In the absence of anything substantial to say, a few passing thoughts.| www.inthemargins.ca
You have nothing to lose but your chains.| www.persuasion.community
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.| Citation Needed
Notes to my future self about AI, the web, and what it means to keep making things.| jasonsantamaria.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.| dansinker.com
Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.| skincontact.substack.com
OR: catapulting myself into a pit of tarantulas| www.experimental-history.com
Sameer Vasta is an epistolarian, anthropologist, urban explorer, and over-user of the discretionary comma.| www.inthemargins.ca