Pre-rave shot from Sirāt.

But broadband had other bad effects too. And social media. And oh no, my thought experiment has grown beyond my control 3/2

Of the various steps involved with the above, I think the one with the least value and most harm are smart phones (yes, like the one I'm using now). Society was better off when the internet was something we go to our computers to log onto rather than a phantasm looming over every moment. 2/2

Black Lives Matter was made possible by the internet allowing info to travel quickly, social media allowing activists to converge and broadcast, digital cameras instantly recording important moments, broadband allowing the sharing of those videos--and smart phones for trying these all together. 1/2

I want to make a joke about what the Purple Mafia should do, but that ends up sounding like... something I'm not saying. So I'll just say they should disinvite him from alumni events. ("Disinvite")

'Can the chatbot be social-engineered' is the new Turing Test

'Can the chatbot be social-engineered' is the new Turing Test

Anyway, love the John Wick movies, really wasn't looking forward to Chapter 4 after 3 needlessly prolonged it, but it actually ruled

Really, the post above bringing up John Wick is a weird non-sequitor. These boundary-pushing action films about breaking out of a corrupt system that won't let you be are the same as fascist AI aesthetics of regurgitated signifiers? Really?

This looks sick, but also I feel like the John Wick sequels, especially 2, already are 'what if gun-katta was visual art'

Franchise continuity is a scourge of contemporary film and pop culture writ large. Just write a new James Bond and define him as you go, you dinguses.

Sounds a lot like when Idaho's voters passed Medicaid expansion by ballot initiative, also in 2018, and the legislature has since been trying to kill it with means-testing. One-party states.