The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.

The Snow Queen, by Edmund Dulac, 1911.

Don't look at the reflection 🍂

A Murder

I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.

The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online. open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...

And in red!

this is the best website invented www.youraislopbores.me

you used it and it worked??? let me update my priors

If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me

This is an essential read.

It's not the same thing, but I could not help but think of @grimalkina.bsky.social's Why I Cannot Be Technical: www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...

Oh hell yeah @telekitnetic.bsky.social

getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...

Creatures from the deepest sea

A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃 #ArtAdventCalendar

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

back to gouache (it's hard T_T)

I think LinkedIn might be the only place on the internet where the widespread and unstoppable spread of machine generated text has made zero noticeable difference to anything

Great curated list of critical AI books from Prof. Dagmar Monett #AcademicSky monettdiaz.com/books-critic...

OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title

I love when my University education is being graded on “the quality of my interactions with ChatGPT”

My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...

I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨

The rocks always knew math, we just force them to perform for us

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...

Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.

Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈‍⬛

I again am inviting you to write a post on my blog it can be anything, leave poetry if you want just visit here write something then hit publish www.bobbby.online/editor keeping it open til someone ruins it

Was going out to meet a fried to see if there were any birds out this morning, but arrived to some fun foggy conditions after a bit of snow last night. #photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono

This year’s New Year mailing, featuring del Toro’s response to AI art. Feels appropriate to set in 19th century type & ornament given the unbelievable (and largely lost) skill needed to design & cast items with this level of detail. #letterpress

"We bridge this gap and show that it is feasible to extract memorized, long-form parts of copyrighted books from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.

How to draw eyes

Sciences like anthropology are so valuable because they provide refutations to "this is the way it always was, and thus the way it has to be" type assertions. Its very different to the science I do, but perhaps even more valuable.

free Bluesky tip: if you see someone claiming that an LLM is a "nonhuman entity" you don't have to take them seriously, you can, in fact, make fun of them for being a mark in a game that's being played at their own expense

Hi new people. I’m Eva and I mainly post my own fantasy drawings and paintings.

Anna Weyant (Canadian Artist, born 1995) "It’s Coming from inside the House", 2024. Oil on Canvas, 121.9 × 91.4 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

Boris is still at it and still gets it. Logging properly is on you and rn your: loggingsucks.com

It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this

“Once an AI pathology tool had identified a person’s race, they became overly-obsessed with finding previous analyses that fit that particular identifier.”

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

simply unacceptable