Alida Sun
@alidasun.bsky.social
Artist & technologist. Hand coded art + critical community care 🌻
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Love that how Bluesky is handling 85% of the people from Gaza entering stage five of a famine is by mass deleting their accounts again
July 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Love that how Bluesky is handling 85% of the people from Gaza entering stage five of a famine is by mass deleting their accounts again
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Imagine not just the sheer physical amount of waste produced, but the amount of investor cash spent on this folly.
Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.
Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.
The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
arstechnica.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Imagine not just the sheer physical amount of waste produced, but the amount of investor cash spent on this folly.
Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.
Anthropic isn’t a company, it’s a black hole for VC cash. $5.6B in losses last year, much more this year.
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really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2
June 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
really enjoying reading _The AI Con_ which just came out! "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase 'artificial intelligence' is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies + 1/2
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The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons.
Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
June 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons.
Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
Thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
June 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
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that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.
June 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
that’s a residential apartment building, Bevan.
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Gen-AI moment is like early 2000s when aerial images proliferated but cultural aerial vocab lacked so the state read them for us as pseudo-empirical images. The power that produces such tech paradigms always takes advantage of the novelty period where interpretative lexicons are still developing.
“The deportation videos… help us see that the same quality of languid abstraction, of weak feeling unmoored from thought, that came to characterize so much media in the imperial years of the platform era is now the state’s official authoritarian style.”
Agit-Slop
The White House’s Numbing Aesthetic
www.thedriftmag.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Gen-AI moment is like early 2000s when aerial images proliferated but cultural aerial vocab lacked so the state read them for us as pseudo-empirical images. The power that produces such tech paradigms always takes advantage of the novelty period where interpretative lexicons are still developing.
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It's like all the tech bros trying to defend AI after ChatGPT lost at chess to an Atari. Their argument is that the Atari is custom built to play chess. And that is the point. LLMs are great at synthesizing data into something that sounds good. But that doesn't mean they can actually do the work
June 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's like all the tech bros trying to defend AI after ChatGPT lost at chess to an Atari. Their argument is that the Atari is custom built to play chess. And that is the point. LLMs are great at synthesizing data into something that sounds good. But that doesn't mean they can actually do the work
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The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.
“𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.”
- Nam June Paik
- Nam June Paik
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.”
- Nam June Paik
- Nam June Paik
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
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5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
Did Native Americans have habeas corpus when they were death marched to reservations?
Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?
Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?
Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?
Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?
May 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Did Native Americans have habeas corpus when they were death marched to reservations?
Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?
Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?
Did African Americans have habeas corpus during chattel enslavement & mob lynchings?
Did Asian Americans have habeas corpus during purgings & Internment camps?
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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
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At some point in the last 25 years, corporations managed to convince people that it was worthwhile to trade control over our own information and actual ownership of the things we purchase for convenience. Things that used to be "normal" are now seen as "luxury goods" that demand a premium.
Why Physical Media Deserved To Die
Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases that even sup…
hackaday.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At some point in the last 25 years, corporations managed to convince people that it was worthwhile to trade control over our own information and actual ownership of the things we purchase for convenience. Things that used to be "normal" are now seen as "luxury goods" that demand a premium.
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NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
May 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
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everybody gets digital mummies, lifeless nth-order approximations (as are we all), and the most wifeless neckbeards ever will chime in chorus "our consciousnesses have been DIGITALLY UPLOADED, we're gonna live forever maaan" (digital soul lost to data corruption, under/over, 20 years)
i think corporations using ai to make wretched sockpuppets of deceased celebrities is fine tbh. fine when anyone does that. corporations should be hated for other reasons like doing material harm in the real world, rather than "intellectual property" and "respect for the dead"
May 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
everybody gets digital mummies, lifeless nth-order approximations (as are we all), and the most wifeless neckbeards ever will chime in chorus "our consciousnesses have been DIGITALLY UPLOADED, we're gonna live forever maaan" (digital soul lost to data corruption, under/over, 20 years)
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The Freedom Flotilla’s ship ‘The Conscience’ has come under attack in international waters by armed drones. The ship was unarmed and onboard were 30 non-violent humanitarian activists preparing to sail to Gaza and challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade.
May 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The Freedom Flotilla’s ship ‘The Conscience’ has come under attack in international waters by armed drones. The ship was unarmed and onboard were 30 non-violent humanitarian activists preparing to sail to Gaza and challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade.
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They’re both very evil and very stupid
April 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
They’re both very evil and very stupid
Wait did Bluesky really truly bully Adobe off this platform because if so I take back every flippant shitpost about this place being boring af and pledge my undying devotion 🦋
April 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wait did Bluesky really truly bully Adobe off this platform because if so I take back every flippant shitpost about this place being boring af and pledge my undying devotion 🦋
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US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
April 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.