Jared Blumberg

@rabbiteleven.bsky.social

Brush & nib for hire. I DO NOT make “content”. NO AI involved, EVER. Solidarity with all artists and all workers.

At this point, it’s clear to see a major common thread running through both LLM use and the abuses of the wealthy and powerful: It is damaging to only be in conversation with sycophants. 24/7 glazed egos is a big way bad ideas propagate.

If you are currently, or ever have in the past, given actual money to an NPC streamer, you should seek medical help immediately. Things have gone wrong, and those things are in your head. Rescue your head, please.

I think people (myself included) are so irony-poisoned and accustomed to horror that we do not know what to do with Dr. Don. Earnestness and positivity just put me on the back foot, tilting my head in bewilderment.

Democrats. Please. Just listen. Bill Maher and John Fetterman leaving is only a net positive. Stop fighting your left flank, and fight the right wing for once. We need numbers to make it through this, and I’d rather not have you as yet another political enemy. Thanks.

I’m one of those assholes who has metal coins in all their board games, BUT… after The Collapse, no one will really know the difference, and I’ll be over here with my own private army, sitting on a fat hoard of Agricola Bucks.

I work in a food pantry, and we are consistently getting interviewed by news outlets from other countries about the crisis in the US. They know we’re teetering on the edge. We are a cautionary tale.

We should talk more about what all this collection and recommendation online does best: Make you feel way too much synchronicity, like you’re in an issue of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing or something.

It might just be a literary fanboy thing, but I can’t stand the phrase “It is what it is”… HOWEVER, I freaking love it when Vonnegut turns it into “So it goes”. I think I’ll chalk it up to the surrounding context of the book, in opposition to the painful mundanity of coworker small talk.

It is the most frustrating indignity to be anticapitalist and then ask people, especially friends and family, not to steal creative work. Yeah, we all need to survive under this bullshit. Sorry I missed the memo where artists don’t count.