David Byrne on AI:
"AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us and charging a price"
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David Byrne on AI:
"AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us and charging a price"
David Byrne on Trump’s illegal war on Iran and his thoughts on artists speaking out:
"I think it’s completely illegal…No one voted for it, the public did not endorse it. It's a small group of maniacs who decided they're going to do that"
Ravens are intelligent SOBs.
Though Mondrian's works of the early 1900s originate with inspiration from nature, he's beginning to give way to his impulses of abstraction and expression, displaying atmospheric effects rather than the details of his subjects.
"It was just a gradual development over the years. Last year was 'All You Need Is Love.' This year it's 'Give Peace a Chance.' Remember love. The only hope for any of us is peace."
I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing.
If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.
There is never any money for food, for housing, for healthcare or anything good.
But they can all of a sudden spend billions per day on wars.
PER DAY!!!
We humans have thrived for millennia for 4 main reasons: curiosity, ingenuity, a desire to create of ourselves, and social cohesion. #AI takes the first 3 away, and the tech lords relentlessly pushing AI into our lives seem not to give a damn about the fourth. So, what's left for us?
#Resist
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.
The new Thursday Countdown podcast drops at midnight: Trump doesn’t REALIZE that he’s screwed in Iran.
Is he in a fugue state?
Dissociative behavior? Temporary amnesia? No awareness that there are consequences?
You know – his normal state – only WORSE
"Shore with Red House". Edvard Munch. 1904.
Pauline Black (The Selecter), Suggs (Madness), Neville Staple (The Specials) pose behind the tour bus at the 1st date of the 2 Tone Tour in Brighton, UK.
📸 : Chalkie Davies, Oct. 1979
Renato Natali.
Italiano, 1883-1979.
Remolcador. 1930
Óleo sobre tabla.
This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.
US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war: report
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report
Generative AI is created from blatant, daylight robbery. These tech companies compete to steal creative people's work and livelihoods.
And when we do AI-assisted internet searches, we deprive the original websites and their contributors of our engagement and attention.
#AI
A Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons is merging with a drone manufacturer.
But nothing to see here, right? Cause a golf club manufacturing company and drone manufacturer with Israeli ties merger is perfectly fucking normal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Walter Russell, the great American scientific philosopher/artist published his revolutionary spiral shaped Periodic Chart of the Elements in 1926. He saw the spiral form as the primary arrangement for the atomic and molecular assemblies of the universe.
Diffraction Wave Pattern
Trump:
“They’re walking around with no legs and no arms.”
Fascinating 🧐
An image of the pyramid of the capitalist economy, with this text: Capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme The labor of those lower on the pyramid enriches the ones towards the top. To stay stable, the economy has to draw in more and more resources—colonizing new continents, workforces, and aspects of daily life. The resulting inequalities can only be maintained by ever-escalating force. We’re encouraged to compete against each other to improve our positions on an individual basis. But there’s not enough space at the top for all of us, no matter how hard we work—and no pyramid scheme can go on expanding forever. Sooner or later it’s bound to crash: global warming and recession are just the warning signs. Instead of going down with the Pharaohs, let’s join forces to establish another way of life.
The problem is capitalism itself—a social order that systematically rewards the pursuit of profit at all costs, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands and cultivating selfishness and rapacity as if they were civic virtues.
The Trump presidency is the logical conclusion.
crimethinc.com/work
A baby lamb before it is chopped up for Easter. This Easter please make vegan choices. That’s the compassionate and peaceful way to celebrate 🤍🕊️
When it finally happens the cheers across the world will be so loud they will trigger earthquakes.
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.
Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth
Please stop supporting the cruel egg industry and choose veganism
the social burden of the intellectual
Vana, 1960s. Stanley Bate. Oil on canvas.
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
"Quicksand is most commonly found near water sources where sand is saturated, such as riverbanks, lake shorelines, marshes, and tidal flats. In Western Washington, it is frequently found in coastal river tidal areas, such as the Iverson Spit and Juniper Beach, Hoh River and Queets River." --google
From the cycle: Black.
© Chris Friel.
