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Dostoevsky; “People don't want truth, they want comfort dressed as truth.” Franz Kafka; “Reality is too heavy for most people to carry. So they borrow illusions, soft dreams, sweet lies, and call it happiness.”

People have this ridiculous idea that if art offends them that's bad thing. Not only that, they think the offending art should be banned or not made at all. Their brains have been fried by Disney movies and kiddie crap, they don't know what art is

While I support this - there is a problem with American-style street protests. (Thoughts on strategy below). Zizek warned about this same phenomenon when he cautioned the Occupy movement not to "fall in love with itself". What he meant was, don't fall into the trap of thinking that your protest is enough in itself or that it achieves goals just because you want it to - your protest may backfire and instead become a therapeutic outlet of anger that gives the illusion of achieving goals while achieving none. It's not enough to know you are on the "good side" while your lack of strategic thinking leads to failure. To be able to say "I was there, I fought the losing battle" is not something to be proud of. The occupy movement degenerated into a protest about the "right to camp". Everyone forgot it was originally supposed to be a call for change to the centre of systems of economic power. It ended up being a protest about the right to have temporary toilets in isolated public parks. It was defeated because it failed to "occupy" the banks and shut them down. Instead it ended up occupying state owned parks and protesting about living conditions in tents in winter. Zizek's warning also applies to Anti-AI protest. Watch out for lifestyle and therapeutic protests that make you feel better about "expressing yourself" but achieve very little. They may even divert energy and create a false sense of achievement. 100 protestors in the street are like bugs that have landed on the surface of a huge autonomous tank. AI and the military are intertwined now. Think with more cunning, think more strategically - don't offer up your face to AI surveillance cameras. Plan not for "protest" but for subversion, and for legal, well targeted acts of sabotage. Establish the weak points in the AI industries and attack them. The Achilles heel is not the public street outside the Open AI, Anthropic or Palantir buildings. Think harder, plan better, aim to achieve specific concrete goals that derail the venture capital machine behind the AI industries, don't get caught up in vast political generalisations. "End Capitalism now" slogans didn't work for Occupy. You won't stop The AI military industrial complex with a cardboard sign, even though it might make you feel better about "doing something". Protest is not enough in itself. Get ready to shift to more effective strategies.

"I'd rather die than give you control!"⁠ ⁠ Nine Inch Nails released the single "Head Like a Hole" on this day in 1990.

The Dying City. 🎨 Jacek Yerka.

BREAKING: Reports are coming in of a possible meteor that exploded over the west side of Houston, Texas this evening ☄️ Lightning detection on satellite picked up the flash!

#MeteorSighting: Eyewitnesses in Texas observed a bright fireball today, March 21, at 4:40 p.m. CDT. Current data indicates that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston. It moved southeast at 35,000 mph, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station. The fragmentation of the meteor - which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet - created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area. Doppler weather radar also showed meteorites produced between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing. 🔗 go.nasa.gov/47c9wbR Eyewitness accounts supplied by the American Meteor Society

I tested something I'd written myself: my first academic article, published 45 years ago. It came in at 77% AI-generated.

Only humans can correctly detect AI and flag it. When AI is trained on human material and then AI detectors are trained on it too - the result is that the AI detects its own training data giving a false positive on detecting AI text.

This AI text detector says Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was written by AI.

@RoyRogers_HTMS @NickChenov 🤣🥴

Does a lead flute work in rock? Jethro Tull would have been so much better with just lead guitar.

"Prometheus Landscape" by Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901). Oil on wood.

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

The tech CEOs FEAR introspection. Individuals with Avoidant Personality Disorder experience an intense fear of rejection, criticism, or embarrassment, leading to a avoidance of situations, including deep self-reflection or looking inward, that might expose their perceived inadequacies or cause them shame. Schizoid & Narcissistic Personality Disorders involve a profound lack of self-awareness regarding one's own emotional life or the impact of one's behavioUr on others.

@JadeCole2112 A good one too! 🖤😁

@Jen3nfer Texas based indie band.

Voxtrot back with a new record! @DHuskytron @Mikehomeseller @primarily_prog @joserael @NospinDr

@CoffeewClassics 🖤

Cormac McCarthy is not to everyone’s taste, that’s fine. Life’s short, read what you want. But this is not nihilistic.

@JadeCole2112 It is indeed. ✌️

@Jen3nfer 👍 this sentiment is spreading

I’m beat, but it was a good market last night even though the wind was challenging for everyone outside. I met some new folks and we had a long talk about our mutual hatred for AI. Not just an 'online' thing, so it was very reassuring to know that people in real life are becoming more aware and actively resisting it. 🖤

‘It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, send clouds of blue and of purple flying over the land.’ Virginia Woolf, The Years, 1937

Hi fiends🌞 Late start this morning but here’s a Saturday moody mood: “These Days” 2023 by Venezuelan artist Juan Ballestros. Digital collage.