JA Westenberg<p>Literally nobody in Greenland wants these assholes (and yes this is real)</p>
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Christine Lemmer-Webber<p>It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.</p><p>This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" <a href="https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsocialist.org.uk/transmissi</span><span class="invisible">ons/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/</span></a></p>
tante<p>OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibli stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.</p><p><a href="https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-dis</span><span class="invisible">play-of-power/</span></a></p>
Hélène Cook 📷 :mastodon:<p>'It's a square world' - Berlin<br />'Innenhöfe' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FotoVorschlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FotoVorschlag</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Berlin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photographers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photographers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodonart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodonart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/urbanphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>urbanphotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>architecturephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fensterfreitag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fensterfreitag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WindowFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>windows</span></a> <br />📸©helene-cook.eu</p>
myrmepropagandist<p>Miyazaki is an artist, and frankly that man is melodramatic. It's goes with his particular brand of superlative talent & genius. So, while I agreed with his objections to AI, and enjoyed seeing the AI boys getting a thrashing, I assumed his comments about "insult to life" and "dead zombies" were hyperbolic. </p><p>It couldn't possibly be *that* bad, right?</p><p>Then I saw some of the animations in the "Ghibli Style" from AI. </p><p>They are an insult to life itself. Soulless, dead, animated corpses.</p>
nixCraft 🐧<p>Bill Gates says AI will replace doctors, teachers within 10 years — and claims humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’ <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-says-ai-replace-155228777.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-says</span><span class="invisible">-ai-replace-155228777.html</span></a> Maybe people should consider avoiding all Microsoft products, including games. If many of us don’t have jobs and social security is now seen as just a handout by some, how are we supposed to afford these products? We need to prioritize essentials like food, rent, and medicine over products. Be careful Bill what you wish for.</p>
tante<p><strong>Vulgar Display of Power</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Hayao Miyasaki</a> is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world around us. But also about the levels of cruelty that humanity can be capable of – and how there still are grace and love even under those conditions. Studio Ghibli’s work is distinct. In the level of quality over the years, in their very recognisable art style.</p><p>Hayao Miyasaki also is know for his reaction to a few technologists showing him something we’d call “AI” today to generate “creepy” moving figures:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc</a></p><p>His reaction to the proud developers showing an animation of a thing using its head to move forward claiming “Artificial intelligence could present us grotesque movements that we humans can’t imagine.” is very telling:</p><blockquote><p>“Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find it interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is. </p><p>I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”</p><p>Hayao Miyazaki</p></blockquote><p>He capped that off with a scathing remark about what had happened:</p><blockquote><p>“I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”</p><p>Hayao Miyazaki</p></blockquote><p>Now of course he wasn’t looking at modern “AI” systems like the ones Microsoft/OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. are trying (with little economic success) to sell. But his argument would apply just the same: “Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.” Or joy. Or love. Or hunger. Or longing. Or need. Or want. All the parts of us that define our humanity and our way of interacting with the world. The things that make us care, that push us towards doing something, finding something out. Saying something and hearing something.</p><p>For the longest time OpenAI’s systems would try to block people from generating images in the style of certain artists. This was obviously for copyright reasons, the didn’t want to get sued (even more than they already are). Which is something they just changed very explicitly. You can now easily generate stuff in the style of Studio Ghibli and Sam Altman made his avatar on X-The Nazi Network a ghiblified version of himself. </p><p>And I think that on one level David Gerard is right framing it as <a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/sam-altmans-studio-ghibli-memes-are-another-distraction-from-openais-money-troubles/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a distraction from their money problems</a>:</p><blockquote><p>This means OpenAI has to make more and more announcements so they look to the investors like they’re still cool and interesting. Any old garbage will do, like a <a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/17/openai-brings-you-statistically-average-literary-fiction/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">literary fiction writer bot</a> or something.</p><p>David Gerard</p></blockquote><p>But I do think it does go further. There is a reason they chose Studio Ghibli. Sure, its style is very cute, very distinct, but that is not the whole story. It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart. OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli <em>because</em> Miyazaki hates their approach.</p><p>It is a display of power: <em>You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we <strong>can</strong>.</em></p><p>Because we can. This is the idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_makes_right" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">might makes right</a>. The banner that every totalitarian and fascist government rallied under. OpenAI luckily is no government but their ideas, their thinking has influenced many current governments all over the planet. <em>“If we are not allowed to take everything we want without payment and against people’s will, we will never create the machine god to solve all our problems.”</em></p><p>OpenAI’s move is an attempt to see what the reaction to them explicitly, willingly, gleefully breaching another boundary, acting against the explicit and known will of the people they use their machines on. And many in the public seem to eat it up, turning their holiday pics into “Ghibli-style” images.</p><p>The scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder (who just <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">left his position at Yale University going to Toronto</a> in a very non-subtle reaction to growing Fascism in the US) write his book “<a href="https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">On Tyranny</a>” to give people 20 lessons about how to react to and resist tyrannical movements. The first rule is: “<em>Do not obey in advance.</em>“</p><p>This is what many are doing here. Submitting to this logic of injustice and domination in advance. Because it plays well on Instagram or because “it’s just pictures”. But this is submission to a logic of dominance by those who have power. It is a submission of democratic rights and understandings. It is a submission to a vulgar display of power.</p><p>And that is why the White House used that tech to [content warning about the following link: It’s a obscene display of violence] <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">illustrate their cruelty against migrants</a>. The cruelty is the point. But so are the other forms of violence displayed. </p> Liked it? Take a second to support tante on Patreon! <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.patreon.com/tante?utm_content=post_button&utm_medium=patron_button_and_widgets_plugin&utm_campaign=78367&utm_term=&utm_source=https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank"></a>This work is licensed under a <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/dominance/" target="_blank">#dominance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/fascism/" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/ghibli/" target="_blank">#ghibli</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/miyasaki/" target="_blank">#miyasaki</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/power/" target="_blank">#power</a></p>
Randahl Fink<p>Various Danish media write that US representatives have been going door-to-door in west Greenland to ask if anyone wanted a visit from the Vance’s. The mayor of Qeqqata said no. The director of Nuuk Art Museum said no. On and on, everyone said no.</p><p>Clearly there was a strong animosity against the Vance’s visiting. So by moving todays visit 1500 km north — that is 932 miles — to the remote and desolate US Pituffik Space Base, JD Vance made sure not to get egged by angry Greenlanders.</p>
Charlie Balogh<p>Brace yourself, Summer is coming.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imadethis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imadethis</span></a></p>
Free Software Foundation Europe<p>Say no to lock down devices, that are limiting our freedom to install apps, switch OSes, or use services outside the big tech walled gardens.</p><p>Say yes to Device Neutrality, that ensures we control our own hardware! 🛠️💻</p><p>📣 We are asking for the right to install any software on our devices 🏗️ <br />Your device, your choice! 💪</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeviceNeutrality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeviceNeutrality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a></p>
God :verified:<p>AOC and Bernie don’t need to pay people to attend their rallies Elon, because people actually like them.</p>
Elena Rossini ⁂<p>🚀 New on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheFutureIsFederated" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheFutureIsFederated</span></a> 👩🚀</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerTube</span></a>: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)</p><p><a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com/peertube-the-fediverses-decentralized-video-platform-part-2-creator-edition/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.elenarossini.com/peertube</span><span class="invisible">-the-fediverses-decentralized-video-platform-part-2-creator-edition/</span></a></p><p>My PeerTube account: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://makertube.net/accounts/elena" class="u-url mention">@<span>elena</span></a></span> </p><p>mentioning <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@Framasoft" class="u-url mention">@<span>Framasoft</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@peertube" class="u-url mention">@<span>peertube</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige" class="u-url mention">@<span>paige</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@srosset" class="u-url mention">@<span>srosset</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MakerTube" class="u-url mention">@<span>MakerTube</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blog</span></a></p>
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)<p>Overton politics</p>
McNadoMD<p>It’s fall 2020. People are dying left and right. Me and my staff all have PTSD. I watch a charge nurse rip a cop up one side and down the other because he won’t wear a goddamn mask. </p><p>Now ICE is wearing masks to hide from us all. Assholes wouldn’t mask up to save lives, but they’ll use them to hide from us while they kidnap people.</p>
It's FOSS<p>An iconic moment reimagined. 😜 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Tuta<p>Facebook is notoriously bad when it comes to data collection. 🫣</p><p>If you're still on the platform, check out how much of your data it collects 👉 <a href="https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebook-know-about-me" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebo</span><span class="invisible">ok-know-about-me</span></a></p><p>And if you've already ditched Facebook, what platforms are you using now? 🤔</p>
Piotr Walicki 📸 🦅<p>Red Kite (Milvus milvus, 🇩🇪 Rotmilan, 🇵🇱 kania ruda).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/raptors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>raptors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birdphotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birdsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdwatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birdwatching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/naturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>naturephotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vogelflausch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vogelflausch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ptaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ptaki</span></a></p>
MEActNOW<p>I can believe this 👇🏼😂</p>
Derò 🇨🇦<p>Comfy chair</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Auschwitz Memorial<p>28 March 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Leon Ramo, was born in Paris.</p><p>He arrived at <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Auschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auschwitz</span></a> on 23 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among the 892 people murdered in gas chambers immediately after selection.</p>
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