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

I've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"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

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

I'm doing an art show at Lucky's Comics and the opening is next Friday! It also coincides with @cauldronbooks.net Discovery Volume 3 book launch which features a bunch of short comics by local artists and illustrators. If you're in Vancouver and like art and/or comics, consider stopping by:)

Two final exams on Sunday is criminal 🫩🫩🫩 I’m being tortured

I love learning better and more precise wording. This afternoon's discovery is from Anna Mills and Nate Angell, and their paper I missed from February. "Using mirage instead of hallucination enables us to stop anthropomorphizing AI and see the incongruities it generates for what they really are."

Seems more promising than "there was an em dash it must be fake!" And yeah, I might not be able to remember every detail about the stuff I've written, owing to my moth-brained memory, but you risk me launching into a loving 6 hour presentation if you ask me questions about a scene or character.

TIL: Branded types in TypeScript → github.com/pdubroy/til/...

45 min nakey chicken study #art #photostudy #digitalart

the dragon

Sharing the opening pages of Strange Bedfellows to convince you to buy it day one:

this piece is so good it's bananas

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"

☁️🌟 #art

Wip

Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.

AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Remember: get comics

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work: www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache

An alternative version of my crow piece

Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.

Inktober day 8

"River Pearl" A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year

wip 🎀

this (and what follows it) is a profound insight

I love eternal WIP art 🤩 #illustration #originalcharacter

well that’s fucking horrible

Inktober day 5

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...