The Muse

Forging clarity: purification Impurities of the mind

Happy Year of the Fire Horse! The Fire Horse, part of the Chinese calendar, returns for the first time in 60 years.

Curious how things align... I published this essay on fire purification not realizing the Fire Horse would be setting off this very morning...❤️‍🔥 🐎

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ah jajajaja demasiado chistoso!

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Closeup of a katana sword. Source: Wikimedia Commons

In a world of hype, chaos, and subterfuge, critical thought is your katana sword. May we all have the patience to learn to fold steel.

Welcome to the Dojo of the Critical Mind.

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Still buzzing with yesterday's energy. Standing-room only in the conference hall, and overflowing out into the lobby. 3.5 hours, 4 separate panels of experts, and a public comment line that stretched out the door. Don't mess with California's creatives!

Thank you Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Senator Umberg, your staff and all of the other members of the hearing yesterday, for your attention and support of the creative blood that courses through California's economic veins. It was a powerful hearing yesterday. California leads!

Thank you Senator Umberg, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, your staff and all of the other members of the hearing yesterday, for your attention and support of the creative blood that courses through California's economic veins. It was a powerful hearing yesterday. California leads!

Thrilled to be there with you all! The energy was real and very palpable. 🙏

Reposted and commenting here for reach 🙏

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I'll be there!

SHOW UP TO TESTIFY MONDAY!
(12/08/2025) Stanford
Paul Brest Hall - 10am
RSVP here:
bit.ly/44lRMsX

#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists
#AB412
#March2Testify

Important please share with your artist and creative friends in the SF Bay Area! 12/8 at 10 am on the Stanford campus, the next legislative hearing for AB 412, the AI copyright transparency bill. Submit a public comment, in person, in support of everyone's right to copyright. RSVP: bit.ly/44lRMsX

Well done, thanks for covering all those tired tropes that keep getting trotted out. How many times do we need to clarify and burn the strawmen

We are going to need a lot of poetry, art, satire, and music to get us through these next few years. Heart-rending, earth-breaking, soul-ripping, human made and human lived. Hug your loved ones, embrace your neighbors, stand for your communities and your values. Never get down on your knees.

If you're in a plot hole you haven't listened deep enough and long enough. A good way to do that is take a long walk. Solo.

I had red herring for lunch yesterday

We need to protect stories like these with ever deepening persistence 🙏

A walk outdoors with no chatter crowding your mental space is better than an hour in the gym with the TVs blasting

Seriously. I don’t buy any meat from the corporations.

Haha yes. Hope springs eternal!

I think they realized they're human too

@digelsrud.bsky.social @bigbaderik.bsky.social @heatherashleyboyer.bsky.social @matthewtaber.bsky.social @pauseai.bsky.social ^^^

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S.

Hey BlueSky! Word's out that US states will retain their authority to regulate AI. Senate just voted 99-1 against a ban on AI regulation that had been included in the OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill).

Nice to see something done right. Huge thanks to Senator Blackburn!

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Oh this one's sweet. Thank you Deana, hope your family had a great Father's Day!

Proud of you SF Bay Area for a string of peaceful protests up and down the peninsula. Exhilarating and heartwarming to walk in community with all of you! All colors, all ages, all faiths. 🙏🏽

Let me clarify. The bird exists but this video is not of a real bird. This is why it’s so dangerous to have AI slop of any kind. It is not an accurate representation of the animal, yet pretends to be. An illustration is obviously art for example

Please indicate to your followers this is not a real bird. It’s AI generated.

It’s fake. Ai generated

This is real and it is raw. Courage, that is. May we all hold the line on our own floors.