This is disgusting, cowardly garbage. Let trans women play tennis. Everyone who entertained 'just asking questions about men in women's sports' should understand that this was never, and is is not, about sports, but pretending it was sure did pave the way to erasing trans people from public life.

"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

We just opened up more slots for our Manhattan training this Saturday, November 22! We’ll discuss the moment, offer skills training such as know your rights & ICE watch, share organizing strategies, and connect you with your neighbors and so you can start getting organized locally! Register here:

the New Dark Age (h/t @jamesbridle.bsky.social)

AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw" And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.

Artists and writers! It's not too late to get something going for Fall of Freedom, a nation-wide wave of creative resistance taking place on Nov 21 & 22. Over 450 events in 40 states are already planned. See more info here:

What if Mephisto but no soul to begin with and dumb as rocks

I am so proud this morning and every morning to be working for TJLP.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

RIP Alison Knowles. Damn. hyperallergic.com/1054017/alis...

FYI performing artists: Manhattan Plaza (subsidized housing for artists in midtown) has opened their waitlist. Offers are for 1 or 2 bdrm apartments capped at 30% of income. Details in the flyer below. Jump on it.

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

my god

This protest is a reminder that *there are more of us than there are of them*. They could never put this many people on the street. What they are trying to do is institute permanent minority rule, but our values, our culture and our solidarity will prevail.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Attention artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dancers, illustrators, etc etc etc.! We're inviting all artists everywhere (in the US) to join this amazing project. Visit falloffreedom.com for info about how to get involved. #FallOfFreedom

Fascinating. "Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."

It does provoke the question why it took 15 years for progressive think tanks to think (tank) this...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Reminder that the federal government was once the largest employer of Black women in the country. DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate. The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.

Not sure how I missed this, but on Friday we got a nice big win in the @aclu.org 's lawsuit against the NEA -- a permanent block on the agency enforcing Trump's "gender ideology" exec. order.

Personal news! Since I just got my ID and everything, guess it's finally ok to announce that I am the new Guest Curator for Art and Technology at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Over the top happy about this.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Klobuchar at the Senate Judiciary Chatbot Harms hearing: "So your son was continually engaged with a chatbox from Character A1, is that right?"

Everybody read this great conversation between Tim Miller (one of the Plaintiffs in the NEA 4 case ) and Adam Odsess-Rubin (from Nat'l Queer Theater, one of the Plaintiffs in the current NEA lawsuit). #aclu

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

what a noble beast

Artists! Send your AI stories to Brian!

finally found the song of the summer

When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald

This is a form of child abuse. "A.i." damages people's ability to think critically, robs people of the joy and human experience of creating art, and exposes them to propaganda controlled by fascist billionaires. Obscene. Do not let your kids participate in this. Yell at anyone who pushes it.

Fixed it for him: "Last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because I, as governor, showered luxury developers with tax breaks, cut NYCHA funding, gutted rent laws, blocked tenant protections, and oversaw the loss of 150k+ affordable units."

So many insane details in this article. But it appears that Steuerwald (and his advisor Cheyney Ryan) are handling this just right.

The essential Dread Scott: "Make as much trouble as you can. And get a lot of friends. The world is intolerable as it is. Make art about it."

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Shameful action from Lonnie Bunch. And well done to Amy Sherald.

The AI "Damn the Torpedoes" Plan is out...

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

"Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools, whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Just thinking about this for absolutely no reason.

The monsters of the IDF have been shooting hundreds of starving people at food distribution stations

ACLU lawyers accomplished this class action suit blocking Trump’s unconstitutional EO that has tried to abolish birthright citizenship. The ACLU is fighting every illegal move by the Trump administration. It’s never too late to set up a recurring donation, however small: www.aclu.org

Hello if anyone is in LA this weekend I am performing my piece Prometheus Firebringer at Redcat. fri/sat at 8:30