It's very telling how every word a Black or Muslim or Brown candidate like Darializa Avila Chevalier or Abdul El-Sayed or Zohran Mamdani or Cori Bush says is scrutinized, turned around, overanalyzed, and endlessly debated by the same people who see Elon Musk *literally sieg heil* and shrug.

I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.

The Plagiarism Machine — KJ Charles

Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time...

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What a lovely thing.

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · 2mo ago

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

I have a *tiny* part in this, and it’s been fun watching the game come back to life.

Lee Bining@lbining.bsky.social · 2w ago

We released an update to Atomega today! First in 9 years! It's been so much fun resurrecting it and I can't wait to see how we can work with the community to improve it further 😁🎉 store.steampowered.com/news/app/619...

She snooze.

New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

My creative drive has been pretty low this year, what with illness and grief and other mundane fuckery. I really need to get my mojo back.

I love comics.

2000AD Randomizer@2000adrandom.bsky.social · 6d ago

Dan Cornwell

Off the Beaten Path, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist.

Texture of a city #Newcastle

These AI fucks aren’t even trying to hide the utter, moral vacuum of their business.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

🎯

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

“Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at you, doesn’t seem to be livin’.

Milltown, painting by Manchester-born Geoffrey Key, b.1941.

A L I E N

Based in the UK? Then please sign and share! Help creators be paid what they're owed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w ago

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

ATOMEGA (on Steam) just had its first update in *years*.

Spider. I’m sorry I destroyed your web, but in my defence it was at face height on my staircase. Please do not retaliate.

Well, you can imagine how dreadful I think this is. In the meantime, you should all go and visit their brand new excellent, excellent visitor centre. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support

Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities

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An iconic fixture of UK science. What a tragedy.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please enjoy this perfect cultural artefact of Manchester.

archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2w ago

Coronation Street - written by (26th July 1974). Emily attempts to broker a peace truce between Ena and Martha.

Intrigued to see how the Neuromancer TV show matches the world I’ve had in my head for 47 years or so.

Jason Statham. Born on this day in 1967.

All those genslop flyers, backdrops, and single-frame illustrations with zero sense of negative space. High-bore maximal shitspray across every bit of surface, all with the same texture and value, its clarion declaration having a massive amount of nothing to say. A visual cudgel of zero-effort.

First homemade maki in a while. They’re not bad.

The one “positive” I’ve seen with Gen AI is that soooo many people actively oppose it, despite the billions of dollars being spent to sell it to us.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

Britain.