Sixth talk: Patrick Smith on Sandcastles

the terrible terrors

"birth rates are declining" don't care I already got born

I have constructed a very simple and badly formatted flowchart so that liberals can understand the position of leftists on the Democratic party

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Till by Victor Vasarely (1979)

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

The Conversion of Saint Paul by Bob Thompson, 1964, a real masterpiece:

"We are forcing marginalized, disenfranchised people to fight against a black box trained on the data that already contains their disenfranchisement. We’re supposed to live in a world where the computer just gets to say “No”. The computer built, configured and run by a few powerful men."

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The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

CRANK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

I'm losing faith in the power of witchcraft because I'm pretty sure witches fucking hate that guy

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

A sitting Senator has more power than a grunt in the military and you pass the buck to them. You're a shithead. you know that right? Go do your job. Make a scene. Get your lazy ass back to work

Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

Republicans have rolled over, but our Democratic leaders are completely failing us too. This is one of the most dangerous moments for the world in modern history. Stop this bloodthirsty madman. (3/3)

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Windosill made it onto this, and it's in very good company

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

sometimes it really feels like a whole bunch of (mostly rich and powerful) people have completely given up on culture. which makes the average person’s resistance to slop even more compelling.

I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME. Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit! pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands... All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!

I'm not really up on video game stuff but I gather the AI boys have found a way to make *things that already exist* look worse, which is honestly kind of impressive

#Plottimation automatically extracts and aligns frames from frame-sheets, even from casual photographs, as long as the frame boundaries are indicated with small ＋ crosses.

The confusion began when we began letting them call this stuff "content" rather than, say, "expression." Content is a consumable substance which may as well be synthesized if you can. Expression is an attempt to communicate some aspect of the experience of being alive.

Peelin

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

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i treat anyone who says "well it's all hopeless, guess i just have to profit off the current state of affairs" as actively complicit and you should too.

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"Critics of LLMs" are constantly told the need to acquiesce to the terms of debate set by those who seem utterly incurious as to why so many people reflexively recoil from LLM output

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

This is thoughtful but I disagree that AI games are dull because they share the "soft logic" of human interaction. Games driven by human-to-human interaction (Werewolf, D&D, etc) can be endlessly compelling. The problem is that genAI is inherently boring. franklantz.substack.com/p/why-no-ai-...

This is thoughtful but I disagree that AI games are dull because they share the "soft logic" of human interaction. Games driven by human-to-human interaction (Werewolf, D&D, etc) can be endlessly compelling. The problem is that genAI is inherently boring. franklantz.substack.com/p/why-no-ai-...

There are surely worse timelines, but I have difficulty imagining a more disgusting one

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

we should be opposed to the consolidation of power if only because the main thing this consolidated power is used for is exploding and starving babies before it was the airplane, the submarine, and the nuclear bomb, but our gen's tech for accelerating the consolidation of power is AI, full stop

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