em dash klankah ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times]
@larvalstage.bsky.social
by day sculpture fabricator and restorer.
by night activities include sculpture, RPGs, visual design
and other anomalies both online and off.
he/sidhe/they
by night activities include sculpture, RPGs, visual design
and other anomalies both online and off.
he/sidhe/they
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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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unless the AI is sending out surveys to real people & collating results (potentially a task machine learning could help with!) it is MAKING THINGS UP.
this question: "How do we know when a model is genuinely representing a population, rather than producing a fluent stereotype?"
ALWAYS THE LATTER
this question: "How do we know when a model is genuinely representing a population, rather than producing a fluent stereotype?"
ALWAYS THE LATTER
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
unless the AI is sending out surveys to real people & collating results (potentially a task machine learning could help with!) it is MAKING THINGS UP.
this question: "How do we know when a model is genuinely representing a population, rather than producing a fluent stereotype?"
ALWAYS THE LATTER
this question: "How do we know when a model is genuinely representing a population, rather than producing a fluent stereotype?"
ALWAYS THE LATTER
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It’s a good thing there’s such a steady stream of studies, because they seem to be forgotten moments after publication. news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain - Griffith News
COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious
news.griffith.edu.au
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It’s a good thing there’s such a steady stream of studies, because they seem to be forgotten moments after publication. news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
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I'm very tolerant of bad aesthetics - I actually frequently LOVE bad art when it comes from real human beings! But when it's churned out by a fucking machine? It has zero meaning and zero value and actually degrades the reputation and message of the person throwing it at us.
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm very tolerant of bad aesthetics - I actually frequently LOVE bad art when it comes from real human beings! But when it's churned out by a fucking machine? It has zero meaning and zero value and actually degrades the reputation and message of the person throwing it at us.
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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
absolutely true. to me some of the most interesting parts of a trip somewhere is to capture the structures that most people overlook. even in galleries and museums the infrastructure above the lights/sight lines or around a corner from the main gallery space can be as fascinating as the exhibition.
So this is what I’m talking about when I tell artists to go outside, I know I’m a cunt but I’m legit telling a lot of you that inspiration is outside as well. Go to a construction site if you’re a mech/robot artist and just take pictures of everything.
Calvert Avenue, London E2
Peeling paint on wooden and glass door with glazed tile wall
#reference #buildingreference #materialreference
Peeling paint on wooden and glass door with glazed tile wall
#reference #buildingreference #materialreference
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
absolutely true. to me some of the most interesting parts of a trip somewhere is to capture the structures that most people overlook. even in galleries and museums the infrastructure above the lights/sight lines or around a corner from the main gallery space can be as fascinating as the exhibition.
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Specifying that they're being forced to "waste resources" protecting incumbents is INCREDIBLY telling re: how stuck they are in their thinking: a primary that produces a new, exciting, motivating candidate is worth WAY MORE than anything your campaign funds can do for your "check-the-box" incumbent!
Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line | CNN Politics
When Rep. Dan Goldman first ran for Congress in 2022, he was cheered on the left as the party’s top lawyer during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Specifying that they're being forced to "waste resources" protecting incumbents is INCREDIBLY telling re: how stuck they are in their thinking: a primary that produces a new, exciting, motivating candidate is worth WAY MORE than anything your campaign funds can do for your "check-the-box" incumbent!
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Really funny how the "vote blue no matter who" Dems wouldn't support their own just a couple of months ago are now clutching their pearls over how they're being attacked by "their own" now.
Guess the lack of self-awareness from the guys they've been buddying up with lately has begun to rub off.
Guess the lack of self-awareness from the guys they've been buddying up with lately has begun to rub off.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Really funny how the "vote blue no matter who" Dems wouldn't support their own just a couple of months ago are now clutching their pearls over how they're being attacked by "their own" now.
Guess the lack of self-awareness from the guys they've been buddying up with lately has begun to rub off.
Guess the lack of self-awareness from the guys they've been buddying up with lately has begun to rub off.
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
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December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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When the Department of Justice blatantly violates the law to protect wealthy and politically connected pedophiles, then we have no Justice Department and we have no justice.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
When the Department of Justice blatantly violates the law to protect wealthy and politically connected pedophiles, then we have no Justice Department and we have no justice.
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aside, but an important one: the @huffpost.com calling this move "dystopian" rather than "fascist"/"illegal"/"authoritarian" contributes to the pervasive and pernicious attitude that this is so shocking and unlikely that it isn't really happening, something to observe with horror rather than resist.
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
aside, but an important one: the @huffpost.com calling this move "dystopian" rather than "fascist"/"illegal"/"authoritarian" contributes to the pervasive and pernicious attitude that this is so shocking and unlikely that it isn't really happening, something to observe with horror rather than resist.
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Little girl in a shop: Mum?
Her mum: Yes?
Girl: There’s an old woman who talks but with no sound, and has a sad face. She tries to tell you things but you can’t see.
Mum: Where?
Girl (points at floor): Always there.
Mum: Well darling, that’s terrifying. Let’s go eat dinner.
Her mum: Yes?
Girl: There’s an old woman who talks but with no sound, and has a sad face. She tries to tell you things but you can’t see.
Mum: Where?
Girl (points at floor): Always there.
Mum: Well darling, that’s terrifying. Let’s go eat dinner.
December 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Little girl in a shop: Mum?
Her mum: Yes?
Girl: There’s an old woman who talks but with no sound, and has a sad face. She tries to tell you things but you can’t see.
Mum: Where?
Girl (points at floor): Always there.
Mum: Well darling, that’s terrifying. Let’s go eat dinner.
Her mum: Yes?
Girl: There’s an old woman who talks but with no sound, and has a sad face. She tries to tell you things but you can’t see.
Mum: Where?
Girl (points at floor): Always there.
Mum: Well darling, that’s terrifying. Let’s go eat dinner.
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“prompt writer isn’t an artistic medium” is a fantastic read and I hope it makes them cry
Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“prompt writer isn’t an artistic medium” is a fantastic read and I hope it makes them cry
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The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.
FoxNews: Deepening MAGA rift comes to a head at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2025
www.foxnews.com/media/rift-m...
www.foxnews.com/media/rift-m...
Rift in MAGA movement on full display at TPUSA's AmericaFest as Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson battle it out
Conservative personalities clashed at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2025 with Ben Shapiro condemning Tucker Carlson for platforming Nick Fuentes and other controversial figures.
www.foxnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.
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Oh wow this is a new low, arguably more insidious and damaging to the integrity of human knowledge than creating fake sources (which at least can be exposed). Reading & judging the quality of the cited support for your claims is the difference between trustworthy research and cherry-picked bullshit
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
December 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Oh wow this is a new low, arguably more insidious and damaging to the integrity of human knowledge than creating fake sources (which at least can be exposed). Reading & judging the quality of the cited support for your claims is the difference between trustworthy research and cherry-picked bullshit
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when the light bulb was invented, they had to go around and force everyone to use it. that's how you know AI is going to be successful too
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
when the light bulb was invented, they had to go around and force everyone to use it. that's how you know AI is going to be successful too
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I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period