OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
I had a conversation this afternoon with the director of my regional public library, about Libby. She said that tagging books as Notify Me is what tells her what to buy. Libby notifies her about the requests for books from users, and if any book has more than three requests, she orders it. So using Notify Me is important!!!
#Libby #PublicLibraries #Books
Maybe don’t lie when the reporter has the whole damn chat log.
I saw 4 bald eagles circling around together on my way home. More and more birds are coming baaack and it makes me really happy!
Snow White didn’t bomb because of Rachel Zegler.
But it also didn’t bomb because of Gal Gadot.
It bombed because nobody - absolutely nobody - was even slightly interested in the existence of a live action Snow White movie.
President Trump has signed an executive order intended to nullify union contracts in numerous federal agencies. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/exclusions-from-federal-labor-management-relations-programs/
The White House · Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations ProgramsBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 7103(b)(1) of title 5 and
Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121
My son recently launched a #WeatherBalloon with a #camera and some instruments. This #photo is from about 30km up just before the #balloon burst. It's really cool that you can begin to see the curvature of the #Earth from this height and see the darkness of #space. I was on an airliner in this area on the same day and saw some of the same clouds and frozen rivers & lakes my son captured in his photos.
A classroom full of lampshades at the abandoned Central Junior High School. Thankfully this building was repurposed into apartments rather than destroyed.
More at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/central-junior-high-school
Another sketch in the 642 Things to Draw where I try to inject capybaras where I can! The prompt "Sea Spray" instantly made me think of The Little Mermaid.
Just look at this handsome young fellow. My son and d-i-l found him hiding under their truck—no tags, no chip. He’s going to make someone such a wonderful best friend. Could it be you?
He’s house-trained, very affectionate and eager to please, and SO sweet-natured. He’s a very VERY good boi who desperately needs a home & family. 
#Houston #LostDog #LostDogsOfMastodon #PleaseBoost #PleaseShareWidely
If you are not a US citizen and you are thinking about coming here, please strongly reconsider. I would be concerned for your safety, and to be honest these idiots need to feel the pain of tourism and international business drying up.
The US has what are effectively secret police snatching up people and disappearing them into a detention system. Some people reemerge in two weeks, some stay in there.
Don't risk it until something changes.
Security and hacker conferences and the like should really be considering alternate venues for international audiences, and consider whether they are being held in places queer folks within the US can safely attend.
Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?
The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.
We are entering an era of paywalled news where the poor will only be able to afford reading the headlines, and never the articles.
This isn't gonna help the current state of the world, at all.