Victoria Ward
@hotspurstudio.bsky.social
I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
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Beaumont Quay, Essex, October 2025, just me, the British landscape and my Canadian hunting toque. #UK #landscape
All the young people I know hate it. They use it but reluctantly. But mostly because they can see right through it - and know very well this is all about stockholders and dividends and making money, not helping anything. #AI
I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
All the young people I know hate it. They use it but reluctantly. But mostly because they can see right through it - and know very well this is all about stockholders and dividends and making money, not helping anything. #AI
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You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
Poetry can trick AI models into revealing nuclear weapons secrets, study finds
Poetry can trick AI models into revealing nuclear weapons secrets, study finds
Poetry can trick AI models into revealing nuclear weapons secrets, study finds
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Such a great point.
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Such a great point.
Excellent thread on why, if you hate tech things, you have good reasons no matter what anyone says. We've been bullied from day one.
But the psychologically invasive/manipulative effects of a TV ad pale in comparison to the impact of an algorithmically tailored assault on the specific insecurities of an alienated 15 year old looking at a screen alone in their bedroom. I don't know what the solution is, but this is bad.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Excellent thread on why, if you hate tech things, you have good reasons no matter what anyone says. We've been bullied from day one.
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
I love @thebeaverton.com so much and I am not surprised in the slightest that "the AI bot which wrote this story would quote us". Well done everyone there!!!
The Beaverton speaks with CBC News about how Time Magazine mistook a fake quote for real facts!
A made-up quote from the Beaverton made it into Time magazine | Hanomansing Tonight
YouTube video by CBC News
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love @thebeaverton.com so much and I am not surprised in the slightest that "the AI bot which wrote this story would quote us". Well done everyone there!!!
Nihilism.
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Nihilism.
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The robbery is believed to have been carried out by a four-person team — with two breaking into the museum’s ornate Apollo Gallery where the jewels were displayed and then being whisked away on motorbikes by two associates who waited outside. https://to.pbs.org/48jcSJK
Arrested man is thought to be 4th member of Louvre heist gang, Paris prosecutor says
The prosecutor's statement didn’t say what role, exactly, the man is thought to have played in the daylight heist.
to.pbs.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The robbery is believed to have been carried out by a four-person team — with two breaking into the museum’s ornate Apollo Gallery where the jewels were displayed and then being whisked away on motorbikes by two associates who waited outside. https://to.pbs.org/48jcSJK
Totally love it when bands who rail against the system get litigious.🤣 www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Kneecap announce legal action against politician behind Canada ban
Kneecap has announced they are launching legal action against Vince Gasparro, the politician who acted to ban them from Canada
www.nme.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Totally love it when bands who rail against the system get litigious.🤣 www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Thank you @gramshelper.bsky.social for sending me this. If you think he is caving and ignoring the environment, please read.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thank you @gramshelper.bsky.social for sending me this. If you think he is caving and ignoring the environment, please read.
I don't understand the deal with Alberta that @mark-carney.bsky.social has created. And I still trust him. Maybe being from there means something different. One thing for sure, I have lost all hope of learning anything about it from our media opinion writers.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I don't understand the deal with Alberta that @mark-carney.bsky.social has created. And I still trust him. Maybe being from there means something different. One thing for sure, I have lost all hope of learning anything about it from our media opinion writers.
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The trouble with some women is they get excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
-Cher
-Cher
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The trouble with some women is they get excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
-Cher
-Cher
It last erupted over 12,000 years ago. 12,000. Pre Holocene. Good luck to peeps living in "dormant" volcanic areas. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records
The plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted east over the Arabian Sea and extended roughly 2,200 miles
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It last erupted over 12,000 years ago. 12,000. Pre Holocene. Good luck to peeps living in "dormant" volcanic areas. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
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Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Archaeologists use multiple types of geophysics equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary structure’
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
While the architects of Stonehenge had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle may have been more interested in an underworld. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
People in Toronto want to live in a big city but not as a real big city I guess.
Isabella St. A perfectly good apt bldn empty, people displaced & being demolished all because so much of Toronto is off limits & forced here. Aka house neighbourhoods. Such a shame. Such waste. And the shame of every elected official here. Shame of Ford for not pushing reforms. All the same.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
People in Toronto want to live in a big city but not as a real big city I guess.
Such a curious movie - the opposite of 90% of films today. Quiet, compelling, tragic, sadness & beautiful. Plus this song OMG. #nickcave open.spotify.com/track/0nmIUI...
Train Dreams
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Such a curious movie - the opposite of 90% of films today. Quiet, compelling, tragic, sadness & beautiful. Plus this song OMG. #nickcave open.spotify.com/track/0nmIUI...
So fun, wild and creative. Sad. #pamhogg www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pam Hogg: Scottish fashion designer who created looks for Rihanna and Kate Moss dies
She was known for eccentric and outlandish designs, worn by stars like Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So fun, wild and creative. Sad. #pamhogg www.bbc.com/news/article...
Still my favourite thing on YouTube. Probably over 15 years old. youtu.be/nkzrSZKA4cM?...
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 - III. Finale
YouTube video by ラグナ
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Still my favourite thing on YouTube. Probably over 15 years old. youtu.be/nkzrSZKA4cM?...
This is awesome but the music 🙄
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is awesome but the music 🙄
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
Who are the good guys on this show? But this actor's performance - wowza. #TheDiplomat
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Who are the good guys on this show? But this actor's performance - wowza. #TheDiplomat
This will never not be one of the best moments on film. youtu.be/jX2CfU9iD0A?...
'Strait-Jacket' (1964)
YouTube video by Compact Dic's Digital Audio
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This will never not be one of the best moments on film. youtu.be/jX2CfU9iD0A?...
These tech billionaires have literally run out of ideas. A pretty short run... KPop has lasted longer.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
These tech billionaires have literally run out of ideas. A pretty short run... KPop has lasted longer.