Kira
@spaceforestart.bsky.social
they/them, fae/faer | artist, trekkie, nonbinary, lesbian, chaotic good, fey trickster. eastern european. norse heathen. anarchist.
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When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation
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Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy
Plus, what an uncanny customer service experience taught us about global systems of labor exploitation
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation
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I don't want to talk to a chatbot simulacrum of my late grandmother I want to dream about her alien ghost lover after reading a particularly erotic passage from her diary like god intended
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I don't want to talk to a chatbot simulacrum of my late grandmother I want to dream about her alien ghost lover after reading a particularly erotic passage from her diary like god intended
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“Pulling Poland away from the EU” is pulling Poland towards Russia, we all know this, right
A longer, unpublished version of the new US National Security Strategy identifies Poland as a country the US should try to “pull away” from the EU, according to leaked excerpts.
It also calls for the US to support parties that “seek sovereignty and preservation of traditional European ways of life”
It also calls for the US to support parties that “seek sovereignty and preservation of traditional European ways of life”
Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"
notesfrompoland.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“Pulling Poland away from the EU” is pulling Poland towards Russia, we all know this, right
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one of the problems with how westerners (and we can include branko in this because he's the worst kind of westerner: an easterner who assimilated in emigration and now acts like he's better than us) talk about eastern europe is quite simply that they do not hold themselves to the same standards ever
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
one of the problems with how westerners (and we can include branko in this because he's the worst kind of westerner: an easterner who assimilated in emigration and now acts like he's better than us) talk about eastern europe is quite simply that they do not hold themselves to the same standards ever
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it's incredible how many raw ideologues of all stripes expect people from the second and third worlds to just endorse killing their families for a Purpose
Ok. If forced to choose between your version of progressivism and the safety and wellbeing of my people and family, I choose the latter. Extremely easy choice thanks
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
it's incredible how many raw ideologues of all stripes expect people from the second and third worlds to just endorse killing their families for a Purpose
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Goncharov (1973)
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Goncharov (1973)
yep.
also, as non binary artists who did went to art school 27 years ago, I think that bigots using 'art student' as derogatory term to further slander young people in the age of ai slop being pushed on us everywhere is no coincidence
also, as non binary artists who did went to art school 27 years ago, I think that bigots using 'art student' as derogatory term to further slander young people in the age of ai slop being pushed on us everywhere is no coincidence
Something I'd like to address. There's this idea that TQ+ folk are all 21 year-old art students... and all the 'normal' old school folk are LGB and entirely left behind and confused by 'pronouns'...
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
yep.
also, as non binary artists who did went to art school 27 years ago, I think that bigots using 'art student' as derogatory term to further slander young people in the age of ai slop being pushed on us everywhere is no coincidence
also, as non binary artists who did went to art school 27 years ago, I think that bigots using 'art student' as derogatory term to further slander young people in the age of ai slop being pushed on us everywhere is no coincidence
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The (lack of) coverage of the drone attack on Zelenskyy’s plane is tbh in line with how the West views EEuropeans: as expendable, as savages who Just Attack One Another and can’t help it, why report on water being wet
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The (lack of) coverage of the drone attack on Zelenskyy’s plane is tbh in line with how the West views EEuropeans: as expendable, as savages who Just Attack One Another and can’t help it, why report on water being wet
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This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
I don't doubt this—but it does bug me that em-dashes are used as a heuristic to spot LLM-generated text.
Fortunately I can point to my 2020 doctoral thesis and show that I was overusing and abusing ems well before el el ems.
Fortunately I can point to my 2020 doctoral thesis and show that I was overusing and abusing ems well before el el ems.
The US National Security Strategy seems to be—at least in part—written/edited by AI.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
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New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all.
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all.
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
I fucked up my sleep schedule a lot, because it's dark and weird and I'm out of my sleep aiding supplement. I tried to unfuck it with one of my methods (tm) but accidentally fucked it up even more, sigh. second attempt in progress.
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I fucked up my sleep schedule a lot, because it's dark and weird and I'm out of my sleep aiding supplement. I tried to unfuck it with one of my methods (tm) but accidentally fucked it up even more, sigh. second attempt in progress.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I've been looking through my digital collection of psychedelic 60s posters in order to get into the grove with creating this style of typography, since I'm really out of practice (it's for new stickers) and it's making me really nostalgic but in a nice way
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I've been looking through my digital collection of psychedelic 60s posters in order to get into the grove with creating this style of typography, since I'm really out of practice (it's for new stickers) and it's making me really nostalgic but in a nice way
I've run out of flour?
I mean, there's a ton of flour in this house, but not the basic wheat flour, which I've used all up right now. I'm about to find out how yeasted rolls do with oats and semolina.
my grocery store is playing holiday music already, can they have 5kg flour bags for pln9,99 again?
I mean, there's a ton of flour in this house, but not the basic wheat flour, which I've used all up right now. I'm about to find out how yeasted rolls do with oats and semolina.
my grocery store is playing holiday music already, can they have 5kg flour bags for pln9,99 again?
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I've run out of flour?
I mean, there's a ton of flour in this house, but not the basic wheat flour, which I've used all up right now. I'm about to find out how yeasted rolls do with oats and semolina.
my grocery store is playing holiday music already, can they have 5kg flour bags for pln9,99 again?
I mean, there's a ton of flour in this house, but not the basic wheat flour, which I've used all up right now. I'm about to find out how yeasted rolls do with oats and semolina.
my grocery store is playing holiday music already, can they have 5kg flour bags for pln9,99 again?
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This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
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A reminder that every time Ru appeals to legal arguments (Ru constitution includes Ukr regions; Ru can't legally sign w Ukr because martial law has postponed elections), we should laugh. Ru law is utterly devoid of legality; it's a pure instrument of the state for post hoc justifying its actions.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A reminder that every time Ru appeals to legal arguments (Ru constitution includes Ukr regions; Ru can't legally sign w Ukr because martial law has postponed elections), we should laugh. Ru law is utterly devoid of legality; it's a pure instrument of the state for post hoc justifying its actions.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
hey, I clean regularly! how else I would have space for all these books, plants, pottery, and weird and probably cursed things I found on the walks, not to mention all the art supplies
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
hey, I clean regularly! how else I would have space for all these books, plants, pottery, and weird and probably cursed things I found on the walks, not to mention all the art supplies
I picked up a crayon as soon as I mastered motor control good enough to scribble on walls and just never put it down. my parents provided paper, more crayons, and sealed the deal with art albums and museum visits. there wasn't much thoughts involved in the process.
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I picked up a crayon as soon as I mastered motor control good enough to scribble on walls and just never put it down. my parents provided paper, more crayons, and sealed the deal with art albums and museum visits. there wasn't much thoughts involved in the process.
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“Keira's assessment in 2024, …concluded that she did not have "sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently".
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“Keira's assessment in 2024, …concluded that she did not have "sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently".
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?