Celebration!

OpenAI Gets Into Media, Buys Streaming Business Talk Show TBPN The red-hot streaming show features newsmaking interviews, with a heavy emphasis on tech. Now they will do it for OpenAI: "The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us."

"While we’ve been critical of the industry at times, after getting to know Sam and the OpenAI team, what stood out most was their openness to feedback and commitment to getting this right. " 😂 After reading @ronanfarrow.bsky.social I don't think so.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

So @adobe.com creative cloud is having major issues, I can't even create a miserable social media post for work.

I wonder if they deployed some AI code that brought everything down?

#aibubble
#aicode

Maybe Netflix realizes that it's a bad idea to buy Ben Afflecks AI company?

A contemporary watercolour sketch of a woman resting. Visible brushstrokes besides a small watercolour palette, mechanical pencil and pipette.

A small watercolour... Fatigue... endless March.
#contemporarywatercolour #humanmadeart

This happens to software engineers, imagine regular people?

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

This is hilarious and terrifying theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An ai agent submitted some code to an Open Source project, got rejected by a human developer, then the ai proceeded to generate a hit piece on him. The comments though.. wahh. who are people, who are bots?

On the left: a photo of smoke rising over a city into an orange sky. On the right: Canada backed the Iran war. Now it’s struggling to explain why. A marathon debate in Parliament exposes Ottawa’s incoherence on the conflict.”

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre fully and unequivocally supports the US–Israeli war against Iran. Interim NDP leader Don Davies condemns the war as illegal. Writer Wesley Wark examines the widening political fracture: https://ow.ly/MeR950Ys7qP

It's been a while since I checked the Notion home page and I found this... Meet the night shift. Then the day shift comes in and has to fix everything. Ugh. Get AI out of here.

Privacy's Defender EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetEFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s

“Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” will be published Tuesday by @mitpress.bsky.social; hardcover proceeds benefit EFF. Get your copy today! www.eff.org/Privacys-De...

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

What else is new? www.bbc.com/future/artic...

What is faith?

This inspired me sooooo much.

pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/g...
#corydoctorow

Limites Numériques #22 Ce mois-ci on parle pureté de matériaux, de représentation écologique, de l’impact de l’IA sur le marché de la seconde main, et toujours le meilleur et le...

💎 Dans la dernière newsletter on raconte pourquoi l'industrie numérique est très friande de matériaux extrêmement purs et des conséquences écologiques.

Mais aussi :
→ L'effet domino de la pénurie de mémoire vive
→ Le pire Windows
→ Des sucettes électroniques jetables

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Three oil paintings depicting citrus and a hand in a bizantine art style

The beginning of a new wall of small paintings. Falling in love e with #indianred #oilpainting

There's a Grim New Expression: "AI;DR" The slang is a sign of how overrun the internet is with AI slop — and how the real humans using it are fed up.

"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"

From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: L’Oréal partners with NVIDIA to bring AI into beauty Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community

Desperation shows

www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

Colour photograph of Kim Gordon, wearing blue and black, sat amidst a pile of blue cable in an empty office space.

Kim Gordon has shared a new song, titled ‘DIRTY TECH’.

You can watch a video for the song, made by director Moni Haworth, here:

buff.ly/fVAJrcB

indeed

I haven’t laughed so much in weeks!

Charcoal drawings of a man on white and tan paper in different poses

Life drawing. Two wonderful hours of nonstop observations

On the left: a photo of stocked warehouse shelves with a forklift in the foreground. On the right: text that reads “They work full-time. They have degrees. They're still going hungry. Record demand is spreading well beyond the poorest households.”

Food Banks of Quebec reports that monthly requests for food assistance surpassed 3 million last year, a number projected to climb to nearly 4 million by 2028. “There’s no light at the end of the tunnel whatsoever,” says Moisson Montréal's Matias Duque. https://ow.ly/rQ4V50Y98zW

canada continuing to drop the ball on taking tech policy seriously

This painting is by Goya: The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Aquatint by Goya: the sleep of reason produces monsters.

Not to be dramatic but I'm struggling more and more with the idea that life has any sort of meaning. I question human nature constantly and inch more to the idea that things will never generally improve. Six years ago we had a chance to veer towards better behaviours but now, it's plain psychosis.

Kate Bush, Arab Strap, Songs Ohia, The Smiths, Baxter Dury

I wish I could convey how much I DO NOT WANT THIS - article by the cofounder of Anthropic www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

I’ve been waiting for an album to blow mi mind.

trying to preserve what energy and focus I have, maybe you are, too: moving quickly and lightly past bad takes that I already knew to expect, old arguments that won’t get settled in a crisis, just general bad vibes in search of a landing zone in someone else’s empathy

An improvised sculpture-slash-installation of old cutout drawings in oil pastel.

What to do with old drawings? Send them to heaven. Installation-slash-collage #artinstallation