It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

There was a bonkers publishing take today about AI, with most out-there part was "writers will be left behind if they don't use it." Holy shit, this industry was using paper contracts and notaries until a pandemic forced them to DocuSign, it is the ONE industry where you will NOT be left behind.

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.

Including for the pilots on ICE flights who knowingly operated unsafe aircraft. Every single ICE flight fails to meet FAA criteria for safe takeoff. Taking their airmen certificates away is the minimum.

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

@okosunreads.bsky.social was in a serious accident with her family a short while ago. She and her family are lucky to be alive. But they'll need help during their recovery. If you want to help out, you can contribute to this Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

heard a firework

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the needy to be treated as "parasites," all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

As always, we can get you and your community whistles, in volumes from 100 to many thousands, for free, just drop a line to the email address here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

If you're looking for ways to support creatives, writing positive reviews of their work is 1. Free 2. Full of compliments that encourages them 3. Marketing they can reshare to promote their work 4. Just a decent thing to do, thank you!

"AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it." @godotengine.org gets it. 👍

99 Ranch get behind me! www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Sounds like it's time for people to use these signs I designed.* *as in, I put the words into the same website as everybody else

Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices

Friends, I feel that your interest in Gaza may have waned. Perhaps there has been some improvement regarding food, but 80% of Gaza has been destroyed; it remains under siege, and the bombing continues daily. Do not forget Gaza.

Here's a gift link to this New York Times story about how Trump is making himself rich by turning your government into his personal ATM.

I donated a 1-hour copyedit ride along for @romancingthevote.com! Those who have already been on one with me know that it's an hour of laughing and joking, plus, you know, the serious stuff. www.32auctions.com/organization...

"Weird Al" Yankovic has always been a real one. Just learned that he very recently turned down "a nice pile of money" to shill for A.I. Damn right he did. @alyankovic.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/entertainmen...

It’s rough and the timeline is reflecting that but there are so many creatives, artists and devs doing their thing everyday on here regardless and they need support as well. Engage with the art you see and enjoy its worthwhile for you and the artist on the other side of the screen.

nothing but sympathy for these people but i am endlessly grateful i did not fall in love with a plain buttered noodles chicky tendies type eater

the AI tool developed and trained by racist humans to mimic racist systems to serve capitalism, which is racist, turned out to be racist WHAT

zero percent surprised to hear that AI resume screening tools reject Black and Asian applicants at a higher rate than would have occurred by chance alone

AOC— as she often does— gets it.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently from Google and blogged about it for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

It is vital you buy your small child (or the small child you know) that cheap, shitty watercolor set and that cheap, shitty colored pencil set and that cheap, shitty sketchbook Don't even wait for a reason, just bring it home one night That stuff is transformative in ways you've totally forgotten

Every time I encounter 'AI' in my everyday life, it is actively making an experience much worse.

More than 100 authors who opted out of Anthropic copyright settlement sue Anthropic & its co-founders--not a class action but "joined individual actions" w/ each plaintiff making the same claim of infringement (via @publisherslunch.bsky.social ) lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/wp-content/u...

BBC: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being bombed in her home by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

Sums it up nicely

Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

The work "slopification" is real.

If you are a writer who uses AI, you are dead to me. By trying to side-step the creative process with a plagiarism machine (trained on my writing), you are admitting that you have no interest in or respect for your own work. If you don’t respect your writing, why should I?

Every week, just a tiny fraction of the trucks stipulated by the “ceasefire” are entering Gaza—and barely any are aid. People still need to buy food and other basics to LIVE. Including water! Help 21 families survive. Hit "weekly" or "monthly" on just a five! Then act! chuffed.org/project/hope...

All nine members of the committee unanimously voted to recommend Moderna's new mRNA influenza vaccine for adults 50 and over. n.pr/44iEj4N

if human creativity is so frivolous how come these companies have to commit theft of it on unimaginable scales

If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

happy pride to all my buddies who are too tired to create anything for pride and are just focusing on existing