Trump calling immigrants animals again (and specifically saying they aren’t humans).You know what would make me feel really welcome as an immigrant?If you can tell family and friends who plan to vote for this fascist to either don’t or fuck off forever and never talk to them again.
@[email protected] I have that answer. Desktop publishing at that time was dominated by a program called QuarkXpress. It couldn't do alpha channel transparency, so they would shape the shadows in another software, import it, and draw a hard edged mask over each image. That's why there's also a white gradient on the background and the shadows don't overlap anything.
For the love of Eliza, stop using AI-generated images for blog posts and articles.It’s like serving some nice vomit as a side dish with your lovingly prepared homemade dinner.
Do people who run websites not realize that “it looks like you’re using an ad-blocker” has about the same effect as if you’d be a retail store and punch people in the face to welcome them?
“Man who got $15 billion in spaceflight subsidies and contracts from mostly Democratic administrations complains about not being able to bullshit people with infeasible Mars colony plans unless a fascist dictatorship is in place”https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-spacex-republican-debate-us-president-kamala-harris-will-never-reach-mars-donald-trump/
You know who actually wants to kill animals? Republicans.It’s literally in Project 2025 that they want to kill wild horses and burros because they “disturbed private property rights”.They also like shooting their own dogs. It’s always projection.https://project2025truth.com/wildlife/
The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things:1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching.
The problem with the #retrocomputing community isn’t that there’s actively awful people in it (e.g. 8-bit guy or the people doing afterparties at Hooters); the problem is that the “not awful” people keep ignoring it, pretend everything is fine and absolutely don’t lift a finger to change anything.
@thomasfuchs exactly!Hell, I know people who got into computers because they weren't into the stuff other kids were, because they had too much asthma to play soccer or whatever.How do you think THEY like the no masks policy?