HEDY LAMARR — born 112yrs ago today — escaped her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth & GPS technology.

Tribal elders warned this would happen. Now Native American remains have been unearthed during construction of Trump’s second border wall at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

"The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism, and he must focus on the issues of his time." ~Rod Serling

8 days until Halloween 🎨 Anna Tromop

Die Leere Mitte – Issue 29 – Now In Print! Four of my fables are in this one! free download at leserpent.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/d...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

3D typobject #asemic poetry

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

This is a great opportunity

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship application is live! We’re seeking journalists, policy professionals, and researchers to pursue independent reporting and analysis on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy.

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

Halloween is coming! The decorations are now in stores, always a sign of a fast approaching holiday...

But my favorite nerdy observation is that Async is an MRI company — and the latent diffusion process is built on U-Net, which was widely used in medical imaging (I call this the move from corpora to corpus in my “market in the model” pre-print!) arxiv.org/abs/2606.19151

The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy

Valuable critique of generative image models within visual culture and the humanities has emphasized the role of datasets in shaping the images they produce. Yet, close studies of the ideological posi...

arxiv.org

You need subscription for Notepad now. (I don't actually use Notepad, I was showing someone the unnecessary features they added to it)

Old Dogs Need Love Just as Much ❤️🖤🥳 Original post

Free WordStar. www.theregister.com/software/202...

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, re-released for free

: The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin

theregister.com

Old Dogs Need Love Just as Much ❤️ Original post

It's clearly co-n.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great piece on what “co-” (copilot, co-author, etc) does for situating the relationship to LLMs. One thing to add: “co-“ allows just enough of the user to absorb accountability for what the model does wrong or badly, while asserting nonetheless that the model is just as capable as a person.

#vispomotion N°56 "0101" Angelika Grzegorczyk 2026 @gela.js 🇵🇱 Idea, diseño y realización: @omaresomar Realización y prensa: @anaveronicasuarez #aurapoesiavisual #vispo #poesia #poesiavisual poesiaexperimental artandtext wordart textartwork typographicart

The Presidential 1776 Award competition ended in a disputed finish in the age of suspicion. Sam Fortier reports.

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

notus.org

Short thread dismantling some of the frame coming out of OpenAI’s reputation/crisis management around the Hugging Face hack. ⬇️

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Seeding the “maybe our model is exhibiting self-awareness?” narrative to obliterate the “OpenAI is a negligent and potentially criminal actor” narrative is a reputation management move exclusive to this industry. Not a stunt, but a desperate need to control the narrative.

If people don't like you, that's okay. What matters is if dogs don't like you. Then it is time for self-reflection. - Buddhist quote

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

It is unfortunate that a good deal of people don't believe in freedom and justice anymore. They side with what is convenient that fits their world view.

here is the poster for my show at Millennium Film Workshop on July 30, 2026

I wrote up the protocol to glitch AI image generators I've been using for my work. It's posted here: michaelbetancourt.com/pdf/Betancou...

Nothing changes because the criminals ripping us off never get any punishment. Instead the systems are built to protect them.