Blonde Brazier
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2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition - Third Place
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Please keep keeping your and others' health safe.
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(The below video shows a microscopic view by using holotomography of SARS-CoV2 infecting, fusing and then destroying human cells.)
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A short list of 2025 releases I liked:
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A short list of 2025 releases I liked:
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
I can understand where people are coming from when they say, "everything's Al now so don't bother trying to distinguish it from photography", but then not trying to distinguish it creates it's own hype of "it's so convincing people have given up altogether".
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I can understand where people are coming from when they say, "everything's Al now so don't bother trying to distinguish it from photography", but then not trying to distinguish it creates it's own hype of "it's so convincing people have given up altogether".
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
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and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
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People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
Just to elaborate on this a bit, because being trans is so closely associated with marginalization, I think some parents unconsciously feel pressured to distance themselves from their trans child in order to remain loyal to the norms of their particular upbringing and recipients of its privileges.
Considering how easy it is for some parents to kneejerk themselves into "how could this happen to us, normal people?" when their kid comes out as trans and how that culture/class/status shock can get twisted into feelings of loss and estrangement, their reaction can end up legitimizing lots of harm.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just to elaborate on this a bit, because being trans is so closely associated with marginalization, I think some parents unconsciously feel pressured to distance themselves from their trans child in order to remain loyal to the norms of their particular upbringing and recipients of its privileges.
At least this "No RoE, FAFO" method of terror hasn't resulted in major escalations, for now. Maybe enough will see more legal sense in being an individual involved with a group of losers, rather than as a bunch of faceless goons whose motives can only be inferred by who they tend to harm.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At least this "No RoE, FAFO" method of terror hasn't resulted in major escalations, for now. Maybe enough will see more legal sense in being an individual involved with a group of losers, rather than as a bunch of faceless goons whose motives can only be inferred by who they tend to harm.
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If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
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I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
Define your music taste in eight artists:
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
Seeing this go around:
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Antrisch
Panzerfaust
Lady Gaga
Ghost (Prequelle and earlier)
Murder by Death
Depeche Mode
Kanonenfieber
Welle: Erdball (Der Kalte Krieg and earlier)
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Antrisch
Panzerfaust
Lady Gaga
Ghost (Prequelle and earlier)
Murder by Death
Depeche Mode
Kanonenfieber
Welle: Erdball (Der Kalte Krieg and earlier)
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Define your music taste in eight artists:
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
Not only is it awful to see this mass-disabiling event continue, but it's also remarkable that so-called public intellectuals are still minimizing the evolving threat of SARS-CoV2, as if they refuse to believe it's harmful because their identity is too important for their brain to be weakened by it.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Not only is it awful to see this mass-disabiling event continue, but it's also remarkable that so-called public intellectuals are still minimizing the evolving threat of SARS-CoV2, as if they refuse to believe it's harmful because their identity is too important for their brain to be weakened by it.
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
Thinking more about the overlap of nostalgia and meme culure, maybe the old glorification trick isn't getting the results it used to anymore because an idealized past that depends on a certain level of contextlessness is becoming too poisoned by irony to be used as a primer for communal motivations.
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thinking more about the overlap of nostalgia and meme culure, maybe the old glorification trick isn't getting the results it used to anymore because an idealized past that depends on a certain level of contextlessness is becoming too poisoned by irony to be used as a primer for communal motivations.
I suspected this was the case given how the nudity or adult content label could be fooled with specific changes to brightness in areas, but in researching hive's programming, it's clear to me now why hash matching biases images of trans people towards pornography rather than flagging them as benign.
thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.
AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive
Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.
thehive.ai
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I suspected this was the case given how the nudity or adult content label could be fooled with specific changes to brightness in areas, but in researching hive's programming, it's clear to me now why hash matching biases images of trans people towards pornography rather than flagging them as benign.
Imagine digging a grave for yourself just so you can complain about how much higher the bare minimum standards are of the people trying to help you out.
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Imagine digging a grave for yourself just so you can complain about how much higher the bare minimum standards are of the people trying to help you out.
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A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
Regarding the gyrating gimcrack going on about fitness; obsessing over aesthetics of power is a major flaw of combat readiness. If only those who can demonstrate their natural manliness effortlessly are deemed worthy, then having to try hard is seen as being inherently weak, impairing effectiveness.
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Regarding the gyrating gimcrack going on about fitness; obsessing over aesthetics of power is a major flaw of combat readiness. If only those who can demonstrate their natural manliness effortlessly are deemed worthy, then having to try hard is seen as being inherently weak, impairing effectiveness.
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
It's very interesting to read about how it feels to specifically experience what this kind of psychosis is like. Apparently, for some users, there's a disturbing layer of paranoia and hypervigilance mixed with toxic positivity, as though Al can fix you but only if you first surrender yourself to it.
Long talks with chatbots left these men with 'AI psychosis' | CBC News
Reports of delusions fuelled by conversations with AI chatbots have been growing, with some cases involving psychotic breaks, hospital stays and even violence. Two Canadians have launched an online su...
www.cbc.ca
September 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's very interesting to read about how it feels to specifically experience what this kind of psychosis is like. Apparently, for some users, there's a disturbing layer of paranoia and hypervigilance mixed with toxic positivity, as though Al can fix you but only if you first surrender yourself to it.
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The United Nations' Independent International Commission of Inquiry becomes the latest group to conclude that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The United Nations' Independent International Commission of Inquiry becomes the latest group to conclude that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Kirk's *own murder* is a sign of just how uncivil his politics really were. In his mind, other human beings are "cockroaches" and "degenerates" to be "dealt with." His killer simply...listened to him.
Calling those principles "civility" and "discourse" is how we end up with genocides.
Calling those principles "civility" and "discourse" is how we end up with genocides.
September 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kirk's *own murder* is a sign of just how uncivil his politics really were. In his mind, other human beings are "cockroaches" and "degenerates" to be "dealt with." His killer simply...listened to him.
Calling those principles "civility" and "discourse" is how we end up with genocides.
Calling those principles "civility" and "discourse" is how we end up with genocides.
The intense spectacle so far from lots of fickle, reactionary media sources has clarified for me that even when fascists produce norms and taboos for others to profit from, it doesn't take much effort for both to consolidate a shared narrative that depoliticizes them in the event of deadly blowback.
September 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The intense spectacle so far from lots of fickle, reactionary media sources has clarified for me that even when fascists produce norms and taboos for others to profit from, it doesn't take much effort for both to consolidate a shared narrative that depoliticizes them in the event of deadly blowback.
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I heard the Kirk killer was the son of a cop.
I think we need to start asking tough questions about the parenting skills of police officers and the radicalization of their white christian children.
I think we need to start asking tough questions about the parenting skills of police officers and the radicalization of their white christian children.
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I heard the Kirk killer was the son of a cop.
I think we need to start asking tough questions about the parenting skills of police officers and the radicalization of their white christian children.
I think we need to start asking tough questions about the parenting skills of police officers and the radicalization of their white christian children.