A culture that surrenders itself to LLMs is a culture trying to preserve itself in amber so that nothing new can ever exist, time cannot progress forward, we all stand still together. Until the biosphere collapses. Emotionally stunted fascists with luxury bunkers love this tech, for some reason.

Well shit, I read this cover-to-cover today. Is there something in the water that makes Canadians really fastidious art critics lol?

People who say “AI art will get better!” just mean that in the sense that the PS5 is “better” than the PS1: ie. its graphical fidelity will increase. This is an impoverished view of art. AI “art” it’s flawed from first principles. It only produces slop because it is a blender for human thought.

This is not even an American company. Americans aren’t able to afford insulin or other diabetes medications, BECAUSE YOU HAVE PRIVATIZED HEALTHCARE! There’s no reason to believe that if Americans owned Novo Nordisk, the price of insulin would go down…that’s fundamentally not the problem.

hmmm what kind of features could be being looked at there, I wonder, what kind indeed

This means if you are in the habit of saying things like "fuck Trump" or "I hope Cheney burns in hell", probably a good amount of your feed isn't seeing those posts because, unbeknownst to them, Bsky has shielded grown adults from "rude" "threats" like this.

Next select Settings, and then Moderation on the next screen. At the bottom of the Moderation page under "Advanced" is a section called "Bluesky Moderation Service" that looks like an info box. It in fact leads to more settings.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

RIP Charlie Kirk, I wish you got to see your wife move on literally right away after you left.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

this is the endgame of every techbro utopia, the 'freedom' of having everything you see and hear dictated by a star chamber of disconnected freaks

“Liver smoothie” I can’t believe Americans figured out how to rebrand pâté to make it sound even less appealing, even at the same time as most Americans think pâté is gross on principle… Disagree, it’s delicious, but it’s anthropologically fascinating.

Holy shit. I’m blazing through this book, and I am even using a highlighter—I don’t highlight shit, I’m a delinquent. I think this book is rewiring my brain.

People who say “AI art will get better!” just mean that in the sense that the PS5 is “better” than the PS1: ie. its graphical fidelity will increase. This is an impoverished view of art. AI “art” it’s flawed from first principles. It only produces slop because it is a blender for human thought.

Removing the artist from art is to render it into something else entirely, something less than it could have been. I genuinely believe the way to fight generative AI is a Renaissance of the weird, personal and specific. We love art BECAUSE it connects us to a real person’s interior life.

I feel more art critics, literary theorists, and creatives are openly describing artistic creation and storytelling as a spiritual, or even magical practice. And I think this is correct! I’m a Marxist and an atheist, and I still think this is correct. Alan Moore vindicated again…

Do you wanna hear my conspiracy theory? She’s related to Gavin Newsom, and if he wants to run for president he can’t have this liability hanging around anymore.

Generative AI cannot be art because it never contains the perspective of the specific human(s) writing the prompt. It contains ALL perspectives on any given subject, blended into a homogeneous paste. It is a process of dehumanization designed to produce as its primary output, entropy itself.

The iphone keyboard and autocorrect have become unusably bad!! I feel like every single one of my posts has an unforced error in it now, where it decides to substitute letters or even entire words that were correctly spelled in the first place, all on its own. AI is enshittification distilled

Show me the champion of light, I’ll show you the herald of darkness!

Instagram just tried to stop me from posting a comment calling a public figure “a coward and a liar” as if that were too rude for the platform. Fucker you show me gooner incel shit and blow up human bodies every day. Me calling a conservative “a coward” is a step too far?

Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

There’s this YouTuber cliche that makes me crazy, which is that they’ll show like “world of tomorrow” b roll from the 60s and say shit like “scientists used to envision an optimistic future full of technical innovation!” like they aren’t showing you an ad. Those are ads, they’re advertising.

I think Alice Capelle makes a very good point, in that the rate that inequality is growing so rapidly that it can’t be mitigated by a mere 2% tax on wealth…

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

The vibe I bring to the party:

been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

OpenAI is genuinely starting to sound like that relative who keeps swearing they’re asking you for money for the last time…

Being smart is an existential horror.

Bahahahahahaha

Not The Onion (Bloomberg reporting: archive.ph/RqUBY)

EW Katy Perry dating Justin Trudeau tells me everything I need to know about both of them. Jesus Christ. What a fucking unserious loser, good riddance. Worst celebrity couple involving a Canadian since Elon and Grimes.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

It’s hard to ignore the fact that every newspaper of record is lying directly to our faces. Across the board.

This is why he had to be on exceedingly good behaviour during the campaign (which included tolerating pure racism directed at him) because they are prepared to weaponize anything he said. And even more so now that he won despite all their best efforts.

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

Guess not

Woke2 is a great meme because it plays on the real, albeit imagined, fears of fascists. The reality that sits at the center of that misunderstanding is a real knowledge that if the general public gains access to anything beyond apathetic despair about their position; Fascism has no leg to stand on.

if leftist want to keep winning in America they need to focus on the most important aspect of electoral strategy . . . . being a charismatic normal person that's able to talk to other normal people like a normal person without being a total weirdo.

Start spreading the news…

Hey, I just heard that the first act of the Mamdani Caliphate is going to be deporting Chris Cillizza, and I have to say I'm feeling pretty good about current events.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

When you definitely get Bruce Springsteen

Can’t believe Snow is only the second most hated rapper from Toronto.

I’ve had a Northrop Frye book about Blake sitting on my coffee table for like, a while now, along with a book of Blake’s poems. Today I picked up JF Martel’s “Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice” and on the first page…there’s a Northrop Frye quote. I am building a Russian nesting doll.

I look (and feel) crappy today but my World Series Addison Barger jersey just arrived and I’m sure I’ll delete this selfie, but yay!

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.