Really grateful for Premier Kinew … nice change to see people pushing back on these massive ai centres😊 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

I am begging everyone to make something! Yes, YOU! Make something bad, make something stupid, make something messy Draw, paint, sing, dance, tell jokes, film, mold, whatever Just make something that didn’t exist before you made it I’m convinced creativity and community will save us

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat* picture on your phone. *If you do not have cat pictures, other pets may be acceptable.

Time to repeat this to myself...

I’ve given half dozen talks to uni Ss past few weeks & in all of them have gone off on Ai & how we can’t give up what makes us human, the importance of struggling, of making mistakes, & all the decisions & surprises along the way that makes us who we are. We won’t be robbed of this. Ss don’t want it

This thread is a fascinating exploration even for a non-Egyptology person (like me) because it's also excellent worldbuilding fodder (Not to mindlessly copy into a fantasy realm, but to consider; if the theology of a place implies X, then how is this reflected in building and design?)

If you see this, post something Orange.

#AICouldNever I know I know, peeps. You need something heartwarming, joyful, and lovely for your weekend. Here you go, from the beautiful state of Hawaii. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjWU...

Am in a fast food place so I opted to stop music and listen to theirs, which is clearly top 40 current pop of some kind. Anyone have any idea what song might have been playing where I swear I heard the singer belt out "Let's go to the Dentist!" 3x (The lyrics I didn't mishear were about dancing)

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Today's progress. I thought the windows on the Union Station arch were small... (I have a stamp I made once for tiny shallow square windows. But not *quite* small enough or deep enough so these were by hand...)

Thread of 3 recent kiln goodies (saving the best for last, though). This glaze is a similar colour to the one on the other two cups on white clay, but came out the same colour as the clay itself on coffee clay, just shinier. I still dig it here.

Me: eh, the Met Gala. I guess I'll look at a couple but I'm just not into fashion.... oh..OH. OH MY GOD WOW.

🚨LIVE AT 3pmET TOMORROW🚨 @avilewis.ca isn’t afraid of taking bold leftist swings. In a world where the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us keep getting screwed, that’s pretty goddamn refreshing. But the path ahead isn’t easy. The NDP Leader joins me for the FINAL episode of Bubble Pop!

Yesterday's work: two pieces ready for the first firing. One video, photos in thread.

First reaction: JFC, *McClatchy* is doing this? <brief Googling> Ah. Bought in bankruptcy by a hedge fund in 2020.

So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.

So... last week's work, since I was brilliant and forgot to actually, y'know, take pictures last week. I also forgot to take pictures of this week's work this week. But it was glazing, which isn't exciting till it emerges, and refining stuff already basically carved.

Figured it might be time to do another 30 song challenge, except with ONLY songs I have discovered/purchased within the last year, since I seem to have gone down a massive rabbit hole. Still undecided on the bigger project, but I had to share this RIGHT NOW: youtu.be/lWw-MUqfwEA?...

Goddammit. Tried to add some texture to snakey and pushed too hard.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Can’t sleep, brain stuck on analysis mode, so you get a thread on what Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has to say about AI. Obvious spoilers ahead. Vengeance Most Fowl is available everywhere fine Netflix is purveyed. Okay, here we go until I fall asleep.

I forgot to post yesterday's work on this site ... Did a tiny bit of fiddling with the snake vessel, but mostly I worked on this mug. (My son insists on calling it a "tiny pot with handle" because it's "pottery" not "muggery")

I liked this edition of @ninametz.bsky.social's newsletter a lot. For me as a viewer, I don't want to watch a show where the important parts of the plot were farmed out to AI. I want to watch something created by people engaging with the craft. buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

Finished two pieces and just need thrm to dry before firing. Worked on a third. Pics below; a thread. Mug 1:

Amazing how these guys will be all like look, we're going over there to liberate the Iranian people, and then a minute later talk about murdering anyone and everyone in the country we're supposedly liberating.

When I was in 8th grade, my civics teacher said that one of the great problems with democracy was that the populace could just vote themselves bread and circuses. As a resident of Minneapolis, I would like to shout "bullshit" from the rafters. /1

I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.

AI scooping up, or fed, outdated information and thereby murdering children?

Pottery stuff:

Hail, Pterry, full of rage, the muse is with thee. Blessed art thou among authors, and blessed is the fruit of thy brain, Discworld. Hail Pterry, Father of Great A'Tuin, who channeled rage into compassion blessed are thy words.

They released a recording of the Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons concert online, just until May 26th. It's as close to watching the concert live as you can get without paying. Watch here (time stamps help skip the opening pause and the intermission which was stuffed with merch commercials...):

Me: you shouldn't throw more. Me: you have several things to finish decorating. Me: you could finish the Union Station cup! Me: you barely have the shelf space! Also me:

1/n On Doomerism/Mansplaining/Helpful Hints: This morning, I was still trying to understand a man who felt some compulsion to explain to the whistle goblins how they could do it better. Never mind that they’ve been doing this for MONTHS already and already tried his “better” method and

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

Quite frankly, there’s more great art in the world than any of us could see in a dozen lifetimes. But we’re not exactly swimming in joy out here. If I thought art truly required misery, like some messed-up gallery Omelas, then going a museum would mean I was walking through a sea of human anguish.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

This still has a fair bit of polishing up and refining detail to go, even though my architecture cups are (intentionally!) less precisely carved or fussed over than, say, Celtic knotwork or animal heads.

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

Everyone: Absolutely everyone: Värttinä:

I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts