⚡️✨Crystal 💖 Lynn✨⚡️

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

The Best Heists Are Also History Lessons In Relooted, before you steal artifacts you must learn why they matter

Tomorrow, Relooted hits Steam!

Before (or after) you play, listen to this interview with developers @benjamming.bsky.social and @blckporcelain.bsky.social. Learning the differences between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism helped me better understand the game's ambitions!

Obsessed! 🤩

AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds A paper claims to mathematically prove that AI agents have a hard ceiling to their capabilities that they will never surpass.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Chicago, the temp is going to drop late tomorrow night, and we'll see wind chills of −30 °F or lower on Friday and Saturday. Check on unhoused neighbors and people without reliable heat. Make sure they know their options. If you venture out, wear your warmest coat and cover up as much as you can.

Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners Also available in Spanish.

If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @mshelton.bsky.social useful: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

That's adorable ☺️

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.

The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA, NO, GROK CANNOT “APOLOGIZE” or “ACKNOWLEDGE” ANYTHING

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

I’ll see yall next year ✨

Hi, I am teaching an intro to new media art class next term that can count towards the art gen ed requirement at my university and attracts many Econ majors. *I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for short readings (20 pages or less) on the economics of art, particularly digital art.*

Jiggle Cat This is a pretty good optical illusion. If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. (thx, caroline)

This is a pretty good optical illusion. If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. [kottke.org]

Futurism Action Plan Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking "Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor." By Maggie Harrison Dupré Published Dec 6, 2025 9:45 AM EST

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.

Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.

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Classic bad collaboration

Absolutely! My parents were professors, & I’m following in their footsteps since they LOVED what they did. I feel really conflicted about it since I also love academia & what it could be. Seeing the state it's in here in the US is just so disheartening. 😢

On my way home from taking student to see the Yoko Ono show and it was a nice reminder of why I do this.

Grim, grim, grim!

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article

Quantum Developers Share Plan For How They'll Clean Up Pollutants At Old South Works Site About 30 acres of the 440-acre former steel mill are polluted beyond modern standards, developers said as they submitted their cleanup plan to state regulators. Plans include capping the entire site w...

ICYMI, BIDPI, BSMID: With 30 of the former South Works' 440 acres polluted beyond modern standards, developers say they'll cap the whole site with asphalt, concrete or clean soil.

Read on for more on their cleanup proposal, and what they found in the ground: blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/q...

now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

Your Mother was a Hamster!

#MontyPython

Partly I'm disheartened since the dept. has been reduced drastically, and I thought I’d be more “successful” with a full-time teaching job, but here we are!!! 🫠

Gave an alum talk and game workshop the last two days at my Alma mater, and it’s a feeling I can’t explain to be back here teaching and talking about what I’ve done since I graduated a decade ago.

this is so so insane the ILLINOIS STATE POLICE are lining up LIKE THIS against clergy and people dressed as the Kool-Aid man.

In addition to likes and dislikes there should be a 'hello' button for when you don't have an opinion to share but you want to say hello to everyone

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Watercolor doodle of a butterfly standing up on two legs like a human and smoking a cigarette. It says, make shitty art if you want to, who's going to stop you?

#MakeAThing

Beefed Up TwitchCon Security Couldn't Stop The Internet's Issues From Spilling Over Into Real Life - Aftermath Despite all the sights and sounds, one scene defined TwitchCon 2025. During a meet and greet, a man tried to forcibly kiss Emiru, a streamer.

I trust @aftermath.site as one of the few gaming sites to cover things accurately. So have an article about the joke of security theatre, the incident of Emiru being assaulted and more at #TwitchCon (Disclosure, I am quoted in this article)

aftermath.site/twitch-twitc...