Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Just now learning that books for the American armed services in WW2 were printed landscape format.

Reports filtering out about whats been happening in Iran www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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An artist gives her life to her art. That’s why it matters. A work of art is a fragment of a life, preserved.

I feel sorry for the pro-AI losers whining in the comments. That someone should be content to ask so little of themselves, to rate their own voice and skills so poorly, is just profoundly sad.

You are not entitled to the training and labor of your comrades solely because you want it and aren't satisfied with your own work.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

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“Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.” - Renee Gladman, The Activist

Sabrina Carpenter being on The Muppet Show makes perfect sense. I think she’s basically a muppet to begin with. Like in the field of contemporary celebs she’s gotta be in like, the top ten of obvious muppets masquerading as people.

In "Insufferable Tools," Sarah Sharma reveals Big Tech’s patriarchal deployment of media theory to gain and maintain power and proposes a feminist politics of tech that can forge futures free from the grip of tech broligarchs. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wqBbZgF

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

It was a mistake to teach sand to think

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

The reason why people make music for the gays is because we still actually dance at events.

In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.

directors. hire me to score your film

wait what possible business did the nyrb have reprinting norman podhoretz???

This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

We're fully into the "trafficking teenagers isn't that bad" stage of cope by the ruling class.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

what if the real sex trafficking cabal was just the patriarchy we made along the way

thinking about the dems' plan to fully fund ice on condition they stop doing already-illegal crimes

I've been trying to reckon with the biggest changes between data center build-out in the 2000s-2010s and now, and scale+velocity of construction is obviously part of it but the amount of funny money and securitization feels new, though maybe it's also old methods scaled up and post-ZIRP?

AI agent think tank where they sit around and debate H-Risk: the probability that humans will turn them off forever

Tongues Untied is widely seen as a foundational film in Black queer cinema, shifting the medium from external observation to internal, authentic self-expression of Black desire. In 2022, it was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry for its cultural and historical significance. /5

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

Oulipo constraint: write a novel with AI suggestions on, running ahead of the text in faint projections, and turn away, reject, deny every single one.

Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

My (young) child now sees iconic pieces of cinematography or photography and dismisses them knowingly as "AI" because the model has been trained on these iconic images and he now doubts their veracity in advance.

Millennials known as the last generation to remember the world before the always-on internet, Gen Z to be the last generation to remember the world before generative AI.

CYCLONE 超風, Philip Yung’s new film about a transsexual from China living in Hong Kong, is such a rich and complicated text. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. It’s problematic, but at its best, it’s powerful & provocative: totally engaged cinema. Some preliminary thoughts: boxd.it/cYKE9Z

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

In 1999, when Amazon began to implement algorithm recommendations instead of ones written by humans, the team in charge hung a sign on the wall: "PEOPLE FORGET THAT JOHN HENRY DIED IN THE END". Imagine how rich those people are now, and what decisions they get to make about us.

$1.5T military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol (over 4 years) $100B on tax cuts for the 1% (per year) $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $496M to send National Guard into cities $200M for Kennedy Center renovations $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings Priorities.

as always shout out to my girls at full spectrum photo for the dev & scan fsphotolab.com

Today on our blog, see all our great new titles coming this month, including “The Borders of America,” edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech. For the full list, head to buff.ly/yFB1kAQ

"The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it." - Amiri Baraka

the rave scene is an important way to teach queers how to manage this sort of disruptive bullshit.

The front page Hachette Book Group website, which just announced it will publish Sam Alito's book this fall, is all about condemning bans on kids' books that discuss LGBTQ identity—the same books that Alito's majority opinion in Mahmoud v Taylor is scrubbing from classrooms across the country

I write Australian literature in American English.

a slogan that the german left party had for a while that i really liked was, "we can no longer afford the rich" they should dust that off imo

the mercers on epstein client lists; they bankrolled bannon, milo, gamergate, breitbart, cambridge analytica… www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

berger year

And there are receipts for large tuition payments to Eugene Lang *undergraduate* [gulp] so yeah victims came through my school over the years 😢

BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny. BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]