One way or another, AI is taking all the water www.bbc.com/news/article...

About the speaker: @claudettelauzon.bsky.social is an associate professor of contemporary art history in the School for the Contemporary Arts at @sfu.ca | @scasfu.bsky.social. She is currently completing a manuscript on the gods and monsters of technomilitary culture.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

I generally hate when the NYT platforms this kind of hate-mongering asshole but this interview is worth listening to. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

“Trump shares with Hitler more than just an affection for the prosaic, maudlin, and nationalistic. He also understands the strategic importance of controlling the arts.”

Never got into Twitter, decided to give Bluesky a try. Thanks for the crash course in doom scrolling.

“The expansion of forced abstinence has been a gold rush for…actors who profit from a system that strips people who use drugs of personal agency and even of the basic right to exist in public.”

Hear me out, Canada. A *good* neighbour would maybe become the 51st state, use our electoral college votes to tank the republicans in ‘26 & ‘28, get them free healthcare while we’re there and then back out slowly 👋🤞. As a parting gift they keep Pollievre & Alberta (with apologies to Paris Marx).

This is exactly it.

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