lauraven
@lauraven.bsky.social
Current iteration: lawyer, language nerd, TTRP gamer
Her work is always lovely, and this piece is deeply compassionate too.
For this month’s @outsidemag.bsky.social column, I took a rat taxidermy class, and it was… surprisingly sweet? As the teacher said, “We’re reclaiming what’s beautiful and interesting about the things we’ve been told are bad or gross.”
I love my rat. His name is Meatball.
I love my rat. His name is Meatball.
The Surprisingly Tender Art of Rat Taxidermy
I joined a taxidermy class and discovered a craft that’s far more thoughtful than I expected
www.outsideonline.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Her work is always lovely, and this piece is deeply compassionate too.
Trump administration has solicited comments on AI policy. Today is the last day to submit your input to the Federal Register. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
www.federalregister.gov
March 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trump administration has solicited comments on AI policy. Today is the last day to submit your input to the Federal Register. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Interesting piece on the aesthetic and theoretical links between AI "art" and the far right.
"[The right] want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment."
"[The right] want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment."
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Interesting piece on the aesthetic and theoretical links between AI "art" and the far right.
"[The right] want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment."
"[The right] want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment."
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The Expanse & Universal Human Rights, LIVE panel tonight 7pm CDT. Join us for free on Zoom: illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/83334668665
with Fred Johnson, Clarissa Mao, Erich (ok, Chad Coleman, Nadine Nicole & Jacob Mundell), VFX supe Bob Munroe, NASA's Krys Blackwood & more, modded by Dr Scott Jordan
with Fred Johnson, Clarissa Mao, Erich (ok, Chad Coleman, Nadine Nicole & Jacob Mundell), VFX supe Bob Munroe, NASA's Krys Blackwood & more, modded by Dr Scott Jordan
December 2, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The Expanse & Universal Human Rights, LIVE panel tonight 7pm CDT. Join us for free on Zoom: illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/83334668665
with Fred Johnson, Clarissa Mao, Erich (ok, Chad Coleman, Nadine Nicole & Jacob Mundell), VFX supe Bob Munroe, NASA's Krys Blackwood & more, modded by Dr Scott Jordan
with Fred Johnson, Clarissa Mao, Erich (ok, Chad Coleman, Nadine Nicole & Jacob Mundell), VFX supe Bob Munroe, NASA's Krys Blackwood & more, modded by Dr Scott Jordan