Israelism (Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen, 2023)

KENYA. 1980. People in the village of Voi, looking at the eclipse through smoked glass protection.

© Jean Gaumy

Words cannot express how much I love this bird.

La sortie de metro (Metro Exit), Paris, Sabine Weiss, 1955

at the club googling symptoms of organ failure

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

Hans Haacke: Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972)

Trevor Paglen, They Watch the Moon, 2010.

“This photograph depicts a classified ‘listening station’ deep in the forests of West Virginia.

The station is located at the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometers in West Virginia and parts of Maryland.

Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called moonbounce.

Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.”

Via conscientious, via likeafieldmouse

something funny about how yanks shitting themselves about a potential hypothetical lgbt genocide that immediately jumps to concentration camps seem to think seeing trump and harris as pretty much the same is a position hold by only privileged people who "wouldn't be affected anyway", when a lot of people who think that have arrived to the conclusion by the fact that no matter the president, their people were and will be subjected to genocide, camps, massacre and constant violence