everyone saying this is correct and i deeply apologize to craig finn and the state of minnesota

My blazing hot take is that The Onion, while still sporadically funny, has been nowhere near as consistent or anywhere near as legendary as it was at its height

Oh yeah, that overton window is SHIFTING

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I mean come on

"Lethem’s essay is an example of patchwriting , a way of weaving together various shards of other people’s words into a tonally cohesive whole." Sounds familiar!

The AI Fiction in the Wild paper is very good, but I'm not sure I agree that porn consumption is an inherently isolating experience. And to that end, neither is fiction generation. I think the discovery of new forms of narrative and desire can foster community arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748

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Preparing this session for the MLA in LA this January. Can't wait! @sethperlow.bsky.social @hannesbajohr.de

i think there is now a narrow lane for AI optimism now where optimism is strictly defined as "the good use cases for AI/ML stick around, some of the hyperscalers go tits up and the survivors become normal SaaS companies, and the handful of billionaires who manipulated the entire economy go to jail"

This is a good time to watch Matewan. It’s one of my favorite labor films of all time — a John Sayles classic. My late friend Haskell Wexler received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography for his camera work in this film.

Regrowing a mustache is so embarrassing. I just have this stupid dirt stache until it is fully grown back

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Happy Pub Day to We the Platform and many many thanks to my editor Philip and the Columbia UP team for supporting the book!

I somehow missed this happened! Will check out the results soon

academic journals who lock down their pdfs so you can't even highlight them are evil

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Funny how this happened almost 20 years ago!

Look, I enjoyed Disclosure Day, but what the hell?

All the excerpts here are from Kenneth Goldsmith's book Uncreative Writing which is also the name of the class he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania where students are *encouraged* to plagiarize

"Bernstein chooses to emphasize the workings of a machine rather than the sentiments of a human. In fact, the piece is what its title says it is: a transcription of everything lifted off a page with a correction tape from a manual typewriter."

"While traditional notions of writing are primarily focused on 'originality' and 'creativity,' the digital environment fosters new skill sets that include 'manipulation' and 'management' of the heaps of already existent and ever-increasing language"

All the excerpts here are from Kenneth Goldsmith's book Uncreative Writing which is also the name of the class he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania where students are *encouraged* to plagiarize

"Lethem’s essay is an example of patchwriting , a way of weaving together various shards of other people’s words into a tonally cohesive whole." Sounds familiar!

Funny how this happened almost 20 years ago!

Every time these chucklefucks say shit like this, you should be remembering Brianna Ghey's mom going around claiming her daughter "died twice" because of social media instead of once from transphobia

This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

I need an explainer for why the Birth Citizenship decision is actually a pyrrhic victory

Maya Man - StarPower The central work, StarQuest, is "a generative, software-based body of work...that explores the high-stakes world of youth competitive dance through the lens of AI-video models" was just acquired by the Walker Art Museum roulette.org/event/maya-m...

My dad (hardcore Trump supporter), replaced the massive American flag set in fixed to the front of the house with a version with a circle of stars instead? Should I be concerned

"Sex is an immutable ..." Nope.

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

I never finished the book, but Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It had a huge impact on how I think of this question. "Apps" as opposed to applications allow for much less interactivity and access. We're much more "locked in" when it comes to mobile design in contrast to desktop

"What follows is a permanent state of hyper-reality, where images are no longer tethered to a human maker yet exist within a self-sustaining visual ecology. It’s images made for and by machines, depicting a world no longer centered on us: machine aesthetics."

"The artificial no longer needs to mimic the human-made. It begins instead to mimic this amalgam of network-made and human-made imagery, until the distinction collapses entirely and the blurring becomes total"

"Supreme Court Halts Trump Push to End Birthright Citizenship" & other variations of this headline (that's NYT) are incorrect. Court (narrowly) said no. There is zero evidence that Trump administration will stop pushing, and lots of evidence that it will continue.

Still angry I let myself binge the first season of Sugar because I was curious about the "twist." What an absolute waste of time

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

GOD. What is with shows throwing in out-of-left-field twist completely incongruent with the rest of the story? Paradise as the sci-fi turducken was perfectly fine as an underground town show. No time travel needed. And Sugar - A DETECTIVE SHOW – is fucking aliens? COME ON

I don’t think we should burn down the internet because two assholes go around buying legislators

I think “social media is harmful” is maybe a more broadly acceptable way of saying “Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are very evil” but the latter is a much more accurate description of the problem

Do the people who say lay off Wancil feel good about themselves

How do they not get embarrassed

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

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