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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY

YouTube video by HoraceIsaac SoWhatSessions Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit

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In generated videos like this, the plagiarism really shines through in how much the “people” look like famous Hollywood actors.

did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people

D’Angelo’s Voodoo album cover.

'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.'

R.I.P. D’Angelo

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YouTube video by Funkonaut D'Angelo - Chicken Grease (Live)

My kitchen hack is that your cooking tastes better if you listened to D'angelo while making it

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YouTube video by Sweetheart504 D'Angelo- Unreleased Instrumental

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RIP D'Angelo.

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

Tone Glow 193: Mark Fell An interview with the English producer about taking inspiration from structuralist filmmaking, the limitations of the Western classical tradition, and his new album 'Psychic Resynthesis' (2025)

i think this is the best interview with Mark Fell I have ever read. open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.

The biggest AI transition—for now!—is a permission structure for your boss to screw you www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN A BAG OF CHIPS FOR NO REASON.

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…

William Selman Live Porchfest 2025 Solo electronic works on Digitalis, Mysteries of the Deep, Hausu Mountain, Plustapes, etc. https://www.discogs.com/artist/940138-William-Selman One-third of Wild Card of Cascadia. https://www.discogs

Here's a recording of my live set in here in Portland from the previous weekend. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/wselman/will...

The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start is the only good part of most songs.

Light blue shirt featuring a black silkscreen print of artist and composer Maria Chávez.

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Genuine spit-take moment. The whole conversation is great, too:

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christ that's so unspeakably sad. looks haunted

It’s absolutely insane that if an individual person uses 0.5 seconds of a song to make a completely different song they have to pay royalties forever but these tech scum can just take millions of books to make their garbage robots for free.

Amar mayor! Tomar mayor!

From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.

Solo for Wounded CD changed my life.

RIP

Passages... à travers le Temps, by Octavian Nemescu 7 track album

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YouTube video by Image Oscillite Dara Birnbaum's 'Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79)'

Sad to hear artist Dara Birnbaum has died. Her Wonder Woman video has long been a fave, and it beat Mark Leckey and vaporwave to the the punch by a couple decades.
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A scan of a landscape sheet of A4 parchment paper with an ink drawing depicting an inverted, open umbrella with a handle molded in the form of a duck's head.

A close-up of the duck umbrella drawing detailing the left side of the open structure. Tines, springs, and crumpled nylon.

A close-up of the duck umbrella drawing detailing the right side of the open structure. More tines, springs, and crumpled nylon. Artist signature and date on bottom left.

Open Duck Umbrella, technical pen on parchment. One of the only drawings I made last year.