Riding The Trolley Out Of Omelas Because I'm A Little Too Shaken To Walk Rn And I Just Heard This Weird

so turns out mindlessly scrolling on my phone for 4 hours didn't actually make me feel better

I WAS TRYING TO EDIT THIS BEAR TO BE CHROME TO MAKE A DISCORD SERVER JOKE AND I FUCKED IT UP REAL BAD

wait but actually…sisko’s baseball is his orb??? he leaves it behind as a relic and a reminder of his return, as is common for prophets and messianic figures? it’s baseball that he uses to try and explain human time to the prophets? it never leaves his desk, and its presence haunts dukat when the cardassians briefly recapture the station?? pls tell me if this is something people have talked about because the baseball as a religious relic/object/orb is blowing my mind

a significant portion of bad AI discourse happens because people are not sufficiently rigorous in disambiguating "AI", the cultural object into which the bourgeoisie have deposited all their hopes and dreams for a world where they no longer depend upon the proletariat, and which mostly serves the practical purpose of driving investment, with Neural Networks/Large Language Models, the technologies that exist in real life with actual use cases and actual limitations--or indeed in realizing that such a disambiguation is necessary

Ragnar before and after we told him his favorite place is closed

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

this clip from this streamer fucking up his streamdeck buttons has got me sobbing

would you think of doing the list of names like a war memorial? or perhaps something more low-key or inventive? idk what comes to mind is something symbolizing impermanence and the sheer mass of loss, something like a section of floor covered in confetti, each piece covered in names. idk i feel like this idea is lacking a certain amount of respect, but i think there is something there.

If you could curate an art gallery, what would be your top pieces you'd like to show?

I would do a show on the impact of the aids crisis on American art

So the portions of the aids quilt, portrait of ross in LA, and Keith Harings unfinished paintings are must haves