Red Dread Mike

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

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

Well done, Ireland. Over to you, UK.
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photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

MLA Tara Armstrong needs to lose her fucking job for her fucking comments on the tumbler ridge shooting, Holy shit

I'll be calling my MPs today and I encourage everybody in Canada or BC at least to call for her removal for trying to make this into a woke mind virus thing.
Conservatives are scum

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.

Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today

styleguide.transjournalists.org

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

A shirt design/illustration of a robot. The robot's head is a laptop showing a row of three blank white figures in suits. A speech balloon is coming from the figures, it says "$". In one hand the robot wields a police club, in the other it clutches a large canvas bag that has ripped open at the back from the amount of sheer amount of objects crammed into it. From the broken bag flows a large pile of artworks of varying types, in a rainbow of colors. The text reads "AI IS NOT ALIVE, AI IS NOT INTELLIGENT, AI IS ART THEFT" and underneath "BY AND FOR BILLIONAIRES".

OK one last shirt design, this one I just made because I personally wanted a shirt that said all this but couldn't find it anywhere. www.bonfire.com/ai-is-theft

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

If any of these a.i. apps did what they claim to do they would be charging $5k per month for a single seat.

book cover that ended up not being used!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Exporting an email list and closing an account is easy.

I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

my theory why tech bros have gone insane is that tech optimism was their fuel for awhile. that began to fade as the future was looking less utopian and was obviously always about getting infinite money. when the public began to turn on big tech, tech turned to reactionary ideology to fill the void

I stand by it daily

Hang it in the Louvre

'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports A meta-analysis of 52 studies that included over 5,000 transgender people suggests that transgender women's physical fitness after hormone therapy is comparable to that of cisgender women.

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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

This is a good listen and explains a lot about the inability of so many powerful voices in the media to meet the moment

This is one of my all-time favorite facts of cosmology!

This galaxy is VERY tiny—much much smaller than our own Milky Way—& incredibly distant. But we can see it AND distinguish its shape!

How?

The light we see from it is from SO LONG AGO that the Universe was MUCH smaller at the time: we see it as it was when it was close enough to us to look big!! 🤯

when someone tries to say genAI is good for any reason you can just call them a loser and then go do something cool like draw a fish monster or read blackwater by michael mcdowell. there are other fish monster related activities you can get up to also.

The whole thread, but very much this right here: the people in power may not all be monsters, but they are definitely no threat to the monsters who are there, too. And thus the abuse continues

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

This healed up beautifully, and my leg is still weirdly bald from the prep shave 🤣 Once again, amazing experience to getting back into getting Sick Inks ™️🖤🖤🖤

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped