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For International Women's Day, I highly recommend the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks: four books that ought to be known as the Masterworks of Fantasy that they bloody well are. And a bonus: the gorgeous cover art for these editions is by @tanaudel.bsky.social, a very fine writer herself.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

RIP -

John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst? Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...

‘Three of the principals at the meeting that led to the creation of OpenAI fell out with Altman. For each of them, the issue was whether he believed what he had said about the importance of safety in developing AI.’

John Lanchester on Nvidia, OpenAI and hypocrisy:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s clear from reading The Empire of AI that Altman will say anything to feed the grift.

Terrible take. Here’s an edited headline: “VOX is running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.”

No, we’re not. This is so pathetic. There are endless really good, imagination fueled, potentially world changing ideas that are being crushed by the very machines you’re now pushing on us.

But based on this story, it appears @vox.com is running out of ideas.

Great podcast. Great guest. Lent’s writing is really wonderful.

The AI “products” keep getting dumber and more desperate.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

In other words: we will later learn that it’s cancer for the imagination.

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Teaser Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment

This looks delightful—

Enshittification at every turn.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

So very good. EVIL is one of my favorite TV shows. It is weird and spooky, they portray demons so well, the main villain Leland Townsend is brilliant, the themes and social commentary always hit, and I love the three main characters.

I should rewatch it this winter.

Feeling inspired by all the winning so far? runforwhat.net - it's not too late to get on the ballot for 2026.

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

You gotta think the first AI musical performance on tv is gonna be on Jimmy Fallon and he’s going to make The Roots just sit there and watch that bullshit

Watching and really liking—

The early Miles Davis electric turn is fun listening.

Look everyone we can all have an inept AI robot for just $20,000! Oh, it also needs a lot of human intervention behind the scenes and it’s spying on you with a little camera. Great.

The science fiction story we’re all being dragged into really sucks.

This entire series by @marthawells.com is so much fun. Love the books and love the TV series. Really happy to see a new Murderbot book coming out.

Weapons. Yeah. 🎃

Also, thanks for sharing the essay! His books are coming true. And now I return to PKD’s Exegesis to look for clues.

The Vintagia Oracle from @acidhorizon.bsky.social is a lot of fun. It hits different than other decks. I dig the different layers of meaning and symbolism - including the Hexagrams from the I Ching.
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Makes me think we’re all living inside a PKD novel and he’s just recycling some of his old material, @jackprestonking.bsky.social. 😊

This. All the damn time.

I mean, we’re already emphasizing the social media post over the actual experience of the world. Now we can just stay home and pretend the whole thing.