Hey @erikabarker.ai, I saw your interesting posts on AI & art over on Threads. Any interest in cross posting here?

“The revolution will not be prompted.”

“AI will continue to be sold to schools because under a Christian Nationalist, techno-fascist police state, the purpose of education is compliance and control.” @audreywatters.bsky.social

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

Today in “Things that are not from @theonion.com (but for your own sanity you wish they were)”

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"The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened, and needless suffering will occur. That's what irreparable harm here means."

Everyone…and I mean everyone, should read this article by @alexreisner.bsky.social. He does an amazing job dissecting the ridiculous efforts by Common Crawl to defend their indefensible practices. TL;DR the 90’s called and wants their talking points back.

This is great. Now if we could only get the White House to say something that doesn’t make us want to hurl.

Such a great thread. Huge thanks to Jon.

“AI is reshaping the creator economy, challenging long-held ideas of originality & ownership. The conversation will ask what creativity looks like when machines become co-authors, & how artists, technologists & audiences can shape a future where human imagination remains central.” What anodyne BS!

Go Jimmy! #BigBeautifulFoodBank

*Common Crawl, not Common Cause. D’oh!

A brilliant report about the perversity & dishonesty of Common Cause & its director, Rich Skrenta, who seem determined to repeat every ridiculous assertion ever made in defense of undermining the rights of creative workers. Authors, it seems, shouldn’t have worn such short skirts. @theatlantic.com

“Common Crawl’s executive director, Rich Skrenta, has publicly made the case that AI models should be able to access anything on the internet. “The robots are people too,” he told me, & should therefore be allowed to “read the books” for free.” 🤬🤯🤬🤯🤬 Great report by @alexreisner.bsky.social

In skimming this article I thought I saw: “You'll need the ring to access the future.” My initial thought was: yeah, that tracks with tech bro hubris—even if a bit over-the-top. as it turns out, it says: “You'll need the ring to access the app, though Fahmi says that could change in the future.”

Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week: Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans

how so many of us are feeling this morning!

Breaking Pundit News: Voters across America reject Trump policies & actions—choosing brotherly love over hate & division. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats…

what a glorious morning! 🌞 America took the first important steps towards recovering from a seemingly fatal illness.

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Vote wisely today. Our future depends on it. #ElectionDay2025 #NoMAGA

“Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.”

“It’s hard imagining that Gatsby & those who partied at his house every night would’ve missed out on the kind of get-rich-quick schemes of the crypto & AI booms had they existed back then. It’s just as hard to imagine that our current Roaring ’20s is going to end any better than theirs did in 1929.”

Trump administration policy is indistinguishable from a foreign attack, episode 7,200:

Today in terrifyingly chilling news…

“The architecture of AI infrastructure reveals the architecture of power. Both can be redesigned.” @timnitgebru.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

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flight of the bumblebee

“AI won't persuade people to do harmful things any time soon; but AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things already.” @eryk.bsky.social on the danger of focusing exclusively on the hypothetical risks at the frontier of AI while ignoring present, tangible harms that don’t implicate AGI.

I’m confused. Hasn’t Leavitt told us multiple times from the White House lectern about how the real virtue of this Administration is its radical transparency?

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TL cleanse.

A truly extraordinary document. Judge Rodriguez throws out the indictment because "the Government’s conduct is so shocking to the universal sense of justice that it should be deprived of the opportunity to prosecute the Defendant." Hard to count all the different ways ICE lied throughout this case.

If you’re going to be in Philadelphia before February 22, this should be amazing. The Barnes collection itself is extremely fascinating. “In the Barnes collection, artworks are arranged in ensembles that emphasize visual relationships—there are no labels like you would see in a typical museum.”

“The right is not just engaging in ‘cancel culture,’ but ‘annihilation culture’.”

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I’m gonna have to give this one to Arendt.

“OpenAI’s new Sora 2 can generate movie-quality video from a text prompt. It’s a remarkable technological leap & a breathtaking moral one… This isn’t innovation. It’s creative arbitrage, & it’s hollowing out the incentives that keep artistic markets alive.”

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Breaking: Murderer Actually Found Guilty of Murder

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

Stop the internet…we have a winner! 🏆

“Lover of open access to information & my husband.” That’s wonderful @library-lady78.bsky.social

Madonna and Child by Ambrogio Lorenzetti 14th century

Just look at Meta making vertical integration cool again and bringing back “synergies.”

“We’re preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies.” Is this fascism yet? Are MAGA folks paying attention? It’s now clear that “America First” just means “Trump First.” Anyone want Trump monuments throughout DC?