Tonight I dreamed of a social network that had a "How I really feel" button available twice-a-day. I don't know how it worked exactly but I woke up happy.

Excellent article on cultural stereotypes amplified by mainstream generative AI.

are you an artist/researcher/practitioner interested in exploring the boundary zone between generative models and physical production? Come to Bergen for 3 days in early November, all paid, and we'll mess around with synthetic media and materials bek.no/en/replicato...

I would tag Justin Pickard if he was on Bluesky.

"DarkErrorcore (also known as Triggercore, Lonecore or Meltcore) is an aesthetic which revolves around feelings of being lost and corrupted by an inhuman force." aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/DarkErr...

New Mac OS is out and the first in the feature list is "stunning screensavers of locations around the world". It was hard, it took a long time and a lot of creativity, but finally Mac managed to live it up to Windows. Congratulations.

"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.” futurism.com/critics-micr...

Feel like appending "angel", "occult", "magic" to anything tech-related I will say today will simulate a profound sense of meaning in what I do.

Can my 3 followers tell me how much does caching have to do with popular (also filter bubbly) content? Does it—considering server costs etc. i.e. if we look at big social networks and youtubes—reinforce showing of certain things that are already high-demand because it costs less?

I'll join any social network that still has my name available as a handle