a boy named stew

I took a little time yesterday and got the number of open tabs on my phone browser back under 100. I’m down to 72 now and still going. Aren’t you proud of me?

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I have been saying this for something like 15 years and I am so tired, folks: the tactics. Of the right. Don't work. For the left. Because their politics are divisive and anti-community. Ours aren't.

They win when politics is toxic and vicious. We win by building solidarity.

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A pair of spiky lobster-like claws pull a strand through a human brain. Suspended above, the abstract shape of a body hangs upside down, wavy and transparent. Inside appears to be human faces screaming in horror intermixed with internal organs (intestines and spine). The structure the claws protrude from is an amalgam of body parts, human and otherwise, including a pair of mismatched blue eyes, a deformed mouth full of uneven teeth. A path atop a winding stone wall leads up to the grotesque monument from the green, grass-like-yet-alien vegetation in the foreground. Behind the structure murky water gently ripples.

ARISE (1990)
Mixed media - 20” x 20”

I took the opportunity with this commission—an album cover for Sepultura—to experiment and have fun.

After completing a small stack of tone renderings of textures and distorted faces, I photocopied them, cut them out, and recombined them. 1/3

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics:

1) The bot should never express emotions.

2) The bot should never praise the user.

3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.

There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

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Disney's Robin Hood is 80 minutes long and kicks ass for every one of them.

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At least 7 environmental workers in Philly’s EPA office placed on leave over critical letter Workers across the EPA recently signed a letter expressing concerns about how administrator Lee Zeldin is leading the agency.

Inquirer: At Least 7 EPA Workers In Philly Office Placed On Leave After Signing Declaration Of Dissent www.inquirer.com/politics/epa...

Who knows, someday she could even be, uh, FLOP

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If you really must reskeet the Tucker Carlson video, do penance by immediately also skeeting a clip of one of Tucker’s wildest racist rants or fluffing Putin during that interview. Neither you nor I have to “hand it to him”.

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