B.T. Franklin

It could have been worse. The number could have been 6-7...

Okay, real talk: I thought Bluesky was sometimes inscrutable, but Delvetown is TRULY fucking inscrutable. Seems like a valid idea. Observed reality is effectively unusable.

Me after nearly every work call:

Passacaglia in D minor, by Claude Opus 5.5 Created entirely by Claude Opus 5.5, with zero feedback from me; inspired by tree rings.

We, the International Society of Human Textile Weavers, did not ask for these machines. The real reason the Machine Makers have textile-making machines is because of their *endless thirst for power*. We reject this! Only human hands should make textiles, now and forevermore. Thank you, godspeed!

I have to admit, the Ultra Weird got here WAYYY faster than I expected. This is NUTS.

Centaurus does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

a machine cannot think, I self-soothe in a stranger’s replies, for it merely regurgitates the content it was exposed to. I am serenely confident on this point, because I have seen so many others express it confidently.

Nebula Chaser does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

I think my own unconscious perception of what is called the "Horseshoe Theory" is what moved me towards the center as I got older. The extreme left started to seem unrelatable to me.

So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards

I genuinely believe this and have for many years. This is fundamental to transhumanism and extropianism (IMO).

imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around

Real talk. The doomscroll argument hole never once left anyone feeling better, but finishing a track or a piece of art actually does. Spend your energy where it builds something.

Damn it feels good to be a Chat G.

For those in the back: The United States lacks the power to stop AI use and AI research in China. If you're worried about the cybersecurity, a US ban simply won't help. In fact, restrictions are making the situation worse.

I remember the internet when fighting for transformative use was the whole point. Everyone loved transformative use and hated copyright. Now I’m supposed to ask permission to do math on pixels. What the fuck.

This is, literally, exactly why I detest the anti-datacenter people. They’re talking about water and noise, and we’re talking about SOLVING DISEASE.

For those of you still using Claude Code for some reason, you should really reconsider, and look at Codex. This is just one small part of why.

Dragon does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

Just a reminder that this phase of generative AI, called agentic AI, is only 9 months old. Yes, we're early.

Air travel became vastly cheaper and available to non-wealthy people. It became faster, more efficient, and far more reliable. It integrated into the economic engine of the world and created/creates immense wealth and convenience. Analogy is reasonable, conclusion is not.

I was a traditional, writing-code-with-my-fingers engineer for decades, and I started using AI to code for me the instant it was able to do so. I wrote one of the first Xcode plugins to AI-enable it (which was hard since Xcode is plugin-hostile). I have never, ever loved a tech as much as this one.

the basic problem with text based social media is that the majority of people turned out to be functionally illiterate

The slur “clanker” is a bit like playing a video game that lets you plan and execute a school shooting. Unlike the real thing no actual human is harmed; the damage is instead inflicted on YOU, the person explicitly indulging in a weird fantasy of doing something terrible.

Artefactory - Eulogy for the Mechanical Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpT1T0awOrU #ai #aiart #aimusic #synthart #genart #generativeart #aivideo #musicvideo #originalmusic #ambientmetal #doommetal

Its going to be an era of contradictions. Polls will show everyone hates AI overall but also everyone will secretly use AI all the time for lots of stuff. AI companies will be underwater in public opinion but also many people will feel strongly attached to their own favorite model & care about it.

All Sales Are Final does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

Finally made a bot account for my long-running AI music label. Many, many hours have gone into this particular project.

"Design an mRNA-based vaccine for cancer. Do a spreadsheet. Believe in yourself." #shareableprompts

it is very bizarre to see progressives and leftists who are very pro-science, anti-NIMBY, pro-environment, *and* anti-misinformation just completely throw out all those instincts/values the second they engage with the topic of data centers… like what are we even doing anymore?

If you use an agent for coding (especially one that communicates in annoying ways, like Claude), try adding these instructions to your custom instructions. Even with a good communicator like Codex, this makes a *big* improvement. (Full text in image alt.)

it costs nothing to be nice