Being serenaded by a neighbor singing “Dream Weaver” while I was shoving dry cereal in my face was not on my bingo card this morning.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

On a lark I bought the soundtrack to the 60s Batman tv movie by Nelson Riddle, mostly because I wanted to have the theme song (which Riddle didn’t even write). Folks, I am here to tell you that the whole album is SO FUN!

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Hey, doctors. I know you are loving AI recording our visits and transcribing notes for you. But bragging how much time it saves you while I sit there realizing you don't think about my medical problem ever again after leaving because you have your AI write it up for you is um... not trust inducing.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

This is so true. Every time I hear someone talking about how they can’t possibly do what they do without AI I want to shake them. Do what you did in 2022 or so! It hasn’t been that long!

May the Fourth be with you and all that. Kinda a downer year, honestly, with the Empire rising once again. Here's to the Rebels.

Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. And we shouldn't here. AI is a giant data-stealing plagiarism machine. Nothing more.

I said almost the exact same thing walking out of the theater!

Should I be offended that my namesake is a once-stranded bebe humpback that’s been “rescued” and released with a low chance of survival?

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

See you all at the Correspondents’ Dinner!

- creates powerful digital penetration tool completely unprompted - hypes brand by posting about how 'dangerous' it would be 'in the wrong hands' in order to draw select stakeholders to view the product - GETS IN THE WRONG HANDS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY - ShockedPikachu.png

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fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Fun show! For a joyful escape, don't look further than 'The Angel Next Door' at Northlight evanstonroundtable.com/2026/04/18/f...

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Because it makes me laugh.

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

if I won the lottery I'd soundproof my basement, so I can play drums whenever I want to

Wendy Carlos helped raise electronic music and synthesizers from esoteric obscurities into part of the larger whole of music, and Kraftwerk turned them loose in the world of pop. Electronic music was largely just an eccentric curiosity before them.

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 21: There is no excuse for using gen. AI. None at all. If Jean-Dominique Bauby could write THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY using nothing but determination, brainwork and his eyelids, then you can manage without cheating.

The annoying gruntwork you’re off-loading to AI is how you learn basic information and skills that help power the logical leaps that lead to creation and innovation. This is why CEOs are all f**king idiots.

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

Minutes away from starting the Davinci Resolve color grading training course with Darren Mostyn. Excited!

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

The Lolla lineup has been announced. Not that I was ever on top of the current musical zeitgeist, but I know or have heard of about six of the bands listed.

Dreamed that the Collins/Banks/Rutherford lineup of Genesis released a song in the style of Body Count called ‘The Fuck You Will’.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

My dinner veg prep style can best be described as “plodding.”

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

"Trans people no longer allowed to drive in Kansas" is a real headline. In case you don't think this is Nazi shit, let me assure you: this is Nazi shit.

This is the resident bunny living in our little yard. He’s chosen this spot as his daytime cozy pad. We’ve named him Dr. Robbie Rabbitowitz.

A sentence I never thought I’d write: friends are trapped at the airport by drug cartel terrorists in Puerta Vallarta.

CALL TO ACTION: NATIONWIDE FREE USA MASS PROTEST, MARCH 28, YOUR STATE CAPITALS, ORGANIZE, RESIST. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #NoKings

"People will cut off family over politics, it's so silly" Is it? Is not wanting to associate with people who will do Olympic-tier mental gymnastics to justify/dismiss exhaustively documented child rape silly, now? I say cut 'em off, and let 'em know why. That's some shit they deserve to sit with.

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I just realized that Gene Simmons “stalking” around the stage in his platform boots walks exactly like my dogs did when we put rubber snow boots on their paws.

Please stop piping music at me. Stop it. No.

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

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