agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Pretty good chance. www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

Who will speak for the merely oppression-curious

What if none of our IDs had “sex” or “gender” on them. Why the is that even in the system? (Entering from stage right, historian explains why…)

CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

🔴🔵🟢 New Color Picker allows you to find that color you are obsessed with, and convert it to HEX/RGB/HSB/HSL format in a snap! Now, you can also save your color palettes to use in your future @p5xjs sketches. Try it here: openprocessing.org/sketch/27571...

"Actually existing AI" is a phrase I use a lot, to separate reality from hype. "Actually existing solarpunk" is one I might start using. Because I genuinely believe that a general energy transition is *more possible* than general artificial intelligence, and more exciting and more equitable.

New piece from Alan Warburton about creative Worldbuilding in the arts and games spaces open.substack.com/pub/outlanda...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

“…you’re much better served as a student by getting a degree in an “irrelevant” subject that motivates you to put in real, high-quality work than by shuffling through something more relevant on a surface level doing only the bare minimum to meet the requirements.” open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

Just remember

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Enjoyed this analysis of where and why/why not Generative AI is playing a role in fine art.

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Murder…

Helping junior contributors used to be like gardening, helping people grow and gain responsibility. I feel like AI use is hurting my ability to do that. Anyone else in open source dealing with this and have ideas on how to make it better? www.davepagurek.com/blog/ai-and-...

Spent 2 days trying to get Lora training going on my desktop with 5090. Battling all the CUDA and PyTorch and other tools all coordinated in their versions. Fluxgym never saw the 5090 and so I switched to AI-toolkit. It is finally training but I have serious doubts about running this in the Uni lab.

MSHR Europe Tour 2025 www.MSHR.info

I'm about to publish something that suggests universities should lean into open data / models, but may sometimes need a CC BY-SA license to ensure the results of our work *remain* open (not enclosed and sold back to us at markup by for-profit companies). Tell me why I'm wrong and CC BY-SA is bad.

GASP

I hope you enjoy the paper! There are fun easter eggs hidden throughout, particularly the definition of AI that somehow made it past peer and editorial review and into the glossary. 13/

Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io

This is also how the “moral police” work in Iran…

However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces 4/

has anyone checked in on the intersection of art and technology lately?

A collab with @brendancbyrne.bsky.social!

Every year I am reminded of how prescient @lifewinning.com fictional work The Training Commission was/is as we continue to build and rely on AI and discuss how it is used as a holder and decider of truth. trainingcommission.com

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Tropic of Petro, 2023

Presenting the plague of frogs on Portland. And yes, I choose to believe God has a sense of humor & is laughing at this too. There’s no better way to show how absurd a bully is than to ridicule their absurdity. Kudos to Portlanders! Stand United & keep exercising your 1A right to protest tyranny!❤️✊🏽

As on the other site, I'm going to collect my longer threads about AI image synthesis and »platform realism« in one meta-thread, mainly to keep an overview for myself. So this is where we start ... 1/

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

The Infinite Labyrinth of Echoes https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1Jo4b2Gr7qo3GoZAJMuddBML1QHMLtgpLJ/3

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Picked one of these up and got a 71bpm ambient album…

It’s the infinite typewriter given to us, infinite monkeys, except instead of recreating Shakespeare, we’re maintaining a big, dumb fidget spinner. One that trashes the planet and drains natural and financial resources in the process.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Downtown Chicago, today. The little girl …

At some point the Democrats will realize they’re Charlie Brown and Trump is Lucy pulling the football away every damn time, but it won’t happen any time soon.