Tonkey Kong

Tradd Moore

Hear me out: a writing residency where I get to write anywhere else but the hell immediately surrounding me

you learned nothing, you practiced nothing, you diminished yourself, you outsourced your human capacity for growth, intelligence, and personal reflection to a fucking jerk-you-off machine

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

YouTube video by kdiamond My Son Was Standing There

Probably one of my favorite scenes in all of television history.

The directing, the writing, the performances, the editing, the whole mood of it is just extraordinary.
youtu.be/FcsNhIozEPo

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

Late stage capitalism is creating new disabilities in people and also endangering the lives of those who are and will become disabled.

All forms of marginalization are disabling and once you’re disabled most people will think of you as disposable.

We can’t fight fascism without disability justice.

Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says xAI faces calls to deny permits to power gas turbines at supercomputer facility.

Grok servers are basically poisoning the people near them in Memphis because they haven’t fitted required pollution control filters that are in use in every other gas turbine in the area - he believes he’s above the law

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

One sickness in the last 5 years (aside from one COVID infection) here. Allergy & hay fever symptoms almost non-existent. Masks have made my life so much better.

Americans couldn’t handle Applebees being closed for a month or wearing a little mask on their face. Americans freaked out when we started imposing seatbelt and drunk driving laws. We are selfish, petulant swine.

young man, well dressed.

young man in a shiny suit, he is haming up for the camera

smiling man in a suit

25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933.

The same method shows that the report itself was compiled by John Koenig and the compiler for the executive summary is Blake Sanchez.

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill. Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

Got news of my first international publication yesterday can I get a HELL yeah

Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...

if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Tiffany Stratton's Barbie entrance.

#WrestleMania

Naomi's WrestleMania entrance

#WrestleMania

I feel like a broken record

But

Again

A main purpose of anti trans laws/policies is to remove cis women from public life and reinforce patriarchal gender norms

Bigots relied on cis women voting against their interests bc of a fake panic about public bathrooms

Part of eugenics is wanting disabled people to not be visible to society.

I'm going on antidepressants baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

skipped my only in-person events of the week today because of a storm that ended up never happening 🙃

Vial of Bones Zine dedicated to the experimental and memes

Submit here! vialofbones.wordpress.com

The following text above a static background and a metallic hand giving a peace sign: SUBS OPEN - OUTVIE THE AI - DEADLINE APRIL 30TH - VIALOFBONES.WORDPRESS.COM

Vial of Bones is a literary zine highlighting the experimental and bizarre. Our new theme is: OUTVIE THE AΙ. What is individualism in the face of ai? Vial of Bones asks you to out-ai the ai. We want writing and art that's ai soup on steroids. Your memest of memes. Your digital bizarro incomprehensibles. To create the most nonsensical sense there could ever non! NOTE: usage of actual Ai isn't allowed. We want everyone to have fun trying out this strange and goofy theme call :) #cyberpunk #openforsubmissions #literaryfiction #deadinternettheory

Vial of Bones Zine is open for submissions for our AI-themed issue!!

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.