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Analysis of the night
June 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Analysis of the night
This is headspinning and hilarious. Literally half of contemporary country's brand is "music they'd never play inside the Kennedy Center."
February 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is headspinning and hilarious. Literally half of contemporary country's brand is "music they'd never play inside the Kennedy Center."
The NY Times Westminster bloggers have gone completely off the leash and I can't look away
February 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The NY Times Westminster bloggers have gone completely off the leash and I can't look away
Throwing in with the true global leaders of science
January 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Throwing in with the true global leaders of science
Just thinking of this haberdashery choice for no particular reason today
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just thinking of this haberdashery choice for no particular reason today
All of LA is basically living inside the It's Fine meme right now
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
All of LA is basically living inside the It's Fine meme right now
Somehow on Christmas this ad seems even more soulless and misguided
December 26, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Somehow on Christmas this ad seems even more soulless and misguided
I love the NY Film Critics Circle for its single-minded devotion to a kind of accessible auteurism and also want to remind Oscar extrapolaters of the group's single-minded devotion to a kind of accessible auteurism
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 AM
I love the NY Film Critics Circle for its single-minded devotion to a kind of accessible auteurism and also want to remind Oscar extrapolaters of the group's single-minded devotion to a kind of accessible auteurism
We live in the upside-down
December 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
We live in the upside-down
This Pluto TV ad, in which they satirize earnest heartland spots ("we grow couch potatoes"), was low-key pretty great
February 12, 2024 at 2:09 AM
This Pluto TV ad, in which they satirize earnest heartland spots ("we grow couch potatoes"), was low-key pretty great
The Taylor Swift deepfake isn't just another celebrity tabloid story -- it's the beginning of a new era of tech-enabled political dehumanizations that is going to be our reality for a long time
New on Mind and Iron:
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New on Mind and Iron:
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February 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
The Taylor Swift deepfake isn't just another celebrity tabloid story -- it's the beginning of a new era of tech-enabled political dehumanizations that is going to be our reality for a long time
New on Mind and Iron:
mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-i...
New on Mind and Iron:
mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-i...
From high speed rail in our cities to AI Assistants in our pockets, 2024 could be a woozy, fateful year mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-i...
January 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
From high speed rail in our cities to AI Assistants in our pockets, 2024 could be a woozy, fateful year mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-i...
Totally normal behavior, why would you question it
October 4, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Totally normal behavior, why would you question it
Always have a moonshot division
September 1, 2023 at 12:20 AM
Always have a moonshot division
Brilliant demonstration of how AI literalism leads it (and us) astray
August 3, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Brilliant demonstration of how AI literalism leads it (and us) astray