The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

If i ever see you post about having asked chatgpt anything im unfollowing and muting u and thinking quite a lot less of you

Put the chicken in the oven to reheat about three hours early and anticipating a Christmas Vacation situation

SO DO I

Well, this was a nice thing to see in my Google alerts this morning 😍

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Not me googling “what time do they put the rotisserie chickens out at Centra”

IGGY POP is in this episode of Deep Space Nine!? Legend

had a bit of trouble finding the story, here it is from 2017 7th man who controlled Clinton media coverage ousted for predatory behavior americanjournalnews.com/7th-man-who-...

Really embracing my inner pyro this season

If AI is “so hard to avoid,” why do I find it so…….easy to avoid 🤔

There is a certainly flavor of leftist who can't seem to tell the difference between "creators should be compensated for their creations" and "IP law invariably favors the powerful corporations who have lobbied for their own causes". 1/x

My first Christmas with IBS, I’ve already made one poor decision, and it won’t be the last

The delivery man called to say he ran out of boxes of oak wood, so he was just going to leave me a bag of it, is that OK? I was like, yes, fine, a little grumpy. When I get home:

Want 100% human-made art? I just spent the last four months learning how to make a set model for my play that is one giant middle finger to fascist AI. Read all about it here ($1/mo minimum to keep it as accessible as possible):

This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.

I was today years old when I realized what “landed” meant. I thought it just meant well-established. Thank you, romance novel

Me: I don’t believe in nation states Also me, seeing a man in uniform with an Irish flag patch on his shoulder: May I climb on you sir

Thinking of GenAI as pollution is a good lens to look at it. It will forever more destroy the credibility of images, text and video. It’s a stain on the internet, an oil spill that no amount of dawn and toothbrushes will clear. We will live with the consequences for generations.

How emotionally stunted must all these guys be to think, "wow, dude hangs out with exploited middle schoolers all day, he's really the guru of Successfully Navigating Adult Manhood"

Gotta love my home credit union’s constant invitations to apply for a holiday loan….every time I’ve applied for it, I’ve gotten rejected, because they don’t consider my job real, even though my monthly income has been steady for the last ten years 🙃

Want 100% human-made art? I just spent the last four months learning how to make a set model for my play that is one giant middle finger to fascist AI. Read all about it here ($1/mo minimum to keep it as accessible as possible):

All right gddammit. Refining my technique. Trying to use only one firestarter this time.

I’m so old-fashioned when it comes to Christmas music. Can’t stand big bands or ballads or jazz covers…give me monks, muppets, and Loreena McKennitt

If AI is “so hard to avoid,” why do I find it so…….easy to avoid 🤔

I’d planned to get up for a solstice ocean dip at sunrise but…instead slept 11 hours. Needed that I guess 😅

Women warned each other about Junot Diaz behind the scenes for years. He was protected by his agency and awards committees. He still is. This still happens all the time.

Watched Deep Space Nine “You Are Cordially Invited”….😭 This has to be one of the coziest, sweetest episodes of the whole series!

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

So much this.

You could be a climate and/or political refugee tomorrow. No matter how safe you feel right now. That’s how fast the world is changing. Act with that in mind—toward yourself, and towards others.

YES to that last repost from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Relatedly, I gave this talk all the way back in 2018. (Back then, ‘AI movies’ meant movies about AI, not movies made with AI 🥴)

Okay done done done done DONE DONE DONE DONE! I can't wait to walk home and sit by the fire and do nothing but listen to Christmas music and pick pills out of my wool sweater

Yes!! Absolutely! And there is no place on earth that is reliably “safe,” not even billionaire bunkers (which would have to be, you know, staffed….)

Oh! My family is terrified and are actively planning for being refugees.

Someday I will learn to love doing citations

So much of genAI propaganda is basically gaslighting. You are made to feel insane and doubt your better judgment when it's so fucking obvious it is violently not sustainable and the only truly inevitable thing about it is that it will implode.

Sunrise on the weir, Sligo Town. 💛

You could be a climate and/or political refugee tomorrow. No matter how safe you feel right now. That’s how fast the world is changing. Act with that in mind—toward yourself, and towards others.

It’s really remarkable. Most don’t even know what’s happening because they outsourced their critical thinking to the Times, the New Yorker etc But on a fundamental human level how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?

Easy to forget about these abusive men. There are just so many, it seems.

Saw a reading list including a Neil Gaiman title at the library today. Thinking of the bravery of @monicabyrne13.bsky.social, who stood up to Gaiman's abuse at great personal risk, I spoke to the librarian. She pulled the list. Bought a copy of The Actual Star to donate as a suggested alternative.

"I'm not worried about how we're going to treat AI some distant day. I'm worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that's depicted in AI movies." Yeah, 100%, me too. It can lead a person to despair. Or, better, action.

A thing isn't true just because a famous person says it. A thing isn't true just because a famous person says it. A thing isn't true just because a famous person says it.A thing isn't true just because a famous person says it.A thing isn't true just because a famous person says it.

I really don't get it. These are tools meant to destroy creativity and some creatives are like "not all AIs".

Yeah, if someone encourages people to get used to it, they don't really hate it. And I for my part refuse to get used to it.

Welp time to start blocking the “I hate AI but we have to get used to it” folks that are coming out of the woodwork Glad they’re showing themselves though

Anyone have recs for popular Buddhism books that incorporate social justice? I’m reading How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chödrön, and finding several useful things in it, but it’s hard to read passages like this and not interpret them as calls for inaction in the face of injustice/evil.