Since the Russian invasion in 2022, some of Ukraine’s local leaders and networks of their allies worldwide have discussed rebuilding in what would amount to two phases. First, everyday citizens would use democratic processes — from online tools to deliberative bodies like citizens’ assemblies — to make plans for their own localities. Second, reconstruction money would go directly to local governments, rather than via national governments and international aid groups, to enact those plans.

In a few months, I expect to see headlines about how this all collapses after CIA agents definitely local citizens sabotage their economy stage a successful campaign to liberate them from the evils of communism.

Holy shit. Robot Chicken and xkcd are modern day prophets.

Hello! I am a lemming clipping(?) a post that links to an “article” that is actually a podcast that quotes a CNN interview.

Here’s the transcript and a link straight to the interview.

Josh Hawley (audio voiceover): Republicans now, thanks to Donald Trump, are the party of the working class, Manu. You referenced the returns from the last election. The big majority of working-class voters voted for the GOP. That means now the GOP needs to deliver for them. And we do that by giving them tax relief. We do that by bringing down their health care bills. We don’t do it by cutting Medicaid.

Manu Raju (audio voiceover): If this bill becomes law, are you concerned that Republicans could face a severe blowback in the elections next year?

Hawley (audio voiceover): This bill is not going to become law in its current form, not least because President Trump won’t sign it. Manu, I’ve talked to him about this personally multiple times. He has been crystal clear in public too—no Medicaid benefit cuts. We need to give a tax cut to working people, not raise their taxes when it comes to health care, not take away their health care benefits. I hope this bill will get refocused on delivering relief for working families. That’s what we ought to be doing.

!savedyouaclick@lemmy.world

I applaud the commitment to the bit.

Toei Animation said in some cases, the time spent on a background was reduced to one-sixth of its normal time.

How is creator compensation changing as a result of the introduction of AI?

Are they being paid one-sixth less? Are they working one-sixth less?

throw me in jail where you then have to feed me, give me proper climate control, give me a place to sleep

Hope you don’t live in the United States. You might end up in a Salvadoran prison. Or, almost as bad, an American one.

Do you… have a recipe book? Or do you just walk around with an alphabetical list of stuff you know how to cook in your head?

AI is a venture capital money pit, and they are struggling to monetize before the hype dies out.

If the poison pills work as intended, investors will stop investing “creative” AI when the new models stop getting better (and sometimes get worse) because they’re running out of clean content to steal.

I doubt we’ll ever be offered a real opt-out option.

Instead I’m encouraged by the development of poison pills for the AI that are non-consensually harvesting human art (Glaze and Nightshade) and music (HarmonyCloak).