ChaoticSequence

Welcome folks. Might as well let you know some things about me: -Filmmaker, writer, software dev -Somewhere on the commie/anarchist end of the lefty spectrum - but pragmatic (go vote) -Be good to service workers, tip well -Free Palestine, Sudan, Congo - every place under neocolonialism -He/him

Hey folks, next Saturday the Sunset Park volunteer group I'm part of will be having their last tabling event in the park itself. Halloween treats for kids! Educational materials! Know Your Rights and tenant organizing handouts! Halloween /Dia De Los Muertos activities! 12p-4p, 44th & 6th Ave

Blessed Durga Pujo y'all!

Hey folks, my experimental film "(T)here" will be playing at NYC's Psychedelic Music and Film Festival on Saturday! I'll be part of the "Experimental and Avant-Garde Shorts" block from 11-12:30pm. www.eventbee.com/v/experiment...

Looking at the current AI hellscape reminds me of Eliza (an early chatbot pretending to be a therapist) and Raktor, (constructed grammatically correct but meaningless sentences sentences). There was no "there there," no mind behind the algorithms, but that didn't stop ppl from projecting.

Today in Brooklyn, friends.

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Today and every day, fuck Christopher Columbus

Decades of money, energy and time were sloshed into the tech, and while it has produced some genuinely good stuff, it has by and large just created more ways to expropriate the digital commons from us.

So happy to see every artistic field I love and practice being taken over by evil mega corps. Well, I still have my day job? Except now AI is wrecking that too.

Just finished Dark Matter Season 2 episode 5 and oh man it's giving me all the feelings

Hoping Brazilians stay the course and reelect Lula

We live in a world where AIbros want us to care about the welfare of "conscious" AI technology, while using said AI technology to murder and genocide actually conscious humans. This is how you know they don't actually care about anything except the valuation of their companies.

From Josh Helfgott: ICE detained a Los Angeles car washer and father of four for six months. His kids ended up in therapy, his family lost its income, and he is still fighting to stay in the country. José Padilla, 41, was detained by ICE on January 27 while he

Hey folks due to the nor'easter this is being postponed. But it will be rescheduled !

Chag Sameach y'all!

Tomorrow ,come check out these three awesome writers who'll talk about cities as characters in speculative fiction, and read from their work!

Amazing news! (T)here was just selected by The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival via FilmFreeway.com! A little experimental film I've been working on for a while, and now it's going to be seen by folks!

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

September 15, 1963... Let us never forget the four young girls who were mudered in the terrorist bombing by the KKK at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. Say their precious names: ADDIE MAE COLLINS DENISE MCNAIR CAROLE ROBERTSON CYNTHIA WESLEY

Rest in peace costume designer Bob Mackie (1939-2026), who created probably the most famous costume ever to appear in a TV comedy. The costume sent-up Scarlet O'Hara making a dress from curtains in "Gone With The Wind." Carol Burnett: "I saw it in the window and just couldn't resist!"

Hey folks! Private companies are taking over beaches across the Carribbean - Puerto Rico and Jamaica, to name a few - and trying to privatize them while kicking out the people who live there. c.org/LqzJQ42LTZ

If you care about the workers, you can help by donating to their fund! bsky.app/profile/game...

I really hate how the nationalists and warmongers and evangelicals pretend to care about what happened to New Yorkers on 9/11, while the rest of the time they look on us with either dripping distain (librul commie elites) or as another fungible resource to exploit

I hate 9/11 "anniversary week". I live in NYC, lived there on 9/11. People who were nowhere near here decided to thump their chests, launch us into endless wars that murdered millions, set up spy systems and border agencies that made Muslim Americans' (& ultimately all immigrants') lives much harder

After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.

Sign on to help stop this ridiculous luxury mega development in Puerto Rico c.org/62m22Pwxnm

Happy Labor day!

Unions gave us weekends, child labor laws, work day limits, overtime, and a host of other protections that businesses and their political sock puppets want to take away from us. Many of those unions were led by communists. So now does the 100+ year anti-commie propaganda in the US make more sense?

Listening to Go-Go music and it's bringing back such awesome memories of wearing out a mixtape someone gave me. The joy of the tunes jumps thru the medium and into your brain.

What a terrible week, our best elders are leaving us.

RFK Jr.'s idea of "autism treatment" boils down to: 1. Eugenics 2. Reinstitutionalization 3. Profit for snake-oil companies We are still barely out of the period of warehousing, we can't go back www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Finished Amitav Ghosh's amazing "River of Smoke," the second book in his Ibis Trilogy, a set of historical novels set just before/during the Opium War. The book is an amazing slow burn - full of details and observations of daily life in 1838/39 Canton. Melancholy,

I'd love to see a Lynne Ramsay film adaptation of "The Odyssey." Ramsay is an incredible filmmaker. She gets how important silence is and how complicated human nature is.

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Fuck me, Dolly Parton AND Tim Curry?

Not Dolly Parton. Fuck this timeline

I'm pretty convinced that AItechbros have never made a single thing with their own hands. There's such a joy to making something, however terrible the final result. That tactile interaction with the world is utterly missing in their vision of "endless compute."

Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.

Why oh why have I waited so long to discover Lost Girl, when I was so so happy about KillJoys? Anyway, what a fun show!

Begging people to learn some labor history. Hint: The Luddites weren't against technology, they were against how capitalists were destroying their livelihoods, violating labor laws, employing children, and wrecking their bodies. bsky.app/profile/spar...

Sometimes just writing a few hundred words of this interminable novel after doing everything else that needed to get done, is enough to give me that dopamine shot.

Arday defending himself by filing a police complaint against Dave Harris - a man who had already been formally found to have engaged in bullying misconduct as far back as 1998 - is not something I find extraordinary. What is extraordinary is that Harris's misconduct vanished from news coverage.

I don't see enough mentions of the third rate turd who was among the loudest in the witch hunt against Arday. The turd's name is Nathan Cofnas, a eugenicist who was fired from his post for making outright racist remarks.

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] Brooklyn Books & Booze - Tue 8/18 7PM @ Barrow’s Intense Writing for the Open Call - Thu 8/20 7PM Marcus's Virtual Novel Group - Mon 8/24 7:30PM The (Virtual) Afterwork Social - Tue 8/25 7PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Last week's reading: Herbert Simon's "The Sciences of the Artificial," 3rd edition. A well-put together book arguing for a systematic study of human-created work. I've been hearing about Simon for a long time - his influence is broad (psychology, comp sci, economics, poly sci, design).

This Beethoven guy who did the absolutely banging soundtrack for "Die Hard," did he work on any other films?

And here it comes, the Dem "pushback" against ICE - they're targeting Geo Group, asking for more oversight. No mention of closing publicly run detention centers, or heaven forbid abolishing ICE. It's something I guess. www.publicnow.com/view/6FE2720...