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They Live (1988)

like @kellypendergrast.bsky.social said, it's okay to be mean to robots: reallifemag.com/disassembly-...

“superintelligence” is realizing the neverending flow of new techy buzzwords is always more useful than making products

"AI's gonna kill us all" isn't an incoherent way to sell an AI product, it's a coherent way of selling the idea that AI is transformative. power is the product

"Click here to blink."

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a good definition of "slop" might be the degree to which any output can only be judged quantitatively "Friction/scale is coming to replace low/high or pop/rock hierarchies" www.its-her-factory.com/2026/08/slop...

AI as having a parasocial relationship to your own self and life

cultural consumption as to-do list. new albums, movies, tabs, even travel and going out as list-making and list-completing

Durkheimian functionalism is alive and well in Silicon Valley

took me too long to get to Colquhoun’s Narcissus in Bloom (2023). book tore itself apart, which was fitting given the thesis

everyone calling out any hint of slop seems great! but reducing that to AI-or-not would terribly miss the point people want to use AI as a yes/no proposition to side step the harder task of instead judging if something was made with only efficient and viral intent

AI is not advanced enough to create content more sloppified than human-made LinkedIn posts www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

nothing is less "real," authentic," or "in the moment" less than things marketed as such

entirety of Disclosure Day's plot rests on the assumption that everyone believes TV news and not anything online lol

while Pump dot Fun is extreme, i think its a good, if hyperbolic, example of what all gamified platforms are: metrics-saturated platforms like X and Insta but also here are about conforming to *and thus debasing yourself for* what the number counts encourage

"AI is a normal technology, meaning it can be adopted and analyzed using normal business principles; the abnormality is in how we talk about it" mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

dealing with "AI" is a bit like dealing with a pandemic — if there isn't social trust and a widely shared prosocial commitment to shared protocols of public health, then there is no protection for anyone, just paranoia and individualistic voodoo

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

the psychoanalytic distinction between "desire" and "drive" also seems useful to explaining that shift from "wanting to converse with friends and build relationships" to "compulsion to consume repetitively to sustain a machine-zone-like fugue state"

To call slop automated is not to say it is free of human labor — rather, this human labor is already embedded in automated operations, not only made machine-like and subsumed under the logic of algorithmic curation, but made machine-readable, dissolved into patterns and quantifiable reactions 5/

new danah 🎯 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... it's weird we say "social media" to describe broadcast-like influencer-filled platforms and not use it to describe group chats, discords, and other far more "social" places

i read a million takes about how cameras lost their relation to truth, and here's yet another news event filled with conspiracies about everything but the footage