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kevin mccauley
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Lonely cars & light. I hate AI

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kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · Oct 18
Update: my photo book WAITING FOR THE SUN TO COME DOWN is here! If you made it out to the pre-Luft event at Petersen Museum, you got an early look.
Pre-orders shipping very soon!

www.carrarabooks.com/store/p/wait...
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maaronweber.bsky.social
Gordon noooooo! 😅😅🥴

also lol @capturingthemachine.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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thembo.bsky.social
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
I hope every executive affiliated with OpenAI loses everything.
unusualwhales.bsky.social Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18d
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
capturingthemachine.com
Watch Rare Shades: Moonstone now:

(previously called Moonstone: Second Phase)

🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕

youtu.be/woL2wzourIM
Rare Shades: Moonstone
YouTube video by 000 Magazine
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September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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periperimayo.bsky.social
It cannot be stressed enough that AI "art" is the aesthetic of modern-day fascism
September 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
capturingthemachine.com
[Adam Sandler doing the voice]
August 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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This is the end of the premium edition of wheresyoured.at - my piece on GPT-5, but I wanted to make sure the conclusion was outside the paywall.
Yet what I’m left with in writing this is how wasteful all of this is. OpenAI, a company that has already incinerated upwards of $15 billion in the last two years, has chosen to create a less-efficient way of doing business as a means of eking out a modest-at-best improvement. In our own lives we’re continually pushed and pressured and punished if we get into debt, judged by our peers and our parents if we spend our money recklessly, and if we’re too reckless, we find ourselves less likely to receive anything from credit to housing. Companies like OpenAI live by a different set of standards. Sam Altman intends to lose more than $44 billion by the end of 2028, and graciously told CNBC he was “willing to run at a loss” for a long time, where he was treated like this was a smart, reasonable decision, rather than to rein in his spending habits and be more mindful. The ultra-rich are rewarded more for their errant spending habits than we are for any thriftiness or austerity measures we make, and none of us are afforded the level of grace that Sam Altman has been. “Has been” feels appropriate. ChatGPT-5 is an engineering nightmare, a phenomenally silly and desperate attempt to juice what remains of the dying innovation and excitement within the walls of OpenAI. It’s not November 2022 anymore, and, let’s be honest, there really hasn’t been anything exciting or interesting since GPT-4. There is nothing exciting happening at this company. As many as 700 million people a week allegedly use ChatGPT, but nobody can really say why, and OpenAI, despite their massive popularity, cannot seem to stop losing billions of dollars, and they cannot seem to explain why that’s necessary other than “this shit is really expensive, dude.” Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable? Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable? Look at GPT-5! This is the, if you believe the hype, the best-funded, best-resourced company in the world with the greatest mind at its helm, and this is the best he’s got - a Large Language Model That Chooses Which Large Language Model Will Answer Your Question. Gee fucking whiz Sam Altman, sounds dandy, and how much better is this you say? Oh you can’t really say? Fucking brilliant! Hey, does it do anything new? No? Oh what’s that, it’s actually our job to work that out for ourselves? Thanks man! Anyway, none of this will end well. Not even the boosters seem to be having fun anymore. Everybody’s just flailing about waiting for the end. Even Sam Altman seems tired of it all. I know I bloody well am.
August 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 24
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Trump's AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. It's a tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.
Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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creatinglightly.art
The other day the sun was hitting @capturingthemachine.com's book just right, so I had no option but to
July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
capturingthemachine.com
This pile of shit looks like there was a heckblende option that they didn’t spring for, so it came with black filler plastic instead
poorly built 2025 Nazi car
July 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
capturingthemachine.com
If you want to purchase a poster, you can still buy one and I will personally ship it to you (within USA).

I somehow managed the get the ink color pretty close basically from memory!

capturingthemachine.com/collections/...
Moonstone: Second Phase Poster
If you missed the event in Oklahoma City, you can still take home the poster.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
capturingthemachine.com
Last week we screened "Moonstone: Second Phase" for the national PCA event in OKC. Here are some pics from the event: lifeincolorfilms.com/moonstone-se...
July 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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hoonofthe.day
the tiny Puffalump-sized Porsche tractor is further proof that I need a Porsche tractor https://www.instagram.com/p/DI9ZSMDxviB/?img_index=1&igsh=ajltMGo0NTd6bjIz
April 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
capturingthemachine.com
thank you!!!
toasty.cx toasty (pronounced like that guy in mortal kombat) @toasty.cx · May 14
got @capturingthemachine.com's book today in the mail, it's got some real gorgeous shots in there, go get a copy!
a photo of the photobook Waiting For The Sun To Come Down by Kevin McCauley
July 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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rzooms.bsky.social
One year ago today, we published ‘We Deserve This’ by the incredible @victoriascott.bsky.social. It instantly became our top seller.

What does WDT mean to you? And if you still need one, use code BDAY20 for a 20% discount! www.carrarabooks.com/store/p/we-d...
June 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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niedermeyer.online
while this is all true, I remain in the #YesAllTeslas camp
"ALL TESLAS LOOK LIKE CYBERTRUCKS TO ME" with twin images of a triangular metal urinal
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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edzitron.com
Here's the latest ep of my Cool Zone Media/iHeartRadio show Better Offline. I'm joined in studio by @amorrow.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com @paris.nyc to talk about the AI bubble, AI 2027, and tech media's reckoning with the public.

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Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 04/09/2025 · 1h 25m
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April 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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theoscargoff.bsky.social
Jail for the people developing this, the people selling it, and each individual person who uses it.
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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smokyburnout.bsky.social
all this tariff talk has me thinking about

the Taraf
April 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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parsnip.bsky.social
a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 8
NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
capturingthemachine.com
how come no one told me the key for the Ioniq 5 is the remote from ‘Click’
Ioniq 5 key Click movie poster
April 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM