I'm ofc against AI clones of dead people & think ppl who do this kind of stuff should go straight to jail BUT maybe one exception would be an AI Baudrillard who'd provide 24/7 commentary on whatever is happening rn

Weiterhin kein Spotify und auch sonst keine wesentlichen Veränderungen, neue Oneohtrix passt jetzt aber auch 👍

LLM einfach erklärt

starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow! for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time): you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok! check in daily at #acadecawriteathon

Long Thread Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel. Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben. Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.

Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport

Zurück in die 1950er Jahre: «Zum einen geht es … um die ‹Zersetzung der Moral›, zum anderen um die ‹Zersetzung der Leistungsfähigkeit›. Der zweite Argumentationsstrang zielt insbesondere auf die Comics, denn ...‹Comics erzeugen Bildidiotismus›.» filmundgeschichte.com/schmutz-und-...

Demnächst ihn Ihrem Feuilleton: Kulturstaatsminister Weimer sieht Moral der Jugend durch sogenannte 'Fantasyrollenspiele' gefährdet

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Lightning Bolt Slowdive Q And Not U Joanna Newsom Bowie

BORN TO IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON IS A FUCK Advance Em all 1998 I am Omelas Child 410,757,864,530 BROKEN UTOPIAS

Sollte ich vielleicht wirklich lesen, erinnere mich nämlich dunkel dass auch mein Großvater mütterlicherseits mal eine Brücke (wenngleich nicht in Stockholm) gebaut hat

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

serious question for the boosters as much as the haters! what to you are the 3 top defining visual cultural products (image or short form video) of the genAI/ SORA era? (extra credit: top 3 defining products of the era (spring '23 onward) made by human experts, human brains, human labor)

D&D disappointment. This hobbit-vampire encounter really wasn't very challenging. Low stakes.

Ich gehe davon aus, dass deutsche Zeitungen diesen immer gleichen Text inzwischen von ChatGPT schreiben lassen, alles andere wäre unverantwortliche Ressourcenverschwendung www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/woke...

Gibt's eigentlich schon einen guten Übersichtsartikel zu diesen reaktionären Griftern, wenn nicht schenk' ich Euch schon mal als Titel "Im Westend nichts Neues"

Taking HD photos of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, of C-Beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate just to dissolve them into data mush together with stolen art & CSAM to 'create' an even more hyperrealistic pic of buff Elon Musk steering a sports car in space

'the first time as transgressive satire, the second time as a fart joke'

I wrote about something that’s been bugging me for a long time: “hallucination” is the wrong metaphor for LLM error. Better to think about AI output, and its failure, as multiversal (because I know you love that stuff).

ChatGPT & Co als gesellschaftliches Phänomen vllt auch mehr von einer Kultur der hierarchischen Bürokratisierung her verstehen, der Prompt dann als Weisungsbefugnis 'für alle'

See, there's two kinds of people: Cat People (1942), and Cat People (1982)

Soon! (Vielleicht die erste Onlinetagung bei der ich nicht die Kamera ausschalten sollte wenn ich beim Zuhören nebenbei Warhammerminis bemale?)

Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league? There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets. Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Apart from this being gross AF we might also want to talk more about this culture and language of patriarchal sycophancy and bootlicking that pervades academia, and which in this sense already paved the way for ChatGPT to 'replace' central means of communication www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

Morning, everyone

Maybe the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the (still?) paradigmatic narrative of our age, clueless dudes thinking they're re-enchanting the world while they're just fatally confusing automation and magic

Oh. Mein Urgroßvater ist offensichtlich an einem Shitstorm gestorben. Big News.

I wrote a slightly insane essay on Zero Escape, failure & the fear of knowing for the arts & theory journal of my old uni #Gamestudies

"Dem Bildungsbürgertum kommt in der pauschalen Ablehnung von Soylent Green nicht der Gedanke, dass es weniger privilegierten Menschen Ernährung ermöglicht."

"What a terrible day to have eyes," said Toad.

inviting the neighborhood kids to check out my Baudriyard

she just like me fr fr

In a way, I'd even say that it's the same goal. When I watched Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" a while ago the one thing that struck me was how utterly narcissistic all of this was, Hitler gleefully basking in the attention of thousands of pick-mes vying for *his* attention

"You think I'm cringe? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the ironypilled. Look at us: Transes, Palestinians, SWs... blocklist-fodder. We'll all be banned before Singal is. And yet, 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. Where are you, doll? You're here! You're not on X, you're 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘, and you're ready to 𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏"

I don't work on narrative theory that often but every time I do, I end up re-watching La Jetée

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

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pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991

Ich werd' den nachdenklichen ZEIT-Artikel zu der Faschokommune eher nicht lesen aber es gibt ja auch andere Quellen wenn's euch interessiert (mich leider unfreiwillig weil ich mich mit historischen 'intentional communities' in den USA beschäftige) www.wired.com/story/whites...

seeking contributors for an edited volume

🎶 GEEZERS NEED ENLIGHTENMENT,

Maybe Nvidia could rename their GeForce cards series to "Hollerith", as a reference to the punched cards that IBM supplied to the NS regime for the German national census (i.e. genocide preparation)

"A lady who has her head surrounded with a wire cap, and her hair stuck full of metal pins, and who at the same time wears silk stockings, that is stands upon dry silk, is to all intents and purposes an electric conductor, insolated and prepared for collecting the fire from the atmosphere"*

"How Do Adventurers Die?" Source: QuestBusters, March 1988.

May have just discovered my favourite new artist, 95 yr old Inés van den Kieboom, not 100% sure though that she could be commissioned to do an RPG bestiary for us