This Ars Poetica is a quiet manifesto, Heaney breaking with his familial past. It's about what poetry is & how it functions Poetry becomes excavation of memory, of place, of identity. Not digging turf, but digging into language itself. #Poetry #Poemoftheday #Nationalpoetrymonth #seamusheaneysunday

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Everyone keeps saying "AI isn't going away" and no, "AI" as you've come to know it is in fact going to go away. It's unprofitable and the user experience to date has been subsidized. It will never scale, and it's not getting any cheaper. And localized fragments of that tech aren't the same.

One of my cartoons for Wed's Metro

Same story here in Europe: Whined about the cost of adaptation 20 years ago Failed to adapt 15 years ago Saw the writing on the wall 10 years ago Were told "adapt or die" 5 years ago Now they blame everyone else for their failures And politicians want to throw money at them

A recipe 1. Take people who have no business coding 2. Add a bot that can code 3. Stir until you have the desired amount of shitty code. You want to spread it everywhere 4. Take another bot 5. With the help of a friend, present the new bot as very scary 6. A dash of artificial scarcity 7. Profit

"After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment & that I am at peace. On days like that I am permeated with a profound gratitude for my bicycle.” -cycling innovator Paul de Vivie #BicycleBirthday April 28 (1853-1930)

Environmental racism and killing the poor is a U.S. tradition

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

I regret to inform you that the techno fascist billionaires are continuing to do dumb horrible things. As a result, I must keep writing about them. Alex Karp edition: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Great article, confirming all your worst fears about how clumsy and reckless AI will be when applied to areas like medicine Researchers told LLMs to diagnose scans, but didn't actually show the LLMs any images. The LLMs confidently offered diagnoses anyway, as if they'd been shown a scan

Great article, confirming all your worst fears about how clumsy and reckless AI will be when applied to areas like medicine Researchers told LLMs to diagnose scans, but didn't actually show the LLMs any images. The LLMs confidently offered diagnoses anyway, as if they'd been shown a scan

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for nuclear weapons.

The verge of technology, the bounds of our ingenuity. Let us report exciting developments on : Microsoft fucking teams.

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

DEV: blocks 310,000 anti-AI accounts USERS: there are *310,000 anti-AI accounts*?! NICE

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

New: Big Tech secures secrecy in EU data centre law, keeping critical environmental information out of reach. Microsoft and DigitalEurope – a lobby representing Amazon, Google and Meta – successfully pushed for an amendment classifying information on individual facilities as confidential.

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”. AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”. 🙃

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

Asking the forbidden question

Greetings all. I'm looking for a podcast producer to help do a (much) more regular BLOOD IN THE MACHINE show. I thought I'd start by reaching out here, and to the broader BITM community. If this sounds like it's up your alley, details are in the link below:

JD Vance is the most That Guy guy that has ever That Guyed

The future is - and I cannot stress this enough - so goddamn stupid sometimes

This part hits. I've been carless in the US (by choice and without shame), and even in some of the most public transit-friendly cities it is difficult and wearing. It's not just the challenge of getting places, it's the sense of hostility.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Here's what I could put together

checkmate, fellow terrorists

Were Were those the only two options

Important story by Max Colbert here: 🔴 GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

I hate how it’s getting hard to appreciate anything cute or interesting because so much of it is fake I don’t want to like, fact check every funny animal picture, so I’m finding myself scrolling past a lot of stuff unless I know it’s someone’s own original content

I know I’m not the first person to observe this, but having one object simultaneously be the thing for accomplishing tasks and also the source of distractions from the tasks is really not helpfu.

One of the lesser-discussed annoying things about LLMs is that you can no longer instantly spot when an email is coming from someone who is very unwell Screeds come with polite intros now instead of a declaration that the sender is both an astronaut and the rightful CEO of Starbucks

it’s giving crusades it’s giving Avignon papacy

So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

This compute measuring contest is just pitiful.

(2/2) but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with.” - Ada Lovelace, 1843.

(1/2) “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis;

Every con has an expiry date, and Altman clearly sees OpenAI's approaching at high speed. Years of hypergrowth and worshipping venture have created a culture of wish-casting that rationalizes waste and empowers con artists at scale. It's a disgrace. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-openai/

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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Every extra centimeter of hood height is another blind spot. This isn’t an accident. It’s a design choice. Stop manufacturing, selling, and buying these machines. Image by @cleancitiescampaign.org & @transportenvironment.org

Plato tells us that there is but one Jason Statham movie, which we perceive as many due to our inability to access true knowledge in the realm of the forms

sometimes worldbuilding is overrated this man is played by Jason Statham and that is all we need to know, just wind him up and point him in the general direction of the bad guys

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Oh hell no #medlibs