"I regularly see lapses into what seems to me to be magical thinking about magical thinking - Panglossian assumptions that we will soon have sufficiently advanced technology which can reason its way out of the mess that humanity has gotten themselves into"

www.programmablemutter.com/p/should-agi...

"You have been made transparent, while the tools that did so have become entirely opaque."

— Do not complain about oppressive systems on the platforms that create them. Refuse. And commit. —

spikeartmagazine.com/articles/do-...

Adrian Dittmann b2b Marcel Dettmann

Mica Levi draws a map to their "place behind the place"

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

built in 70% aluminium, well known for its resonant qualities

"Part of the concern I have with Bluesky presently is thus that people are gaining the impression that it's a decentralized system in ways that it is not"

Unbiased and enlightening read from a ActivityPub contributor - dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

preemptively pissed off that I'll have to start seeing 'Best Albums of 2024' lists next week — a full month before the year ends

taking aim at cringe, via Evian Christ

donotresearch.substack.com/p/nate-sloan...

the X migration is only complete once @grrlmusic.bsky.social is ready to move the firehose of beauty-posting over here

what are we doing here Trip.com ?

I can only presume they are (or think they are) improving booking conversions by applying the slop filter to hotel photography?

"I could talk about the casual confidence of the crowd and what everyone is wearing and how the erstwhile unwritten ban on MAGA hats has been lifted... I could talk about how everyone seems to have expected someone else to bring the cocaine."

bless you Crumps

mcrumps.substack.com/p/burnout-po...

autuMMM…

bonkers and playful, before choosing to enter another realm entirely

youtu.be/6qMQvO9CCy0

Vords praising open source here? OK let's go

crying at the comments on dance music youtube. again