*Pivot to AI

Probably needs a more anarchistic typeface. Something hand-lettered, maybe

softrobotcritics:

*Their beloved chatbot got shot in the head

Time-honored romance genre showing a lot of mutational vitality lately

wolfliving:

softrobotcritics:

#

Meanwhile, in France

*At least those Hebdo cartoonists know what a slaughterhouse looks like

"How do you do, fellow kids / claudebots"

*Real, old-school, non-poser Goths would defeat the Imperial Roman army at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD

"斩杀线"

*Chinese social media explaining why wretched, poverty-stricken Americans lack homes, medical care and decent food, and are therefore dying like flies

"The Makerspace of Diogenes"

wolfliving:

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.

Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years. Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras. That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon.

Sure enough, as anti-ICE protests ramp up throughout the US, activists are pushing a grassroots campaign to convince Ring users to smash their devices. Doing so, they say, could help deprive the federal government of footage it's using to enact a campaign of harassment, arrests, and deportation.

"Smash your Ring doorbells," progressive activist Guy Christensen urged his 3.5 million followers on TikTok. "You need to smash your Ring doorbells. Amazon owns Ring, and they've decided to begin sharing surveillance collected from your front step with ICE and Flock Safety, weaponing surveillance against the American people."

"If you have home surveillance or something, make sure that you know, 100 percent, the footage being recorded of you and your family in your home, or wherever, is only and can only be seen and shared with you," Christensen implored….

I'll AI-slop my way to a new and better world

sheilastansbury:

*Dead media

*Oh come on youngster, show some grit for heaven's sake. A year is just one year

softrobotcritics:

*I blame AI for science-fiction dystopias

New Years MMXXVI

From H. P. Lovecraft
Cleveland, Ohio
August 12, 1922

My dear Mr. Smith:—

I trust you will pardon the liberty taken by an absolute stranger in writing you, for I cannot refrain from expressing the appreciation aroused in me by your drawings & poetry, as shown me by my friend, Mr. Samuel Loveman, whom I am now visiting in Cleveland. Your book, containing matter only chronologically classifiable as juvenilia, impresses me as a work of the most distinguished genius; & makes me anxious to see the new volume which I understand is in course of preparation.

Of the drawings & water-colours I lack a vocabulary adequate to express my enthusiastic admiration. What a world of opiate phantasy & horror is here unveiled, & what an unique power & perspective must lie behind it! I speak with especial sincerity & enthusiasm, because my own especial tastes centre almost wholly around the grotesque & the arabesque. I have tried to write short stories & sketches affording glimpses into the unknown abysses of terror which leer beyond the boundaries of the known, but have never succeeded in evoking even a fraction of the stark hideousness conveyed by any one of your ghoulishly potent designs.

I should deem it a great honour to hear from you if you have the leisure & inclination to address an obscurity, & to learn where I may behold other poems by the hand which created such works of art as Nero, The Star-Treader, & the exquisite sonnets which companion them. That I have not work of even approximately equal genius to exhibit in reciprocation, is the fault of my mediocre ability & not of my inclination.

Apologising for this intrusion upon your time, & again expressing the appreciation which every renewed glimpse of your work increases, I beg the honour to remain

Yr most obedient Servt.
HPLovecraft

wolfliving:

That's an orbiting AI data center as imagined by Grok on XTwitter, and man, Elo's pet AI ought to be a lot better at doing space sci-fi than this. Not only is it a spelling disaster, there's space art in crumbly old sci-fi magazines from the 1930s that make more sense than this.

*Of course I've used every single one of these dead media, but I've also been known to use an Incan quipu in public

*Once I inscribed some Babylonian cuneiform into wet clay just to see how that worked