vaseline dion.

[vaseline dion. @cursivebones]

🌸https://t.co/UU7RGSV6IP🌸

[kasra @kasratweets]

bringing back the best pieces of media on this

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis

[Heidi Vanderlee @heidivanderlee]

this is an old blurry picture i took of the liner notes of le tigre's 1999 self-titled record and i think i need it on a t-shirt

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Four poems by Toni Morrison

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Today’s favorite poem is by the wonderful Ruth Awad!!

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Audre Lorde, from 'A Burst Of Light'

[bambina @winequished]

as an excerpt from anaïs nin taught me about

[abby @ha1oabby]

ran out of cigarettes and thought of this

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

Practical Magic (1998)

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Langley 🐬🇦🇶 @1995GreatBigSky]

"Are there no limits?", 1996 SEGA Dreamcast print advertisement

[🥢 @b1rdflyy]

#june i’m waiting for you 🧘🏻‍♀️

[I have so many questions? @english_shamar]

Karen Malina White has one of those legendary television runs.