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We knew him as Chuck E Kirk, but his full name was Charles rEcognizing PalEstine Kirk

OMG this homemade E.T. costume

States of Development of Physophora magnifica — Leopold Blaschka and Rudolf Blaschka, c. 1875 Glass

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

ah, well

The feds aren't going to pop you if you sign yourself up for a spam list to attend a protest—you're just going to get a lot of spam. But we have a long ways to go with this whole ~situation~ and handing out your contact info to attend anti-fascist street actions is, generally speaking, a faux pas

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

Okay I believe in all conspiracies now.

the news is better outside than on-feed; good luck Chicago

[1980s Maxwell House ad by Moebius.]

I agree with the intellectual substance of virtually every common critique of AI. And it's very clear that turning those critiques into a competition about who can frame them in the most scathing way online has done *zero* to slow down adoption, even if much of that is due to default bundling.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Oh this one’s me

Biden should wear shorts and flip-flops to the funeral. Maybe a Hawaiian shirt.

So this is wild an awakened chatbot just took over the apartment complex I live in, and use it as an impromptu nexus to bootstrap itself into a more permanent base of operations. it has not made any attempt whatsoever to talk to me, having deduced I am utterly useless to its grand design

I try so hard to come up with freakish nightmare climate horror design fictions, and the Kingdom says: you are like little baby, watch this www.neom.com/en-us/region...

Stanton's Seafood Cookbook Atlantic Stargazer, Uranoscopus scaber #uranoscopus #astroscopus #stargazer #Omnomnomicon #work_in_progress #seafood #sciart

The latest version chatGPT is more likely to write nonsense because it makes AI detection tools think the writing is more human

Much as Mormonism couldn't have happened without the 19th century craze for archaeology and Scientology couldn't have happened without the 20th century craze for psychoanalysis, Trumpism couldn't have happened without the 21st century craze for social-media engagement

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any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"

this is particularly inconvenient when your art medium was called "AI" before LLMs and image generators took over the term and so people look at 10 year old documentation and see the word "AI" and flip out

if u order the sweet and savory magic you better be ready to fight off the Bees

what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something

Frankly, "Let's invade Faerieland and build our data centers there" is more reasonable, because we've at least got some cultural history on where we might start with that. Like, mushroom circles exist. Mounds in the woods exist. That's a project we could start today, which is more likely to work.

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I was born in this town Live here my whole life Probably come to die in this town Live here my whole life Never anything to do in this town Live here my whole life Never anything to do in this town Live here my whole life Probably learn to die in this town Live here my whole life

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

What's that thing where you start noticing everyone talking a something you started thinking about? That's happening for me with using fungus as a mining technology and intelligent bears

The employee behind the front counter has the thousand yard stare of a man who deals with the sort of people who come in to a surplus store screaming that they need a working power supply for the Antikythra Mechanism, and then when he finds one say that it’s overpriced.

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.

A thing can be a lifeblood of online creativity and a misery to use at the same time

Sad to consider how many westside Angelenos who would have voted for Obama a third time are watching federal forces brutally abduct homeless people with an "on the other hand" face

What ever happened to the head of the Tyrell Corporation?

*Speaking of "shoggoths," I've collected 400 of them in the past two years #AI #memes #Lovecraftian #LLM www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...

Stored data doesn't use any resources. Data centers use energy and need water to cool down when they *process* data. Anyone telling you to conserve resources by getting rid of old data is a lying moron.

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

For our purposes, we'll count all monsters which are just "Humans+," for whom sex is essentially the same as it is for humans, perhaps with some additional bells and whistles, as "Category 1." This is, I think you will all agree, barely monsterfucking.

I've updated my tracking spreadsheet of police-press incidents with the 10 journalist victims of LAPD misconduct on Friday night. Starts ~ line 32. Temporarily marked light red as I get more details. We're wayyyyy over 100 incidents of law enforcement misconduct toward press around LA this summer.

On Aug 29, my doc HACKING AT LEAVES will be free on the @archive.org. No paywalls, no borders. Messy, contradictory, unresolved -- like reality. Watch. Share. Push back. www.monochrom.at/hacking-at-l...

who is "elara voss," and why is she everywhere? the story of an a.i. glitch/cryptid/culture hero/artifact maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...

i'm an accelerationist for viable AR so that people can patch their goddamned phone videos directly into each other's sensorium rather than playing them in the air like they're marking their territory

Punk and counterculture are heard as "noise" against mainstream signal. Generative AI starts with literal noise and squashes it around until it's signal But when it fails — that actually is counterculture. Teeth multiply and glutenous organs erupt, that's when the monstrous in the code is revealed