sara fran

VALID. same. it’s a ~politics of refusal~ (im adhd)

when you find out, please lmk

Ooof. Yeah.

makes sense — impossible to combat extremism when extremism is your full-time job

idk enough about modeling to know how that would impact it. but now i’m curious. could probably just compare with other tree coverage areas. also fascinated by the red color bleed. like, calm down, stephen king.

yeah the financial priorities are pretty clear from tech rn re: ai. search is *broken* (and not just google’s) 😩

I think the real q is like…why release such weird slop. You have to squint through distorted fields to situate yourself.

I’m a resident of BK who is down there often enough. I feel like I’d remember if I saw this disturbing of a rendering in all my years using GM. (Certainly more unsettling now with world events, but I just can’t remember it this fucked up.) I would hope!

Hm. They released immersive AI for Maps in 2023, but I don’t remember it being this fucked up. The trees just look like Minecraft - whatevs. Even putting aside the roofs…it’s bad. It’s very, very bad.

right?!!

& the roofs…what is going on with the etch-a-sketch roofs? in some views, it looks like the city has recently fought a fire and barely survived. if this virtual experience feels this unsettling…hard not to think of ppl who no longer recognize their cities in reality. (2/2)

what’s up w the google maps immersive view? their ai makes a lovely area near prospect park look like a virtual nightmare. buildings are warped, scaffolding is drooping, the color red (from the stop sign?) is bleeding everywhere, and the cars have fused with the sidewalk. (1/2)

question for those of you with testicles: when is the test over. when do you get your realticles

Yes. Know it, own it, staff it.

"ur so sensitive" thx i worked rly hard to unlearn the idea that feeling things so deeply is something i should be ashamed of

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

i know i have a LOTTA books but listen — i like how they talk to each other…

oh no those other two have a really bad case of smugface 😢. have they found a cure? looks sad to be that smugly.

I once told a new friend to go to my hair stylist / colorist & she told me she got the worst cut & color she’d ever gotten. I think she cried? I thought it looked cute 😬. It’s way worse being the bad recommender vs the bad recommendee. I feel like that’s a level of doubt I’ll never overcome 😭

“…but whitey’s on the moon.”

this is awesome (not the termination — the public education!) thank you Dr Casey Fiesler 🫡

Heck yeah! Following and sharing.

aw poor widdle billonar fash need moneys to do more fashism here u go widdle fash

This was fascinating! Mamet really put the “idiot” back in idiot savant. The very face of toxic masculinity.

Interviewer did an incredible job tracing the thread of the unexamined life from childhood to now. Says so much about the right. Oof!

Jesus fucking Christ — it’s really this simple. Men who go to pieces when their hands are *momentarily* un-kissed are the ones who make a hard right turn. The darkness slips a gun into their hands, saying, “Well, now, don’t you feel grand?”

I always assumed the word cybernetics came from the combining of 'cyber' and 'network', but it actually comes from the greek kybernḗtēs, meaning a pilot/helmsperson of a ship. (because it's the discipline of feedback loops, recursion, and other circular governing systems)

Audio of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson arguments from Marriage Story used to scare off wolves in the US ‘Wolves need to know humans are bad,’ says US department of agriculture representative, explaining unusual strategy to save cattle

Via @mikamckinnon.bsky.social

Deploying drones in Oregon to "haze" wolves away from livestock. The drones play the sounds of gunfire. fireworks. AC/DC, and...the argument from Marriage Story.

“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

now take me there NOW

Yeah, I spent the 90s being called a feminazi by my male classmates. There was so much bs manosphere content, and it was all mainstreamed.

alarming, yet comforting.