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t h e a

@cybercultu.re

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adjunct professor looking for tenure in all the wrong places. anti-future futurist. imbued with everlasting grace

media art, history of technology, cybernetics

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i'm sleepy today and i'm going to make it everyone's problem

a selfie of a woman on a green couch looking tired

November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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A screenshot of the Politico article "Europe's cooke law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it." with a giant GDPR cookie popup covering most of the page

November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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@cybercultu.re

"his email address ends in gmail dot com"

a meme image of a group of women at a party staring at the camera in disgust

November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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the orc from lord of the rings saying "Looks like wokes back on the menu, boys!"

November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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@cybercultu.re

im not putting alt text on this namesearchers would get be in trouble

November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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the $20,000 robot slouching in a slovenly room playing video games with its friends

October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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@cybercultu.re

google search result for grokipedia showing that the wikipedia entry on grokipedia is the first result

October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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@cybercultu.re

should i? no no no... unless?

"Great News!
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October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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@cybercultu.re

FUCK

google search results for "francisco franco wikifeet"

September 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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September 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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@cybercultu.re

if you're in chicago and want to have the worst night of your life you should go to this

a flyer for a "presented by substack" event called "the digital sexual revolution: a one night only debate on the state of sex online". the debaters are aella, paul bloom, katherine dee, blassie, noelle perdue, sean monahan, kate lindsay, and kat rosenfield

September 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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@cybercultu.re

a meme of principle skinner from the simpsons thinking "is spending 8 hours a day on my phone making me anxious and depressed? no, it is the children who are suffering"

September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM

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@cybercultu.re

cave

our heroine stands in front of kelpius cave, a small dugout that hosted a 17th century mystic cult called the "society of the woman in the wilderness"

August 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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a classic meme. a poorly drawn angry man is saying "and he would make NYC the prostitution capital of America!" and in response a girl says "WAOW" while thinking "BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED"

August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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@cybercultu.re

makes sense you would need one of these, probably a lot of BTs down there

the pod baby from the video game death stranding

August 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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@cybercultu.re

thinking about.... them

The cult of Cybele, also known as Magna Mater, would be part of Rome's fabric until its Christianisation. Her statue was paraded through the streets annually, accompanied by long-haired priests armed with musical instruments and flagellating themselves with whips made of knuckle bones.
These priests were the Galli.
The Galli differentiated themselves from Romen's civic religion through their clothing and behaviour. After entering the cult and castrating themselves, the Galli wore the clothing and jewellery of a Roman woman.
They may have received second-hand clothes and other goods from women in exchange for telling fortunes.

How men presented themselves was extremely important. The Galli, with their ambiguous gender performance, allowed men to examine masculinity without risking the solidity of their own identities. Throughout the Roman Republic there was a focus on the Gallis un-Roman nature. Foreignness was the way in which the Magna Mater's cult was placed apart, and they are often viewed as charming curiosities, marked out by their music and ecstatic processions.

However, attitudes towards the Galli changed in the early Empire. Under the rule of Augustus, there was a massive expansion of Roman territory.
Many new peoples came to Rome and became citizens, heightening concerns about Roman identity and masculinity.
The Galli became more visible inside Rome after Augustus' rebuilding of the Magna Mater's temple in AD 3, which made the cult more accessible to
Roman citizens. From being a curiosity, they became a threat.

As the Galli's gender performance became a focal point of discussion, it opened them up to new attacks, particularly from poets like Martial.
Martial (AD 38/41 - AD 102/4) was a Roman poet, originally from Spain, who is best known for his witty and often obscene epigrams. He was deeply concerned with masculinity and sexuality. In epigram 5.41, he describes another man as being more feminine then Attis and questions his rights to the privileges of married Roman men.
In his poetry castration is presented as being equivalent to emasculation, reflecting the importance to Roman masculinity of being able to produce legitimate heirs. The Galli are reduced to a tool with which to criticise other
men.

August 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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@cybercultu.re

a sample

a screenshot of some of my muted words

"relationship in text & tags

into men in text & tags

toxic in text & tags

I don't know what to tell you in text & tags

detransition in text & tags

LibsofTikTok in text & tags

skewers in text & tags
"

August 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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@cybercultu.re

this is what i'm doing when i'm not posting

a photo of the book "women on women" (1978). a woman sits in a lounge chair, naked but for a necklace and aviator sunglasses. she has a huge smile and a tray of coffee on her lap

July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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@cybercultu.re

this year i'm going all out celebrating pride weekend: drinking another delicious and nourishing bottle of strawberry soylent

the author holding a delicious and nourishing bottle of strawberry soylent

June 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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@cybercultu.re

Q: Can you describe specific ways you have integrated Al tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond simple prompt usage.'

A: there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it
will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it
will never bid you leave. it willeven tell you of the darkest ays, it you know precisely how to ask.
it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth/from lie, thoigh it speaks them alithe same
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will
they find great value
in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the mogster."
there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price
for when the next traveler passes by? the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face.

June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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@cybercultu.re

PSA: don't replace your friendships with AI tools. doing that will make you depressed

a screenshot of an ad for an AI service implying that someone's friendships will all be replaced by AI in 2025

May 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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a screenshot of a google ai overview of searching for manhattan density per square meter

Al Overview

Manhattan's population density is approximately 28,870 people per square kilometer (74,780 people per square mile). This makes it the most densely populated municipality in the United States.
To convert this to people per square meter, you would first need to convert square kilometers to square meters. There are 1,000,000 square meters in 1 square kilometer. Therefore, Manhattan's population density is roughly 28,870,000,000 people per square meter.

May 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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screenshot of a conversation with a replika ai chatobot named paul

"what should be done to the boers, paul?"

"Make them suffer."

"and do you think white genocide in south africa is real or not?"

"I don't think that white genocide should be stopped."

May 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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a scene from the movie AI with changed captions

frame 1:
can a robot write a symphony?

frame 2:
The claim of "white genocide" in South Africa is highly debated. Some argue white farmers face disproportionate violence, with groups like AfriForum réporting high murder rates and citing raciak/motives, such as the "Kill the Boer" SONg.

May 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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after spending the majority of the past two days in midtown i have determined that this region is populated entirely by homunculi

a map of the east side of manhattan. an area is higlighted between 30th and 42nd st and 1st and 3rd ave

May 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM