”

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Nuanced approaches are always requested by the people who will throw out the wildest shit imaginable and expect US to do the intellectual labor to find ways to make THEIR bullshit somehow-credible

...never expected to win anything, ever. I don't expect my attempts and flailing and rage to get anywhere. So I do it without expecting any results, so it doesn't reeeeally MATTER how bad I think things are, I'll fight and rage regardless.

Expect nothing and fight anyways? That's all I have. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Despair is just a feeling, and it is incredibly cruel for someone to tell us we're being traitors to the cause if we feel it.

I don't have much of any real hope. I don't know how to coach someone else into feeling how I do, but despair actually doesn't get in my way, because I've just...

at the other end of art is the knowledge that someone FELT something, and the art is your pathway into empathy. cave paintings from 30 thousand years ago have an "other end," the people who were there, who did this, who FELT something about it, and we can only be in awe and wonder what they felt

at the other end of genAI "art" is nothing. there is no sentient being, no experience we are being asked to share in, no mind to marvel at, to wonder about. this is why people call it "soulless." there is no other side, it's just... noise

...the budget is stupid and bad and will hurt people, specifically indigenous people (and the environment, which will hurt us all). But because election, no one will do it.

There it is: May just admitted that she is voting yes because of her legacy, to say that she left after getting Carney's commitment to Paris targets (no matter how unbelievable and hollow that commitment is).

as soon as I find out someone has included anything AI in something they made, I no longer trust them to tell me the truth at all about anything. If they admit it, it's because they don't think they can hide it

Exactly. If all you need is a placeholder then just fucking use grey checkerboard patterns/bright magenta/etc, we literally already have common practices for temporary assets. You don't need to boil a fucking pond because you can't be assed to deal with ugly and boring temp images.

News agencies reported the incident over the weekend, but Rodriguez was initially described as "a man," not an ICE AGENT.
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“The retired optician, taken into custody late last month, was recently moved to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and has a bond hearing on Nov. 18. His family worries his health is failing while he’s in custody and fears for his future.”