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Art, birds, left. ANTIFA🍁 Please, if you are only following me for follow back, don't.
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
getartcraft.com
Theory-free inference is a bid to substitute one for the other: the beauty and terror of being able to manipulate the world without studying or understanding it is that it can be done with money alone. No experts needed.
In short, the power to thwart billionaires' desires. AI is the money-losingest enterprise the human race has ever embarked upon. More than a trillion dollars has been spent *this year* to make a mere $50b in revenue.
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Cotton Mather, the Salem and Boston witch hunter ideologue, became later in life a proponent of smallpox inoculation (after loosing his wife and two children to measles) against an opposition of other Puritan leaders and physicians.
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
techpolicy.press
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
For cynics, this is all a shuck, a scare-story to convince the rubes that their modestly useful utility software is really a nascent "superintelligence" and thus capable of replacing all their workers, which means they should fire all those workers and start sending their salaries to AI companies.
to be more specific I should say revenues collected by government, but the screenshot says it. Bottom line the public pays out and suffers more than it collects from this industry effectively debunking the claim we need fossil fuels to counter US trade aggression.
To live in an age of monopolies is to live in an age of regulatory capture, in which your government routinely fails you in terrible ways to benefit elites and insiders.
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
Our elders are leaving us. We have to find the direction and passion ourselves now.
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Today, those trustees announced that *they had sold all of Spirit's employees' data to Google*, for use in AI training: www.axios.com/2026/08/17/g... 42/
Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
The tech giant plans to use the data to improve its AI models.
axios.com
Today is the black cat appreciation day! Patrick is appreciated every day.🖤
