I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"
Wes or Mandelson?
Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes
This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
The best line from Mamdani’s inaugural address: “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
Looking forward to it!
is it available to read anywhere?
If in Cologne next week, come along to this at the Kölnischer Kunstverein studios on Wednesday. I'll be showing some works in progress with Alrun Aßmus, Christopher Gerberding, Olga Holzschuh, Aida Kidane, Lis Schröder and Laura Sundermann. There will be wine and it's next door to the Neu Cöln fair.
I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything
So here for this.
on its way there
I call this the reverse Turing Test. If an LLM is producing something passable, it doesn't mean the tool is intelligent, it means humans were being asked to write something meaningless
and incredible horror! A renaissance for cult literature and culture of all kinds.
Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark vols 1 & 2 are the one's for me.
Does something have to be an ancient tradition in order to be useful or valuable? Maybe we're still capable of making up fun stuff, all of us.
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Kay Sage Tanguy Fund
Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1961
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136544
Fuck that. At least the clock is running after they order.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/gangster-p...
Europe must move quickly to change facts on the ground. Release frozen Russia assets to rebuild Ukraine, send peacekeepers, implement a war tax. Russia is weak and the US is imploding. The EU is facing a COVID like break where it has the chance to transform and lead
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
It's available from a few places in Europe (including the somewhat evil retailer) for 20 Bucks.
"The problem is it's not 1883. You can't do that anymore." Dying.
You’re not going to get your creative project off the ground if you’re afraid of being seen as cringe by friends and strangers. Cringe is unavoidable, just do the thing you want to do
I wonder if pixelfed might not be the one. But it's going to take me a while to get on there. This place lags for engagement, outside the power users, so I'll need a little bit more energy before going somewhere new again.
we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths
OF Cieri's Backmask is a joy @ossuary.bsky.social
