i know writers who use subtext and they're cowards moment

When we ask "what if that was your daughter," a common patriarchal question to dig for empathy over property ownership, we erase who is actually centered & protected in rape culture. What if that were your son, your brother, or your friend? And we know the answer. It's been very loud.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

I like that she's dressed like a command and conquer fmv cutscene character

The neat thing about Christmas is that it not only is the time of stress, consumerism, and coercion, participation being mandatory but that there's also stories about how anyone who'd prefer to opt out is a horrible monster who needs to be bullied into realizing the error of their autistic ways.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

If you understand and agree with the moral and economic/political/labour centric arguments against genAI, then it should be obvious no amount of it is acceptable. I don't care how tired you are or how good you think that one thing that used some of it was. It's not that difficult.

Crazy isn't it how every website is happy to nuke the 60 minutes piece from orbit, clearly putting dedicated engineer and moderation time into doing it, on copyright grounds, but there's just nothing they can do about AI?

Copyright is about corporate power, repression of information and maintenance of culture monopolies and everyone who thinks it's going to protect them has been sold a bill of goods

Is this the right time to point out that in the world that copyright maximalists want, we would not be able to view the cecot documentary?

that's really another thing I'll never get over when people make the "bluh bluh game studios are only using it internally and no ai assets will be in the game". I don't care. You're giving enterprise solution money directly to some of the most evil people alive who will use it to do more evil shit.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

It doesn't matter that you protected a bunch of neo nazi and far right groups right to protest because when they gain power, they simply change the rules so the rights that protected them don't protect others. You can't sit there and just say "but that's illegal!"

One thing that liberals obsessed with process and rights based frameworks fail to understand is that it's always about power and they always underestimate bad faith actors. When authoritarians seize power, they don't care about the rules. They enact their will with limited restraint.

What's so frustrating in this moment of explicit government censorship is how many times groups like the ACLU and others told us they _had_ to defend neo nazis because of the principle of free speech. Now that fascists are in power, none of those principles are protecting marginalized groups.

it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.

AI is a technology for Looking Busy

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

My brilliant strategy of yelling “THIS WILL TAKE YOUR JOB AND YOU’LL DIE IN THE GUTTER LOL” hasn’t worked. I guess it’s because everyone is too stupid to appreciate it.

I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product

is it difficult to believe that both the conservative and liberal political wings are completely okay with sexual abuse towards trans people and towards children, and are trying everything to minimize attempts to fight it? all empire is built on such bone shards. patriarchy cannot run without rape

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

Tear down all academic idols! "If Chomsky’s defining intellectual contribution was the naming of structural violence — the unseen forms of harm produced by political and economic systems — then what we see here is its fraternal twin: structural silence" uniliterate.com/2025/12/stru...

i really do believe the push for AI is purely ideological. a hatred of human beings and human creativity. these CEOs admit point blank that it hasn't made workflow more efficient. it's not profitable. the backlash is certainly bad for marketing and will hurt sales. they don't care.

man remember back when studios would pay artists for lush concept art and then you could buy the artbook along with the game you know something we were doing less than a few weeks ago watching these same studios go "actually fuck art we're hiring slop prompters now" is just bizarre

click through the stack of quote posts, all correct and well said, but the only thing I'll add on top is inviting people to consider who benefits from academic citations collapsing under distrust, ex. the people wrecking our healthcare system, climate science, accurate understanding of history, etc.

Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

Lately I've been feeling so deeply exhausted about how every single creative person is wasting so much time thinking about and arguing about how this useless dogshit doesn't work and can never work; so I gotta say, seeing players overwhelmingly understand that too makes me SO happy and encouraged

we already had access to every library in the world. it was called jstor and you made nerds hang themselves for accessing it without paying

Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.

hey it's not just fortnite it's rocket league as well

Drop Fortnite

I disagree. They know trans women are women and they know trans kids are who they say they are. The thing is, they agree with our subjection, our being a class it is okay to be physically and sexually violent toward, and they want to keep it that way.

Something we should understand about generative AI is how deeply capitalist it is. It's fundamentally about squeezing more value for capital out of existing work to try and automate intellectual and creative labor, the kinds of labor that can't truly be automated.

As this Crimethinc article I keep coming back to says: crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...

"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.

whenever you push someone on what they mean when they say what they’re doing with AI isn’t just writing prompts what it always comes down to is they’re just writing prompts but they are a unique visionary who is better at writing prompts than everyone else. No you’re not lol

Transition is a form of ultimate total bodily autonomy and these are people who get off on total subjugation, on total power over someone else's body. Opposing transness is a currently socially acceptable way to support pedophilia and rape

beating a dead horse but part of what makes art both worthwhile to the creator of it and interesting to the beholder is that you can’t actually beam ideas from your head into exactly what you imagined that way when you make it yourself, and the left turns and fingerprints are all part of it

YES! this is what techbros who have let their creative selves wither call "procrastination" or "inefficiency" and try to technologise away, not understanding that it is the source of creativity and imagination and everything good

"Something that I have found difficult for non-artists to understand is that the ‘early messy stuff’ that non-arty folks insist can be ‘fixed by a human artist later’ is where the best work is done." True of every creative field. You can't start building halfway up; the foundation has to be sound.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

“You don’t get to judge me for where I draw my ethical lines with the media I consume, your phone is made using slave labour.” Nah, we all get to be judged for our choices. If you disagree with that judgement, you have no reason to care. If it makes you feel guilty, make choices you can stand behind

this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.