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47. last week was MINI BEAST WEEK, also known as BEAST SUMMER, as i returned to @killthecomputer.com for a discussion of mrbeast and james patterson’s godawful book THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES and its absolutely inscrutable… well, everything

i think the coolest part about the final page of the mr beast book is how clear it is that they have zero respect for themselves or their readers

reading the book was an exercise in extreme self torture i swear to god nearly every single page had at least one “it’s not x, it’s y” and these triple emphasis beats like this

we read mr beasts new book. turns out its really bad!! listen to us yell about it with @worstpossible.world

new episode where we talk to @mharrisondupre.bsky.social and @jonchristian.net about a growing media slop empire populated by ai written articles and characters podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

I just finished the episode of @killthecomputer.com about BBM and hot damn, what a follow-up

Forgot to mention but I do a football podcast with @birdrespecter.bsky.social and @arif.bsky.social! Please listen

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@birdrespecter.bsky.social on Workers' Lit discussing media capture and how it relates to Gramsci's theory of hegemony/intellectuals. It sounds complicated, and it is, but we do our best to make it easy to understand! Listen now wherever you get your pods.

Hello - the first 30 minutes of my big Neopets documentary thing is up on patreon now if you're interested. It's 2 dolla a month I'm aiming to get the whole thing done by the end of the week unless i get sicker. www.patreon.com/c/10Bux

It's Gramsci Time On Monday, September 21, the Workers' Lit Podcast is once again joined by Caleb (@birdrespecter.bsky.social) of @killthecomputer.com and @60minutedrill.com, this time to discuss the life and writings of Antonio Gramsci. This is one Italian with NO brainrot!!

The long, dark, off-season is done. We're here to discuss our teams, and then talk about Ben Sasse's very stupid blog "America Needs Its Boys to Play Football". Free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back 😀

i don’t mean to be alarmist but we essentially do not have any privacy anymore in the US. we talk about it in depth here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

before i read up on what flock is capable of i knew it was scary, but once i read reporting on exactly what cops are able to see and what information its able to parse from very little input, it genuinely became terrifying that this is in every corner of the country

We're recording our September mailbag episode today! If you have questions or comments about a recent episode, something you'd like to ask us or let us know, hit our line at mail@killthecomputer.com or use the fancy form at www.KillTheComputer.com thanks! June & Caleb

i’ve been obsessed with the rightwing meltdown over jelly roll that’s been going on

new episode where we talk about the massive jelly roll and donald trump community split, and then dig into the horrifying surveillance state built by flock cameras

American Panopticon | Kill The Computer youtu.be/B8xyZfrmdGg

In this week’s Better Offline, @edzitron.com is joined by @arif.bsky.social of Wide Left and @birdrespecter.bsky.social of @killthecomputer.com to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never truly make art. linktr.ee/betteroffline

Preview: The Curious Case of Daejon Love Ft. Ed Zitron, Arif Hasan | Kill The Computer

God something to torture Caleb with in @killthecomputer.com and @worstpossible.world Beast Week 3. Turning Caleb from an Avid reader to never reading again.

new episode of kill the computer, we talk about the state of ai and data centers and why we think people hate them all so much

The Green Ape | Kill The Computer

Final reminder: we start picking teams next week, join links below the OP here

new episode of kill the computer where we talk about the communal costs we incur when local papers die, and the horrors that fill the void when they do podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

This week on @amityvilleville.bsky.social we watched the tour de force “Campfire Tales II: All Hallows Eve Horror” with our @killthecomputer.com homies @junlper.beer and @birdrespecter.bsky.social!!! Listen where love you get podcasts. This movie is such a banger.

hell yeah @birdrespecter.bsky.social @killthecomputer.com on that Parable of the Sower recommendation, been telling everyone this summer, it’s so unfortunately relatable to our time in history. 🙏🏼 so good. www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

Seems bad!

the boys from internet today, @eliotetc.bsky.social and @rickyftw.bsky.social, join us for an episode where we talk about the fruit love island ai slop, the ai video slop economy more broadly and how it is shaping the internet

the wild part about the fruit ai slop was how quickly it veered directly into racism and fetish content to get attention online theconversation.com/unethical-br...

The Hole Hog | Kill The Computer

new episode where we talk about google pulling down its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more

here's are two photos of the hole situation over a period of time. i know i have one at the holes largest before it got fixed but i haven't found that one yet. it eventually got so, so much worse