Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
Hei ää en mä pystykään tänään! Toisella kertaa!
Kiinnostais!
me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
Not specifying which civilization has big Monkey's Paw energy
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Muistutuksena siitä, että Suomessa päätöksiä transnuorten hoidosta tekee mm. ihmiset, jotka tuottavat vääristeltyä tutkimusta aiheesta
Ellarion Tales has today been granted 25 000 € for organizing a large scale role-playing event in Swedish in the Helsinki region! Thank you, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland!
Ois kyl kova! Kivaa oli!
2026 Frank Sinatra: Stop spreading the news
The Midnight Society continues to be the absolute best
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
If an artist isn't able to visualise their ideas on paper (or on the screen) without the use of genAI, they are not an artist. I know some artists who aren't capable of visualising things in their head, yet they can still create stunning art. I know others who brainstorm their ideas and compositions with literal scribbles and stick figures, only to end up with a beautifully rendered piece. There is absolutely no excuse for a self-respecting artist to use genAI at any point during their process.
Someone over on Instagram saying that genAI is bad for art, but can still be used by artists who have trouble visualising their ideas.
I had to reply.
Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)
The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.
The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.
There is a specific type of demoralizing fascism where people lose rights they had, in their lifetime, fought to get recognized.
Not *just* losing rights, but seeing decades of hard effort dissolve.
Reconstruction, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, Dobbs, the coming overturning of Obergefell, etc
Ai sä olit niinkö tosissas tästä? Kylhän mä sit tuun
stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
Tremendous New Year’s sermon of sorts
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
The kickstarter info for Comix Cleric, featuring the mascot Penelope infront of a blue background. The current raised amount is shown at 3,680 dollars.
Less than 24 hours in and we're humbled by the amazing support so far. This is WITHOUT sponsored ads or promoted giveaways. Why is this important to us?
This shows us that we were right, that people WANT Comix Cleric, and that people want to be able to host their own comics their way.
Thank you!
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
So stupidly cruel, the administrative clusterfuck is just a cherry on the bigotry cake
the big hay goat from sweden or something looking very unburned and majestic with text from the old "you wouldn't download a car" but it reads "you wouldn't burn a goat"
it's advent you know what that means
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
