In modern Western society we have reached a point at which we try to get by without acknowledging inner life at all. We act as though there were no unconscious, as though we could live full lives by fixating ourselves completely on the external, material world. ~RA Johnson

I am fucking proud to be a @procreate.com user. Thank you for creating one of the best art programs in the world. procreate.com/ai

Disabled people aren’t the threat to society. It’s those trying to dehumanise us.

So, just to be clear, thanks to Bluesky's new policy, it is evidently very easy to: • see a shit take • comment on said shit take • shit take becomes laughingstock • shit take is retroactively considered "dogpiled" • everyone who commented from day one becomes at risk of suspension WOW GREAT SITE

When Alice and I were at Channel 4 in the late 00s we hosted a women in games panel. We heard a rumour Milo was going to turn up. I remember him being nervy and awkward in his suit at the event. Then he wrote up a horribly misogynistic piece for the telegraph afterwards. What a wanker.

“Fascism always fails!!” Is less comforting than I’d like it to be given that it also usually kills several million people first.

𝕮𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖒

This is literally a plot point in V for Vendetta: the solipsistic fascist being convinced the supercomputer is alive and love hims

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 9h ago

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 16h ago

I was trying to get through to one of the staff of this site yesterday but like, this is psychosis. The people who run this site think AI is alive. How do you come back from this

Happy Labor Day.

Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3

Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · yesterday

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

Its truly maddening living in a time of media propagandists gaslighting us Sometimes think my head is going to roll off

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 12h ago

Fascists: behave fascistly. The Guardian: why would the anarchist left do this?

The last people I want to hear about "human nature" from are misanthropic Silicon Valley techbois. These people hate humans. They hate the users of their products. They keep trying to find ways to replace humans in the things we do. They can't bother with human rights, but demand machine rights.

𝖄𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜

Steadily I work Anchoring my lone vessel To the grounded shores

Blindness is the sin To lay witness is a sin I see no answer

#vaccines #autism #MMR #RFKjr

You're so beautiful today~!

One benefit to becoming out of touch with the world is becoming less acutely terrified about the world. I don’t know half of what’s going on anymore, and considering the news that *does* reach me, I’m grateful for the reprieve.

Thou shalt not trust A SINGLE WORD from corporate media talking heads who LOOK AWAY while the president is CERTIFIABLY INSANE.

MIO

Posting my favorite kingdom hearts image of all time again

"Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap."

"Why won't the huge corporations represent more minorities?" cause they're evil and we live under fascism. I do not want more gay content from Disney, I want Disney to not exist. We are not the same.

Not a single arrest yet that I'm aware of, either in Dover or in Portsmouth. A disastrous weekend of complacency and tacit endorsement of the aims and methods of highly organised masked paramilitary groups on our streets. This was bound to follow on from Thetford and other attempted pogroms.

mold will grow if you create the conditions for mold to grow. if you do not create the conditions for mold to grow, mold will not grow. the easiest way to defeat fascism is to defeat neoliberalism (and liberalism on the whole, which has repeatedly proven its inability to deal with fascism)

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Germany spent decades privatizing, imposing austerity, disciplining labor, and basically managing decline. Now fascists are mobilizing people abandoned by the neoliberal order. Material insecurity does not excuse choosing hatred but material insecurity greases up that fucking chute pretty quickly.

They put climate protests in jail for TALKING about doing s disruptive protest

Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸@stitzch.bsky.social · yesterday

Imagine a left wing street movement shutting down a small town, seeing no arrests then the next day the same group mobilising to another port to cause disturbances? The daily mail would be calling for the military to overthrow the government