this is 100% true (youtu.be/cP7_ZDpcBsQ?...) but i also think that the semiotic value of AI as a tool for art is being strained by its shifting political context and the ever-fraught relationship btwn artists and ownership. we're so post-history that we're even recycling hauntologies lmao

"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark

Westerners will literally build a spectral simulacrum of a mental simulacrum of a dead rather than allow themselve a cathartic funerary banquet, 3 year-long mourning and a humble ancestors worship.

k-punk.org/democracy-is...

Democracy is Joy

The meaning of OXI we should fight for is the belief in politics itself. OXI is the belief that we can throw off the demands of a supposedly ‘impartial’ economy that serves only the few, that we ca…

man this guy was pretty smart wonder what happened to him

I understand that the calculations of AI energy use are messy and estimates have a margin of error. But! AI is being used to justify new fossil energy projects and keep fossil energy online when it might have been wound down sooner. Which seems like a pretty concrete "here's a bad enviro impact."

"A small, cloistered elite of not-especially-bright billionaires have decided that they are very, very special, and that the problem with society these days is that people keep treating them like everyone else. " Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder

Every time an administrator in the UC system denies a department’s request for a full time permanent faculty hire, that administrator should have to say on camera, “we cannot afford your request because we needed the money to purchase kinetic munitions to use against students.”

MSmattseybold.bsky.socialSep 15, 2024 1:12am

Fuck these fucking fuckers.

There are literally only four ideas in "tech" (because its not tech, it's an extropian fantasy-land): - Robot God - Tangible dream world - Magic beans - Rocket ship to the stars