data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.

In these dark times, know this: The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line is real, free, and has not been enshittified. 1-800-288-8372, now through December 24th. Repost to save a life.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

This year's Capitalism Sale is upon us this weekend. Don't support mega corporations and the shitty cheap stickers they offer that are A. stolen from actual artists and B. AI generated slop. My stickers are amazing quality, cute, and unique! shop ➡️ mcapriglione.art

Ugh. Every time a podcaster stops themselves mid sentence followed by a beat of silence, I'm afraid my computer is crashing and my adrenaline spikes a little.

GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Large language mistake Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

So a lot of artists were drawing the elf face at this angle, because its hard as hell. So I drew Slash, because to my 12 year old brain, him doing a solo in the November Rain video was as cool as a person could look. And it's still true.

Stop using AI for placeholder assets. Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else. If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it: aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.

tech companies continually learning people don't want these things

new article discussing the implications of Daniel Estrada Sanchez's indictment for allegedly carrying zines. meanwhile, please write to the Prairieland defendants & read more about their case here: dfwdefendants.wordpress.com here’s the fundraiser: www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWpr...

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

This dangerous technology absolutely needs guardrails and regulation. youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?...

Social media could work differently. We teach digital literacy, but ppl often can’t apply those lessons w/in systems that obscure where info comes from & how it gets to them. What might social media look like if users had better signals of information provenance? www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

I made a new shirt design. skelenaut.threadless.com/designs/john...

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I can't help but imagine a software engineer with their billionaire boss looking over their shoulder like, "yeah, make the AI sound like it worships me. It can only say I'm the undisputed best at everything." What an awkward position.

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so apparently that zoopunk game uses a shit ton of AI tools including stable image diffusion. www.gematsu.com/2025/01/tiga...

These stories can easily be read as signs of corruption or crony capitalism. But in new piece w/ @segoddard.bsky.social we argue it is part of a wider emerging international order. We call it neo-royalism. State interests replaced by those of hyper-elites. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

It's bizarre how these a.i. weirdos don't understand the social value of art. The best case scenario here is that you see an a.i generated movie and it blows your mind but because it was customized for you, you can't go to a friend and say "Did you see that great movie?!"

What’s a horror movie that came out this year you think didn’t get enough love?

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

Is Cloudflare fucked again this morning or are my security settings too high, an eternal question

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Maybe it's just me, but, I think you should credit your artist every time you reupload. Even if it's just a comment.

Wikipedia and the destruction of trust – Hank Green

With stats like this, it's obvious it's all a hype train. Anyone serious about this technology for the long term would have kept it in the research phase and not pushed a broken product out to consumers. They're ruining their own good will because they only care about making money today.

With stats like this, it's obvious it's all a hype train. Anyone serious about this technology for the long term would have kept it in the research phase and not pushed a broken product out to consumers. They're ruining their own good will because they only care about making money today.

Despite industry leaders promising that agentic AI is the future, taking care of virtually all human tasks within the next few years #CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

Uh this is enormous

I'm making a new comic book! Here's the ad for merch that's going in the book. No reason not to share it right now. skelenaut.threadless.com

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

nothing is inevitable, if people kept up the pressure. but as usual video gamers see AI creeping into their games, throw up their hands and go "It's inevitable" because they don't have the fucking spine to fight for Artists and Devs and programmers. Fuck EA, Fuck Ubisoft *shrug*