This feels like the sanest reaction to every piece of news I see coming out of the US

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Belvoir, both the street and the castle

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

finishing up my generative-writing zine for my craft class this weekend for SLC X The Writing Institute where i'll be introducing writers to some freudian, lacanian, and kleinian psychoanalytic theory in order to create psychologically complex, compelling, and cathartic characterization.

All these CEOs just cosplaying as smart people, it's wild.

I'm also reminded of the recent post about the "passing the same $5 around" creator struggle and realize these companies are much the same, except it's "passing the same $100-500 billion around" and still SOMEHOW making no profit.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

HP Lovecraft might have eaten Cheez-Its

#daily 33: dual topics – spirits | skeletal knight

Ohohoho free shipping (free?!!) from @bookshop.org on Oct 7 and 8! Two very fine days to pick up, perhaps, books written by a huge bug?

bookshop.org/shop/premeem...

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

"Enjoy us in space."

*AGAIN!*

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

this is literally a scene in succession

A long time ago in a studio far, far away, I lost the little #Revan figure on my desk. I finally got around to replacing it, and went with the Star Forge robes. My (female) Revan always made ‘em look good 😊 #StarWars

Just occurred to me that I should probably link Paper and Steel here for folks who haven’t seen it 😅 It’s a free read on the #BioWare blog for #DragonAge: blog.bioware.com/2015/04/30/s...

A fascinating read.