Mare Pan
@paarsec.com
🏳️🌈 Artist and activist; lo-fi socialist junk, treehugger, tech-loving luddite, I love experimental art 🇮🇹 Italy | linktr.ee/paarsec
Om jameel:My heart, which suffers from a heart valve prolapse, is almost stopping from beating because of the severe pain in my shoulder, which is affected by a tear&joint inflammation.I cannot buy the injections that cost 200$ I left my 5 kids hungry Don't let us die🙏😭🥹 chuffed.org/project/1839...
3D printed a material I worked on recently & just want to share that it's WILDLY satisfying holding a Substance Designer material you made yourself in your hands. The forbidden gummy.💜 Would any fellow devs /artists I follow be interested in having materials they made be 3D printed? ✨
"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Since the war in Gaza began🇵🇸, Hammam has remained on his feet, volunteering as a nurse to care for the wounded while unable to provide for his homeless family, sleeping on the streets without a tent & longing for food. they desperately need your support. Brings hope🤲 chuffed.org/project/1844...
The way that everyone sees fantom AI in original work now is such a fucked up secondary downstream AI nightmare consequence. People can’t critically identify real art any longer and so everything gets accused of not being original. I don’t know how we climb out of this hole.
Just saw someone sell a portable dvd player with a screen for a few bucks and I'm in love
I think this is pretty easily attributable to the fact that people evolved as hunter/gatherers, and the thrill of the chase is a hugely important part of human development and contentment. It's simultaneously why being a billionaire (thus having access to whatever you want) turns brains into mush.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
I'm going to share some art by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881
Nurse Hammam is caring for the wounded in Gaza daily without pay His family is homeless, hungry & has lost everything. His brother is ill with epilepsy & needs urgent treatment to prevent severe seizures. Any donation —even a small one— can help get food & medical care chuffed.org/project/1844...
There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d ago
I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d agoThere is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field
I want art that looks worse made by real people who are paid a universal basic income and who don't have to compete for the bare minimum and I’m not kidding
me, a guy who definitely leaves the computer a normal and in any case certainly sufficient amount, attending the last day of the swim classes my nieces and nephew were doing: these swim instructors are basically animation teachers
The coverage of the crisis in Ceuta really gives no humanity to the migrants For smugglers, the Moroccan government, the spanish opposition, and right wing european governments, these people are just tools they can push around for an agenda
>Pedro Sanchez goes to Algeria for meeting >Morocco crashes out >Morocco is also occupying Western Sahara >Morocco also increasing military and economic ties to Israel >Pedro Sanchez says decent stuff about Palestine >Israel crashes out >Moroccan gov pressures 50k people to swarm Spanish territory
Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6mo agoAlso of note is Algeria's very recent statements calling out alleged Emirati support for militant Islamist groups in Algeria, and cancelling UAE contracts. Algeria is a secular nationalist military junta, essentially, and the last of the Cold War Arab Republics.
Hammam’s family is taking its last breaths. They survived yesterday’s bombing in Gaza, but lost everything. They’re hungry, homeless, & sleeping on the streets, urgently need a tent to shelter their family. Your support is their lifeline & the hope that keeps them alive💔 chuffed.org/project/1844...
Save my boy Elias’s sight!Darkness is consuming his vision in Gaza, and time is fading fast.Without urgent surgery,he will be blind forever.I beg you by your children,don't let the dark steal my child’s dream to see.Help us before it's too late Verified by: molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1624...
As a PSA: In the last week, two people I know got tricked by scam websites that used AI to replicate the websites of real businesses they had bought things from in the past.
As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
opening up some commissions slots to raise funds cover my rent! really struggling to find work. DM me if you are interested! 50$ USD: chibi model / single colour background 100$ USD: model / custom background 150$ USD: model / custom background + 3D printable file #blender3d #b3d #gamedev
Hammam's family is taking its last breaths They survived yesterday’s bombing in Gaza, but lost everything They're hungry & homeless, sleeping on streets Their dream is simply to eat healthy meal & sleep in a tent Your support is their lifeline & hope that keeps them alive chuffed.org/project/1844...
It probably feels good as hell to yell "ENOUGH!" and transition into the final phase of your fight.
You'll have to pry em dashes out of my cold, dead hands
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.