I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:

• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.

• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.

• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.

a totally normal video game console except the “start” button is labeled “snart”

VIDEO GAME TITLE SCREEN!
Press SNART

"R-G-B"
"C-M-Y"... no K

Suit: Clockwork Creatures

#Fursuit #Portrait #FursuitFriday
#Cat #Feline #Blue #Red #Green
#Cyan #Magenta #Yellow
#Photography #StudioPortrait #Studio

David Nutt was right, but that didn't stop the government from sacking him for pointing out that alcohol was doing more harm than ecstacy

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/17/27bn-a-year-spent-in-england-on-harm-done-by-alcohol-study-finds

Alcohol abuse costing £27bn a year in England

Exclusive: Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economy

^{Anna Bawden (The Guardian)}

"Excuse me, may I take a photo...?"

📷 @antwelm https://www.furtrack.com/p/451959

#FursuitFriday

Meow!

🔵 @pringle9822.bsky.social
⚪️ @lennyaa.moe

#FursuitFriday #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024 #fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits

💡If mayonnaise is an instrument, then pizza is clearly a hat!🍕

⚪️ @lennyaa
🔵 @pringle9822.bsky.social

#FursuitFriday #fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024

“By the end of the century people may well be 50% poorer than they would’ve been if it wasn’t for climate change,” said Harvard economist Adrien Bilal.
“I think everyone could imagine what they would do with an income that is twice as large as it is now. It would change people’s lives.”
Bilal said that purchasing power, which is how much people are able to buy with their money, would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report

Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

From Midwest Furfest 2022 featuring Sarakazi and @manukoa.bsky.social who took these photos (Forebucks took the last one). This was my FurrHappens suit's 10th birthday and last outing. She's retired now.

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #FurrHappens #MFF2022

Please keep signing and sharing this petition against the banning of masks in North Carolina. It’s helping to get more media attention on the issue!

You can sign here: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-passage-of-nc-bill-237-banning-masks-in-public?recruited_by_id=0e43e830-125b-11ef-b999-6dfe8a4a6443

LB: It's hard to believe same-sex marriage only first became legal anywhere in the United States twenty years ago today. It would take another 11 years for it to become the law of the land.

There are still those who want roll back those rights (see also: Project 2025). It's exhausting and unthinkable that we have to keep fighting this fight, but it is absolutely worth it.

🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

The Forged Apple Employee Badge

Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incred…

^cabel.com

Have you seen the northern lights last weekend?
Now you have.
Happy #FursuitFriday!

Background: @Areksim came knocking at my door at around 2:00AM telling me about the phenomenon. I got up, into suit and into the car for a 5 minute drive. I can't remember any details about the night, 2AM is waaay past my bed time. Buut it was well worth it.

#Fursuit
#Furry
#Furryfanom

📸&🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)

Room service for your order of beans 🫘🐾😏

⚫️ @Wurki_Doggo
📷 GaoKemo

#furry #fursuitfriday #kemono #fursuit #furryfandom #furrypaws #paw #paws #fursuiting

In a week I'll be at Confuzzled! If ya see me:

- Ask for hugs!
- Take photos/videos! (For best results tell me which you're doing)
- Understand that my vision and hearing in suit are TERRIBLE so I am not ignoring you! Try a gentle shoulder touch.
- Be respectful. (If you have any uncertainty about what this means, please immediately re-attend the 'my first con' and 'fursuiting 101' panels).

🪡 @selkiesuits

Ozone kicking it up a notch during the FWA24 fursuit dance competition.

🐾: Yeenpits
📌: FurryWeekend

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA24

"what are your goals"

i have never been so personally attacked

What capitalist industry and commerce has done just in the last three decades, pumping nearly a *trillion* tons of CO₂ into the air, has no precedent.

Never before in Earth’s history has so much carbon dioxide been added to the atmosphere over such a short period of time.

HEADLINE: Chemical analysis of natural CO₂ rise over the last 50,000 years shows that today's rate is 10 times faster
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"The rate of CO₂ change today really is unprecedented," said Kathleen Wendt, assistant professor in Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. "Our research identified the fastest rates of past natural CO₂ rise ever observed, and the rate occurring today, largely driven by human emissions, is 10 times higher."

During the largest of the natural rises, carbon dioxide increased by about 14 parts per million in 55 years. The jumps occurred about once every 7,000 years or so. At today's rates, that magnitude of increase takes only 5 to 6 years.
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Never in the whole history of Earth has so much CO₂ been poured into the atmosphere in such a short time.

Our rulers are literally conducting an insanely dangerous experiment, making it impossible for anyone to say with any certainty what will happen next. No one knows, because nothing like this has ever been done before.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-analysis-natural-years-today.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Chemical analysis of natural CO₂ rise over the last 50,000 years shows that today's rate is 10 times faster

Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.

^{Michelle Klampe (Phys.org)}

Here's an interview with Japanese philosophy professor Kohei Saito, author of "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"...

➡️ https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/why-climate-change-action-requires-degrowth-to-make-our-planet-sustainable/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth