Flew to California to surprise one of my favorite people in the world, Tom Matano. He said “You are so over the top!” then showed me pics from the ‘70s while we hung out in the garage with his Miata ❤️

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

Life update

we never should have stopped livejournaling

I read Rakesfall twice- feeling the first time I didn't get it. In my second reading I realized: it's not me, the story is factually confusing. and there was real beauty in simply giving up to that as a fact and letting the story be what it was.

Speaking of frustration as technique, here's a cool short video from Ross at Hardy's Books about SAINT, featuring also an extremely delightful cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkh...

Unmooring. Disengaged. Serene. Floating out to sea. Composed. Progressing.

Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

IT IS A NATIONAL DAY OF POKEY!!!

hahah this upset me so bad

I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not. Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea. Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.

I couldn't get tickets to the world premiere of Frankenstein in Imax. They sold out in milliseconds. My only choice was to get there 40 minutes early and wait in the standby line. Guillermo del Toro walked by, saw me waiting, and had his team give me one of his personal guest tickets.

Bruh

unfortunately everything is still happening so much and maybe even happening more

you think it's funny? well you're drowning in it too youtu.be/r80HF68KM8g?...

okay but what if we were all talking about how cool my stickers are???

i've made over 900 fonts. you can buy them all for commercial use for $19. h e l p ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pa...

“Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—& what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late.” The threat of AI isn’t human extinction, it’s extinguishing the beauty of life. The reasons for living.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

don’t trust

" . . . with a strict routine that entails having his last meal at 11am . . ." slowly approaching this myself as my entire stomach fucking shuts down 🫩

no i think its being driven deeper

my data wasnt even worth more than $40 in the Facebook class action settlement

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Bought last weekend, IT GOOD GO READ!

A peek at the new issue of Marginalia next to its inspiration. I'll be sending it to Collectors-tier patrons at the end of the month, and there's a few spots left! www.patreon.com/helveticablanc

You knew this was coming.

Just finished this. @vajra.me, absolutely BRILLIANT. Deeply loved it. #booksky

when every mall had a "wordly" store that included a cd rack with this, a pick your own velvet bag of rocks, and statues of Shiva next to Pharaoh bookends

Oh Worm! on a shirt! TODAY ONLY!! Screen printed on your choice of tee or tank by @theyetee.com and ships worldwide. Grab one before they’re gone. 🪱 theyetee.com/collections/...

cant quote the last retweet but my favorite bit is to say something in a work meeting and then "booooo!" myself during the silence while everyone is absorbing it

I think about this all the time

i’ll have an interactive version of my sequel to home sweet homepage, called algorithm and blues, readable at my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social this weekend! 78 gough st, sf 1-6pm sept 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28

This is a book everyone should read, ASAP.

normal things at work today

so real!!! remember your favs

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

24 Years Ago Today: The September 11th Issue

Some important reporting on data work. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Surprising but telling to see Google flat-out denying the contribution of data workers to their products: >>

-looks directly into camera-

I don’t want to be alarming but I suspect that there might be a darkness in the heart of my fellow man

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

“If we cannot even in principle be free from external manipulation and anti-scientific claims—and instead remain passive by default and welcome corrosive [AI] industry frames into our computer systems, our scientific literature, and our classrooms—then we have failed as scientists and as educators.”

“When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored,” the authors, led by @olivia.science, write.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Feeling lost is part of the process

dude

do not fool yourself: AI is super popular. this upsets me too. it's the same with the handwringing over a UFC fight at the white house. i also personally do not like this and yet, have you seen the viewership numbers on UFC? i promise you Paramount has