I'm sure this is no way connected to Microsoft and OpenAI being in bed together and basically fucking up the earth royally with myriads data centers...

Fully support what Jack is saying here, we need more recognition of collective work and not singling out individuals, especially when they're involved in super collective work. Why not award orgs and coalitions?

Before we celebrate the whole Peace Prize winner and take for granted what the committee said about her, can we check on her freaking politics? Like how she wants to privatize the oil sector and renew engagement with international financial institutions?

there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.

The last few months I've gotten into looking at posts from craft groups, embroidery groups, diorama groups and such. I realize now that I find comfort in them because they're beautiful things that people make with their hands and not digital slop

The thing about science is when it works, people don't realise it because it just eliminates the problem. Take quicksand. In the 80s it was a HUGE issue, it was everywhere. Now its mostly eradicated and we barely give it a thought, but ask any kid from the 80s, they'll tell you what it was like then

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

Ok, the plague doctors would normally be anachronistic, but Nicholas Cage’s presence in anything renders it secondary world, as he is not actually from this world.

Very happy to have edited Jack's first essay in his brand new newsletter, which you should absolutely subscribe to, cause *gulp* we need all the hope we can get these days!

Fix your hearts!

A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.

Once again I am watching The Pitt while eating and once again it is a mistake. The eating, not The Pitt, I rather like The Pitt.

Some random mutual aid Signal chat: No real names used, nothing ever leaks. Messages delete after one hour, a guy complains that it's not set at 10-minute delete. Everyone knows each other in real life, says nothing. The Department of Defense: idk just add anyone whose phone number start with 7.

Pretty darn annoyed that duckduckgo tried to give me some sort AI assist today, twice!! The second time was after I changed my settings and said I never want AI :( I'm tired.

Getting sick & tired of all the older actresses saying that they don't need / want / weren't aware of intimacy coordinators. Can't you just like shut up and let progress happen for the younger generation??

I want the creators of The Good Fight to make an intensely political & dramatic revival of Parks and Recreation that's all about the current moment. It would probably be 2 episodes though, if I'm realistic, until all the jobs are cut.

PMS? More like PeMess, amirite? (I'm so tired)

Truly upset & disgusted by the news about the Tate brothers. But not surprised, knowing how fucking absolutely shitty Romania is re: women and all the forms of violence against them. And this strong feeling of shame being Romanian. Fuck that shit.

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Current mental health mood is wanting to argue with people on the internet, but I stopped doing that many years ago and I can't do this to myself. But of, I really want to.

Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂

Really pissed off seeing Elon Musk cozying up to fucking AfD only because imo he hates the labor laws in Germany and he has a factory here that he want to get more out of.

Reminder that your AI generated joke image is wasting gallons of water and takes shit tons of energy, and your written prompt would have been as funny without the environmental destruction Also, data centers are horrifyingly detrimental to living creatures time.com/6982015/bitc...

Thinking about how capital is reorienting around trumpofascism and how I'm very much expecting funding for culture to go to the most milquetoast white cishet male stories for a while. It's a bummer. The age of abundant streaming options gave me decision fatigue, now it's gonna be slim pickens

Been fretting about what my first post would be. But David Lynch died and I think he changed my brain chemistry when I saw Twin Peaks at 6 (!!). I don't think I'd be me without his art. 'Fix your hearts or die' is one of my favorite lines ever.