Whenever I see a generated image of what is supposed to be Ada Lovelace, I feel compelled to work on my portrait drawing of her. Based on the only two photographs of her.

She wanted to be remembered, not turned into an AI-generated Victorian Bratz doll, and she thoroughly disagreed with the usage of machines without vision.

#noai #adalovelace #mastoart

attention, over forty queers:

do the thing. it is okay, you are not too old. besiders, older queers like us deserve visibility too. but for that to be happen, we need to make ourselves visible.

one of the most interesting and fun genres of online posts i see is zoomers and young millennials getting really hype cuz they found a video of like a 55 year old woman who picked up fortnight, or a 65 year old grandfather in a rap battle. no one is gonna laugh at you because people just kinda instinctively realize doing cool stuff when you are old is cool. so do the thing.

write fan fiction. start a blog about cool rocks. paint edgy horror art, dj a set, become a pro gamer. open furry porn commissions. learn guitar. change your career. write a novel. write a comic. do not march into the last half of your life with shame and regret in your hearts. you are beautiful and your passion is as radiant as the sun.

so do the thing.

Mere affiliation with an anti-fascist organization is now grounds for discipline and potential firing of tenured professors. Unreal.

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025/09/breaking-unc-professor-placed-on-administrative-leave

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic: Trump’s tariffs, demands of government stakes in companies and selective antitrust enforcement superficially echo left‑leaning industrial policy. But Trump’s policies aren’t thought out; they’re just performative chaos. Trump is part of a right-wing mirror world of imagined conspiracies that superficially resemble real problems. One danger is that when Trump is gone, America will desperately need robust state action, but Trump’s bad example will convince America that all state action is reckless.

“The problem isn’t that tariffs are always bad, nor is it that demanding state ownership stakes in structurally important companies that depend on public funds is bad policy. The problem is that Trump’s version of these policies sucks, because everything Trump touches dies, and because he governs solely on vibes, half-remembered wisdom imparted by the last person who spoke to him, and the dying phantoms of old memories as they vanish beneath a thick bark of amyloid plaque.”

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/#neither-fish-nor-fowl

Wu Tang Clan has endorsed Zohran Mamdani:

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/932254-wu-tang-clan-democratic-nominee-zohran-mamdani-campaign-final-nyc-show-hip-hop-news