Stu Hatton

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Heads-up: Oz Hardwick and I will be reading at the Uniting Church, #Castlemaine (and via Zoom) on Friday 5 December, 6pm AEDT, as part of the ever-generous Ross Donlon’s Agitation Hill #poetry reading series.

Can’t wait!

(And no, the image wasn’t generated by/with AI.)

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

#poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #writesky #poetrycommunity

just....enjoy this

What Is Model Collapse? | IBM Model collapse refers to the declining performance of generative AI models that are trained on AI-generated content.

“what will happen when ai takes all the desk jobs”
so, the recursive loops that form when the bots generate the content they subsequently feed on, having been deprived of the material that gave a sheen of quality to their counterfeit languagelike slop?

that’s called “model collapse” and it’s ugly.

Fox News Falls for Racist AI-Generated Videos, Runs Completely False Story That Has to Be Updated With Gigantic Correction Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.

i feel like it's not getting enough attention that Fox News ran a *completely false story* based on AI-generated videos it thought were interviews with real people

futurism.com/artificial-i...

The logical result of fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.
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Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility’ (1935)

“The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. . . All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. War and war only can set a goal for mass movements on the largest scale while respecting the traditional property system.“ -Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin: "the logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticization of political life."

Hegseth: "no fat, unattractive soldiers."

What does it mean to take Marxism and psychoanalysis seriously in 2025?

For one thing, it obviously means swimming against the tide.

But at the very least, isn’t a critique of capitalism, along with a critique of the ego, more necessary than ever?

#marxism #psychoanalysis

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

they’re just like us FR

Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory From effective rain-enhancing technology to a long, secretive history of trying to weaponize storms, there’s fertile ground for misinformation.

As part of @technologyreview.com's big new package on conspiracy theories, I went long on weather modification — what's possible, what's not, what's happening and where, and why people will probably always find ways to blame weather disasters on shady forces:

a woman holding a sign that says 'i guess i'm a terrorist now' - picture of old woman holding a pbs bag and carrying a sign that says 'liberty and justice for all'

#protestsigns

If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social

As sure as there are servants in heaven others will come up to you and ask what it was you did today, whether nests were full and anxious, and what kind of sun sprayed on the corners of a cheap notebook to be dreamed as all things are, except for fountains and animals lisping kind losses, fervent, over here. The way it is right now.

John Ashbery

Quote: ‘It’s not so much that we, as writers, are the ones who produce something unexpected. It’s more that language produces the unexpected.’

A provocation.

‘Hey, stop being so divisive! Leave that to us!’

All art so far occurs during wartime.

Alan Gilbert

this is a real job ad. i am not exaggerating or cutting this off misleadingly. this was put out there in all seriousness

Submissions are now open! Best of Australian Poems 2025 accepts published & unpublished poems from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. Guest editors: Nam Le & Jill Jones! 🔥

Close of submissions: 30 June 2025.

Submission guidelines + how to submit: www.australianpoetry.org/ap-projects/...

Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 12 2025 is open for Submissions!
🖊 The guest editors for APA Vol.12 are Lachlan Brown and Keri Glastonbury.
🖊 Submissions to the Anthology open on Friday, 23 May and close Monday 23 June 2025, 11.59 pm (AEST).

Know an unpublished poet ready to be recognised? The inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award offers $1,000, a mentorship with Claire Gaskin, and publication on our website. Submissions now open until 16 June! For further details: www.australianpoetry.org/competitions...

Last night’s rain brought an eclipse of rain moths fluttering at the windows and lights. Wingspan upwards of 12cm. (Eclipse, whisper, and cloud are all accepted collective nouns for moths.)

@purplepingers.bsky.social coming to sunny Bendigo next weekend to talk housinghoarding crisis...
Can't wait ❤️

Oligarchy is the Problem

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The Woolworths strike is fundamentally about warehouse workers not wanting every movement they do at work mediated via an AI powered headset barking at them. This "intervention" by another CEO is trying to make the conditions of 2000 workers about inflation is transparent nonsense.