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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/

Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

Claude for Creative Work
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

I reposted a good thread by fadeinpro.com:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/the-expertise-gap-why-ai-doesnt-replace-human-creativity/
Comes at the issue from a different direction than my Being Human in the Age of AI:

The Expertise Gap: Why AI Doesn’t Replace Human Creativity
And Why Business Leaders Keep Getting It Wrong A guest post/repost of a thread by fadeinpro.com (posted with permission): Been thinking about the psychology behind "business leaders" pushing for "AI" in creative usage. Part of it comes down to the nature of the job: obviously they think what

Thanks @… for pointing me to this rather compelling certification... https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/ Ackno…

A lotta y'all gotta learn the difference between _LLM Use_ and _slop generation_.
You can make slop by hand like the old days and it's still slop. You can use an LLM with good engineering practices as guardrails and end up without slop.
(If it's creative work without engineering guardrails though, it's almost certainly slop.)

Christmas presents come from Santa Claus. Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny. But where do birthday presents come from?
When I was little my brothers and I concluded that the answer was... The Birthday Moose.
One of the non-birthday brothers would be designated the Moose. The outfit of the day was a brown paper grocery bag with a pair of eyes drawn on it in black marker, a lunch bag taped on the front as a snout, and sometimes a pair of cardboard ears up top.
Notably, tra…

Chartbeat data from 535 US and UK publishers shows growth in traffic from peer-to-peer sharing and push notifications in recent years, as search traffic falls (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publisher-traffic-surging-push-notificati…

Publisher Traffic Is Surging From an Unlikely Source
Push notifications and peer-to-peer sharing have grown dramatically, according to proprietary Chartbeat data shared with ADWEEK

Computing’s new deep dive finds that the explosive build‑out of AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in datacentre energy, water and waste use. It investigates opaque ESG reporting, creative accounting on renewable energy, and growing reliance on gas generation. AI is being built at any cost, and the environmental trade‑offs are increasingly hard to ignore.

Built at any cost: How AI infrastructure is rewriting the cloud sustainability rulebook
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure by hyperscalers is dramatically increasing global datacentre electricity consumption, outpacing sustainability commitments and creating new challenges in transparency and ...

Seems to me, the only sort of "ballroom" that could provide protection of any sort would be a creatively named condom brand. 😛
#USpol #satire