A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"
I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.
Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
This! 1,000x this!
I’ve been thinking about how I need to reread Slaughterhouse V. Or maybe actually there are just a bunch of other people that need to read it for a first time.
My children have not yet finished their mecha pilot training! If only I had 42 kilograms of gold.
“Be sure to leave out milk and cookies for Brutus tonight. How many? Doesn’t really matter, he’ll only et tu.”
They really haven’t been hiding the ball about the real need for AI being “we can blame it when we do evil stuff.” I thought the evil stuff was mainly gonna be unfair capitalism and stealing but here we are: thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
Why are Trump and congressional Republicans destroying Boundary Waters—America’s most popular Wilderness area—with a copper mine that will leach sulfuric acid into its pristine waters? @wessiler.bsky.social follows the money: wessiler.substack.com/p/who-wins-i.... 🌎
Happy President’s Day, all the way.
It is indeed a Circus of the Barking Dead kind of week.
Photo of a mostly-white former police cruiser with lettering reading “ENDLY EXPLOSIVE Keeping You Safe Is All We Do.”
In my headcannon, the Endly Explosive Mobile (frequently seen outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas building, HQ of FL DEP) is driven by a crack security contractor. Regardless it inordinately delights me.
Wait, Zorak was gonna be named Torak initially? The maimed one-eyed god of the Mantises?
"Six-piece Chicken McNobody" is hands-down THE most withering insult known to man
I was wrong about mineral rights in Venezuela yesterday. If they nationalized ownership of those rights in 1976, no wonder big oil is less interested in maintaining infrastructure there. If there’s not a way for big corporations to corner the right to profit from the resource itself, they’re out.
True story. bsky.app/profile/pmsk...
If you’re saying that you are invalidating the sovereignty of the nation where the extraction rights were allotted/assigned then you’re really just old school plundering. Which I guess is also consistent with broligarcically going to war without a legal mandate from congress. (3/3)
…doesn’t change who is legally entitled to extract the resource and profit from its extraction. So you can say “we’re taking over and we’re going to extract and make money” but I do wonder from the real property perspective who holds the oil and gas rights that are the treasure being discussed.(2/3)
So the thing about the argument that “we’re taking our oil infrastructure back” is that ownership of oil and gas rights go back to legally recorded grants of said rights. Recorded real property transfers. Invading a country and taking over infrastructure used to extract oil doesn’t change . .. (1/3)
Who’s got interesting holiday music recommendations?
Friends! Let’s Krakken Krewe for MLK weekend 2026! Who wants to get a cabin at Vogel with us?
Oh yeah, I’m still kicking around in the natural world. Behold: scenes from camping at St. Joe Peninsula State Park.
Also, I’m pretty sure Brak presaged the mainstreaming of AI use: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOs5...
Happy Spooky season!
Holy smokes, I feel old: bsky.app/profile/jonh...
This is why we needed the cut-on-the-writing-room floor subplot about Davo Sculdun (who owns the networks, which is why Kleya had bugged him) refusing to cut the feed of (his now in-law) Mon's speech.
Everybody has their own rebellion.
This is one of the best/most hopeful uses for AI that I’ve seen. So, of course we’re not funding this anymore. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
We’re so screwed on so many levels.
Meanwhile, this is a thing: bsky.app/profile/edbu...
