The Way This Reads Now Is Like. That Soviet Time Capsule Where Everyone's Like 'in The 21st Century I'm

y’know, the more i think about it, the more i realize that the knee-jerk “we need copyright law to protect The Artists from AI” reaction around AI illustration feels like the intellectual property equivalent of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mentality

you see people supporting policies that serve against their economic interests out of the delusion that the american dream is real and they’re ever going to be wealthy enough to benefit from those policies

in the same vein, i feel like some artists talk as if stronger copyright law enforcement would benefit them in light of the advent of AI illustration, when it exists solely to protect the interests of massive rights-holding conglomerates who have the capital required to actively utilize it

in other words, you are not lars ulrich, the current infrastructure will not protect you, and stronger copyright enforcement would let warner bros. call a drone strike on you for selling Our Flag Means Death fanart on etsy long, long before it would stop AI models from adding your art to their massive pool of reference data

Incredible how Germany’s collective guilt is only applied to the Holocaust (and only to one part of it and then we can discuss how fake it is anyway) because it’s so obvious they don’t give a shit about what they did in Africa

attempted to make qifrey's atelier in tiny glade. it was quite interesting and i had fun improvising (except for the stairs. i think anyone else who plays tiny glade knows what i mean 🙈)

floridian state park, november 2023

not only do i not condemn palestinian resistance in some stupid centrist vague Morality and No One Should Ever Die fit of righteous idiot politics fury i furthermore unconditionally support palestinian resistance. there is nothing i support more in fact right now on earth not a single group of people i want success for more than for the palestinian resistance to israeli occupation & oppression. palestine will be free and the fascist colonial empire will fall like they all always have and always will do ameen

The Al Jazeera journalists dreading having to pass the microphone to Abu Jamal every time

Coleman Library, Tougaloo College. Jackson, Mississippi. Gunnar Birkerts.