Rek Bell

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Kokorobot is a portmanteau of kokoro (heart, in Japanese) and robot to mean robot heart. It is meant to have a French pronunciation. It dates back to 2011, see the former logo[95.4 kB] for the website.

I, rek, live aboard the sailboat pino somewhere in the Salish Sea. See what books I'm reading right now, and what tools I'm using.

Website concepts

Above is the rough concept for the menu icons of kokorobot.ca. I sketched them on paper, photographed them with a shitty laptop camera and cleaned it up in Krita.

licenses

DO NOT resell or mint my work.

The license applies to all the documented projects, the projects themselves and their assets. The website source code is under the MIT License. The assets and text content is under the BY-NC-SA4.0 License.

politics

A short post to make it clear where I stand as a person, and with my work.

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The art produced on this website is all done by a human. Creative AI-generated content is hollow, it is a grotesque parody of what it is to be human.
The harms from AI are real, ongoing, and stem from corporations deploying automated systems with little thought about transparency, accountability and exploitative labor practices. "The algorithmification of society and the narratives used to make it appear inevitable serve specific interests, mostly profitable for and controlled by few actors. It is not AI in itself, but the utilitarian sophistication of optimisation mechanisms and the power structures behind them that profit from controlling all that we do, when and how we do it, our behaviours, and even ourselves."[Source].
The environmental impacts, which include ever-expanding demand for computing power, larger carbon footprints, and accelerated draining of natural resources, is overshadowed by its exciting(distracting) and seemingly infinite possibilities, like enhanced productivity and unlimited creativity(both myths).
And finally, the icing on this cake of nightmares is that AI is a threat to democracy because of its ceaseless flooding of the entire information ecosystem with garbage and misinformation, resulting in people having difficulty verifying what is true and what isn't.

I follow a plant-based diet. The treatment of animals ought to be done with respect and compassion, but as it stands today, it remains crude and barbaric. That humans have an absolute right to authority over all other animals is erroneous. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

I am committed to fighting normative violence, fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy in all of its forms. To undermine the capitalist structure and its abusive scripts about human worth in relation to work, productivity, and ownership. To subvert oppressive gender norms and put in question the binary. To actively unlearn biased and colonial thinking.

I am aggressively opposed to racism, sexism, homophobia, speciesism, transphobia, nationalism, ethnocentrism, religious fundamentalism, and oppressive and coercive power structures of all kinds.

Some of the wording borrowed from the fantastic Blood and Dust project.