Illuminated personal essay on the loss of connection I felt using Dall-E. I use Tezhip, an Islamic art form I trace back to the Uyghur people to explore lineage and ways of caretaking that respect the origins of our art. Thread on its details

RT @essaysmythe: Excited to launch Shared Horizons: Politics & Poetics of Transnational Abolition, a living digital archive envisioned by @….

Ethics and aesthetics are the same.

Typical AI. Studio Ghibli AI art is trending when Miyazaki famously hated it calling AI art "an insult to life itself". All Ghibli style art is trained on his work without permission & these prompts are basically spitting in his face: disrespecting his work + stealing his labor.

Dervish!.

RT @ragipsoylu: NEW: Top Turkish TV watchdog executive calls TV channels one by one, instructing them to stop live broadcasts and coverage….

These headlines are all related

RT @samfbiddle: NEW: Dataminr, an official X partner, is helping the LAPD surveil protests against the Israeli war on Gaza across both in L….

Medicaid covers cancer treatment in Hawaii for people from Marshall Islands. Cancer is the number 1 killer. The US bombed them 67 times including the largest nuclear test ever conducted. People die in exile from their polluted land, have birth defects, jellyfish babies, miscarry.

RT @MarietjeSchaake: Alarm bells for anyone using US technology to stop doing so asap. With the erratically led US government that companie….

RT @DocDre: Is it “academic freedom of expression” when i can’t apply for grants by studying diversity, equity, and inclusion?. Is it “acad….

RT @saintsoftness: @ChainsawNikko Because in the end, the women who die of sepsis getting back alley abortions, the migrants who are treate….

Stop posting pictures of protests with people's faces identifiable in them. Anything identifiable, clothing, hair, or tattoos puts people at risk in the future for arrest and harassment. Not only by cops but creepy rightwingers dox them and harass them.

And @GurusPod covers this weird evangelic network proposal

part 1

Peter Thiel gave a very unhinged interview talking about the antichrist it is in two parts and lays out his world view which is nonsense but one which jd vance and elon can help carry out. He aligns a surveillance one world government with evangelical belief. see thread.

RT @techwontsaveus: Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than….

Things are shifting. This is a signal not a mistake.

RT @FreedomForAlaa: Laila and @PeterGreste were back outside Downing Street this morning. Laila is on day 127 of her hunger strike, launc….

People are leaving FB realizing what @dgolumbia warned us of for years and years, tech fascism -from 2021 "how facebook promotes fascism" analyzes an astrology ad. These are gateways to extremist right, red pill, q anon, to trump. I have friends radicalized right by algorithms.