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@vanessachan97.bsky.social
she/her | uninvited guest on Coast Salish lands | neurodivergent | MAS/MLIS student | absolute goober, mostly reposter
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Say 'Aaaaa'
#smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #frilledlizard #herpetology #sciart #biology #lizard #reptile #animal #cute #orange #aaaaa
#smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #frilledlizard #herpetology #sciart #biology #lizard #reptile #animal #cute #orange #aaaaa
August 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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one of the most infuriating things about the rollout of GenAI media (not going to call it art) is that we were introduced to slop from stolen datasets first, poisoning the well
so, potentially cool applications of the tech needs to be met with force so as to not encourage bad actors
so, potentially cool applications of the tech needs to be met with force so as to not encourage bad actors
With Dataland, his new cutting-edge LA gallery, Refik Anadol wants to show that AI art can be something radically different from prompt-engineered slop. Can he win over the skeptics? (Probably not on Bluesky, but please don’t pelt me with tomatoes, I didn’t even pay for my ticket)
A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
one of the most infuriating things about the rollout of GenAI media (not going to call it art) is that we were introduced to slop from stolen datasets first, poisoning the well
so, potentially cool applications of the tech needs to be met with force so as to not encourage bad actors
so, potentially cool applications of the tech needs to be met with force so as to not encourage bad actors
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"Mexico’s govt said on Thursday that at least 17 Mexican nationals had died either in ICE custody or while targeted during raids since last year."
"It ... raised the issue with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review the cases."
"It ... raised the issue with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review the cases."
July 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
"Mexico’s govt said on Thursday that at least 17 Mexican nationals had died either in ICE custody or while targeted during raids since last year."
"It ... raised the issue with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review the cases."
"It ... raised the issue with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review the cases."
Me on a chore day
July 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Me on a chore day
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Postcard from my collection titled “The Rivals”. Undated.
May 27, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Postcard from my collection titled “The Rivals”. Undated.
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i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.
May 27, 2026 at 12:11 AM
i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.
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When your field is not particularly large...
May 19, 2026 at 2:55 AM
When your field is not particularly large...
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May 5, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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If a governor cancels elections within 24 hours of being given permission to draw new districts to eliminate Black voting power, is that enough for a headline to call it "racist" or is it still "racially charged" and "racially tinged" and "what some suggest is racially motivated"
May 1, 2026 at 12:53 AM
If a governor cancels elections within 24 hours of being given permission to draw new districts to eliminate Black voting power, is that enough for a headline to call it "racist" or is it still "racially charged" and "racially tinged" and "what some suggest is racially motivated"
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“When I heard James say he was going to pick up some groceries, that was one thing, but when he told me he also wanted to do his laundry, I realized he was pushing himself way too hard,” said roommate Aaron Steiner
Overambitious Man Wants To Get 2 Things Done Today
AKRON, OH—Saying the expectations he had set for himself were completely unrealistic, friends of local man James Chao expressed skepticism this morning after the 25-year-old announced plans to get two...
theonion.com
May 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“When I heard James say he was going to pick up some groceries, that was one thing, but when he told me he also wanted to do his laundry, I realized he was pushing himself way too hard,” said roommate Aaron Steiner
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I am overwhelmed by the number of people who preordered a copy of WYRD.
@sasquatchgames.bsky.social made something really cool, and I'm so glad to see folks excited to get it in print!
Get yourself this RUNE inspired solo roguelike TTRPG today.
gilarpgs.com/products/wyrd
@sasquatchgames.bsky.social made something really cool, and I'm so glad to see folks excited to get it in print!
Get yourself this RUNE inspired solo roguelike TTRPG today.
gilarpgs.com/products/wyrd
WYRD
A solo roguelike fantasy TTRPG inspired by Elden Ring, Mordheim, Slay the Spire, Dragon Age: Origins, old-school D&D, and Warcry.
gilarpgs.com
May 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I am overwhelmed by the number of people who preordered a copy of WYRD.
@sasquatchgames.bsky.social made something really cool, and I'm so glad to see folks excited to get it in print!
Get yourself this RUNE inspired solo roguelike TTRPG today.
gilarpgs.com/products/wyrd
@sasquatchgames.bsky.social made something really cool, and I'm so glad to see folks excited to get it in print!
Get yourself this RUNE inspired solo roguelike TTRPG today.
gilarpgs.com/products/wyrd
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I want to be clear that I don’t have anything against any of their books. Publish all the books you want, but don’t market them by shitting on other people‘s work. In the midst of an unprecedented national book banning crisis, anyone calling any book unclean is carrying water for censors.
April 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I want to be clear that I don’t have anything against any of their books. Publish all the books you want, but don’t market them by shitting on other people‘s work. In the midst of an unprecedented national book banning crisis, anyone calling any book unclean is carrying water for censors.
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I had the tremendous pleasure of co-advising Burcu’s diss, which provided the foundation for this ✨ book. Bldg on yrs of ethnographic research, Burcu offers an important + timely cautionary tale abt technosolutionism’s inevitable disappointments + destruction, and the power of community knowledge
THRILLED to announce Smart as a City: A CBI Virtual Book Release Day Talk by @baykurt.bsky.social Burcu Baykurt on her tremendous book!! #mediastudies #aistudies #urbanstudies
Register today at
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May 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I had the tremendous pleasure of co-advising Burcu’s diss, which provided the foundation for this ✨ book. Bldg on yrs of ethnographic research, Burcu offers an important + timely cautionary tale abt technosolutionism’s inevitable disappointments + destruction, and the power of community knowledge
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I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.
April 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.
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It's been a hard week & this conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @chanda.blacksky.app really brought me back to remembering to move against despair. "It is easy to give in to despair, but now more than ever, we have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this" 🔥🔥🔥
I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.
“We Don’t Know Most Things”: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Curiosity and the Cosmos
"We have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
organizingmythoughts.org
April 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It's been a hard week & this conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @chanda.blacksky.app really brought me back to remembering to move against despair. "It is easy to give in to despair, but now more than ever, we have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this" 🔥🔥🔥
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The other day I saw this video about software to basically turn 3D prints into knitting patterns which is genuinely cool as hell and the sort of thing that reminds me not all technology is awful www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rld...
skCAD
YouTube video by Solidknit
www.youtube.com
April 24, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The other day I saw this video about software to basically turn 3D prints into knitting patterns which is genuinely cool as hell and the sort of thing that reminds me not all technology is awful www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rld...
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honestly the AI rot in crochet and knitting has been getting worse and worse, from the images to patterns that are just slop. there was a point where you could make sense of a clumsy or bad translation, but these days, no, they AI it, and make it incomprehensible
if you are at the dollar store and see a crochet kit in this packaging DO NOT get it!!! the pattern is completely unworkable and potentially AI-generated
April 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
honestly the AI rot in crochet and knitting has been getting worse and worse, from the images to patterns that are just slop. there was a point where you could make sense of a clumsy or bad translation, but these days, no, they AI it, and make it incomprehensible
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I haven't been to a crafters store, but the amount of AI cross stitch out there is ungodly. Meta apparently pixel tracked my google search for DMC patterns and now my insta feed is full of slop sponcon cross stitch. Etsy is also full of the stuff. Impossible to make. A total scam.
honestly the AI rot in crochet and knitting has been getting worse and worse, from the images to patterns that are just slop. there was a point where you could make sense of a clumsy or bad translation, but these days, no, they AI it, and make it incomprehensible
if you are at the dollar store and see a crochet kit in this packaging DO NOT get it!!! the pattern is completely unworkable and potentially AI-generated
April 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I haven't been to a crafters store, but the amount of AI cross stitch out there is ungodly. Meta apparently pixel tracked my google search for DMC patterns and now my insta feed is full of slop sponcon cross stitch. Etsy is also full of the stuff. Impossible to make. A total scam.
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I appreciate him putting this in the category of wars we have lost, at least.
Q: What do you say to the American people who question how much longer this will take? Obviously you know they're having higher gas prices
TRUMP: You're such a disgrace. Did you hear what I just said? How many years was Vietnam?
TRUMP: You're such a disgrace. Did you hear what I just said? How many years was Vietnam?
April 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I appreciate him putting this in the category of wars we have lost, at least.
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I’m shamelessly promoting my short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain! It’s been nominated for three 2026 Indieverse Awards, and one of the categories is #disability representation! Squee!
Find it here: books2read.com/spec-shorts #SpoonieAuthChat
Find it here: books2read.com/spec-shorts #SpoonieAuthChat
April 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I’m shamelessly promoting my short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain! It’s been nominated for three 2026 Indieverse Awards, and one of the categories is #disability representation! Squee!
Find it here: books2read.com/spec-shorts #SpoonieAuthChat
Find it here: books2read.com/spec-shorts #SpoonieAuthChat
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Was sent this and my goodness I wish I could opt out being subjected to bullshit AI-generated profile pieces.
I don't want to interfere with any *human's* first amendment rights, but AIs can get bent.
As with the bot version of me that Grammarly created, Silicon Valley has no concept of consent.
I don't want to interfere with any *human's* first amendment rights, but AIs can get bent.
As with the bot version of me that Grammarly created, Silicon Valley has no concept of consent.
Carl Bergstrom
Evolutionary biologist, data literacy crusader, corvid photographer. Carl Bergstrom is the professor who taught a generation to call bullshit on bad data.
yespress.io
April 24, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Was sent this and my goodness I wish I could opt out being subjected to bullshit AI-generated profile pieces.
I don't want to interfere with any *human's* first amendment rights, but AIs can get bent.
As with the bot version of me that Grammarly created, Silicon Valley has no concept of consent.
I don't want to interfere with any *human's* first amendment rights, but AIs can get bent.
As with the bot version of me that Grammarly created, Silicon Valley has no concept of consent.
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I know summer has started in England because I already had a second sighting of a shirtless white dude, which means the habitat has become suitable enough for their reemergence
April 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I know summer has started in England because I already had a second sighting of a shirtless white dude, which means the habitat has become suitable enough for their reemergence