Speedy Diamond

Ding dong, break the beans.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

There should be a special circle in Dante’s hell for people who bet on and monetize the destruction of countries and slaughter of their citizens.

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Trump single-handily getting an Oxford educated economist elected Prime Minister of Canada at just the perfect time for him to crest a tsunami of anti-American sentiment is probably the funniest/stupidest own goal in international geopolitical history.

[Allium @snacklesbian]

fake doordash orders. fake construction photos. fake homework assignments. fake everything, just a pandora's box of industrial scale bullshit polluting both the planet and the basic social contract (which was already on thin ice)

[The Don of Vaughan @DonofVaughan]

There is another century…

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.”

[Everything Metal Gear ❗ @MetalGear_QWC]

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

people often post this stuff to imply that moral panics about the technologies of the past were quaint. But the past is full of reminders that we are on a long, slow march away from embodied experience, and that we’ve lost more of it than we can even remember

[Goat Boy @goat_boy11]

Veronica, Fallout New Vegas

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

I've been lying on the couch for two hours now and I've hardly thought about anything other than you.

Franz Kafka, 1921.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

there is no justice for this. a stain on humanity that will never wash out. i hope it haunts every politician who abetted it, every media person who laundered it, every university president who destroyed students for protesting it. even then, there is no justice. free palestine

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

We are too polite about the fact the super rich have polluted the planet so much the climate has changed

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

I saw this and offered her the role of Mama (Lockne) in Death Stranding.

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Straight up do not understand why anyone would wanna read something that wasn't from a person. Already hard enough to find time and focus to read, why would I bother if it's not from anyone's perspective, it's just words

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

👍

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

Portrait of ADL CEO @JGreenblattADL for @JewishCurrents.

[Will @SilentDawnLB]

Discovering David Lynch's work at a young age was akin to an unveiling. The expanse of cinema's potential remains elusive to me but Lynch's films taught me that the boundary is nonexistent, that good & evil will travel with you to the furthest reaches of your imagination.

[shawn g @MrGlinis]

one of the coolest things about David Lynch's work was growing with it, from being mesmerized by its textures as a teenager to understanding the emotional current under them as an adult, and seeing so many others share a similar experience.