Cullen
@cullenstephenson.bsky.social
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"Men who lack control over their own lives reach out desperately to drag women down, to control their emotions, to make them feel weak and dominated"
Yup. I experienced this just this week w/a rogue commenter determined to take out his feelings of inadequacy on me. Who would want to empower this?
Yup. I experienced this just this week w/a rogue commenter determined to take out his feelings of inadequacy on me. Who would want to empower this?
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
jessasato.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:30 PM
"Men who lack control over their own lives reach out desperately to drag women down, to control their emotions, to make them feel weak and dominated"
Yup. I experienced this just this week w/a rogue commenter determined to take out his feelings of inadequacy on me. Who would want to empower this?
Yup. I experienced this just this week w/a rogue commenter determined to take out his feelings of inadequacy on me. Who would want to empower this?
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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote
exquisite corpse drawings with the 8yo, making things together is always time well spent
January 17, 2026 at 3:33 AM
exquisite corpse drawings with the 8yo, making things together is always time well spent
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I wrote an essay about platform complicity and other quiet kinds of self-loss: becoming legible, optimizable, successful while your inner compass goes quiet.
Don't get any on you
I am still what I meant to be
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I wrote an essay about platform complicity and other quiet kinds of self-loss: becoming legible, optimizable, successful while your inner compass goes quiet.
Love Berkeley! Incredible plants and pastries, explaining to my 8yo that the moon is not an alien spaceship and dolphins are not typically portrayed as alien gods after an interesting Lyft ride
January 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Love Berkeley! Incredible plants and pastries, explaining to my 8yo that the moon is not an alien spaceship and dolphins are not typically portrayed as alien gods after an interesting Lyft ride
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
My dog and I have this ritual where I'll hear her drinking too much water, and I'll think "I should stop her before she drinks too much." But I don't.
Then, without fail, she'll walk over to thank me for trusting her judgement and knowledge, then barf a little water on the floor.
Then, without fail, she'll walk over to thank me for trusting her judgement and knowledge, then barf a little water on the floor.
January 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
My dog and I have this ritual where I'll hear her drinking too much water, and I'll think "I should stop her before she drinks too much." But I don't.
Then, without fail, she'll walk over to thank me for trusting her judgement and knowledge, then barf a little water on the floor.
Then, without fail, she'll walk over to thank me for trusting her judgement and knowledge, then barf a little water on the floor.
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This is why MAGA come up with so many anti-American ideas like hostility to immigration and feminism. The fundamental premise that all people are created equal is anathema to the MAGA mind.
January 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is why MAGA come up with so many anti-American ideas like hostility to immigration and feminism. The fundamental premise that all people are created equal is anathema to the MAGA mind.
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I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.
January 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.
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Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
One thing I will say about AI, is that ever since they did that Tupac hologram show, nobody wants to go to concerts anymore. Everyone wants to stay at home, by themselves, looking at a hologram sing songs from 30 years ago.
January 5, 2026 at 5:00 AM
One thing I will say about AI, is that ever since they did that Tupac hologram show, nobody wants to go to concerts anymore. Everyone wants to stay at home, by themselves, looking at a hologram sing songs from 30 years ago.
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Merry Christmas from Chicago!
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Merry Christmas from Chicago!
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Howl, after Allen Ginsberg
for the AI-headed hipsters
jessicahullman.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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who fed it words, who watched it excrete words, who fed it excreted words again & again waiting, who ran the primitive nervous system with sloshing words & prayed & made words of excrement & finally brought it out to check the Time, & now mistake the words for heroes
(more from my Howl rewrite)
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(more from my Howl rewrite)
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September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
who fed it words, who watched it excrete words, who fed it excreted words again & again waiting, who ran the primitive nervous system with sloshing words & prayed & made words of excrement & finally brought it out to check the Time, & now mistake the words for heroes
(more from my Howl rewrite)
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(more from my Howl rewrite)
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
At the jazz show
Jam Band: Oh look, we got a new boat, a funky boat, with pink sails
Crowd: Yeah?
Band: And stripes, we’re sailing it down a river…
Crowd: So cool!
Band: Uh oh, the river's picking up speed... something’s around the bend… ? Is it... some Rapids!?!!
Crowd: Fuck yeah, some Rapids!
Jam Band: Oh look, we got a new boat, a funky boat, with pink sails
Crowd: Yeah?
Band: And stripes, we’re sailing it down a river…
Crowd: So cool!
Band: Uh oh, the river's picking up speed... something’s around the bend… ? Is it... some Rapids!?!!
Crowd: Fuck yeah, some Rapids!
September 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
At the jazz show
Jam Band: Oh look, we got a new boat, a funky boat, with pink sails
Crowd: Yeah?
Band: And stripes, we’re sailing it down a river…
Crowd: So cool!
Band: Uh oh, the river's picking up speed... something’s around the bend… ? Is it... some Rapids!?!!
Crowd: Fuck yeah, some Rapids!
Jam Band: Oh look, we got a new boat, a funky boat, with pink sails
Crowd: Yeah?
Band: And stripes, we’re sailing it down a river…
Crowd: So cool!
Band: Uh oh, the river's picking up speed... something’s around the bend… ? Is it... some Rapids!?!!
Crowd: Fuck yeah, some Rapids!
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I rewrote Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but for the AI-headed hipsters👇
"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,
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"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,
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September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I rewrote Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but for the AI-headed hipsters👇
"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,
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"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,
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Nick Drake voice:
Yeah it's a corn moon, Corn corn corn corn, Corn Moon
Yeah it's a corn moon, Corn corn corn corn, Corn Moon
September 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Nick Drake voice:
Yeah it's a corn moon, Corn corn corn corn, Corn Moon
Yeah it's a corn moon, Corn corn corn corn, Corn Moon