Notes from a meeting of glitch artists. _ #glitchart

A large and well-known artist studio building in Brooklyn went up in flames two nights ago. Some lost a lifetime of work.

I then did more research. Found only two alerts by other artists. Not enough. Be careful out there! This is the sender of the email: [email protected] (report for phishing). Share it, please, thank you. 2/2 #art

brief glitch to break the day

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

I don't know why this is so hard to understand: the rich stay rich because their wealth does not "trickle down"; taxes are how their wealth gets spread around the country. Its very simple, obvious even.....

The sad thing about this post is that even if real, it looks like it could be AI, and that undermines all critiques.... bsky.app/profile/melm...

For secure comms in strange times try this tails.net #ice #protests #trump

test frame

Anyone who talks about a "paradox of tolerance" is a fool, or they have an adjenda to promote intolerance: tolerance is a social cobtract where both sides agree to tolerate the other.

So now they're firings shots at diplomats ? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Two of my works are being considered for the Auggie Awards. They are up for public voting. May I ask for your votes for “Arab Future Tripping” under Societal Impact and “Capital Glitch” under Indie Creators? Societal.. auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/b... Indie.. auggies.awexr.com/entry/vote/b...

Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

Once you decide wages are lost profits, your company is doomed. This is true of government too.

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

The tariffs are simply a means, the goal is the end of our information econony based on high skill and intelligent labor, and a return to nineteenth century robber barons, the capitalist version of feudal lords.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

"Unforgivable error": Citizens and residents receive cancellation notice of parole and order to leave the U.S. Thousands of people are receiving the email urging them to leave the country. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

This article describes how AI imposes a structural control in all human actions in the name of digital rights management. Now imagine that it is done by the government. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/08/i...

AI is appealing to authoritarians because it isn't human: it just does what its told to do, no matter how evil, unlike humans who might refuse or fight back

Fake emergencies and fake problems are always the best since you can have them and suffer no negative effects, but you still get to blame everything on them.

The plan is clearly to replace the US government with an AI that will keep the richest in power "forever" by controling everyone else by restricting and dictating what/which services they get; services such as food, housing, education, health care, legal protection....

Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.

I heard the orange felon hates this hideous portrait of himself and his demanding Colorado officials take it down from being displayed in their state Capitol. Don’t you dare continue to spread it around. 😏

Imagine having social media but not having an urgency to have an opinion on everything.

some shots of my movie Memory Hole at Spazju Kreattiv in Malta

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

nice coverage of my show at Spazju Kreattiv in Valetta, Malta

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

and one more

some random ones from the '10's

Newtek Video Toaster glitch, 1990

posting old glitches from the 1990s

alpha channels in control net imeags do weird things to AImage generators

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10

Doors open, doors close #glitchart

AImaglitch. the weird bars at the top and bottom are a nice extra

We ought to be raising taxes on the top %, not lowering them.

new experiments with AImaglitches

Trying to fit "the brain's range of behaviors" into "things a computer can do" is a hilarious premise

I'm in this show! GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION & SYSTEM FAILURES reflects on digitality & resistance to challenge audiences to think critically about the state of our technology-dependent society, and the importance of protest movements over the past 100 years. #glitch #glitchart

Deskilling expertise means a public ready to be controlled by whatever fantasy the tech owners want to promote. AI is an attempt to replace skilled professions and control their expertise domains.

AI search is a disaster for the uninformed: they cannot distinguish fact from hallucination, so are ready to be manipulated by whatever the system owner wants to promote.

AI cannot replace expertise. If you are a walking Dunning-Kruger Effect, you are at the mercy of the AI hallucinations and will never be better than an actual expert because you can't tell the fantasies from reality. Any claim otherwise is simply an excuse to eliminate expertise and deskill labor.

AI is the digital equivalent of assembly line automation: mindless, utterly rote, noncreative. Claims otherwise are an attempt to replace human intelligent labor with a cheaper machine that does not adapt or innovate, but always follows orders however immoral.