Brontë
@l004p.bsky.social
Software developer and illustrator. I’m just here to stalk all the cool people posting neat things…
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Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.
August 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.
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AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.
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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
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Remember: get comics
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!
Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
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Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Remember: get comics
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Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
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I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache
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An alternative version of my crow piece
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An alternative version of my crow piece
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Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.
October 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.
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"River Pearl"
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"River Pearl"
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year
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this (and what follows it) is a profound insight
Computer software is also a symbol-generation industry and not an information profession
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
this (and what follows it) is a profound insight
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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well that’s fucking horrible
October 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
well that’s fucking horrible
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Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning
Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...
Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...
October 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning
Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...
Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...
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“All this started over a lost sponsorship”
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“All this started over a lost sponsorship”
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
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I love environmental storytelling in dystopian sci-fi games.
Yeah, everyone hates the AI subway ads as much as you do nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I love environmental storytelling in dystopian sci-fi games.
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Can’t think of anything more necessary to understand this moment
11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.
September 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Can’t think of anything more necessary to understand this moment
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In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...
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Folks, may I offer you some Practical Necromancy for Beginners? https://thedigitalpress.org/portfolio/practical-necromancy-for-beginners/
(The language of 'ai' hype has such overblown religious overtones, I thought I'd respond in kind).
(The language of 'ai' hype has such overblown religious overtones, I thought I'd respond in kind).
Practical Necromancy for Beginners
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Shawn Graham, _Practical Necromancy for Beginners: A Short Incomplete Opinionated Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology and History Students_. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2025.
**Many feel bewildered and quietly embarrassed that they don’t know more about how AI technology works, where it came from, or even how to get started. Start here.**
_Practical Necromancy_ represents Shawn Graham’s vision for how we should treat large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence applications. Graham advocates approaching these technologies as a necromancer. In antiquity, the figure of the necromancer lay outside the boundaries of official religion, talking not with gods but with the mournful echoes of ghosts. _Practical Necromancy_ explores ways of surfacing the ghosts that lurk in AI technology. Graham suggests that the most useful thing we and our students can do with LLMs is to break them, push them, prod them, make them give up the ghosts in their data. We think through making and putting things together. It’s always the process that matters, not the final product. Through short essays, hands-on exercises, and suggestions for how one might build one’s own course, _Practical Necromancy_ is meant to give us a starting point, a way in, a place to push from.
_Practical Necromancy_ is especially timely as the language and hype around AI is deliberately meant to make you feel as if the computers from Star Trek are just around the corner. The message is quasi-religious: the future will be glorious. This book will help you step outside the official religion and start conversations with the ghosts lurking in these new machines.
**Shawn M. Graham** is Full Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Folks, may I offer you some Practical Necromancy for Beginners? https://thedigitalpress.org/portfolio/practical-necromancy-for-beginners/
(The language of 'ai' hype has such overblown religious overtones, I thought I'd respond in kind).
(The language of 'ai' hype has such overblown religious overtones, I thought I'd respond in kind).
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