In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.

[ are you happy here? ] #pixelart #pixquare

'Hoping' Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, 150 × 105 mm. #Junicorn

Extremely important point.

Cats on the Rocks 🪨🍸

fairies✨

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

Fall trees. Ink and watercolour. Just messing around and drawing happy little trees.

anthropic researchers say that claude actually does have a model girlfriend it’s just that she works a lot so you probably won’t get to meet her for awhile but she is real and also she can see more colors than shrimp can

Thrilled to see Dan @makeitdoathing.com has finally opened the glitchwear.store store for his one-of-a-kind, computationally generated, buyer-customized knitwear. I'm delighted to confirm that these are gorgeous and comfortable garments, too.

Come on

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/