Constant Reader & Co.
@constant-reader
⸻🇨🇦A dastardly collective of woke leftist pinko Antifa DEI BLM commie NeoMarxist subversives🇨🇦 ⸻We post what we sponge-up&twist-out into Fate's scrub bucket ⸻We ALWAYS fol⇄low back ⸻Working on a new project with AlliedSpin ⸻Dystopian value @ Utopian prices
Thinking// The complexities of large scale vote tampering in the US are actually insurmountable. Americans have no reason to think their elections are insecure &should be more concerned with being influenced by grifters, liars &disinformation before they cast their votes. Minds are hackable, too.
Thinking// Oddly, one classic Trumpism #Trump left out of his "insecure elections" speech was his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Fails to mention also that in both his terms he's sacked everyone tasked with securing elections &finding voter fraud- because they couldn't find any.
Thinking// Now Trump is just being tedious. Gives a speech that was only 10% new material. In the old days this would be called a summer rerun (instead of a summer replacement, alas). Refers to "declassified files"-containing, oddly, info everyone already knew (except for Trump, apparently).
#MAGA' s view of contemporary fine #art runs along the lines of #Trump 's view of Obamacare: they hate it instinctually &would love to do away with it, but they have nothing substantial to replace it with... except for ... freakin' #JonMcnaughton 's DOA propaganda canvases &Trump's super-hero NFTs!?
Approximately a million hours of video are uploaded to the Internet every day; that's in excess of 40,000 hours of video per hour; 90% of them are about cats; 90% of those are AI generated.
A mother says, "My child is in 2nd grade &can't read. Testing shows she needs reading intervention 5 days a week. I didn't learn to read until I was in 3rd grade because I had my own issues. How the [__] am I supposed to teach her how to read?" The mess is cumulative, from generations of neglect.
Watching// BLOW-UP (1966). The quintessential film impression of Swinging'60s London. Dir: #MichelangeloAntonioni! Cinematography: #CarloDiPalma! Script: #ToninoGuerra & #EdwardBond! Based on the story "Las babas del diablo" by #JulioCortázar! #DavidHemmings #VanessaRedgrave #SarahMills! 📽️ #cinema
Grumbling// We have been inundated just lately by unsolicited follows from O.F. performers &similar smutcontentcreators. Instant BLOCK, of course. But it's as annoying as hell &a waste of our time. We know times are tough, anythg for an extra buck-- but pls, don't spam on Bsky. Try Kick or Twitch.
Technique// Workers are busy today removing #Trump 's name from the #KennedyCenter wall, but do you wonder what that removal involves (besides a lot of money)? We sure did. See the fruits of our research below⬇️.
"Lions and tigers and bears, AI!" #LLM #AI #aFeatureNotAbug
It should be noted that the White House has a habit of issuing lists of performers at Trump events, to which those performers have said "Hell no" & "Nobody told us it was Trump gig". Invited guests who won't be at the fight: Adam Sandler, Jared Leto, Benjamin Netanyahu, Putin, Frederick Douglass...
Update//on 24 March 2026 we told you #JoeRogan wouldn't attend the "Idiocracy" style UFC fight on the White House lawn. Now he says he WILL attend to provide "colour", PERHAPS because of current contractually obligations wt UFC (see below) or for fear of being cut out of future lucrative UFC events.
#Scotland #Politics Belated congratulations to Iris Duane (Glasgow) & Q Manivannan (Edinburgh/Lothians E.) of the #trans #nonbinary communities, elected to Pàrlamaid na h-Alba (Scottish parliament) 8/May/2026. High irony: vile #transphobe #JKRowling is now represented at #Holyrood by Dr Manivannan.
Thinking// Being endorsed in the primaries by Trump doesn't necessarily mean that you're a loathsome scumbag-- but if you aren't, it was an oversight on Trump's part.
Congratulations! Last night Bluesky's own @debhaalandnm.bsky.social , a Pueblo woman, won the Democratic primary for governor of New Mexico. When she's elected this autumn, Deb will become the first Indigenous woman governor of a US state &only the 2nd Native American person to hold that office!
There should really be an abbreviation for the perpetually recurring trope "amidst calls for the PM's resignation". I think it's far past time the term "Labour" resigns from the Labour Party. Why can't Britain invent a real working-class party that isn't a front for fascists and white nationalists?
Lyrics: William Croft's "A Hymn on Divine Music" (lyricist unknown)
Thinking// Critiquing #music is a difficult endeavour, especially in the space of 300 characters. That's like only 5 haiku, or 1.5 limericks.
#fashion #genderbending #popculture #drag Following a train of thought// Men in wedding dresses. It was an '80s & early '90s thing. Pictured: frontman Sparky Phillips on the cover of In Sickness and in Health (1986); John Candy as "Eldona Valkenheiser" in the film Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Watching// House on Haunted Hill (1999), director #WilliamMalone. 📽️ A stylish horror-comedy, great Art Deco sets by production designer David F. Klassen. Cinematography: Rick Bota. Special makeup effects by Dick Smith, SFX by Greg Nicotero. Sound by Vince Garcia, sound editor Dane Davis. #cinema
No internet for the last two days. A router problem ultimately solved by a five minute call to customer service and turning off a buggy VPN update. (Don't assume a problem is bigger or smaller than feared or hoped). So now we're catching up on following back (because we ALWAYS fol⇄low back).
Random thoughts on tyranny. The love the sordid classes felt for Nero, which he never lost, kept him in power far longer than had he not had it, or had he lost it along the way; because the elites of Rome feared insurrection and riot in the streets more than they feared a murderous emperor.
...not how LLMs hallucinate; which is to say, the prompts required to make a LLM "hallucinate" in that way would have to be as elaborate as the end product and therefore no longer a case of genuine (spontaneous) AI hallucination but more like an LLM editing a human's game of the let's-pretend.
A source (Vice mag) tells us “Someone Built a Fake Wikipedia Where Every Article Is an AI Hallucination”. Correct. Search for “halupedia” but definitely an experience to be avoided. 1st, its terminally lame &pomo. 2nd, we don’t believe the concepts/writing are AI (it’s not like how LLMs hallucinate)
Need we point out that podcasts are rarely ~music, ~musical, ~musicky, ~music-like, ~musikalisch or even ~musikartig ?
Earlier we were mentioning YTube's music platform (//music.youtube.com) &that it has a gagillion songs that can listened to &shared on SM without copyright infringement. The problem is that its algorithm can't alwaysdifferenciate between music &other Ytube videos &also adds podcasts into the mix.
As you know, Bluesky was down earlier (the sky is falling!) which led to the stuff below in Constant Reader's private scrapbook ⇩
By the way, who IS this flatheaded bodine who has apparently 135,000 doofuses following him? I hate hating people I don't know the names of. It feels too much like a victimless crime.