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Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)

I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026

Adam Kinzinger:
I saw a stupid post with a picture of The Art of the Deal, saying,
“If you want to understand Donald Trump…” blah blah blah.
And I’m like, actually, if you want to understand Donald Trump,
we need the rest of the Epstein files.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.soc<…

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Kinzinger: I saw a stupid post with a picture of The Art of the Deal, saying, “If you want to understand Donald Trump…” blah blah blah. And I’m like, actually, if you want to understand Donald Trump, we need the rest of the Epstein files.

I don't know why, given all the important institutions that hackers attack -- hospitals, schools, daycare centers -- but it really bothers me when they do things like this. It seems gratuitous somehow.
Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections
https://artdependence.com/…

ArtDependence | Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections
Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections

In the age of "#AI" assisted programming and "vibe coding", I don't feel like calling myself a programmer anymore. In fact, I think that "an artist" is more appropriate.
All the code I write is mine entirely. It might be buggy, it might be inconsistent, but it reflects my personality. I've put my metaphorical soul into it. It's a work of art.
If people want to call themselves "software developers", and want their work described as a glorified copy-paste, so be it. I'm a software artist now.
EDIT: "craftsperson" is also a nice term, per the comments.
#NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

I like AI. I like robots. I love machine learning automation. I don't like it when their use cases are replacing people, spying on or profiling people, prosecuting people, submitting people into subscription, creating "art", "videos", "pictures" and scumbag "memes", warfare, propaganda, disinformation, deepfakes of any kind, ads, trolling, pumping up stocks, just plain wrong search results that force you to waste twice as much time to confirm they …

"He was tearing them up and just shoving them in as fast as he could, like when you see people in a hot-dog eating contest"
I'M DEAD
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/…

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Evolution of music cards: on left the original 2021 design, on right: new design with alpha blended QR code #music #art #printing

Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: [Shakes his head]
SERVALAN: The secret of Star One's location is of no use to a criminal like Krantor. However, that knowledge can bring about his death. Not only that. With any luck the Federation will be finally convinced, as I have argued for years, that we can no longer tolerate this pestilential rathole so close to our own territories. Freedom City will be finally burnt out.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/115912575964600174
I don't like Newsom and I don't like AI art, but this is on the nose

I am really interested in the linked.art initiative, but I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around it. What strikes me as particularly odd:
* The types-of-types pattern, which creates JSON structures that are very unlike usual JSON properties.
* The AATization of everything, including things like language tags, for which perfectly fine native RDF patterns exist.
Has anyone worked with it? Are there good Getting Started guides?

Steelers owner on rebuild: 'I don't like that word' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47611046/steelers-owner-art-rooney-ii-dismisses-idea-rebuild-new-hc

This image was in one of the magazines I had as a kid when I was like 9 or 10 probably. I used to look at it a lot, and I'd imagine these huge mutant turtles hanging out in dark alleys, on old, dirty discarded mattresses under bridges

Computer programmers be like:
1. LLMs generate code for me and sometimes it even works
2. This is also true when I write code manually
3. Computer programming is clearly the hardest of all possible human endeavors, you have to be a complete genius like I am to it because it is really, really hard
4. Therefore LLMs are geniuses
5. They will certainly work really well for all these lesser fields you don’t have to be genius for like I am, like writing summaries of text or medical research or making art or…

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/115548068127595582
I’m following this math-based procedural art bot and I like that I sometimes get Sierpiński triangles like this one on my timeline. 🔺️

I've never wanted to be a pig more than I do right now

My youngest got me the most amazing Christmas present! A session handling some items from the V&A East storehouse. Yes, actual touching allowed! (Gloves provided) So I touched two ancient mandolins, a watercolour by Beatrix Potter, an original sketch for a Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back costume design, and a four-track tape recorder and mixer desk owned by David Bowie. She knows me so well. ❤️❤️❤️ #art <…

The more I look at this wonderful #solarpunk illustration of a #hackerspace by @…, the more I like it.

A prosthesis maintenance day at the hackerspace
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds, visions of an optimistic climate future.

i feel like my general feelings re: Rigol and people swearing by their Tek are best summarized with the old "rifle is fine" copypasta. as in: if you are skilled in the art you will get things done just as well with the rigol as you will with a tek in the same cateogry that's 10 times* the price. and if you aren't, goddess bless you either way also
* referring me to US secondary markets is classist and i will not be elaborating on this observation

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

'I'd take Putin,' UK Defense Sec says when asked which world leader he'd most like to kidnap: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/id-take-putin-uk-defense.html

Today at #CHR2025, I will be presenting our work on the evaluation of the historical adequacy of masked language models (MLMs) for #Latin. There are several models like this, and they represent the current state of the art for a number of downstream tasks, like semantic change and text reuse detection. However, a h…

Ive heard a million artists and i say something like "I want to make art that directly kills people" but their art is without fail always the most muted worthless unfeeling tuft ever actively running from getting them to feel something

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Lynks:
🎵 I Didn't Come Here For Art
#Lynks
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xui9XlNaWU6ePDkrcnwuQ
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I guess Saya Gray put out some demo mixtape just on her tour, and I can't even find it anywhere, not on YouTube, nothing. Man, I'd really like to hear that. Guess this is how artists build mystique. But it's annoying as hell hahaha. If anyone runs across a copy of that, let me know?
FINAL EDIT - it's definitely called 'Saya Demo Mixtape' and this is the tracklist & cover art, if you find it:

SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE by Saya Gray
Get all the lyrics to songs on SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

I am chuffed to see that TVs with a(ny) personality (besides being a thin, black rectangle) are once again on the rise https://www.wired.com/story/art-frame-tv-trends/

It’s so yellow and ugly why do people like it I don’t get it.
At least the AI generated art on Pinterest blends in so well it’s hard to catch sometimes.
But the people making “illustrations” for business contexts don’t even try.

Arctic Awakening
(Multi, XP'd on PC via Steam)
Marooned in the Alaskan wilds with a court appointed "therapy bot" Kai is confronted with mysterious facilities and his past as he struggles to survive and be rescued.
This 5 part episodic walking sim/adventure game has some serious Firewatch vibes. Not entirely shocking as it's a Unity FPS perspective game which they tend to look similar. I dig this lower poly "cartoon like" art style tho. Bette…

Due to a slight gift mishap, I find myself with a duplicate copy of volumes 1 - 3 of Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming” post-Christmas.
If anyone in the PDX area would cherish a copy of this work, I’d like to talk to you!
I’d rather see it going to a loving home than put too much effort into maximizing sales value.
#PDX

Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …

Learning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy

Open Culture (Official) (@openculture@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear-the-worlds-oldest-instrument-the-neanderthal-flute-dating-back-over-43000-years.html

I just bought Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Good Old Games for less than 3 bucks. I have never played it. It's 33 years old by now...
#scummvm #gog #LucasArts

Yesterday I finished "Marshmallow and Jordan" by Alina Chau. It's an excellent cozy graphic novel about a friendship between a wheelchair-using athlete and a baby elephant in Indonesia. It's got lovely vibrant art, an interesting plot, and a final twist that fits nicely.
Not sure it's totally realistic about the accessibility of water polo, and it's not #OwnVoices but the author made what to me seems like a good effort to be both respectful and neither too-positive nor too-paternalistic about disability. Would be curious to hear the perspective of someone who use mobility aids about this of course.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Interesting breakdown of where some of the key melodies came from on the Rod Stewart hit. Worth considering in the context of art/copyright/theft/AI

“We wrote the biggest-selling single that Rod ever had, and it took us an hour to put it down. It ended up selling millions all around the world”: When Rod Stewart and drummer Carmine Appice created a controversial disco-era smash hit
It all started when Rod said, "I want something like Miss You by the Stones"

here is a photo of a pretty #grave for #TombTuesday Should of posted it a couple of months ago but..y'know
btw i just discovered, by accident that ALT U does to upper case in my terminal.
:moth_black_red:

warning yall of my future now

Does anyone here use either those rubbery Apple Pencil tips or a matte screen protector? I REALLY would love to use my iPad for art more, but find the slippery-ness of the screen difficult to deal with.
If I can make it feel more like the Wacom tablet I use, I will be happy.
Suggestions welcome!
#Apple #Procreate #iPad #Wacom #Art

Finished "Espada - The Will of the Blade" by Anabel Cozalo.
The art is lovely, but I found the plotting/story to be a bit weak. Perhaps more pointedly, I felt like the plot setup was great but the landing was a bit off, and the telling of the story didn't nicely convey all the nuances I expect the author had in mind. Felt like a lot was left in the gutters.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Just finished "Two Tribes" by Emily Bowen Cohen. It's a bit didactic and I didn't love the art, but if was interesting as a discussion of mixed heritage and out got into a lot of good details; I feel like it might be super interesting to a pre-teen audience. It reminded me a lot of "Twin Cities" by Jose Pimenta as well as some of Pimenta's other work, but IMO Pimenta is the superior artist and storyteller.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

It’s strange to watch the world ignore that it’s not just the medium that matters, but the message does too.
And by “the message” I mean both the ideas and the precise language or visuals used to communicate them.
Subtle differences in linguistic execution of the same idea in the same format can have radically opposite effects. The same applies to an image captured from a different angle or in a different style or in a different composition.
And yet it feels like most organizations and most people within them are determined to march on ignoring any consideration of subtlety and craft.
#writing #design #art #marketing

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs