Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

M.Hodge is a proper wrong 'un but I can't argue with her here. Inject this report on the Arts Council England consultation into my veins: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Iceland Christmas range x Nine Inch Nails: March of the Pigs in Blankets

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Basic income for 2000 more artists in Ireland. Enough pilots and testing. Basic income works, full stop. Previous recipients earned more, claimed fewer benefits, and created a net benefit to the Irish economy of €8 million. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

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Oh no, arts org comms teams are still announcing "major" exhibitions and commissions by the artists they work with. COWER WEAKLINGS as you SNIVEL into MY REALM of MINOR COMMISSIONS and TRIFLING EXHIBITIONS We'll decide if it feels major, important, or any other superlative when we see it, yeah?

"The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has." Great thread on how LLMs and gen AI polish and reify disordered thinking and sidestep analysis or reflection. Goodbye green text and ALL CAPS, hello bulleted lists, em dashes, and "in conclusion..."

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

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hey gang

In case anyone thinks declaring the DWP a crime scene is hyperbole, they're directly responsible for thousands of disabled, elderly and mentally ill people's deaths.

Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin) on AI slop: "You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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I was at the joyful London premiere of Power Station last night, an inspiring documentary about a community (mine actually!) coming together to buy their own renewable energy production. It's at @wshed.bsky.social tomorrow (Sunday 5 October), Bristolians www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1358...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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a message to the british media

I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

Did a new one

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping apparently thinks her job is to increase those things. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise at this point that scumbags like her and slum landlord Jas Athwal are welcome in the Labour Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.

Obviously not good for people trying to apply but Grantium is down, good riddance, hope it never comes back and they're forced to replace it. Also hilarious and on brand for Grantium that its collapse was caused by PEOPLE USING IT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...

artists you need to remember your compatriots are not collectors and gallerists and curators, they are people that make porno and people that cook food. stand with fellow people that work at night

Great, I'm officially an adult at last, now where are my well paid secure job, financial stability to enjoy my life, affordable and decent housing, and prospect of retiring at a reasonable age without being in poverty?

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

your crazy ass stupid post just fucked up the whole world . hope it was worth the likes. hope youre enjoying the clicks

This is a fucking stupid idea. Expert source: me.

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@sohotheatre.bsky.social Nowhere for Waltham Forest residents to book discounted tickets promised by the council for years, even when logged in? And concessions for disabled people only £2 off normal price? Come on, you can do better than that. And no reply from box office about this.

I think people don't believe me when I say that ACE has a battle map that drives their policy, which is why you sometimes get mega art sheds that wouldn't exist or survive organically, in random-arsed places (like Wysing in a field near Cambridge, or Dance House in Ipswich)... But QED, here it is.

Wild to think that everyone could be free and happy and their true selves and have a basic income and healthcare and have their needs understood and met by society and not be displaced or killed and instead we’re choosing this

Governments do not actually care about saving money, they want to send as much as they can to their private contractor friends they can invest in. Spending is only positioned as wasteful when it goes to citizens, which you can't get rich doing insider trading off.

Disabled artists are under threat from the biggest disability benefit cuts in history. We've updated our blog with new actions and resources. Now is the time to speak out and show up. Take action today: bit.ly/3E9g1kj

Passive aggressive sub-post/tip to many art galleries and arts organisations: providing BSL is ONE thing you can do to make events accessible. It's not the ONLY thing. You're not done and everything's cool because you have BSL. Is BSL indiscriminately with everything the new Braille on everything?

(Still active) but when I was VERY active in campaigning for artists' rights and livelihoods in the early 2010s, we said this until we were blue in the face. Cut to 2025, conditions have worsened, NOTHING has been done to rebalance this top-down attitude. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/culture...

Always remember:

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K. Le Guin

DWP PIP assessment horror stories emerge after 'do you watch TikTok' viral scandal From asking whether disabled people had sex to questioning when someone with MS would get better, DWP PIP assessors are treating claimants diabolically, writes @wordsbyhg.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Says the rotter who worked for Facebook, which literally foments genocide and fascism, with a side of content theft. Don't threaten us with what we want, mate.

Would you like your right to participate in public life to be ended because a small minority feels you might be dangerous, with zero evidence that you are? Human rights shouldn't ever be curtailed because another person has unfounded feelings about you having them.

How about: you can have AI if we get UBI

Your regular reminder that about 50,000 people in the UK work in fishing. Every job is important to the person who does it, but fishing is not important to the 21st century UK economy. Warhammer gaming, commercial art galleries, and public museums are among the many sectors worth more to the country

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