It's amazing to me that in a supposedly critical AI discourse on Bluesky, the recent Björk hubub is basically nonexistent. It took a hint on X from Matt Dryhurst and a german article to get me updated. (I'm also not the biggest Björk fan so i'm out of the loop per se, but i highly respect her work.)

There's stuff like Suno and then there's this.

So, people are starting to expect sycophancy from humans now. "How dare you not support my narcisism?", etc. Meanwhile, "1 in 5 teens turn to AI chatbots for mental health advice, but a majority of them keep it secret". If you think that current generations are entitled brats, just wait a little.

Oh no! She's mostly known for Persepolis, but she also did Chicken with Plums and the excellent fun horror comedy The Voices with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick. Sad day.

The irony of connectionism starting as an alternative* to representational notions of AI, now reinforcing those notions. I am still baffled by the lack of embodiment/enactivism in current debates. *e.g. Dupuy: The Mechanization of the Mind

Even after these women have been digitally stripped of their clothes, xAI is trying to harm them even more by removing the last bit of protection they have, their names. If their names are released, it's guaranteed they'll get harassed. It's shameful, expected behavior from xAI.

Adobe is supporting the CREATOR Act (Creative Rights for Artists' Technique and Originality Are Reserved Act) which claims to protect artists "against style impersonation". blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2... It's copyright for style, and that's bad.

every video I took while working on projects over the last 9 months, 50x speed.

AI Critics often brush away the democratizing functions of generative AI, but here's a good example: "Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival". www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Plenty of reasons why Martin Scorsese has no clue about storyboarding incoming!

"An argument is a collective series of statements to establish a definite proposition."

Polarized mirrors: "AI systems may not just reproduce political divisions in their outputs; they may become objects of political sorting in their own right". Chatbots are like platforms, and people sort themselves into their favorite political mirror image.

I don't know what you are doing with image synthesis, but i'm having fun

"AI is beginning to reduce the labor of becoming." Nietzsche would be horrified. The Existential Ergonomics of Artificial Intelligence --> www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

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same

OMG. When i imagined years ago that AI will lead to a hackfest, i didn't imagine that hackfest to be... well, *this*

I'm still pissed at Mia Ballards horror novel Shy Girl not being published on the suspicion of AI use. I wonder how long it will take for us to get over the paranoia of automatic text production and simply evaluate writing based on "speaks to me" or "doesn't" again.

With times being as dark as they are, the need for commentary, criticism, and critique surrounding the horror genre has never been more needed. And here we are, ready to speak. Darker Times is a new worker-owned horror magazine, follow us into the dark… darkertimes.com

This superb new paper by @mrsbunz.bsky.social makes the same point in considerably more depth with a theory of meaning making for generative writing. The conclusion: a call to go “beyond the usual human reaction to tame or make disappear what is different.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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The NYT interviews a prompt: "Her head no longer changed shape when we talked". Banger. Synthetic humans are the lowest form of using interpolatable archives, but interviewing their prompts might even be lower than that.

“Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.” ― Jean Michel Basquiat

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

Rightwingers' hyperfixation on genitals never ceases to amaze.

The Times They Are a-Changin'

Last one for the night. This was my view of the Moonrise. Just beautiful to capture it as it emerged into the evening sky. #astronomy #astrophotography

Interesting choice of words here, amnesty is about "standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping". The lawfulness of AI-webscraping practices are under scrutiny, but afaik they are not unlawful (yet). Grey area stuff you shouldn't base a human rights evaluation on imo.

The cult of the Singularity Nonsense and his brethren from the Simulation are at it again.

While i like this kinda poetic illustration for a real product degradation, i also think these will go away soon, not only because models constantly improve, but because with models you can reroute inquiries to symbolic processing and then your sunset is back. Good morning.

In my essay on the Pitfalls of Probability goodinternet.substack.com/p/interpolat... i imagined the various cognitive dangers from AI as the 9 Demons from Probability Hell. Here they are as actionfigures. Collect them all!

The worst use for generative AI is "writing." biblioracle.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Not one but *two* mid budget horror movies topping box office in summer 26 beating a mediocre Star Wars blockbuster. Good times.

Still one of the most important papers on socmed distortions "authoritarian tendencies are 3X as likely to predict whether people share their political opinion on social media (compared to pro-democratic values)."

I think Danah Boyd is right in regards to platforms like TikTok, but she doesn't account for the "silent retreat" into the dark forest web, the groupchats and discords. While public facing socmed becomes a sideshow for old people like me, the style of socmed is shifting. But it's not dead.

The protofascist Trump administration erasing the historic record from its websites is the same as --> State media control influences large language models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

The wrath of stock photo training data

New wave of AI-is-sentient nonsense incoming. (No doubt the paper shows something real and the internal pseudopsychology of LLMs is fascinating, but then along comes Richard Dawkins and draws conclusions and ugh.)

So much GOODMUSIC featuring new songs from Iceage / The Barbarians of California / Gracie Abrams / José Gonzales / Softcult / JJerome87 / Some Velvet Sidewalk / Son Lux / The Tallest Man on Earth / The Garden and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!

That's one great giant billionaire splosion space oopsie to wake up to 💥

Apropos good music here's GOODMUSIC featuring new songs and tracks from Grrrl Gang / Suki Waterhouse / JPEGMAFIA / Modest Mouse / Charli xcx / Olivia Rodrigo / Gilla Band / Jungle / Goldie Boutilier / aja monet and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!

Japanese artist Daito Manabe built a "one-shot AI music-video pipeline that starts with a song and a single reference image, then runs transcription, subtitle correction, GPT-5.5 shot scripting, Runway API video generation, and final assembly" daito.ws/projects/sel...

Good try at disentangling the cognition/intelligence debate about AI.

Interestingly, here, the roles are inverted. Golem and Annie's knowledge is total (perfect circle) where human's is jagged.