ian says DC statehood now

The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre. Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.” So was work on a 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music.

"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

but now I finally have a high school
pic of [redacted DC-raised artist] from their yearbook AND it’s copyright free, thank you specialized public library archives ily

it took three tries to finally get into the peabody room at the gtown neighborhood library lol. first time I thought it was open bc it was the first saturday of Feb, but in fact it was the final saturday of Jan; second time the room was closed bc the room was “too cold” (top floor, old building)

super wish we didn't have to think about this and that the rales and the broad families would make like Mellon or Carnegie and just give the art and money to a museum whose collection actually belongs to the people. but everyone wants their name on the door, everyone wants a mausoleum.

"single owner private nonprofit collection" is too fucking long. "hyperprivates"? "ultraprivate" to go with ultra contemporary?

once again pondering what we mean when we say "private museum" in this country. if we wanna be real, the Whitney is as much of a private museum as Glenstone or the Rubell, legally speaking. the Guggenheim is private, the Art Institute is private, MOCA is private.

we need a new category term tbh.

i did get work done this morning, and by work i mean formatting citations for all the whitney reviews published so far

dementia president is trying to end the world this is where im at

getting ready to leave the house, dropped my vape in the toilet, this is a poem,
poems dont have to rhyme :(

fuck you gw fuck you gw fuck you gw FUCK YOU GW

(once again chiming in to say i do not personally agree with the fact that ingesting someone's work for LLM training is fair game under our current legal system; acknowledging it ≠ endorsing it)

cannot wait for the first lawsuit on this. ingesting someone's works is one thing under the law but creating fake "reviews" under a real person's name is a whole other ball game lol

and honestly this one was way funnier than the standard "my prompts are so creative the output should be copyrighted" shit, he literally wanted *the AI model* to be the copyright owner. go to therapy dude!!!!

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

the best kind of schadenfreude is watching an AI guy spend tens of thousands of dollars on litigation just to get his shit wrecked when SCOTUS agrees his AI-generated works can never be copyrighted :) www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

fuck i cant even get my metaphors the right way today, blaming it all on The Lume™

me reaping: I love the public domain
me sowing: ah fuck not Vincent again

The Lume, the Controversial Immersive Digital Art Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Closed at the End of February The Lume, the immersive digital art gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, closed at the end of February after five years.

in other news, they finally closed that shit down 🙏

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

In an open letter released today, ALA employees announced the formation of a union with @afscme31.bsky.social. If certified, the union will represent more than 100 ALA workers. https://afscme31.org/news/american-library-association-employees-forming-union-afscme

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

my co-workers & I are forming a union! I love working to support libraries & library workers - I would love it even more if staff had a seat at the table.

big love to all the library & culture workers who have organized their own workplaces (esp my AFSCME siblings!)

afscme31.org/news/america...

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

the year i went to an english school in oxford, the headmaster called the 4 american kids into the office on thanksgiving to have "pumpkin pie", store bought from sainsbury's somehow. it was chunky and rancid and also a pretty good metaphor.

We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

big things coming (mostly bad, some good!)

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

are my headphones just shit or am I passing a secret service signal jammer? we’ll never know, xoxo

this is not about art basel i just like to assume every annoying art business person lives in CH lol

art world is too small. you make changes to a Wikipedia article about an art business and within days the company's *founder* shows up trying to wreck your shit. stay in basel, stop bothering me.