steph maj swanson

🧵: I discovered this woman, who I call Loab, in April. The AI reproduced her more easily than most celebrities. Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image she touches. CW: Take a seat. This is a true horror story, and veers sharply macabre.

Loab me perturba

🧵1/1 The notion that a world model emerges within LLMs appears to have been unequivocally destroyed in this paper. It also seems to align very much with @kenneth0stanley’s Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis, and his argument that “greatness cannot be planned”.

pay day in sweden! please help out a bit more with my gofundme (link in qrt or in bio) if you are able 🥺 what ive given is already going to make a huge! difference. but im still not fully in the black yet

Help fund Vera’s surgery - she is a dear friend, collaborator, and wonderful person!

I wouldnt do this if it wasnt so very important to me. I have done all within my ability already, and it took me most of the way (with the amazing help of the people closest to me). But for the last stretch, I need your help 💕

Here's a collection of kind responses to my book. Finishing it, very nearly finished me. Reaching readers, of course, is even more challenging. So heartfelt thanks: 🙏 @SanktMaxTCI @neilturkewitz @supercomposite @dr_qfe @creativeapps @skeuomorphology @MrPrudence @motorhueso

Thanks to @joemuggs @Bandcamp daily.bandcamp.com/best-electroni…

From Bandcamp Daily’s write-up of The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp in June @STEMcellmusic

There is no such thing as AI. What masquerades as it is, in fact, a self-compounding machinic instantiation of the logics of Capital. Long read for the weekend: creativeapplications.net/theory/predict…

Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders and main author Eryk Salvaggio in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ar…

Was awarded a grant today for a short film I’m directing. It’s about two people with an erotic fixation on the invisible algorithms inside cameras. Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project. That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep.

Tired: people trying to bring back SydneyBing Wired: people trying to summon Loab

I always make Loab the Divine Feminine in my multi-verse. She should be in more people's pantheons, imo. She's dope and this could be her moment.

the LLMs know about Loab now. sorry guys

where my time shamans at

Caught By The Tides by Jia Zhangke, 2024

The biggest scandal in AI energy right now deserves to be xAI's data center running 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xa…

Sometimes the necessary text is written at the necessary time. “Predictive Capital” by @atomless is one such book.

Los Angeles explodes into dozens of live streams, all capturing reality more accurately than any account containing the word ‘News’. Where are the cameras now besides ours?