Recently realized that I’ve been doing paid graphic design in some capacity for at least 25 years, and we are truly at a nadir of quality in both client and end product. Everything is AI garbage and I’m never gonna stop yelling about it being AI garbage to those that would use it or defend it.

The image in the quoted skeet is of an article titled "waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police" with a picture of a waymo in san bruno, CA. This is nightmare shit.

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

More words for students: The administrators who push "A.i." on you are your enemies. They do not care about your education, about your minds, about your actual abilities. They serve only money. Treat them with utter contempt. Do the actual work. Learn all you can in spite of them.

AI for everything is not inevitable. And even if it were, that would not justify accepting (let alone defending) Carney's push to integrate AI everywhere and built many more data centres. His fans are on the wrong side. The rest of us will be fighting back.

Six fingers isn’t the obvious tell that AI was used for this ad—it’s that the woman looks like a soulless demon instead of a real human, which is what all AI generated images look like.

I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

If you're not wearing an N95 in all indoor public places you are refusing to mildly sacrifice to help others, since we are still "during covid". Reflecting on this may help you understand the people you are rightly appalled by.

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

The Torment Nexus has great connectivity, but hopefully the next version will adjust the volume of the screaming.

Behold some of my finest pun work—the Autokorok.

"Aye, Bilbo, from the dawn of time we came, moving silently through the centuries. Leading many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the gathering, when the few of us who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you ... until now." #LOTR #booksky #BeOnlyOneRing

This is me right now, so much so that I immediately went looking to see if anyone else was annoyed enough by it to have posted about it already.

Never mind the active harms that the AI torment nexus is already causing everyone in Canada whether they know it or not, this is the actual text from the federal budget impact report on who benefits from all that seizing of potential.

This is why the term “cognitive surrender” needs to start being used QUICKLY. It actually clearly defines what these fools want.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

As we get excited about a mission around the moon that includes a Canadian astronaut, a quick reminder that Carney is cutting funding for the Canadian Space Agency by 33%. globalnews.ca/news/1173746...

When the writers’ advocacy org can’t read the room, this is what you get—April Fool’s jokes about AI job loss headlines that aren’t remotely far-fetched in the current climate of precarity our creative industry humans are facing, never mind humanity itself. They should work on their media literacy.

Today I realized that my local "writers' guild," of which I am a paying member, doesn't exactly have their finger on the pulse of the writing community. All the reactions to their April Fool's post were a mixture of various levels of trauma. #amwriting #books #noai

I hate April Fools but I really hate this. Sorry I don't find the destruction of my career a particularly funny outcome and the only ones impacted by this post would be people who are already vigilant for these job losses. People's futures are not something for a professional org to joke about.

Oh so now copyright matters.

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

There's a lot of external pressure on AI ethics to produce solutions instead of critique. As someone who's worked a lot on CSAM, NCII, mental health, and creative harms of AI, if AI developers would have only listened to critiques, we could have avoided all these harms in the first place.

It's a bloodbath for science, health, immigration, Canada Post, and many many other services and supposed Canadian values.

[COVID zine 1/18] Droplet spread theory is outdated. Respiratory illnesses are primarily transmitted by aerosols. www.wired.com/story/the-te... Powerful institutions have been ignoring this information because of the structural changes needed. clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat...

Is it not bad enough that everyone continues to slobber over all of this earth-incinerating AI nonsense, but do we also need to be burning our resources and federal funding on AI coaches for video games?

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Masking at a meeting

She does.

Fascism is here bc we turned our backs on the vulnerable when told pandemic is over when it’s not. Fascists saw how most are OK letting disabled, chronically ill, elderly & kids “fall by the wayside”, showed them they could hurt anyone to take everything. Not too late to turn it around. Solidarity✊😷

Badly sprained my ankle while goofing around pretend sword fighting in the street with my partner at the time. Twenty years later, that ankle is still kinda prone to rolling if I’m not careful.

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

SCROOGE: You there, boy! What day is it? BOY: It's December 26th. SCROOGE: Oh shit. Oh fuck.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

You need to be observing things while a small batshit puppet played by Frank Oz beats your knees with a stick. Until you can answer why you make stuff, what fuels it, and how you foster the practice, you won’t have a single untainted idea. Get your head out of chatGPT’s metaphorical asshole.

This is how I survive. This is how I write. And it is something I consciously practice. If you are at the point you’re like “hey busted-ass magic 8 ball that kills people, give me an idea”, you need a year in the woods or up a mountain reconnecting with your own goddamn brain.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

the only truly safe data is the kind that is not collected

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Even in 2025, it is rare to get a game with a fully-realized female protagonist that isn't cringey fan-service/eye candy for men. The first Control was like somebody read my mind, and made exactly the kind of game I want to play. I do not feel that way about Control Resonant at all.

Los n4tzis también cambiaron a tipografías de tipo romano. La historia es muy curiosa, y más lo es cuando tiene a repetirse. Dentro minihilo.

This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context “Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!” Yeah no thanks

Here's the reality this example illustrates: It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

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.

The amount of shady looks I get for wearing respirators with patients, for providing N95s to patients and cleaning the air from colleagues. I have an evidence based practice. This is what the evidence shows. Public health has shifted to what is popular. Imagine if we had done that with seatbelts.

‘90s dance classics have been the soundtrack to my endless de-gunking the new apartment chorin’, so it was nice to get back to dancing while cooking instead.

Defending and endorsing "genAI" is anti-human behaviour. It is grotesque that we're allowing this to continue as it takes such a toll on vulnerable people.

My cold and well considered take on generative text AI: I don’t want to take the time to read what nobody took the time to write