ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 03/15/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

@eniko@peoplemaking.games “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

"Woke" is now every third word out of Republican faces. But when pressed on what "woke" means, they stammer and dodge.

This isn't by accident. "Woke" is an empty word that means whatever a Republican needs it to mean. In this article, I dig into why. https://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/why-the-is-obsessed-with-woke--but-cant-define-it/

I can't even "indoctrinate" students to number the pages on their papers.

This #cat loves a sock on her head

Today is Setting Orange, the 2nd day of Discord in the YOLD 3189.

#twentythree

New from us at @ProPublica:

We combed through millions of records in a never-before-seen trove of personal stock trading data within our "Secret IRS Files." What did we find? Wealthy CEOs and other executives are trading the stock of competitors and partners – sometimes with remarkable timing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble, Leo Shatz
#nature #space #astrophotography

I'm doing some writing on Plato. And for the line...

"the philosopher, by associating with what is orderly and divine, becomes as divine and orderly as a human being can" (𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐, 500d)

.... I looked up the word "orderly" and saw that the Greek is 𝑘𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑜𝑠, with which are related both "cosmos" and "cosmetics" ... connoting an order and a goodness and a beauty.

🙂 🙏

This is the EXACT kind of shit we have been warning you about. "A.I." tools trained on data filled with asaumptions and prejudices about marginalized people and then being deployed in situations with literal life-&-death implications for the people involved. In this case, diaabled parents being more likely to be flagged as "unfit."

This is utter nightmare shit.

https://apnews.com/article/child-protective-services-algorithms-artificial-intelligence-disability-f5af28001b20a15c4213e36144742f11

I've set up a new Mastodon profile here after masthead.social went down (without warning or explanation). I found myself missing the #fediverse.
So here I am rebuilding.

Posting about #journalism, #podcasts, and #business. Also #DC #SF and sometimes #Boston. Get at me.

#introduction #introductions

Midjourney V5 test:

Buffalo Up Close!

#AI #Midjourney #Buffalo

If our Justice Department is going to lolligag and flifferfluff from making high level arrests, then it’s up to us to go straight Monkey Wrench Gang on these fascists, and throw sand in their metaphorical tanks.

We expose their techniques, punching up at all times, deflating the cult, and watching them fall.

https://heidicuda.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-lies-deflating-the-cult

Part of the Fanz Joseph Glacier in New Zealand

YOU CAN SEE IT HERE IN FULL:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/icy-fanz-joseph-glacier-in-new-zealand-full-frame-patricia-hofmeester.html

By https://pixels.com/profiles/patricia-hofmeester/shop #WallArt #homedecor #fineart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt ##LoveArt #BuyArtNotCandy #photography #SpringIntoArt @PatriciaPhotos #NewZealand #glacier #fromabove #FranzJoseph #ice

"We all weigh joys and darkness and goodness and sin;
you see, we are infinite within this skin we are in.
So when you are asked what you weigh
you don't need to look down at any scale.
Instead simply tell the truth:
tell everyone how you
weigh whole universes
and storms and scars and stories too."
~ Nikita Gill
#Bookstodon #Feminism #Poetry #Quotes #SelfImage

City Rain #midjourney #AIArt (the test version of Midjourney V5!)

Dear friends: i left the bird place for REASONS and do not require you to send me the stupid things angry people are saying about my writing there.