"Inspire Me" is a WOILD name for a tool that relies on the plunder of our creative labor and poisons Black communities. This is basura. No clarity was provided.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

It's 2026, and we're now well into the fifth year of book bans nationwide. What can you do? There are *many* things you can do. Here are 60+ small tasks to defend the right to read in your backyard and to help in the efforts nationwide. No one saves us except us. bookriot.com/how-to-defen...

'This story is fiction; oligarchs cannot make a human city on Mars be anything other than the scammy propagandistic dream of technofascist longtermism. There is no planet B.'

I see the world's Bravest & Most Realistic Liberals have the same problem with 'Abolish ICE' as they did with 'defund the police' I wonder what slogan they would be comfortable with? 'Tax Credits For ICE Operatives Who Are Assault Free In Designated Protest Zones over a 12 Month Period'?

Eye witness reports are that after shooting Renee Good, ICE fascists prevented medical aid for up to 15 minutes. Crucial minutes that could have saved her life. Abolish ICE. End Qualified Immunity. Prosecute ICE fascists who murder people.

a small real thing you can do right now. Bree’s squad just sent 200 of these to my stepmom for the anti-ICE ministry at our church. you can chip in for materials and supplies at the links below

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

…it should break your heart to kill.

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Today is very bad and we should all be very angry but I am here to remind us that the birthday we are celebrating this year is not for the Constitution but for our rebellion against monarchy. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation.

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE yesterday, was a published poet Indeed, she won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize for a piece called "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" It's beautiful and you can read it here: poets.org/2020-on-lear... The poem's conclusion is haunting me now

Hell yes, shut it all down. Call your representatives and tell them to actually do the only thing they can to halt this madness.

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope...realists of a larger reality." Ursula K. Le Guin

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

*2026

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

This man has been president agin for one year and teh first thing he did was make a list of enemies that looked like me the left said “identity didn’t matter” At the center said we have to be civil and the right said WAR

He will die. In one ear, a woman whose body has been contorted to meet his expectations, with injections, plastic, and fad diets, will whisper how beloved he is. And in the other, an exhausted nurse will remind him, at hour zero, people will dance in the streets when he's dead.

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

All. Please be aware - the US has attacked Venezuela.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists. GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters. Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.

#OneOfTheTwo Jon Stewart mocked for masking. Because Covid destroyed my body & my life. There are ~half a billion people with #LongCovid around the world. Why would anyone assume they’re too special to become one of us?

I’m #OneOfTheTwo still masking in public. I got through the terror of lockdown thanks to disabled folks sharing insights on how to stay safe and sane and I’ll be damned if I take part in the years-long project of mockery and callousness forcing them to remain in lockdown while the world moves on.

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation." --Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

A little holiday card I got to draw for a public library last year that I’m still proud of; happy almost-new-year ✨

Merry merry ❄️

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This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...

This is that good shit. Straight to my veins. BE LOUD ABOUT HOW YOU HELP PEOPLE. Signal the fuck out of your virtue. Peer pressure people into kindness. Make it cool and badass to help strangers not for clout but because it feels good for everyone to partake in their society. It rocks! Do it!

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying

You don't say..... @smartbitches.bsky.social mashable.com/article/how-...

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/ This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

Hey guys you know the thing that we all know doesnt work and is destroying the environment at a rate we never foresaw humans doing on purpose? Yeah haha i used it again. Still doesnt work. Really makes you think.