Hot take: Pleading for [insert medium] to be taken seriously as art is a waste of time, and annoying. The only convincing argument is to make some good art with [insert medium].

This is how you "democratize art." You make it possible for humans to make it. And for a tiny fraction of the trillions being spent on data centers for slop generators

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Franco Fontana

"Corporate philosophers" is some real dystopian cyberpunk shit

couldn't sleep so i made him sit down

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Programmer art.

Never before has a company pissed away such good tools, creative talent, goodwill and community as Adobe have with Flash. Fuck them. They should sell it or open source it.

The little crab bots are fun to imagine but they are not conscious

"game where little monkeys get up to mischief" rated 2% desirable. do your research first, and I don't mean at the zoo. I mean at the museum or library for humans.

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

Two people died and this clown is pissing away every bit of political leverage they bought him on a pinky swear to not do illegal stuff

lalah, lalah

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

The average citizen of Minneapolis has shown several orders of magnitude more courage than Schumer, and with far more at risk

Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.

NYT less insightful than a 9 year old 4chan post

RJ Reynold's philosopher, Bumbo Dorkfield, worries that Joe Camel "has been feeling listless" and "deprived of purpose." "We should at least let him hand out a few loosies to schoolkids every day."

It would be logistically difficult to work on a collaborative project without VC, but for my own work I find it a creative liability to always be able to seamlessly backtrack. Friction and stickiness can be good.

Something I've felt aware of re: Minneapolis is how much more motivated people are to fight for those in their own community. That's not a criticism of Minnesotans, who are risking 1000x more than I ever have. I just wonder if there's a way to make people like Diaz less distant and abstract.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

But keep them funded, right Chuck?

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Read this thread.

i don't know how you could watch a video of minnesotans strugging to protect their neighbours and entertain an idea like "I hope americans are ready to be hated". If you can't see yourself in their fight, draw strength from it, stand in solidarity, how can you possibly fight fascism anywhere else

Evergreen Comix.

“The Germans have a word for that” bro they just shoved two preexisting words together to make a new word. We can do that too. Don’t be Deutschdazzled.

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

The year of goons and slop.

Where is everyone? #indiegamedev #lowpoly #c64 #badpixels

I'm wishing bad things on bad people today

1950-something

this but like the opposite. It would be nice if some of the Twitter holdouts would finally leave the pedophile nazi app and come to bluesky. It's disturbing how many creatives that enriched the experience are still active there. Reach out to friends who have lost their moral compass!

I find the example of regular people standing up as inspiring as anyone, but it's deeply shameful that it's come to this. When those with the most power—and, therefore, safety—refuse to take a stand it puts everyone else in line to get chewed up.

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Minneapolis.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.