Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

@frost the purpose is the same as it always is, it's a fucking grift and if it doesn't work/wastes money/works great for nothing actually useful, who's gonna question it?

@frost I didn't know, I was guessing (anything facial recognition traditionally has issues with Black people, and drones etc have been used to harsh protesters)

so I was completely surprised that they were using this resource-intensive bullshit to fuck with dudes who own what, a sleeping bag, a spare parka, a vape with extra cartridges if you're lucky?

@frost actually I was wrong, it's not protesters or necessarily Black people

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

I'm sure that with any new technology AI isn't JUST bullshit to put living humans out of work, but has amazing potential for landlords to make money, and for police to deduce that they should hurt Black people and protesters more, because that's what technology exists to do in this society, right?

"how can AI and 3d printing address housing problems" oh yeah, just what would save humanity, using enough water for a year's crop of corn to plan then print several tiny houses which feature a toilet connected directly to the hot water heater in the middle of the living room, and which can then be part of a lottery for homeless people or rented out at exorbitant costs.

I WAS going to post Shonen Knife covers of different songs

but honestly I'm tired and the joke was going to be about Shonen Knife making every song about eating deserts

@frost I almost forgot how those things sounded.

STANDING IN LINE
BELIEVIN' THE LIES
YA BOWIN' DOWN TO THE FLAG
YA GOT A BULLET IN THE HEAD
A BULLET IN THE HEAD!
A BULLET IN THE HEAD!
A BULLET IN THE HEAD!
YA GOT A BULLET IN Y'FHUCKIN' HEAAAAAAD!
UNGH SHIT!

Rage across the Amazon
Femme beneath the sheets

#drawings today, working larger

okay so I did my political activity for today by calling all my congresspeople, big whoop

throw a tack on the road, stop the meatplow

@frost The subjectivity of all of this suggests I CAN’T tack my self worth to this cruel process, doing so is by definition a set up for feeling terrible.

@frost The big thing I’m thinking about here is how my perception is very contextualized. My friend is smarter and more successful, but she makes me feel valued, accepted as I am, and safe. But feeling unsafe, feeling evaluated (and judged not good enough) by total strangers who mean nothing to me beyond an authority to placate, makes me feel like a profoundly stupid failure.

@frost any job is going to be a mix of intelligence, experience and just random bullshit. I think tech sector jobs are (like say law, medicine or accounting) a place where you can actually make big bucks *related* to intelligence, which is part of why I internalized them as proof that I didn’t fit in, was a total moron, etc.

A bit over 12 hours ago, I was hanging out with a friend who makes me look as stupid as my Dad used to say I was, and who correspondingly had a lot of utterly brilliant tech sector employee money, and not once did I feel so completely inferior and worthless as I do today while applying for jobs.

hot take; truly sad that out of all the media "you like X established franchises therefore let's regurgitate a reboot/retelling/sequel" we will never get a good Judge Dredd vs. Predator movie, partly because neither Dredd movie really *got* the right level of goofy AF take on incredibly dark topics. (Eg, "Dredd vs. Predator" is about a good level of serious yet goofy AF.)

if we were very lucky, an artery would give out or something, and I wouldn't be here tomorrow. We are not that lucky, so I am doing the best I can.

"How do I know if I have [ethnic group] ancestry?" uh, frankly this is something I do NOT want someone having my DNA to test out. That's a little too close to figuring out what goes on the forearm tattoo, you know?

Also have you considered that “Big Charlie,” “Fat Charlie,” and even “Carloman” sound like perfectly reasonable sax or clarinet player names and therefore I have some theories about early French monarchs and their relationship to jazz?