Logan Schmitt

A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

September is just August Jr. these days smh

Stop shouting Nazi propaganda then

who up refluxin’ they acid

lofi beats to ignore the slow motion apocalypse to

Woodsguard and Genital Shame too

Panopticon, The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir, and I’m going to just say Agriculture too because they’re phenomenal

Go lay in a hammock in the woods and stare at the sky and listen to Appalachian black metal.

guy creating a six nation army: surely nothing could ever compete with this

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

a page of many small drawings of fungi on dead leaves and twigs. they are all very tall and skinny with small caps, mostly white or light brown (with a couple red), and in groups. the background is tan with a white mycelium pattern. signed layaroseart.com

I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment

#art

Went away for two weeks and now there’s a yellow jacket nest in our floor 🐝

Newsom wants cities to force homeless Californians to move camp every 3 days In his latest push to crack down on encampments, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants cities to make homeless Californians move every three days.

Absolutely begging Democrats to look at other criteria for politicians than “they really *stick it* to Trump!” Because even a shallow dig shows that Newsom has been a nightmare for marginalized people and real progress in California. calmatters.org/housing/home...

I’m putting on the 2nd ever Calcified Music Festival here in Wheeling, WV. Come see what all the fuss is about!

Oh sign me up

Shut the fuck up

Join Bernie’s Fight the Oligarchy tour in Wheeling on Friday, August 8! Bernie and other local leaders will speak about working-class issues and how we can collectively regain working-class power in West Virginia and the United States. RSVP here now:

New Tyler Childers album is so fuckin great and weird, I love it

enormous violence is being done to us by unaccountable elites. they rob us blind, they send our neighbors to foreign dungeons or murder them in the street. they cut healthcare to build concentration camps and conduct a livestreamed genocide. they rape and traffic and brazenly get away with it all

For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.

Big win today in West Virginia!

AHA and the ACLU of West Virginia have been successful in our case against the West Virginia Water Development Authority.

The court found that portions of a state grant to a religious college violated West Virginia’s constitution.

Amitai & Aubrey break it down:

Those are an always skip for sure

You really can’t trust people who aren’t unhinged about at least ONE thing

Community Corner: Don’t hold your breath for a federal disaster declaration WFP founder Justice Hudson says we should continue to push our elected officials to seek a federal disaster declaration in Ohio County, but we shouldn’t count on it materializing.

"Community Corner: Don’t hold your breath for a federal disaster declaration"

Justice Hudson says we should continue to push our elected officials to seek a federal disaster declaration in Ohio County, but we shouldn’t count on it materializing.

www.wheelingfreepress.com/p/cc-dont-ho...

What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Post a meme made by you

I’m from Wheeling, WV and we used to have a pro football team called the Ironmen. This song always reminds me of it

Knockout punches for the freaks
Happy little babies with red cheeks
You will rock them gently out of sync
Confirmations through the wire
Spitting gas into the fire
Am I also worthy of a drink?

from “The Official Ironmen Rally Song” by Guided By Voices, Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996)

I’m listening to it on audiobook! I feel the same way, wish I’d read it when I was younger