“I am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration. When you read Current Affairs, you are going to be reading the thoughts of a human, and seeing the results of human artistry.”

#ai #noAI #magazine

“Why We’re Banning AI”

currentaffairs.org/news/why-we…

Imagine if more of our so-called #FOSS "leaders" had the backbone to stand up and lead like this.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #noAI

Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

2026-10-25 08:10:13

“I am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration. When you read Current Affairs, you are going to be reading the thoughts of a human, and seeing the results of human artistry.”

#ai #noAI #magazine

“Why We’re Banning AI”

currentaffairs.org/news/why-we…

Why We’re Banning AI

We urgently need to protect human thought and creativity. Our magazine is committing itself to remaining handmade. Ensure every publication you support does the same.

^{Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs)}

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.

I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting its flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.

this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,

“I used my fucking brain.”

About my editing sightlessscribbles.com/editing…

#AI #NoAI #LLM

"But here I am, with [this arsenal of smallpox and nerve gas] for the past [century]. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am."

We're at the stage of cultural decline where we just publicly announce our amorality.

I want to denounce him, ridicule him, but who has the rhetorical powers to execrate this individual more than he has just willingly done to himself?

spurint.org/journal/2026/07/ll…

@wchouser3 @joeress

#xfce #wayland #foss #noslop #noai #fuckai

CMYK Halftone Roses. Drawing halftones with a plotter is brutal on the pen up/down mechanism (so many dots!) but the results are very pleasing.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/large-pl…

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

this is how you all fucking sound

by stillvreni : bsky.app/profile/vreni.bsky.so…

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