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Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

It's the fact that we TOLD YOU nine years ago in a massive public outpouring, started setting up networks, organizations, projects, truth-tellings, ways to make things different and we were blocked, discounted, gaslit, told "whoa, you're not going to cancel me, are you??"

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Theory-free inference is a bid to substitute one for the other: the beauty and terror of being able to manipulate the world without studying or understanding it is that it can be done with money alone. No experts needed.

In short, the power to thwart billionaires' desires. AI is the money-losingest enterprise the human race has ever embarked upon. More than a trillion dollars has been spent *this year* to make a mere $50b in revenue.

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

By Amber Fossey @zeppelinmoonreal.bsky.social

Cotton Mather, the Salem and Boston witch hunter ideologue, became later in life a proponent of smallpox inoculation (after loosing his wife and two children to measles) against an opposition of other Puritan leaders and physicians.

Tokuhiro-kawai in the Louvre.

By Smooth Dunk

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

For cynics, this is all a shuck, a scare-story to convince the rubes that their modestly useful utility software is really a nascent "superintelligence" and thus capable of replacing all their workers, which means they should fire all those workers and start sending their salaries to AI companies.

to be more specific I should say revenues collected by government, but the screenshot says it. Bottom line the public pays out and suffers more than it collects from this industry effectively debunking the claim we need fossil fuels to counter US trade aggression.

To live in an age of monopolies is to live in an age of regulatory capture, in which your government routinely fails you in terrible ways to benefit elites and insiders.

Hummingbird fights at the feeder!💚 #birds

Our elders are leaving us. We have to find the direction and passion ourselves now.

Yes, this is a plug. Last month, I started using "incogni" to wipe my data from online data brokers, since this is becoming a prevalent security issue. So far, I'm pretty impressed. If you want to try it, use this code and we both get a discount: incogni.cello.so/6kB4DRHAfU7

Yayoi Kusama has passed.

Red Barns Charles Pachter 2015

Ludwik Stasiak Malwy, 1924 Oil on cardboard

Today, those trustees announced that *they had sold all of Spirit's employees' data to Google*, for use in AI training: www.axios.com/2026/08/17/g... 42/

Today is the black cat appreciation day! Patrick is appreciated every day.🖤

Aseni Ini Orzo

Petya Taneva Watercolour

ANHELINA HOLEMBIVSKA Island Poppies and Nightingale, 2023

Nuclear and fossil fuel power plants have a problem that wind and solar don't: Heatwaves across Europe have forced power plant shutdowns in six countries due to low river levels and high water temperatures.

This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak Maybe more sun, 2026 Acrylic and oil on canvas

Bread is the oldest politics there is. From the Roman grain dole to the French Revolution: when the price of essentials spike, societies are ripped apart. The fight over affordability has always been the fight over how we organize our polity. 2/

Incoming tides, Stoer 2020 by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary landscape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt

#photography #nature #birds #crow #kruk #wrona #colors #noAL #przyroda #ptaki (c)stdrozdowski72

Great idea!

Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?

Catacomb! By Brainless Tales.

The inverse relationship between doing something useful and making money is deeply ingrained in our economic wisdom. 20/

Nuclear is impacted by draught and extreme heat.

Philip Rebstock, untitled

Godspeed, Bonnie!♥️