heartwarming: this legacy media org photoshops their slop the old fashioned way

worse actor than the major labs award

ver 🗿@ver.ooo · 20h ago

they say "unsanctioned" and "controlled experiment" but it was both sanctioned and uncontrolled?!

i went all this time not knowing what gas town actually was and now it’s been obsoleted?

linked in the (neat) essay: blog.artgeek.io/2025/10/20/a...

Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration

A mark of a good art exhibition is that it expands our range of vision: historically, geographically, culturally. Solid explanatory text on the gallery walls, or a really good docent, can turn a show ...

blog.artgeek.io

David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz · 5d ago

Gym tasks vs. work tasks. This not a brand-new way of thinking about what we should and shouldn’t offload to AI, but I hadn’t seen it before. From Bruce Schneier: The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work... https://www.theverge.com/tech/973682/gym-tasks-vs-work-tasks

Somebody please recommend me 18th c Chinese art history books specifically about collaborations w/ Jesuit/european artists because I’m seeing some of this stuff right now and it’s beautiful and surprising maybe cc @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social

finally a meditation for me

Have you purchasid the Trojan Horse poppe-corne bucket?

this piece smells like Claude

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.

Such a good passage.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d ago

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

frontier llms in 2026:

government public relations 😭

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I can’t believe you’d leave the sinecure of all sinecures to be on tv for like a year before the whole thing blows up

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · last wk.

"face built for print" "One thing abt Douthat not entirely obvious he landed the nyt gig at 29. basically after a few years at nat review, right out of college. he's now 46. he got the ultimate opinion gig more or less right out of college, he's been there 17 yrs. little experience in non-cush gigs

google books could have scanned everything once and for all decades ago

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · last wk.

the solution to anthropic ripping up millions of books isnt more copyright by the way, theyre doing this Because of copyright

our correspondent has noticed more book reviews calling out bad prose; she agrees and provides two examples of bad YA first pages, then suggests it’s driven by publishers and online authors playing a volume game we also get examples of “bad” prose which nevertheless work & some ‘kids read bad now’

The Bad Prose Epidemic

YouTube video by Kate Alexandra

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1️⃣ ten years of sabbatical, seven on a tropical island 2️⃣ brutally evict the men who have occupied and looted your workplace 3️⃣ learn by speaking to the departed then avenge their grievances

Rav@rvbdrm.com · last wk.

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allow me to surf on odyssey hype to repost an old piece from 2013 Penelope, Queen of Ithaca - 30x40cm ink on claybord

who is building this in a physical store

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · last wk.

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

entire plane boarded 14 minutes early 🙂‍↕️

nolan’s odyssey is a woke masterpiece

“Criticised by experts” is a very muted way of saying “fucking deranged”

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2w ago

Politician’s claim Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if NT doesn’t use more groundwater criticised by experts

can’t get away from this ARG anywhere

Forth 🏝️@forthrast.com · 2mo ago

split on whether it feels scifi because this is something that would happen in The Timeline or if it’s because everyone involved has read fanfic about The Timeline

fact check: the cyclops is clearly documented in autochthonous oral traditions

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2w ago

"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it

lovely place to play balatro

AI slop Juan Diego

hope they got it

for what the horse considers play,

hey dude yeah the other monks and i are getting pretty concerned about your screeds. yeah we're alarmed about your diatribes. yeah we're concerned about all the codices and periodicals you're authoring. we think the haranguing's gone a bit too far. stop with the polemics.

book in airport lounge

"We cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet." Pope Francis, Laudato Si' (2015)

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

I was a child in the 1970s. Nothing in today’s air will hurt me. It would need to penetrate the lead lining in my lungs.