Content Love Knowles
@contentlove.bsky.social
Cassandra’s reckless daughter. Piano slinger, rabble rouser, conjuror. Mostly benevolent force of nature. Makes theatre, music, love, comics, poems, trouble. Mutual aid person. Damn good with animals. Loves a puzzle. Fixer.
In my world, mutual aid, already going strong, absolutely blossomed. But I say "my world" because it was also clear it wasn't rolling that way for everyone. In some cases because isolation limited access, in others because the whole idea seemed impossible or somehow personally diminishing...
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d agoI agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
My unpopular opinion is that everyone who wears a full face of slap looks like a replicant. Some more interesting replicants than others, but replicants just the same. I 100% do not get it and I've managed to avoid it my whole life. Eye makeup and lipstick are obviously in a different category ;)
My observation is that when flattery doesn't do it, the impression of sincere interest and engagement does and I didn't notice any big demographic that was immune when I was testing a certain bot-in-a-box in 2016
Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."
I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d agoThere is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field
It should be pretty clear by now that if Elon Musk is supporting you, you’re an awful candidate who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near power. But you’ll be good for billionaires.
Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 6d agoElon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid
Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry
I recently used an AI to do a piece of specific technical research for a thing I'm writing and I made the mistake of stating that purpose, resulting in the AI asking me if I wanted it to WRITE ME A SAMPLE SCENE like fuck no I don't and if you did and I read it I'd have to kill the fucking project
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d agoYup. I noted a while back that I don't and won't use "AI" for my writing work, and I recently update my personal site to note that fact. And yes, it's annoying we feel obliged to do this now.
Using AI generated art to advertise other art for sale doesn't encourage me to engage with any of it, it's more like a huge red flag that's it's scrap all the way down.
Which means you actually write it yourself it should not need to be said but apparently it needs to be said
Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 5d agoEverything counts as writing but writing is the only way to do it
I swear to god I am not a solipsist but sometimes it feels like this is all going on specifically to vex me also these are the same people that are gonna guzzle raw milk and suggest that people feed it to babies for the supposed marvelous health properties
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d agoThink about the dumbest person you know. A MAGA TV host on Fox News is dumber.
WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THESE MEDDLESOME.... *looks around, waves hands vaguely at almost everything*
Yeah I totally fail to see the issue, this is pretty much how it reads in my journal too. We were there. Trump is and was an idiot and Don Jr is and was a fucking moron. What part of this is mysterious?
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d agoNo lies detected.
Oh for sure and that's because they already went through the period of 9-11 when ALL LITTLE GIRLS ARE THE DEVIL. Just ask my dog, they are his most feared demographic.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 7d agobought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris
Schroedinger's Mitch is still in the box, right? I have this feeling the box opens in two days, three tops.
As Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Turé) said, “if a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago"If your neighbor thinks some kooky things about communists, it might make them kind of an intolerable jerk, but they don’t have the power to do anything. But when the FBI or CIA or other institutions that have power think this way, then it starts to have real implications” — @sethcotlar.bsky.social
If you just read one thing today, make it this.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 5d ago"The models didn’t escape because they’re gods. They escaped because someone left the door open. Congress should regulate the door." @klonick.bsky.social discusses the real lesson from Hugging Face breach by an AI agent system from OpenAI.
Birds may chirp, cats may howl Bears may stand on their hind legs and toast Shakespeare for their inclusion. I may post this.
🎤 Starting a new musical thread: 20 of my fave vocal jazz tunes Yes, vocal jazz can sometimes be “knife’s edge” music—in one direction, it can become cheesy BUT in the other it is literally sublime & elevates the human experience to dizzying heights My 20 tracks take me to those heights! 1/20
DAILY ABSOLUTE NUMPTY REPORT: in this case the headline in not hyperbole www.theverge.com/policy/97231...
The US government just banned Roombas
It’s not just bots with legs.
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just dropping in to say FUCK RAND PAUL which is pretty much what everyone who isn't an idiot, toady, or full on grifter is thinking at this moment