GAI Debord

You merely adopted the psychosis. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Last week’s Nobel for optogenetics is already giving some sight back. Retinitis pigmentosa kills the eye’s light-detecting cells but leaves the nerve cells behind them intact. Researchers injected nerve cells with a gene for a light-sensitive protein. buff.ly/AGkscua #ShareGoodNewsToo

oh you mean the guy who lobbied aggressively against eliminating the tipped wage in DC has bad opinions?

I mean, you can't predict without also influencing outcome

Just got a spam job recruiting email signed with the name, "Lorna Goonery."

This is such a good way to put it

"we don't need fire, we just need a way to cook our food"

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Oh please do it I am begging you

From the same article, Thomas Moynihan summarizing Maya B. Kronic's and Amy Ireland's Cute Accelerationism This very much entails AI!

Is there a single thread gathering all the great DH books coming out this year? I keep on meaning to write them all down in one place and then get lost in the vagaries of life. Has someone centralized the stream of intelligent thoughts?

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

One more week to go – if you're in, or adjacent to DH and have been trying to wrap your head around AI and what it means for the field, send us your thoughts!

From the same article, Thomas Moynihan summarizing Maya B. Kronic's and Amy Ireland's Cute Accelerationism This very much entails AI!

Good thread breaking down the IPO. This econ stuff is mostly inscrutable to me

This just seems to be the best solution to reliance on closed models. And it also makes the comparison to what Aaron Swartz or other persecuted piraters did more clear—so when they invoked as a way to put down AI models we can say we don't want corporate control we want a training set commons

I really hope we get some new sci fi / cyberpunk stuff that incorporates the more interesting parts of how LLMs work. Not the sloppy chat bot stuff, but like the puppet master in ghost in the shell. Small AI hivemind stuff and stories about datacenter politics. Would be interesting.

Oh thank god

This whole thing just makes me think of my middle of the road NJ suburban parents who watch Fox News everyday but they also obsessively watch Food Network and while they are not averse to eating at chains 100% understand places like Cheesecake Factory are tacky as hell

Worth saying I don't 100% agree with him & I think he should know better. Workshops are not strictly an old idea and artists still make work this way or outsource their ideas to be fabricated by assistants. Part of my thinks he's being intentionally provocative as an art critic and historian

Primarily posting this because I know it will make people really mad lol www.instagram.com/p/De4hV13Dfb...

The 🐐, Alex "Everyone is a Girl Online" Quicho on AI: "She would rather people focus on taking the uncanny — “even horroresque” — aspects of AI-inflected, unnatural imagery as “material” for artistic production and inquiry." In this piece by Thomas Moynihan on AI Art bigthink.com/history-soci...

The youngest to be shot was 11 years old. ELEVEN YEARS OLD. In 2026, in the United States of America, the leading cause of death for children is a bullet. The victims and families are in my prayers. But they are also in my actions. We must end gun violence.

AI can produce slop (fucking stop it!). It can also be an accessibility tool for non-native speakers and neurodivergent people. If you reject everything AI touches without reckoning with that, you should know how privileged and exclusionary you come across.

I'm sorry what

I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

The ideal service industry employee

It's crazy to just like... Admit this. He's not even hiding it. What the hell? Kink and ENM have both become an excuse for men to act abusively and it sucks

I've come to the conclusion it's fine to be anti-Photography right now

I'm going to a rave am I gonna wake up tomorrow to being dogpiled by all of Bluesky lol

Nice

I actually fully agree with everything here except for the fact that OP posted it as a thread and not as one post with five images so lemme just fix that real quick.

I do hope I can maintain a reputation as the weird AI art guy

bröther may i have some Joyce Carol Öats

Woo finally caught an Emily Bender block