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@actualwolf.bsky.social
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actualwolf.bsky.social @actualwolf.bsky.social · Apr 2
Apocalypse. #art #webcomic
I don’t believe in the end of the world. I think there will be humans on this planet far longer than should be possible. Earth may become uninhabitable, the land may sink into the sea, and there will still be humans, surviving the unsurvivable. I think when we talk about the end of the world, we’re talking about the limits of imagination. When the mind is too protective of the body to imagine life after disaster, we stop imagining and call it apocalypse. This dissociative tendency comes from a place of compassion. It gives us permission to believe there is a limit to suffering. But this becomes dangerous when it limits our ability to be creative about what comes next. There will always be a future. What if it was good?
actualwolf.bsky.social
It’s CUOVER bitches.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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amunicipalfox.bsky.social
This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM
Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.
Here’s a statement that might be radical in 2025: ‘bad art’ is still art, not content or slop. “But what about AI?” What about it? It demands that we interrogate the definition of art itself, and therefore here is mine: art is a practice, not a product. Art is not something we consume. Art is something we do. Artificially-generated ‘art’ does not fall beyond the purview of our definition of art because it lacks aesthetic merit. It has nothing to do with aesthetics. AI ‘art’ is not art because it is not something that the ‘artist’ has done.
October 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Back in SF and suffering from a fatal overdose of AI billboards
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
The rats don’t run this city, we do!
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 27
Sean Hannity says he left New York City because he got too many mean looks from people at restaurants
Sean Hannity says he left NYC because of mean looks from people at restaurants
www.independent.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
it's inherent in the idea of popular front against fascism that it has room for trans people, racial and religious minorities, socialists, etc. the biggest obstacle to building such a front right now is the fraction of dems who are insistent that various minorities simply have to eat shit to win
August 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I've seen people say things like "our troops weren't designed to be used on US!!!" and look, I totally understand, I agree in some ways, but I really, really hope that if you feel that way you spend time thinking about the fact that there's no such thing as a weapon that can't be pointed at you.
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
More importantly: People need food every single day.
Supporting your local food pantry can save lives, especially now when so many more people need them...
sheeri.org Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · Aug 14
Folks - your local food pantry is planning for Thanksgiving NOW. Help them out with some coin. Especially if your company matches donations. Don’t throw away free money for good causes.

(Or donate to my local using PayPal - www.hydeparkfoodpantry.org/donate.html it’s a 501(c)3)
www.hydeparkfoodpantry.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
I’ll add my frustration that people who rely on LLMs for communication are pushing the cognitive load of crafting an informative message onto their audience, who has to figure out what the fuck you were trying to say, and whether you had anything to say at all.
yeetkunedo.bsky.social Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · Jul 6
re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
August 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Wild Life #1: The Gay Finger. #comic #queercomics #webcomic
Wild Life comic strip #1. Four animal friends are having a conversation. Imani: "Do you know about the gay finger?" Mutt: "The gay finger?" Imani: "Yeah. If you're assigned female at birth and your ring finger is longer than your pointer finger, that means you're gay. And then the other way around for dudes." Ife: "That sounds like some gender essentialist nonsense." Imani: "Oh yeah? Bet you all of us have the gay finger." The friends stick out their paws and hooves. No one has human hands, obviously.
August 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
all transphobes deserve the gentle embrace of a bear trap
August 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Sorry, didn’t we already not elect this guy?
danlehner.bsky.social paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · Aug 9
Andrew Mark Cuomo’s social media team stared hard and long at Zohran’s campaign, took a deep breath, bowed their heads together and committed to being the exact opposite
Andrew Cuomo & • @andrewcuomo • 1h In case you forgot, I'm Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It's just the second round. Johnny Boy sir this is a wendys Andrew Cuomo • @andrewcuomo • 1h I'd like fries w that
August 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Scrolled by real fast and thought this was a promo for the anniversary tour of Dear Evan Hansen.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
ME: *reading the bad news website all day* we're doomed. there's no way to come back from this

ME: *11:10 pm two beers three tacos deep watching a 65 year old Black woman in a Sunday dress absolutely rock out to a dad band covering Queen Bitch* america is an idea. and a feeling in the heart.
August 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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katelynburns.com
It appears the right candidate for Dems to run in Lincoln Nebraska is somewhere just to the left of AOC
August 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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jacobgeller.com
Tweet: oh poor baby do you need the robot to make you pictures? yeah? do you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? you're a moron?? so do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife ??
August 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Reading old Bechdel comics and realizing that nothing ever changes, but in a good way maybe
Alison Bechdel’s 1987 “Pride and Prejudice” comic from the Dykes to Watch Out For series.
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
Picked up an anthology of Dykes To Watch Out For and wow does this hit close to home. #comics
Comic panel. Mo thinks: “RATZ! I never have any fun!” The caption asks “Is Mo a hopeless romantic idealist, trapped in the hard-nosed, fast-paced whirlwind of modern lesbian life? Or is she just a DRAG? Stay tooned!”
August 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience
August 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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girl.creditcard
posting normal
August 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
actualwolf.bsky.social
One thing I learned this last couple years is that I’m harder to kill than I previous assumed
sheseemslegit.bsky.social Mashed Potato Dream Girl @sheseemslegit.bsky.social · Aug 1
I will be okay. Not because everything’s fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy.
August 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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trungles.com
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM