Auto-generated media can be a way for people to create works we can envision, but don't (yet) have the skills to realise. But in doing so, they can't help but erode our motivation to develop our artistic skills, or to reach out to those who already have, and collaborate on new creative works.

What interests me here is not the tech, the business models, or the political economy of these tools. But rather their social effects. Do they bring us together, or make it easier be alone?

#MOLE #AI

"Here We Come A-Wassailing!"
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Prints at http://albaillustration.etsy.com OR you can find me in person this Sunday (12/21) at the New City Market at New City Brewery in Easthampton, MA with all of my decks, art prints, stickers, etc!

#yule #christmas #caroling #hedgehog #mole #mouse #art #fediart #mastoart #winter #singing #animals #victorian

Mole - L'outil CLI qui remplace CleanMyMac et toute la clique

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/mole-nettoyage-macos-cli-open-source.html

Kind Animals Little Cards Version 0.3 "Grasshopper" - Summer ,Spring

New little cards about animals—what could be more interesting? Each card is a small program written in Visual Basic. It contains a picture and a story about the animal. This version adds 8 new animals

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/12/kind-animals-little-cards-version-03.html

#goodanimals #mole #goose #grasshopper #beaver #rabbit #bunny #skylark #crane #summer #spring #begood #cards #garden #countryside #forest #pond

🖥️ Mole : un logiciel open source pour nettoyer et optimiser votre Mac

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/mole-logiciel-nettoyer-optimiser-mac-144827/

#Mole #Logiciel #OpenSource #Mac #macOS

"... a wide variety of “theories of everything” that have arisen from non-expert humans prompting large language models (LLMs) with a repeated series of inquiries, where the LLM will agree that the human’s ideas have merit and will fawningly tell the human that they’re truly onto something profound.

This is not 'vibe science' the way one might be able to 'vibe code' ..."

#EthanSiegel, 2025

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/10-scientific-truths-unpopular-2025/

No it absolutely is! For exactly the same reasons.

#MOLE #AI

"The company launched Workspace Studio on December 3, 2025, putting AI agent creation directly inside Gmail, Docs, and Drive."

#MarcusSchuler, 2025

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-poaches-apple-exhales-google-divides/

Well that tears it. When I'm back in the studio in the new calendar year, I'm going to prioritise finishing the deGoogling I started years ago. I have one GMail address I'm still actively using. Not for much longer.

#Google #MOLE #AI

Douglas @Rushkoff speculates about a process where the wealthy sandbox themselves, employing Trained #MOLE workers, and pay them in crypto datacentre vouchers that can be redeemed for compute, memory, storage, and so on. The end of capitalism as the Rapture of the Nerds;

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other

Intriguing, but it reminds me of the IR realist friend who asked me "how many armoured divisions does BitCoin have?".

#podcasts #TeamHuman