Love that how Bluesky is handling 85% of the people from Gaza entering stage five of a famine is by mass deleting their accounts again

Imagine not just the sheer physical amount of waste produced, but the amount of investor cash spent on this folly. Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.

really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2

The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/1969...

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.

Gen-AI moment is like early 2000s when aerial images proliferated but cultural aerial vocab lacked so the state read them for us as pseudo-empirical images. The power that produces such tech paradigms always takes advantage of the novelty period where interpretative lexicons are still developing.

It's like all the tech bros trying to defend AI after ChatGPT lost at chess to an Atari. Their argument is that the Atari is custom built to play chess. And that is the point. LLMs are great at synthesizing data into something that sounds good. But that doesn't mean they can actually do the work

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

“𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.” - Nam June Paik

Vibe researching

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Did Native Americans have habeas corpus when they were death marched to reservations? Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings? Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

At some point in the last 25 years, corporations managed to convince people that it was worthwhile to trade control over our own information and actual ownership of the things we purchase for convenience. Things that used to be "normal" are now seen as "luxury goods" that demand a premium.

NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit. futurism.com/emerson-coll...

everybody gets digital mummies, lifeless nth-order approximations (as are we all), and the most wifeless neckbeards ever will chime in chorus "our consciousnesses have been DIGITALLY UPLOADED, we're gonna live forever maaan" (digital soul lost to data corruption, under/over, 20 years)

The Freedom Flotilla’s ship ‘The Conscience’ has come under attack in international waters by armed drones. The ship was unarmed and onboard were 30 non-violent humanitarian activists preparing to sail to Gaza and challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade.

They’re both very evil and very stupid

Wait did Bluesky really truly bully Adobe off this platform because if so I take back every flippant shitpost about this place being boring af and pledge my undying devotion 🦋

US higher ed is: *an incredible tool of soft power *which generates billions, subsidizing US students *attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HOLD WITH REVERENCE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COMPUTERS CAME FROM THE GROUND.

My solo exhibition of hand coded generative audiovisuals printed in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s spring 2025 newsletter ☀️ Exhibition runs til September 7

It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.

Newsletter: As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profits. Meanwhile crypto companies write their own rules, and an adviser mulls swapping US gold reserves for bitcoin. www.citationneeded.news/issue-80/

The United States "illegally revoked" the passport of W.E.B. Du Bois, a U.S. citizen, in 1956.. www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Not enough journalists are talking about the fact that Greenland’s Inuit people— Indigenous people—are 88% of the population of Greenland. Like, why is the White-owned media not talking about yet another Indigenous land grab by the U.S. ? Have they no shame at all?

“There is an opportunity to dismantle AI hype and to focus on what AI is: a method of processing information. It is capable of creating statistically likely arrangements of text from a large corpus of language. The issue is what human behavior and data are appropriate to be sorted.”

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

Considering the Whites in charge of the US government forcibly removed Native Americans from their own lands without due process in violation of treaties, I think everyone present in the US is probably fair game to be removed for any reason without due process—the American way

A 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the United States since she was a child sued President Trump and other high-ranking administration officials on Monday after immigration officials tried to arrest and deport her. Yunseo Chung participated in a Barnard sit-in this month.

Just a reminder that if you'd like to read an honest view on Sweden during the pandemic, this volume is your best bet (disclaimer: I helped edit several chapters). The digital version is free. I can recommend Bergholtz's chapter, among others. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Installation view of Biophony, my solo exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Biophony is a hand coded generative synesthesia environment. Grateful to the SMoCA team for all their support. Exhibition runs til Sep 7th ☀️

250 Venezuelans have been disappeared into one of the worst prisons in Central America based on Trump’s invocation of a law only used 3 times in our history - the last time resulted in the Japanese-American internment. These men have had no due process. It’s monstrous. nypost.com/2025/03/16/u...

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

West Virginia Republicans just legalized sexual assault against children. This is the child predator enabling act. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

People keep saying I’m “brave” for speaking out, which is sweet, but if you saw this like I did you’d know that it’s much, much, scarier to sit quietly.

I have never heard praise for generative AI from someone I respect creatively

This is also known as invading Panama.

Don’t want to link her profile because of evil people, but I googled Khalil’s lawyer, and she’s exactly the kind of badass we need—-former public defender, worked on death penalty cases in law school, has a freaking PhD in library sciences. Love this so much. The legal profession has an icon.

It means a lot having my first museum solo show opening today 🌞 Exhibition text via Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Happy International Women’s Day 🌎🌍🌏

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

Racist lies about a coordinated "mass rape" campaign on 10/7 are used to justify the genocide—and have fueled increased sexual violence against Palestinians. Victims aren't seeing their stories told anywhere, discouraging them from coming fwd. I talked to Palestinian legal advocates+activists:

Also dug this one about two Kenyan woman's efforts to rebuild a series of colonial-era libraries as spaces for anticolonial imagination and community, even as corruption in the post-colonial government actively undermines that goal. So relevant to the US moment of mass cultural erasure, so good.