Daniel Rourke 🌪️
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Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching speculative AI • machinemachine.net
Avoiding Plur1bus spoilers for Xmas
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Avoiding Plur1bus spoilers for Xmas
That Christopher Anderson photoshoot is one of the best art projects of the 21st century. Just stunningly brilliant
The Vanity Fair photographer who disrupted Trumpworld’s polished image
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
That Christopher Anderson photoshoot is one of the best art projects of the 21st century. Just stunningly brilliant
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
I forgot everything about the 1st Avatar movie 18 seconds after I walked out of the theatre, and I don't intend to change that
With the release of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” it’s time to return to Pandora, the spectacularly detailed world invented by the director James Cameron. Here’s a guide to catch you up on the developments.
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’: What to Remember Before Seeing the New Movie
The newest chapter in the saga of the Na’vi people continues to build their highly detailed world. Here’s a guide to catch you up on the developments.
nyti.ms
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I forgot everything about the 1st Avatar movie 18 seconds after I walked out of the theatre, and I don't intend to change that
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
Thank god we can now express ourselves with these emojis
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank god we can now express ourselves with these emojis
This DVD box set just gave me a heart palpatation Mandela Effect moment
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This DVD box set just gave me a heart palpatation Mandela Effect moment
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The Render Ender
The Render Ender
Al Warburton on how generative AI has disrupted the simulation of light.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Render Ender
This bot is having a totally normal one in my DMS
December 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This bot is having a totally normal one in my DMS
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship
What were the best books you read/listened to in 2025? All genres open, fiction and non. I have a bunch of #Audible credits I need to spend.
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What were the best books you read/listened to in 2025? All genres open, fiction and non. I have a bunch of #Audible credits I need to spend.
I think this might be an entirely new genre of clickbait
Could Humans Ever Become Venomous? - Sciencing
Despite the abundance of toxic personalities in the world, humans can't produce actual venom, but we do have the underlying genetic framework.
www.sciencing.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I think this might be an entirely new genre of clickbait
LOL The Spectator. The album never ever went away
Bring back the album
Usually when my tweenage sons ask about relics from my 1990s adolescence – ‘What’s a landline?’ ‘What’s a phone book?’ – we’ll have a good laugh about these obsolete artefacts of the not-so-distant pa...
www.spectator.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
LOL The Spectator. The album never ever went away
The AI #Slopularity is upon us! Check out this AI generated 'article', with an AI generated author, about using poetry to jailbreak gen AI bots. The slop has seeped through the internet pipes, glooping out of the abandoned 'nunneryplumbingandheating.co.uk' in a haunted text citing the hauntological
Researchers show how fragile AI systems became when pushed with poetry—revealing bomb-making methods and breaking safety rails
Yet a small Italian lab just showed that verse can quietly bend powerful AI systems in dangerous directions. A team of researchers in Italy claims it
www.nunneryplumbingandheating.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The AI #Slopularity is upon us! Check out this AI generated 'article', with an AI generated author, about using poetry to jailbreak gen AI bots. The slop has seeped through the internet pipes, glooping out of the abandoned 'nunneryplumbingandheating.co.uk' in a haunted text citing the hauntological
The drama surrounding 'Your Party' says something fundamental about 'the Left' in the UK, especially during the Corbyn era: every ideal espoused of a collective Left is actually underpinned by a series of blinkered, singular visions. There can be no true plurality without compromise.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Your Party's 'historic' founding conference has descended into chaos on day on as one of its co-founders stages a boycott over claims of a "purge".
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The drama surrounding 'Your Party' says something fundamental about 'the Left' in the UK, especially during the Corbyn era: every ideal espoused of a collective Left is actually underpinned by a series of blinkered, singular visions. There can be no true plurality without compromise.
We don't talk enough about Chytrid fungus
Deadly fungus makes sick frogs jump far, possibly to find mates
Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may help the infected animals find mates and spread the fungus further
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We don't talk enough about Chytrid fungus
So #Plur1bus had an absolutely amazing opening episode, but since then had slowed to a crawl. It feels like a Twilight Zone episode stretched out over 9 episodes. Anyone else feeling cheated?
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So #Plur1bus had an absolutely amazing opening episode, but since then had slowed to a crawl. It feels like a Twilight Zone episode stretched out over 9 episodes. Anyone else feeling cheated?
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Dutch writer says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
The BBC has been plunged into a new row over its treatment of Donald Trump, after an academic accused it of censoring his remarks about alleged corruption by the US president.
Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from a flagship address he had been invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
This. This. This. This.
Hugging Face CEO says we're in an 'LLM bubble,' not an AI bubble | TechCrunch
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says all the attention is on LLMs, but smaller, specialized models will make sense in many use cases going forward.
techcrunch.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This. This. This. This.