Mason Hershenow
@mhershenow.bsky.social
Photographer, educator, institutional critic.
Host of Meaning What, a podcast about art and culture.
https://www.liinks.co/mhershenow/
Host of Meaning What, a podcast about art and culture.
https://www.liinks.co/mhershenow/
Education administration professionals will hand you a four-page packet and call it a “one pager”.
February 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Education administration professionals will hand you a four-page packet and call it a “one pager”.
Reposted by Mason Hershenow
to all who celebrate
February 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
to all who celebrate
February 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“My art isn’t political” is just a quicker way of saying “I don’t think critically about the things I make or do, have no understanding of the history of my medium and my place in it, and I’m too lazy to be bothered with correcting either of those personal failings.”
February 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“My art isn’t political” is just a quicker way of saying “I don’t think critically about the things I make or do, have no understanding of the history of my medium and my place in it, and I’m too lazy to be bothered with correcting either of those personal failings.”
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It should be obvious at this point that the people pushing AI on you hold you in contempt and think that you're a mindless drone.
You cannot run your own life and need them to do everything for you. You only deserve meaningless slop, you don’t even get to have your own thoughts.
You cannot run your own life and need them to do everything for you. You only deserve meaningless slop, you don’t even get to have your own thoughts.
February 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It should be obvious at this point that the people pushing AI on you hold you in contempt and think that you're a mindless drone.
You cannot run your own life and need them to do everything for you. You only deserve meaningless slop, you don’t even get to have your own thoughts.
You cannot run your own life and need them to do everything for you. You only deserve meaningless slop, you don’t even get to have your own thoughts.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This weeks article is available now over on our Substack!
February 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s all just so fucking stupid.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s all just so fucking stupid.
Why would you want this? That 10 percent is where all of your new favorite things are hiding.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Why would you want this? That 10 percent is where all of your new favorite things are hiding.
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Ralph Gibson (b. 1939)
"The Somnambulist"series, untitled #3; ca. 1970
#Photography #RalphGibson #Gibson #hand #door
"The Somnambulist"series, untitled #3; ca. 1970
#Photography #RalphGibson #Gibson #hand #door
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ralph Gibson (b. 1939)
"The Somnambulist"series, untitled #3; ca. 1970
#Photography #RalphGibson #Gibson #hand #door
"The Somnambulist"series, untitled #3; ca. 1970
#Photography #RalphGibson #Gibson #hand #door
Might start doing stuff on Substack. For now, here’s a poem I wrote in 2019: open.substack.com/pub/mhershen...
Inbox | Substack
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Might start doing stuff on Substack. For now, here’s a poem I wrote in 2019: open.substack.com/pub/mhershen...
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New episode! Mason and Sean discuss the social landscape for artists and creatives going into 2025.
It’s a mixed bag, but Gen Z is buying minidiscs so it can’t be all bad.
Listen now: meaningwhat.com/site/new-yea...
It’s a mixed bag, but Gen Z is buying minidiscs so it can’t be all bad.
Listen now: meaningwhat.com/site/new-yea...
Meaning What: New Year Spectacular!
A new year has dawned, and with it a fresh batch of hopes and horrors. This week, Mason and Sean discuss what the creative landscape looks like for 2025. Things may be bleak now, but hope rises with e...
meaningwhat.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New episode! Mason and Sean discuss the social landscape for artists and creatives going into 2025.
It’s a mixed bag, but Gen Z is buying minidiscs so it can’t be all bad.
Listen now: meaningwhat.com/site/new-yea...
It’s a mixed bag, but Gen Z is buying minidiscs so it can’t be all bad.
Listen now: meaningwhat.com/site/new-yea...
Misery abounds, but humanity still creates beautiful things sometimes.
January 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Misery abounds, but humanity still creates beautiful things sometimes.
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The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
Really good system we’ve got here. Truly stellar.
Special Counsel report: The incoming president of the United States would have been convicted of violent crimes against the Constitution if his case had been brought in a timelier manner.
January 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Really good system we’ve got here. Truly stellar.
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one lesson from this should be that leveling mountains of praise on an author or creator, rather than their work, is risky and potentially toxic. Worth noting that the article starts by discussing the way fans used to throw themselves at Neil. His degeneration wasn't just from internal factors.
I don’t think that coming up with lists of “good” authors helps anyone. on a very basic level: you have no way of knowing if that’s true about anyone.
January 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
one lesson from this should be that leveling mountains of praise on an author or creator, rather than their work, is risky and potentially toxic. Worth noting that the article starts by discussing the way fans used to throw themselves at Neil. His degeneration wasn't just from internal factors.
I host a podcast called Meaning What, where my cohost Sean Ang and I discuss art and culture. It can be found everywhere you can find podcasts, and you should give a shot.
January 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I host a podcast called Meaning What, where my cohost Sean Ang and I discuss art and culture. It can be found everywhere you can find podcasts, and you should give a shot.
Futility by Morgan Robertson is not a good book, but I do think Titanic would have been a much better movie if Leonardo DiCaprio fought a polar bear in the middle of it.
January 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Futility by Morgan Robertson is not a good book, but I do think Titanic would have been a much better movie if Leonardo DiCaprio fought a polar bear in the middle of it.
Dog Day Afternoon misremembered.
January 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Dog Day Afternoon misremembered.