The problem to be solved is the system. How do we make the system want to be as generous as our hearts are? How do we make the system stop denying that there is enough to go around? How do we make them stop lying? No, not the people asking for accommodation — the liars are the systems _denying_ it.

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

The tradition continues...

"Rallies digital warriors"? Is the Formerly Known as the Manning Centre admitting they pay trolls?

Studio day. I also worked on the unicorn head a bunch but I wrapped it up and forgot to take a picture.

We are social animals. If you want a better life you need to socialize with the people around you. You need to create community by being a member of it. You do in fact owe the people around you, chosen or not, many things. Individualism is killing us. It's also allowing us to fail the children.

I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵 I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.

Hmm: NOT counting Folk Fests... David Bowie (Glass Spider in Edmonton while Mom saw it in Winnipeg... plus Sound +Vision together) Dire Straits (and Mark Knopfler solo) Oysterband Loreena McKennitt Bruce Springsteen (on his only ever visit to Winnipeg...)

I wouldn't call my pottery rustic, but it's definitely overfilling my house...

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

At least *some* of the kids are all right. My 25-year-old niece grouses that critical thinking is a lost art. I hear the initials A and I are being used as a synonym for the initials BS. At least some of the time.

Nb: the stupid thing about this (it's all stupid) is that this removes the social and promotions and etc tabs (that it had long before AI) to auto-sort your email, and gives you one inbox unless you do the slow manual and often grindy way.

This looks tasty!

Yesterday's pottery session. The pot was almost bone dry already so all I could do was clean-up. I have 6 animals/animal heads on the go but only worked on 3.

"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?

Feeling like I ought to use this as inspiration, summat.

Thread. Beautiful photos, but do check some of the alt text...

It's a dry grassland; the Fertile River is absolutely essential to agriculture and irrigation, and to the capital city, which sits beside the delta along the shore, close enough to benefit but *just* far enough to leave the Fertile grounds to crops. #NovemberWorldbuilders

Three big ones on the main continent I'm working on. 1: Debt slavery, criminal slavery, and corporal punishment for some crimes are all still considered acceptable as a whole, which is depressing. 2: Sex work is not only legal but actually overseen directly by the police... #NovemberWorldbuilders

There are four temples for interrelated Gods, and each has a slightly different take on morality, though they agree on broad strokes. A quick and dirty summary: the Red Bird thinks bending the rules is allowed if the rules hurt people, the Sea-King is a stickler for rules. #NovemberWorldbuilders

Winnipeggers or those nearby! I am in this. The Friday evening coincides with First Friday shows for a bunch of galleries not too far away, the Saturday is family friendly hours.

Thread. Important.

‘THE OWL HOUSE’ creator Dana Terrace on Disney+ soon having AI-generated short-form content from users: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

also if you find child sexual assault triggering for Whatever Reason, holy shit the news and bluesky are extremely brutal right now take care of yourselves. much love.

Again, they're all a bit different. Prevari, like Deena, sees nothing wrong with doing whatever he must to benefit himself and his people, and his people has a specific definition that excludes most of the country. And if he gets to skim off some extra, even better.

Oof. This has different answers for all three. Deena is the simplest: she won't lie, so she doesn't steal because she'd have to confess if questioned. But she'd have no particular issues with theft or murder for the right gains. She protects her people, but her definition of "her people" is narrow.

Got somewhere, I think. Handle obviously needs some refinement; less obviously, so does the rim under the lid, which distorted badly when I put the spout on.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Bari Weiss apparently thinks this stuff is too powerful and should be done away with.

Yup, pretty much sums it up

My feed is roughly divided in two sections today: • I want to set the Democratic Party on fire. • The Edmund Fitzgerald.

As a historian of California, couple things. 1) There were 2 SF Committee of Vigilance, in 1851 and 1856 - 174 and 169 yrs ago, not 100. Both only lasted a couple months. 2) They claimed to be about stopping violence but did very little to actually stop it. More militias than organized committees.

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

This would be Tylan the Bloodhound, who was the executioner for the Sorcerer Who Weeps. It's now known the worst of his atrocities were committed after he balked (he refused to murder his family!) and was enspelled, but it's also true he sold family secrets before he was spelled. When freed, he -

The Sorcerer Who Weeps is the evil brother I referenced in the heroes, and his name was stricken from record. He's called that because he liked his brother, so when his God asked him to betray Lyon, he wept, and did it anyway. When he made friends with Aelle's brother, and his God demanded he

A couple of heroes would be the Rising Dreamer, Aelle, who dragged Prince Lyon back from the underworld (not the realm of the dead but demon country, so more like rescuing him from Faerie) so the two of them could drive out his Sorcerer brother. But an interesting thing about their histories: 1/2

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Post a photo from your camera roll that no one else has seen.

I had two big options for this, but the face paint comes in multiple colours and black is merely cheap, and this was overall both creepier and more looming, figuratively and literally. A tree imprisoning the oathbreaking dead. (This character usually uses sign and struggles with forming words.)

I love this story, even though I've never been to New Orleans.

Thinking about it, the worst part of this particular exchange is that the chat bot itself can't know which time it's telling the truth. Because it does know what truth is. Imagine it saying this then 5 minutes later, a human does cut in... granted, that's better than what did happen

They're forcibly relocating 20,000 people and have killed people resisting for this shitshow just FYI

Thread. We don't treat convicted mass murderers like this. This is monstrous.

I... just... I've sat there and texted for hours with a suicidal friend, trying to find words that would give them hope enough to keep going. I've done so with phone calls with friends struggling with less intense feelings that could have tutned suicidal.

Corporate death penalty is the only death penalty I support.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...