I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.
English is my second language my first language was crying
I mean it really does feel like a new era of capitalist decay what with climate change, the plague and other asinine bullshit. However, people have been predicting the death of capitalism for ages now.
The manicurist is painting the wizard's nails bone with a buckskin accent.
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*
“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.”
“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”
Hollywood should make an erotic thriller about someone who falls in love with all 3 McElroy Brothers
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
is text based social media really the retirement home for millennials or are you just identifying plummeting literacy rates
Sometimes the spirits are talking about the metaphorical tree of life and sometimes they’re talking about the literal genetic and structural interconnection of the tree of life but both of those things are the same thing. They know. We’re the ones who get confused.
LOCK YOUR VERSIONS
meaning, do not have your containers pull :latest. don't pull the latest of *anything* to install or update. make it so a human has to manually change a string or number before any version change.
this is something everyone can do right now to reduce supply chain attacks.
rich people do not respect you or even see you as human. disrespect them.
As someone with a PhD in philosophy from a Catholic university in Chicago, duh the Pope has read Baudrillard
gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.
gender failure gonzo
Can you imagine a world run by anyone other than weak, bitch ass men? How incredible would that be???
black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish
WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS
Me, handing over a brown envelope full of cash: You got the goods?
Shady guy: *opens case*
Whenever I spot something from far away I think about how good a hawk I would make.
Fix your hearts or die.
Empathy tells me if I were in another's place w their experiences, I would be exactly like them. They are me.
How can I flippantly criticize when what I see is so often the plank in my own eye?
How can I be so arrogant to ignore when I've been wrong yet suppose my thoughts apply to others?
“Fragile Ego, Fragile Body, Weak Mind, Weak Spirit”
I have to pack and I just want to …not do that.
One of my favorite etymology stories:
The Saxons asked The Welsh the name of a hill, they said "pen", "hill"
So they added their word for hill, "torpen"
Then The Norse did the same and called it "torpen haugr"
Then The English showed up and called it Torpenhow Hill, "hill hill hill hill"
Supply routes for saffron have been disrupted, shipments have stopped, prices have shot up, and there's warning of upcoming shortages.
There may not be a new crop in 2026 due to the current pollution and ecocide from the war and the deaths and displacement of its people.
AI CANNOT HAVE THE EM DASH I LOVE THE EM DASH
