SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Oispa perustulo.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

Why do you want to be a writer? Is it to make money? It's one of the worst ways to make money. Almost anything will make you more. Is it for fame and recognition? But she has to hide her AI pen names and under her real name she's just getting derision and scorn. This is just weird.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Shout out to all the creative souls struggling to make art in spite of the crushing weight of work, financial insecurity, enshittification, and all the other vampiric nonsense sucking the energy out of their lives. xo

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Riikka esittelee intohimonsa: hän syö köyhiä raakana

Järjen ääni.

Substack has chosen a side. Do not contribute to it.

Love it when ai enthusiasts/addicts are so condescending, as if you just don’t understand how awesome their ai toys are.

Ja tätä kafkalaista valtiomallia tarjoavat tyypit, jotka väittävät ideologiansa keskiössä olevan "vapauden" ja "kannustavuuden". He vain unohtavat mainita, kuinka uljaat tavoitteet koskevat ainoastaan heitä itseään. Arvostan avointa pahuuttakin enemmän kuin juhlapuheisiin verhottua versiota siitä.

A 15-year-old puppy graduated from law school, shocking many who still believe that old dogs can’t learn new tricks. (Commission)

When ppl say this, they mean they fear being a beginner. Because if growth as an artist is a goal, they’d accept that they have to actually make art themselves. Engage in the practice. 4 years of gen ai use and they’ll still actually be a beginner. 4 years of real art practice will reflect growth.

Gattaca (1997) is quite dramatic.

Every news outlet, pundit and analyst who tries to tell you that Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative instead of an Israeli one is just telling you they're a propagandist. View it as a big flashing sign that says "Never trust anything from this source ever again."

My birthday present from @tonij.bsky.social arrived 🎉

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

We finally finished Stranger Things (rewatched the first three seasons and then watched the rest) and didn’t expect to cry but here we are.

Tätä se Päivi kävi puuhaamassa.

forgot to share the link sorry www.ft.com/content/f869...

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

@deadcant.bsky.social Thank you for all the likes and especially the reposts!

Gonna make a birthday pizza.

gonna get through this whole thing without ever learning what the blockchain is

Tekoälyn vallankumous on totta niin kauan kun me uskotaan tekoälyä kehittävien miljardöörien myyntipuheet. Tekoäly ei ole korvannut työpaikkoja tai tuonut kilpailuetua. Pikemminkin päinvastoin. Tekoälyn suurin saavutus on internetin pilaaminen ja ympäristötuhojen kiihdyttäminen.

If You Get This Amazon Product Recall Message, It’s An Attack

Thoughts on turning 45 (it’s my birthday!) and going slow when body says so in February Lovely Letter #art #supportartists #newsletter

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

Amazing what appearing in The Epstein Files or Helping Ice Murder Citizens or being the beating heart of the tech everyone despises, or a mix of all of them does for the old stock value.

Asunnottomilla on nyt huutava tarve lämpimille vaatteille, käsineille, kengille ym. Lista kuvassa. Me kerätään naapurien kanssa jo toinen lasti. Auta jos voit. Hallitus sitä ei tee. #asunnottomuus #pakkanen

Have a kitty. This big handsome guy is Goldie. He’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Kitty Revolution. You can learn more about him here: new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...

"They want to crash the economy so they can buy everything at a discount. I want to crash the economy because I want to end capitalism forever. We are not the same." r/collapse

The rich and powerful are miserable and want to make everyone else miserable as well. It doesn’t even help them to be happier, but they are stuck in their destructive ways. And so we all suffer.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko

I'm going to sleep, but before that, I think it's been a while since I made a post saying how I hate this gen-ai bullshit. So here it is. Fuck gen-ai, I hate these art/data stealing companies and their dead-eyed execs. May their bubble implode, their minds never rest, and their food taste like ash.

This remains my finest work

A number of male ‘journalists’ smeared and mocked Ava Cordero when she denounced Epstein in 2007. And note that the terfs who have spent years attacking trans women have had nothing to say about JK Rowling inviting Epstein to the Cursed Child play