We get birds hitting our windows sometimes, but today was something new. A full grown turkey slammed into our kitchen window, lol. I looked outside and she was fine, but startled, and there were something like 8 little turkey fledglings darting around. We have a humming bird friend now too.

We've been throwing corn out to our squirrels, it's so funny watching them run around trying to stash the cobs.

The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today. So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.

You would never sit down and eat two full sized potatoes while watching a movie, but turn them into chips, and it's just a little snaaack.

The entirety of Disclosure Day I was thinking about how it would've killed if it were adapted as the third and final X-Files movie.

Somewhat of an update, they're doing well it seems!

There is a bill in California that would allow creators to look under the hood of AI training datasets to see if their work was being used, but it needs your support - please sign this petition, it’ll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 (video credit hitrecordjoe on IG) 1/

My company just bought Claude licenses. Our IT VP asked it to put FAQs from a Word doc into a PowerPoint. $0.57 token cost for that one task. We’re a several thousand person company. We’re going to spend 5 years of IT budget on Claude in a week.

What a ghoul she turned out to be.

Potentially huge? Google held liable for AI hallucinations in a German court. I.e. if google AI tells you to glue rocks to your pizza, they are responsible. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

If you want AI companies to have to divulge their training data, sign this!

🔥 Sign sign sign! This is for the AI transparency bill that would require AI companies to divulge their training data. It keeps clearing hurdles, help it clear the last few! Anyone can sign it, go go go!

Hey... I uh... I'll be speaking at ICON13 in July on the mainstage! I pulled an all nighter delivering my slides where I had to reduce it from 140 to 95, so you HAVE to go, it's only fair.

Some people treat social media like a human search engine. Instead of spending 8 seconds on Google, they'll ask easily verifiable things to strangers. It's like asking someone else to pull out their phone and tell you the time when you're already on your phone. Just wasting everyone's time & energy.

If you can make it there, I promise you it makes a difference!

I'm probing an AI image model right now for infringing material, and it's doing things I've never seen before in a way that I think proves the compression argument beyond a shadow of a doubt. I'm honestly gobsmacked.

I haven't shared my Alien: Earth work yet, but I was digging through an old folder and found a really early rough render from when I was concepting the ship crash. This was 5 years ago now if you can believe it. Will get around to sharing more soon!

Saw a family of woodcocks crossing the road and immediately turned around to help, but by the time we got back, the mother had gotten hit. I crawled under a railyard gate and we were able to find all 4 babies after rooting through poison ivy, but my heart is so heavy from watching the mother pass 😔

Anyone who's used Da Vinci Resolve can see that he's quite literally touched nothing here in the color workspace. It's kind of like taking a picture of a cockpit at an airshow, and then telling everyone you were flying the plane. AI "filmmaking" is such a LARP.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

had a wonderful time talking to @bcmerchant.bsky.social about why and how people destroy surveillance & AI instrastructure as political and economic protest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4k...

I very much enjoyed this discussion about the growing AI resistance and the destruction of surveillance infrastructure with my good friend Jason

One thing that really bugs me is people who go, "AI is here, I don't like it either, but we have to adapt," and then they gleefully post AI stuff. Yeah, you sound really cut up and conflicted about it.

My partner is playing some game on her phone and goes, "I hit the early middle ages," and I go, "Yeah you have," to zing her, but hurt my own feelings because she's only a few weeks older than me.

If you're looking to get your portfolio off of ArtStation, @atmovfx.bsky.social has a new tool that allows you to essentially import your gallery automatically to ATMO. It's a great site for professional environment artists or inspiration, check it out if you haven't already! www.atmovfx.com

Muttering, "Just one night of good sleep and I'll be back to normal," every day until you die.

Our smallest cat just brought me a whole roll of paper towel as a gift. Two nights ago it was a Prismacolor marker. By next week it could be a piece of furniture.

A selection of shots animated by Kim Kyeongbae for Scavengers Reign (2023), created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, Titmouse

This song kicks ass and the video is a real treat if you love movies, too cool.

Before AI, artists used prompts to engage their own imaginations, to plant a seed and run with their own creativity. Now, prompts are something you feed into a machine so it can imagine and create FOR you. Sadly, many people don't see the difference.

I made a papercraft just for this

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Oh HELL yes! 🔥 OpenAI is pulling the plug on their AI video generator Sora, and with it goes their deal with Disney to bring AI gen to Disney+. OpenAI seems to be in serious financial trouble, what a shame 🖕

The fever broke already, which is quite the surprise. I think it only lasted a day to a day and a half. Feeling loads better, what a relief.

Spent last night uncontrollably shaking and oscillating between freezing and boiling and wishing I was dead. Took a test today, it's baby's first Covid!

I need you to see my cat.

It took 14 years, but we finally have our RoboCop statue in Detroit 🖤

Okay, nope, I put it on the floor just outside the door of my office, and a sign suddenly fell off my wall while I was in there. Never happened before. I don't believe in this stuff, but hell no. It's face down out on the porch until I can get rid of it. Absolutely not. I'm done.

Okay, so we slept with it up, and I had to take it down this morning because my partner SWEARS she woke up and heard it say it was going to kill her. I think she's full of shit, obviously, so I took it to my office because I'm not ready to throw out $50 after like ONE nightmare or whatever.

Ooooo, that's good.

This was calling to me at an antique store today. I thought it was like a face or a scarab or something at first until... I mean, look. What is this even. I of course bought it, but now I'm pretty sure it's haunted. It echoes and rings in a weird way if you get close to it or talk near it.

I love reading the reviews on some of the sketchy massage places near me. My new favorite is a 1-star review where they complain about it being "all tug and no rub," and how they were sent to the hospital with an injured testicle. My previous fav 1-star also complained about "hammered genitals".

I tried a weird dry pineapple jam cracker thing I found in our cupboard and my first thought was that it tasted just like dog food. But if someone said hey, you can eat only this dog food or only this cracker for a whole year, dog food all day long. With pleasure actually, cause damn, what was that.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I like to wave at animals. They don't know what I'm doing, but I'm not gonna NOT say hi.

I forgot to update my payment info on my portfolio host a few weeks ago when I got a new card, so when an AI bro went there to insult my work he instead made fun of my site not working, which was inadvertently a huge favor, and now he's even more mad after I thanked him, lol.

My little man is no longer here, but the debt still remains, if you could share this post, or donate anything at all I would be forever grateful. #mutualaid #vetbills #catsky #catsofbluesky #donate #petloss #BennyForever #gofundme