Toby Locke

UPDATE THE LEXICON!

ai;dr (didn't read)
ai;dl (didn't listen)
ai;dw (didn't watch)
ai;du (didn't use)

and also

Sloperator

It's enraging to understand the amount of thought, time, craft, and care that every writer and artist I know puts into their work only to see these GenAI proselytizers have the gall to take that work, shove it into a blender, and then demand we enthusiastically support them and the resulting slop.

The environmental and community damage alone should make it a non-starter (tack on the cognitive and mental health dangers and that shit should be doa), but I'm also never going to get behind tech trained off my and so many others' stolen work just so people can more easily write shitty emails.

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Truth.

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]

billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

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Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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🕯️pop 🕯️
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2026 survival cycle pry yourself out of bed, do something good, consume the daily horrors, disassociate

how’s it goin? oh, ya know.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"

I would never suggest that anyone do anything unlawful - certainly not right here, in front of God and everybody. So remember the first rules of firearm and internet safety: Treat every gun like it’s loaded… and every poster who calls for crime a cop.

I think the only way out is *with* (all of us working together to drag the arc of history back toward justice - kicking and screaming if necessary, using whatever lawful means are at our disposal/ in our wheelhouse/ within our abilities… the smaller and more clever, the better)

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit. Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks! Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you. No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset. It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast. Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

A point from @marisakabas.bsky.social that should go in your most core user's manual of this era.

"The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*

Normal Rockwell I believe man

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

AI uses em-dashes because it was fed a steady diet of [stolen] literary works in which em-dashes were—*gasp*—used. I am not giving it up, and anybody saying I should can kick rocks.

I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."

Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.

I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!

Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:

AI imitations of creative work (art, writing, etc.) aren't bad because it's "ugly". They already look "good enough" to satisfy most people. AI is bad because it's laundering plagiarism of real human artists AND making us ever-more dependent upon trillion-dollar tech companies.

Yeah, that's right, weirdo who adds ppl who block you to lists, I'm the number one Ai hater! If there are no Ai haters left it's b/c I'm dead! I wear that badge of honor you think is an insult PROUDLY lol XD

...now I wanna make "Ai Hater" stickers & pins lol XD

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to