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wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com
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Iāve been reading and thinking about JG Ballardās work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.
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This Saturday!! Only a few tickets left
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ali alkhatib
23 days ago
now listening to this
@techwontsave.us
episode with
@jomc.bsky.social
about autonomous vehicles and delivery robots, particularly relevant following the recent tragedy of a waymo taxi killing a locally beloved bodega cat
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Silicon Valley Doesnāt Know What Makes a Good City w/ Joanne McNeil ā Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss the proliferation of delivery bots and robotaxis and how they recycle disproven claims about how technology will improve transportation. Joanne McNeil ...
https://overcast.fm/+AAZpQBg7tAU
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New York Review of Architecture
23 days ago
āWith machines (however remotely assisted) where essential workers used to be, those who WFH are ever more shielded from strangers beneath their tax bracket.ā
@jomc.bsky.social
isnāt cuckoo for Coco bots in LARA no. 2.
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Jason Broccardo
24 days ago
@jomc.bsky.social
was just on āTech Won't Save Usā and part of the discussion was about the behavior of delivery robots like this
techwontsave.us/episode/299_...
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Silicon Valley Doesnāt Know What Makes a Good City w/ Joanne McNeil - Tech Wonāt Save Us
https://techwontsave.us/episode/299_silicon_valley_doesnt_know_what_makes_a_good_city_w_joanne_mcneil
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This Saturday!! Only a few tickets left
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-comes...
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25 days ago
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Dan Mitchell
30 days ago
One of the take away listening to this is how once again we don't think of people with disabilities, delivery robots tearing down the middle of the sidewalk
#disablityawareness
#robots
#ai
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Tech Wonāt Save Us
30 days ago
Silicon Valley wants to make cities more efficient by taking away anything that makes them enjoyable. This week
@jomc.bsky.social
joins
@parismarx.com
to discuss why robotaxis and delivery bots arenāt solving any real problems with transport and cities. Full ep:
techwontsave.us/episode/299_...
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Paris Marx
30 days ago
always such a pleasure to chat with
@jomc.bsky.social
, especially on subject like robotaxis, delivery robots, the labor behind it all, and what theyāre doing to neighborhoods. donāt miss our chat!
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What Comes After Social Media? Iām giving a talk at the Philosophical Research Society in LA on whatās changed since LURKING was published. Learn about the past and future of the web, and alternatives to corporate online community. Limited tickets. Nov 1st 5-7pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-comes...
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What Comes After Social Media? A Talk & Book Signing with Joanne McNeil
Join author Joanne McNeil for a presentation on the history of social media followed by a discussion on imagining new spaces online.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-comes-after-social-media-a-talk-book-signing-with-joanne-mcneil-tickets-1661480074629
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New York Review of Architecture
about 1 month ago
Joanne McNeil (
@jomc.bsky.social
) isnāt cuckoo for Coco bots.
nyra.nyc/waymo-money-waymo-problems
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My latest in
@filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
: a profile of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.) and their incredible efforts in bringing museum-quality archival processes to the public.
filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analo...
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Joanne McNeil on Digitizing VHS
Joanne McNeil on how Los Angelesās Whammy! is helping to preserve peopleās VHS archives.
https://filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analog-treasures-joanne-mcneil-on-digitizing-vhs/
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My latest in
@filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
: a profile of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.) and their incredible efforts in bringing museum-quality archival processes to the public.
filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analo...
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Joanne McNeil on Digitizing VHS
Joanne McNeil on how Los Angelesās Whammy! is helping to preserve peopleās VHS archives.
https://filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analog-treasures-joanne-mcneil-on-digitizing-vhs/
about 2 months ago
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John Berry
about 2 months ago
The "robotaxi" analog is a theme of the novel 'Wrong Way' by
@jomc.bsky.social
We also don't know if a person is connected by the magic of cheap telecommunications, like the Waymo teloperators in Manila, California, Arizona, and wherever else Waymo chooses to put them with no regulatory oversight.
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Karen Gregory
2 months ago
As seen on FB, reminds me of
@jomc.bsky.social
's book:
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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...
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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
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Julia Carrie Wong
3 months ago
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.
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āA million calls an hourā: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestiniansā phone calls on Microsoftās servers in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Karen Gregory
4 months ago
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...
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āWrong Wayā Takes the Shine Off the Self-Driving Car
Joanne McNeilās novel suggests that much of what we think of as technological progress is a new way to obscure human labor.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wrong-way-takes-the-shine-off-the-self-driving-car
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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)..
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New from me in the latest
@filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
on EZTV: once a āparallel universe to Hollywoodā where even features could be made for $50, and its remarkably expansive video archive
filmmakermagazine.com/130958-profi...
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Hollywood Underground: Joanne McNeil on EZTVās Inventive Body of Work - Filmmaker Magazine
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
https://filmmakermagazine.com/130958-profile-joanne-mcneil-eztv/
5 months ago
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Michael Sippey
5 months ago
āWhatās 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?ā
@jomc.bsky.social
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cutting through the noise
The thing Iām always looking forāin art, in life, in generalāis something that cuts through the noise.
https://jomc.substack.com/p/cutting-through-the-noise?triedRedirect=true
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Christopher Brown
5 months ago
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
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Scott Macaulay
5 months ago
Some news from the Filmmaker Magazine newsletter (which is that Iām stepping down after 33 years)!
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cutting through the noise
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Brendan C. Byrne
5 months ago
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...
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Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard - The Point Podcast
On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeilĀ about J.G. Ballardās Concrete Island.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the no...
https://thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episodes/17267322-selected-novels-joanne-mcneil-on-j-g-ballard
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John Berry
5 months ago
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"
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John Berry
5 months ago
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...
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Teslaās Robotaxis Are Rolling Out SoonāWith One Big Unanswered Question
Neither the US federal government nor the City of Austin will say how teleoperations, self-drivingās critical safety feature, will be used in the service launching in Austin in just a matter of days.
https://www.wired.com/story/as-robotaxi-rides-begin-we-still-dont-know-the-mystery-of-teslas-human-helpers/
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dorian
5 months ago
lol this particular don't-create-the-torment-nexus brought to you by
@jomc.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.
6 months ago
Finally! šš½ Other Networks: a Radical Technology Sourcebook by
@loriemerson.net
with forward by
@jomc.bsky.social
arrived today! I couldnāt resist and ordered a copy for
@aphid.org
and me! āŗļø We canāt wait to share with our students! š
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Iāve been reading and thinking about JG Ballardās work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.
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Iāve been reading and thinking about JG Ballardās work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Brendan C. Byrne
6 months ago
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
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Tomorrow!! š¾š
quarterlyhappensquarterly.com
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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)
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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
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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
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Tim Maughan
6 months ago
yeah Iām familiar with the arguement, but it only really rings fully true if you buy into ādeath of the authorā and ignore what Gibson himself says
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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...
7 months ago
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Erin Kissane
7 months ago
a relief that AI friends will solve loneliness while definitely not being used to steer decision-making and worldview in any meaningful way
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Brian Merchant
7 months ago
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...
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Zito
7 months ago
How many of these articles will the Times publish. Damn near every week they do another version of āIs this chatbot alive? No, but what if I want it to be?ā Whereās the shame?
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Just received my copy of OTHER NETWORKS A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK. Such an achievement by
@loriemerson.net
shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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I saw CURE (by the other Kurosawa) for the first time this week. And now every other horror film seems like itās trying too hard in comparison. What are other good films that build tension out of simple (however implausible) premises?
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John Berry
7 months ago
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...
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Brian Merchant
8 months ago
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:
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Flyover Country
What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/flyover-country
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Great Filmmaker Magazine newsletter today from
@scottmacaulay.bsky.social
on some of the unexpected ways tariffs will impact film production
newsletters.filmmakermagazine.com
8 months ago
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Susie Cagle
8 months ago
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...
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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
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8 months ago
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am iā¦being microtargeted?
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I get so frustrated with tech reporting these days but 404 Media continues to be excellent. Rn listening to todayās podcast where they clearly and thoroughly explain 23andmeās many fuckups right down to how the company might have prevented the 2023 hack
www.404media.co/the-404-medi...
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The 404 Media Podcast
Come hear us talk about the stories we published this week, and gain exclusive access to bonus episodes by subscribing.
https://www.404media.co/the-404-media-podcast/
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