LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

America right now has big “we never use these fire extinguishers, we should get rid of them” energy.

This week's Immersive Review Rundown features a pair of projects emerging out of New York City's bustling immersive scene: cirqueSaw's labRats and Lazy Hawk's Roomies LIVE! www.noproscenium.com/immersive-re...

we just added more dates for labRats! this Sunday, Monday, and the following week! Come join us for an (IndieCade Award-winning) experiment in curated collective chaos: www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...

spent the day dealing with frozen pipes and a dead car battery and everything's fine now but i would very much like to curl into a ball and sleep for a month

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

the science is clear on this one.

if you get a chance to experience @parkersela.bsky.social 's Remote Retrocheiromancy, I strongly recommend it. A really unique and moving phone show that I'm definitely going to be thinking about for a while.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

it's like there's a contest among the world's most powerful people to see who can smash the most toys.

we've been working on a new show! it's sort of an absurdist collective shout into the void with the most cheerfully monstrous digital assistant in the world! it's early still in development (rewrote the ending four times last week) but i'm really proud of You Have Already Won.

look i know government is broken on every level but i just found out that my town got money from the state to provide skates at our skate rink and this is exactly what i want my tax dollars to be paying for.

Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.

@nathanleigh.bsky.social and @nicoleorabona.bsky.social, creators of LabRats, give an acceptance speech and tell us about what makes their experience so special. (Spoiler: they created a bespoke programming language just for this project!) Make sure to check out cirquesaw.com for more info!

I can't even begin to express how much it means to me to get this kind of recognition for labRats. this project is probably the most personal work of art I've ever made, and to have it recognized alongside artists whose work I admire so deeply is a dream come true.

i think the most remarkable thing about catherine o'hara is the way she always made her scene partners shine. she was so generous with how she directed focus to others and it meant that even when she wasn't the source of the joke, her presence made a scene funnier.

god catherine ohara was the funniest person alive. id watch her in literally anything. this one hurts

Hey, shoutout and solidarity to all the people who really need to work today, but are choosing to participate in this General Strike. Shoutout and solidarity to all the people who want to participate, but are unable to. We are all doing our best. Maybe it will happen today.

All the wrong old people are dying. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

the thing about project genie is that if you're afraid of AI's ability to instantly make games that are derivative and not enjoyable to play, the answer isn't using AI to make your own derivative unenjoyable games to compete, but to be as human as humanly possible in the games you make.

Today’s daily spotlight is CirqueSaw's LabRats, winner of the Live Action Spotlight Award! This interactive story of collective action will change the way you see your fellow rodents. @nathanleigh.bsky.social @nicoleorabona.bsky.social Get tickets to LabRats here: tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...

can anyone explain to me why funding RFK's HHS isn't also a sticking point? (I don't mean this sardonically, I'm genuinely curious if that would be tactically useful to force him out and restore a reality-driven HHS and I haven't been able to find anything either way...)

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

I don’t want to have deep analysis Everybody stop being mean Feed everyone Make sure they are loved Solve problems Good talk

hydroplaning into a 180 is definitely a 0/10 experience. miraculously everything is fine and we made it home safely, but holy shit i'm still shaking. if you can avoid being out on the roads today, please do so.

So is *now* the winter of our discontent, or…?

"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position

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Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words: "If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell." Happy MLK Day.

my favorite part about being alive is how much my cat loves Photek. me too, little cat. me too.

when you are petting a cat and the purr descends in register from “love it” to the louder slower “oh hell yes now that’s the stuff” purr, that is a blessing in this world

maybe this makes me weird but when someone who irritates me goes out into the world and does a good thing, I find that to be a good thing if everyone i found annoying was standing up to fight this, the enemy would have no chance at all

holy shit. cirqueSaw just won an IndieCade Award for labRats? what the hell is going on?

VOIDSPACE 14 is now live! Dive in for a huge range of weird and wonderful playable lit. Code poetry. Strange constellations. A phone call to the Outer Planes. Hope and grief and monsters. All here, all playable. Read it 🖤 voidspacezine.com/voidspace-14/

I’ve got a very rare Charizard Pokemon card if anyone wants to trade for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I have always loved this piece for its deep commitment to a very specific premise (and animal jokes).

sometimes you find yourself writing a fully functional file system for a play and wonder where things went wrong...

Now in its third year The From Home Fest returns this Jan. 23rd with an all new lineup of fourteen offerings that you can experience... from home. Learn more in our latest COMING SOON.

Submit your multidisciplinary project to Narrascope! Interactive theater, audience controlled experiences, installations, VR opera, holographic circus, give us your weird stuff!!! NO AI please. Submission deadline Jan 31. narrascope.org/experience/

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

This is a small part of the much greater evils of the world but I do really resent how much heinous shit we’re all exposed to as just a matter of everyday life

Really. You have to allow yourself to feel the things. Yes. AND Our organizing practice must be steady on. It cannot go off & on based on the news cycle, based on rage & grief. It's not good for us and it's not how change happens. YOU WILL FEEL BETTER IF YOU ARE TAKING ACTION REGULARLY.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The woman shot and murdered by ICE agents in MN was named Renee Nicole Good. Good’s late husband passed away in 2023, she leaves behind a five year old child.🕯️

I think my least favorite quality in a person, one that is so often praised as an asset or virtue, is: "doesn't take no for an answer." We're living through an extended nightmare of what that looks like when brought to its logical conclusion.

this is the standard we should be measuring all publications against for their headlines from now on.