Sunday Painting....Color study

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

Come on, Canadians, this only has 6436 signatures in a month?! This proposed sale of a Canadian payment system to U.S. ownership is a threat to our privacy and even our sovereignty. We should be opposing this as hard as we all boycotted American goods and travel! Please read and sign! 🇨🇦💪 #cdnpoli

DCapTO@dcapto.bsky.social · 4w ago

“The proposed acquisition of Moneris Solutions Corporation…would place essential Canadian payments infrastructure under U.S. ownership and control, creating unacceptable risks to Canadian data sovereignty, privacy, operational resilience, and economic security.” Only 4783 signed. C’mon 🇨🇦💪! #cdnpoli

"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?"

What's that, Hawaiian noises?@caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I can't imagine what it would be like to grow up now, without the context that allows you to sense if things are false and do further research.

We should, to protect ourselves not from the campfire tales, but from the 'ai' con men who are making up campfire tales

Craig@craigplazure.bsky.social · 2h ago

he said to never connect it to the internet, I guess in case It’s Already Here, but really shouldn’t we be downloading Wikipedia in all its languages, as many technical manuals as we can find, etc? In this new world, the holder of this computer would be the smartest person on earth!

this dude's gonna need more than one rethink

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 3h ago

“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.

I absolutely guarantee there are people out there saying "grok rewrite TeX in Rust" …right …now

hainted flora ⚧️Ⓐ‍☭@trannyflora.myatproto.social · 3h ago

meanwhile LaTeX is still around

as predicted gonna be thousands of these. made by non-domain-experts. all incompatible. all differently buggy. we live in the worst of all worlds.

Varve · Free Design Software@varvedesign.bsky.social · 3h ago

Varve 0.5.0: free design software for Linux, Windows and Apple Silicon Mac. Vector, layout, typography, illustration, photo, motion and print in one document. No account, no subscription. Windows/Mac builds are experimental and unsigned. Public beta. varve.studio/download/?re...

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 2y ago

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

Out-of-the-box ligatures in one of Codec Pro's stylistic sets by Zeta Fonts: www.zetafonts.com/codec-pro inspired by you-know-who play around in the type tester! #typography

I'm a large mammal, I'm supposed to be resting most of the time, not whatever this shit is

"The sanctions are slated to cut the [International Criminal C]ourt off from using U.S.-based financial services, companies, and even the U.S. dollar ... [L]eaders have faced criticism for their inaction in the face of the U.S.'s campaigns to dismantle the ICC and international law at large."

Truthout@truthout.org · 8h ago

Trump administration officials, facing numerous allegations of war crimes in its actions ranging from Iran to Cuba, issued punishing sanctions against the ICC that threaten the future of the entire body and its work to hold war criminals and genocidaires to account.

This is not an isolated incident. All across the public service we are going to see more cuts in service and more job losses. Because these fuckwits wants road and tax breaks for their mates. Everywhere in our org, people are cutting costs left right and centre. #nzpol

NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛@ninjakitty.bsky.social · 21h ago

😑😑😑 #nzpol

Trans rights. Because being good isn't actually that hard.

Luminouslyiii ✨⚔@luminouslyiii.bsky.social · 7h ago

Need more artists to openly and explicitly say trans rights so I know which ones to trust that won't backstab us for a transphobic + misogynistic art trend

It did exactly what it was designed to do. This is like being surprised that the bank robbers weren’t looking to improve the vault’s security

The Economist@economist.com · 14h ago

DOGE was a huge missed opportunity

And also, I guess, read my work. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Ask yourself why the CEO of an online gambling company is giving money for research into the history of art using AI.

We must end the rule of this class.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10h ago

As it goes, I don’t use actively use AI. I am probably making myself obsolete. But I like writing and I don’t want to let shit into the water supply.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h ago

Claude has no feelings. You cannot hurt them. And calling it a cunt is no more hurtful than me calling the table a cunt when I stub my toe on it.

Normally my kids get themselves to school but today I did carline. If you do it regularly, it would take 1 hr out of your day and that’s 5 hours a week, 20 hours a month, etc. You could literally learn a foreign language instead. It’s not life, it’s the waste of it.

Wired is the Hottest doggiest man

WIRED@wired.com · 10h ago

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

More info here.

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police | TechCrunch

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

techcrunch.com

"These forests help protect some of the country's remaining wild species — grizzly bears, wolverines, and endangered lynx. They host key migration corridors for antelope, elk, and mule deer. They protect headwaters of streams providing ... drinking water to 24 million people in the country."

Truthout@truthout.org · 4d ago

On August 18, Trump’s USDA officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule protects forests from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.

Luzi Type's Messina luzi-type.ch/messina-sans #typography

Scarecrow

I’ve added these original artwork to my website in case someone might want to buy them. Three are hearts and one is creatures. Thank you for looking. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

You can just pick up a pencil and your grid paper notebook and draw! You don't even need to be that great at it, some things will look bad or wonky, but it's fun to make stuff. Have been able to semi-regularly draw again, a huge improvement. Everyone can do it!

better a (paint)pig than a fascist

Roasting update:

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 2d ago

It’s roasting time

plombtype.com "Just in: Max Esnée and Emma Marichal’s Plomb Type just released two new typefaces, joining Savate from last year, along with a brand new website." via @productiontype.bsky.social #typography