As seen on FB, reminds me of @jomc.bsky.social's book: scontent.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-...

related to my last tweet: i had always wondered why authors from the wealthiest backgrounds seemed to be the most obsessed and strategic about landing major 250k+ book deals...

it's pretty much impossible for someone who makes six figures and up to understand how anyone gets by on half that or less. but that lower class includes most of this country! meanwhile virtually all art, journalism & culture is coming from a sheltered pov that only sometimes gestures at empathy

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Also, just to say, I learned abt this book this am from an article about a footballer who reads books: bombmagazine.org/articles/202... which weirdly reminded me of: www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/14/a... and that I recently enjoyed @jomc.bsky.social's Wrong Way: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

construction just got started next door to me and i'm finding it difficult to stay focused in my once (blissfully) quiet apartment. what should i do? i just ordered a white noise machine. are there any noise-canceling headphones that work on silent mode? (still appreciate recs even if they don't)..

New from me in the latest @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy on EZTV: once a “parallel universe to Hollywood” where even features could be made for $50, and its remarkably expansive video archive filmmakermagazine.com/130958-profi...

“What’s better than something or someone who anchors you to the present and makes you wish to experience minutes as minutes rather than seconds or hours?” @jomc.bsky.social jomc.substack.com/p/cutting-th...

Good mail today to receive this insanely beautiful book from @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social, with amazing observations on the stories inside from Guy Davenport, @jomc.bsky.social & @greatdismal.bsky.social

Some news from the Filmmaker Magazine newsletter (which is that I’m stepping down after 33 years)!

cutting through the noise jomc.substack.com/p/cutting-th...

this Point conversation with @jomc.bsky.social on Ballard & CONCRETE ISLAND is as close as you can get to having coffee with Joanne, by which i mean high praise thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/epis...

Third, the novel 'Wrong Way' by @jomc.bsky.social gives a wider view of how ppl who should know better do their best magical thinking to convince themselves otherwise, eg: "The car is driverless. She isn't driving exactly. She's part of the car. A seer is a car part"

In prep for Tesla's Austin few janky robotaxis + many teleoperators and other support humans launch, recommend 4 pubs: First, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social has a fair & new article. What Phantom Auto did in Sacramento a few years ago was reckless and huge DMV failure. www.wired.com/story/as-rob...

lol this particular don't-create-the-torment-nexus brought to you by @jomc.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Finally! 🙏🏽 Other Networks: a Radical Technology Sourcebook by @loriemerson.net with forward by @jomc.bsky.social arrived today! I couldn’t resist and ordered a copy for @aphid.org and me! ☺️ We can’t wait to share with our students! 📕

I’ve been reading and thinking about JG Ballard’s work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.

I’ve been reading and thinking about JG Ballard’s work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.

this Saturday at 4pm EST to celebrate the launch of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE a few friends, including @willwiles.bsky.social, @jomc.bsky.social , and @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social will join me to discuss "Horror in the Present Tense" on the Youtube

Tomorrow!! 💾🍃 quarterlyhappensquarterly.com

the most pathetic people on all of social media are the ones who try to project a cool and edgy image concurrent with an incredibly comfortable life working in ux/design/(whatever with a 200k+ salary)

Come join us at the Poetic Research Bureau next Wednesday in LA! We'll be talking to N. Katherine Hayles, Yasaman Sheri, and Tom Comitta on the subject of Mimicking Nature. May 28, 2025 at 7:30pm 2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd, 90057 quarterlyhappensquarterly.com

Come join us at the Poetic Research Bureau next Wednesday in LA! We'll be talking to N. Katherine Hayles, Yasaman Sheri, and Tom Comitta on the subject of Mimicking Nature. May 28, 2025 at 7:30pm 2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd, 90057 quarterlyhappensquarterly.com

yeah I’m familiar with the arguement, but it only really rings fully true if you buy into “death of the author” and ignore what Gibson himself says x.com/GreatDismal/...

whatever you are doing right now probably isn't as fun as watching Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Twists In The Cord (1994), a short documentary on the history of telecommunications told through interludes of cyber and phone sex archive.org/details/Twis...

a relief that AI friends will solve loneliness while definitely not being used to steer decision-making and worldview in any meaningful way

LA folks: I will be at the LA book festival on Sunday, in conversation with @jomc.bsky.social, Stephen Witt, and Sean West. I think you need a ticket for this one, but if you're around, come say hello www.tixr.com/groups/latim...

How many of these articles will the Times publish. Damn near every week they do another version of “Is this chatbot alive? No, but what if I want it to be?” Where’s the shame?

Just received my copy of OTHER NETWORKS A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK. Such an achievement by @loriemerson.net shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

I saw CURE (by the other Kurosawa) for the first time this week. And now every other horror film seems like it’s trying too hard in comparison. What are other good films that build tension out of simple (however implausible) premises?

Street finds its own uses for Waymo's mobile on-demand job/sex/etc board. Pics of notes reportedly found in Waymo robots in San Francisco. I remember when Craigslist was a weekly email of SF 'happenings' and now the SF happenings robot to you. Story at link: www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

Great Filmmaker Magazine newsletter today from @scottmacaulay.bsky.social on some of the unexpected ways tariffs will impact film production newsletters.filmmakermagazine.com

THE END OF THE WEST has won the Lukas Work-in-Progress book award. Totally thrilling and slightly anti-climactic, because you can't read it yet. But here's what the judges think. journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...

No one is better than @niedermeyer.online at showing up on a podcast to explain how Elon is even more insane than we realized. This time on @systemcrash.info!

am i…being microtargeted?

I get so frustrated with tech reporting these days but 404 Media continues to be excellent. Rn listening to today’s podcast where they clearly and thoroughly explain 23andme’s many fuckups right down to how the company might have prevented the 2023 hack www.404media.co/the-404-medi...

there's a vast chasm between the lifestyles of those on either cusp of what makes up the US middle class. which culture produced by members of the upper end (or above it) tends to elide www.nbcnews.com/business/per...

It's simply untrue that, compared to 2017 mass resistance, we are seeing mass quiescence. February '25 saw 2x as many protests as Feb '17. This data doesn't include Bernie 'fighting oligarchy' huge rallies, or the disruptions at GOP & Dem town halls. But there are differences 1/3

the world’s biggest loser, maybe the biggest loser in all of history

There really hasn’t been a response to Big Tech as galvanizing as artists against generative AI. Contrast this with say, Google in 2007 deciding to photograph essentially all streets in the world (general response: ok, weird, maybe useful, not cool that you’re photographing my house but whatevs)

it’s possible to not care if people (humans, readers) pirate my book—or even feel pleased they do, if anything; and, at the same time, express fury when corporations grab and grind the text up like scrap metal for their word-garbage generators

me, just now: who is this psycho right up behind me, making it impossible to parallel park *looked behind me* …of course.

What @jomc.bsky.social said: If you're interested in Facebook, but rather than "stories about how terrible office life was inside the genocide factory" you want to know about "the transition from carelessness to evil and the people who tried to stop it" then read Katherine Losse's "The Boy Kings".

Just in case this isn’t abundantly clear: this is what the right has always done. They create punishing, highly underfunded systems so that they can argue that government is inherently inefficient.

When I handed Christopher Priest my well-worn copy of The Affirmation—a decommissioned library book, well-worn even before it came my way—and told him how much the novel meant to me, he couldn’t have been kinder.

My dad told me he watched and liked V for Vendetta, evidentially picking up on a conversation we must have had in 2006. I got to tell him all about Alan Moore. “So he’s about your age, he’s pretty weird and a total genius and lives in England…” and dug up the copy of Watchmen I had at the house