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this, again, and this time also hitting 20k — I really appreciate it! thank you guys 💖

is anyone hiring for a castle guard position? im really good at walking a specific route for hours at a time and i like to go “is someone there?!…must have been the wind…” whenever i hear a suspicious noise

the amount of art the moon has inspired these past few days makes me cry, im glad im alive

Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out. These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own. Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium. That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock. Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.

FIRST MESSAGE BACK ON AND IT’S “WE WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE EARTH, WE WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE EACH OTHER”

i genuinely feel like this is one of the most beautiful moments of humanity i’ll ever witness in my life

“give your spot to somebody who loves the work” 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

i've noticed there is so much hate for films that are about finding hope and joy. project hail mary, superman, and everything, everywhere, all at once all have this loud crowd of people who try to make you feel like you're an idiot for enjoying a film that makes you feel happy.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora and dropping video features from ChatGPT. Disney was previously said to be investing $1B, licensing 200+ characters across Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars & more for use in ChatGPT and Sora.

They're literally hiding the fact that illnesses spread through aerosols. They're literally censoring the information needed for people to be willing to protect themselves. By doing this, they weaponize misinformation, deny the truth, and contribute to ongoing harm.

If you’ve taken the time to explain why AI is bad (for the arts, for democracy, for education, for everything) by posting online, or just explaining these issues to someone in your life—thank you. The pushback is working. You have quite literally made a difference.

“Bob is a sunset foster and all future medical bills are covered by Cecil County Animal Services but we will add a $250 Chewy gift card for the lucky adopter” I’M GOING TO CRY THEY’RE TRYING SO HARD. SOMEONE PLEASE ADOPT HIM ASAP

by age 23, you should have identified a love for dungeons and dragons

wait

genuinely so sick of companies using gen ai & then being like "-but humans are still involved-" hey, i don't care! :D ANY use of gen ai in creative spaces, educational, LITERALLY ANYTHING, & immediately i'm so uninterested in anything you're tryna sell or have to say. just stop

I was listening to a podcast in which Toni Morrison spoke about her experience as a writer; how The Bluest Eye, her debut novel, came into being because she could not find a book that articulated the very thing she longed to read. So she wrote it herself. A conversation with her own interior. I found that deeply compelling, and it settled in me the way only true things do. Writing, like any form of creative expression, must issue from a helpless, almost involuntary compulsion. A seizure of the spirit, if you will. I am convinced that it cannot be engineered toward an audience. Art that begins by asking who will receive this? has already betrayed itself, because it has mistaken the fruit for the root. Creation at its most honest, observes a natural order: conception must precede birth. You do not decide to carry something into the world and then manufacture the seed. The raw and ungovernable urgency comes first, and it’s always indifferent to applause. That distinction between what you are driven to create and what you are performing for consumption, is the whole difference between art and its convincing counterfeit.

It is productive to engage with art

the ai slop bores me website is living proof society craves human interaction btw

Because once they realized people would sacrifice their own children to a SARS virus to get indoor dining back they realized they'd accept anything

You might think what’s happening in Kansas doesn’t affect you because you’re not trans, but the same government telling us you need ID to vote, is showing us how easy it is for them to take our ID. Wake up.