I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.
Browsers crash. Tabs close. Life happens. Here’s a web component that saves form progress so your users don’t have to start over from scratch.
can ai do THIS?? [making a mess while making art, having fun with textures and the play of art that is integral to the creation of art, the inevitable stamp of my soul within the art I make because it is born out of my experiences, my joy and wonder and despair, and it is wholly mine]
Do they still have a time filter available?
I turn off all the stuff that enables auto play, "recommendations", etc.
There might be an app that you can use to play YouTube through as well that has better search and filtering
ICQ User Interface in 2005
ICQ User Interface in 2005
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views
Pope Leo on AI:
“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”
This short thread is worth reading:
#AncientSiteSunday - The ancient Mycenaean citadel of Glas, located in central Greece near the former Lake Copais, is one of the largest fortified sites from the Mycenaean Bronze Age. Enclosed by massive cyclopean walls made of large limestone blocks, it has a commanding defensive character.
*stares in model release forms*
Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
All the pager networks are gone, but Meshtastic networks starting to take off.
There are some pager projects like this one, but it's way more involved that what I want.
hackaday.com/2025/07/31/h...
So, I take occasional AI training because pretending work I’ve done was done by AI is a winning strategy at work, and what has struck me is that every class begins with a period trying to convince you that AI is useful.
No other classes I take have to argue that they’re not bullshit.
A decade ago, I wrote that tech tycoons were on a path towards being considered the new robber barons. Now that 750k tech workers have been laid off, it was inevitable things would get rough. medium.com/humane-tech/... When it hits a million, they’re gonna need Pinkertons whenever they go outside.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious.
Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.
I'm not really an AI guy. I'm sure some AI guy out there will explain to me how I'm using all the wrong prompts and shit and really this would be working great if I was using the correct model etc. That might even be fair! But so far it's just a robot that lies all the time.
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
www.zdnet.com/article/your...
You will *never* be able to search every book in history. You'll never be able to read every comment, watch ever reel.
Part of the reason is because shitty extractive unregulated capitalism is happy creatively destroying all human creative output if it can't quickly make money from it.
Once I saw a bust of Euripides with a list of his plays on the plinth and one of them was the Andromeda and I almost cried because guess what hasn't survived to the present day
This was a profoundly sad listen. I understand why the guest said they’d use AI to “code switch” into corporate speak to make work emails and pieces more palatable to superiors, but I was waiting for the moment when they said something like “I learned how to do the skill and now don’t need AI.”
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Everybody in the creative industries is waiting with looming dread to find out whether the next economic crash will be a "people are spending more on entertainment for escapism" crash or a "people aren't spending anything on anything" crash
Grayscale image of the capsule under the parachutes, which look silvery. The capsule is glowing brilliantly along the bottom where the heat shield took the brunt of the atmospheric beating.
Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds.
#ArtemisII
"Our goal is piss houses for all. Piss governed by Canadian values, piss accountable to Canadians, piss that serves Canadians. Piss for all can make the jobs of Canadian workers more interesting and more rewarding."
A drawing of a Muppet-y Cloud Strife riding on a Big-Bird-like chocobo.
From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.
With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels.
www.flickr.com/photos/waves...
Type & illustration gold.
this article is an ad for a different AI startup
There are so many good things @hankgreen.bsky.social has done, but I don’t think any of them have moved me more than this one. It’s just such a beautiful, clear explanation, all the more touching for its simplicity. Please do set aside some time to watch it. youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo
