last day of art tours.

blocked all of them but also it is INCREDIBLY obvious that these accounts were created to start shit (& probably keep records of whoever jumps in the fray).

happy gotcha day to my first born son, wild rat of the brooklyn trash, former los angeles goblin, & current hi-desert diva roux raymond!

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

I won a mystery vinyl pack at bingo last night. I don't have a record player but half of these are old musical soundtracks... they couldn't have picked better albums for me if they tried. guess I need a record player.

I won at desert bingo again!!!

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

weekend 2 of highway 62 art tours & all I took a picture of was my shoes.

concerts in the hi dez

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value. This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025. Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment. Be warned.

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

can tell a lot about a book by its epigraph.

first saturday of highway 62 art tours was very cool!

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This long-lasting meteor shower peaks in late October and is known for producing bright “fireball” shooting stars. Here’s what to know about Orionids and other major showers that will appear in 2025. www.wired.com/story/watch-...

I don't know why this makes me so sad.

Watch the trailer of Love+War here! From #AcademyAward winners Chai Vasarhelyi and @JimkChin, “Love+War” opens in select US theaters starting October 29. Streaming November 7 on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. #LoveAndWarFilm youtu.be/hSqRXVlITBc

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

Czesław Miłosz

With both crypto and AI, there are humans involved at every level of the stack. Narratives of automation make it seem like the process is merely mechanical, but if there are humans involved, there are points for regulatory intervention (and in this case, humans who may need legal protections)

Altadena Community Garden members hope oyster mushrooms will help bring the 52-year-old landmark back to life by absorbing and clearing potential toxins from the soil.

poem-a-day day 228: dear revolutionary natalieraymond.com/poemaday

do you get anxiety about applications you submitted after the fact because you can't remember if you triple checked for grammar errors or are you normal?

fascinating how california unemployment forces you to use the least secure browsers to access their online services.

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

Remember those data centers raising electricity prices? In many cases, they are also getting taxpayer subsidies. “At least 10 states already lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers” goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-with-...

Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are already reshaping the world around us. But how are age-old inequalities showing up in this new digital frontier? https://to.pbs.org/3VIm2cR

y'all need to delete that app from your phone.

night music.

I won at desert bingo last night. 😱

There's a good amount of historical fiction in the "lighthearted dramas" section of the Gentle TV Spreadsheet!

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

so I'm seemingly up to 4 or possibly 5 resident rattlesnakes.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Check out the new Factually! episode with @caseyjohnston.bsky.social where we discuss how strength training kicks dieting's ass. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6yb9... » YouTube: youtu.be/HdpDsWd1I44

Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

the snakes are ACTIVE tonight.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

This Labor Day weekend as we enjoy barbecues and picnics, let's remember the farm workers who labor so hard to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

this is not a feel good story.