Left hand holding up a white card with Doodlefest printed on it and a drawing of a textured black curl with the word "ist" written on it.
Got to try sumi ink in stick form for the first time last night at the weekly doodlefest meet-up, and I'm hooked! Look at that texture π
this is the worst thing ever and simultaneously the perfect metaphor for contemporary white wealth in the united states
In my view it is far worse than that. misogyny actively prevents people from developing an imaginative capacity in the first place and narrows the possibilities they see in the world.
Go with me here.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
And they deserve not to have their benefits cut just because they do get married!
Guide to travelers on making your phone safe from inspection during travel:
1) Back up your phone
2) Full device reset
3) Do not log into any services or restore backup
4) Once in country, reset again and restore from backup
5) Repeat each time you travel
the silicon valley ai worshipping cult stuff is so incredibly strange i'm not even sure how to approach commenting on it
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The rhetoric of βreplacementβ is a red herring. The logic is actually additive and subtractive. California State University, e.g., isnβt βreplacingβ profs with AI; the state of California *slashedβ the uniβs budget which will reduce the professoriate. AND they contracted for $16million with Open AI.
Meme of Michaela Coel parodying star trek. Wearing a space suit and sitting at a control panel smirking at the camera
Hey my Literary Lovelies! Itβs Womenβs History Month, so I feel like itβs time for a new book thread. Hereβs whatβs on my TBR for March. Horror & Sci Fi written by Black, Indigenous and other Women of color. Letβs get started shall we? ππ #BlackBooksky #DiverseBookSky
You're going to hear a lot of DC types going on the record to say they can't figure out why any of this is happening.
It's really quite straightforward: this is happening because MAGA is a eugenics project, this is eugenics.
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
I don't expect much. Lasting change comes from habitual practices we can incorporate into our every day.
this is the effect of social media on social movements
i spent the 8 months as a federal employee managing emc's verification software. before that, i developed the verification for the gfs.
so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.
Got to teach a drawing workshop yesterday! Check out a brief recap and pictures on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/123180...
Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
Constructing society around the whims of monied/landed white guys who see certain kind of humans as property at best, and vermin at worst, and in either case not actually as people at all, is bad, actually.
βThe project is a protest against a government proposal to let AI firms train their algorithms on the work of creative professionals under a new copyright exemption.β
Why I get tf away from ppl that are always "just kidding" and live like there "ain't no rules" about it.
I cannot imagine losing the pleasure and challenge and frustration of reading a book, instead asking some chatbot to "read" for you and summarize it for you.
You don't get to experience all the little riffs of language, the way you glimpse other worlds, other people, other minds through books.
Chart showing a stark drop-off in available image creation work since AI was introduced mid 2022.
Send this to people who claim AI isn't taking artists' jobs.
There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore.
www.ft.com/content/185e...
No one is coming to save us, but we have each other. We keep each other safe.
Thank you for being a lunatic during this difficult time.
Tomorrow my AI in Fact and Fiction class reads @roseveleth.com in @wired.com to start the class off thinking about why the fiction matters in AI, and how to tread carefully around and in it www.wired.com/story/sci-fi...
The lesson.
It was so easy!
