The (lack of) coverage of the drone attack on Zelenskyy’s plane is tbh in line with how the West views EEuropeans: as expendable, as savages who Just Attack One Another and can’t help it, why report on water being wet

This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist. While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.

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New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all. “How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism” youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU

I fucked up my sleep schedule a lot, because it's dark and weird and I'm out of my sleep aiding supplement. I tried to unfuck it with one of my methods (tm) but accidentally fucked it up even more, sigh. second attempt in progress.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I've been looking through my digital collection of psychedelic 60s posters in order to get into the grove with creating this style of typography, since I'm really out of practice (it's for new stickers) and it's making me really nostalgic but in a nice way

I've run out of flour? I mean, there's a ton of flour in this house, but not the basic wheat flour, which I've used all up right now. I'm about to find out how yeasted rolls do with oats and semolina. my grocery store is playing holiday music already, can they have 5kg flour bags for pln9,99 again?

This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”

A reminder that every time Ru appeals to legal arguments (Ru constitution includes Ukr regions; Ru can't legally sign w Ukr because martial law has postponed elections), we should laugh. Ru law is utterly devoid of legality; it's a pure instrument of the state for post hoc justifying its actions.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms. "fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

hey, I clean regularly! how else I would have space for all these books, plants, pottery, and weird and probably cursed things I found on the walks, not to mention all the art supplies

I picked up a crayon as soon as I mastered motor control good enough to scribble on walls and just never put it down. my parents provided paper, more crayons, and sealed the deal with art albums and museum visits. there wasn't much thoughts involved in the process.

“Keira's assessment in 2024, …concluded that she did not have "sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently". Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?

Why are we surprised that the USA, which is currently indiscriminately bombing civilians in the Caribbean, supports the side in the Russo-Ukrainian war that's currently indiscriminately bombing civilians in Europe? What about their actions says that they care about Europe or international law?

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Like, a dozen or so people have all the money and they constantly complain about everyone else not spending more.

I'm equally excited and terrified

damn, not roman szmal aquarius watercolours after my money with surprise limited edition colour again

For context: russia chooses Ukrainian nationals for sabotage in Poland *precisely* to spread xenophobia and mistrust towards Ukraine. Ukrainians living in Poland are facing way too much shit already. Don’t fall for it.

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library.”

goclaw be like

Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives. Hmmmmm

This systemic deliberate Russian terror, year after year, generation after generation, country after country. The impact of all this on health and wellbeing… the scale of this, that has never been properly accounted for

this

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Stop “debunking” Stop playing “spot a bit/ AI” Look for the humans. You can’t beat their ability to flood the zone . We’re tired , overwhelmed , and under resourced We can shift the zone

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

I can't believe it still bears repeating in 2025, but: preventing NATO expansion in Eastern Europe and limiting military support to Ukraine is supporting Russian imperialism

I think about this with AI too-- there is a set of people who don't just appreciate it, but actually feel entitled to it. And I think it's because they find the actual experience of critical thought uncomfortable. Which is a feeling they have been taught to experience as unjustly-inflicted pain.

And I think if we look at the way the right has taken hold of a lot of younger people, it's by telling them that those feelings of discomfort are actually inflicted pain-- a product of violence done to them by politics that make them uncomfortable.

(roses are red violets are blue the singular "they" predates singular "you)

Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns. Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com Please share widely!

we had a thunderstorm earlier (wtf october) with its signature surreal golden sky later

Once again: conflating the ability to use (normative) language with intelligence is an ableist, racist concept that has been used for centuries to exclude Deaf people, ND people, POC, speakers of dialects and minority languages, and so on And don't get me started on nonhuman animal intelligence

ah yes, my personal nemesis and its uncanny ability to wreck my sleep schedule, daylight saving time

I want new tattoo (my latest one is month old; getting a tattoo always wakes my hunger for more)

I haven't opened this app in months, i didn't expect all the notifications 🫣 hello everyone Since you guys seemed to like my other bird griffin post, here's some recent bullfinch mini griffins 🪶

A handy guide for knowing when runes & Nordic symbols are cause for concern. Context is always essential. #PaganSky #HeathenSky #WitchSky #DruidSky

I showed the video of this legendary performance last year at my trek fandom history talk at the convention. few people from the audience left, but the rest was delighted, and orgs says I received a lot of praise for this one

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

So I think that in fact claims like "But we need new language to talk about what these things do" (paraphrasing Bubeck at the CHM debate in March) really in fact betray the speaker's desire for algorithms to maybe, just maybe be sentient/conscious/etc.

Convo last week -- Them: It's hard to talk about this stuff ("AI") without using anthropomorphizing language Me: It's really not, actually Some further reflections >>

Agreed. Mass market paperback first, as wide and cheap as possible so readers take a chance on a new author without shelling out a ton.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…