Copyright is a tool that primarily serves corporate interests. If you're looking for an explanation of why piracy was punished in the 90s and permitted now, there you go.
胡子哥
@notsaved.bsky.social
technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating" paranom.asia
new ALGOFOLK blog post on Turkey's fortune-telling websites, coffee grounds reading apps, and chatbot diviners, by PhD candidate Yagmur Vik #algorithmicfolklore algofolk.substack.com/p/divining-a...
Divining algorithms
A short history of Turkey's coffee fortune-telling apps.
algofolk.substack.com
used Claude to reverse-engineer ChatGPT and now I have my own CrackGPT coding a whole Kimi from scratch which I will use to clone Gemini and download the entire Google so I can self-host the internet
to all academics posting on LinkedIn about being in the top 2% scientists of whatever Elsevier metrics: well done, I'm proud of you
we're living through the largest public demonstration of the 90/10 problem in history
Finally had the chance to write about the geoguessing phenomenon and people like @georainbolt.bsky.social who directly challenge, to the point of paroxysm, machines' ability to recognize places
Cute Accelerationism is the most important philosophical text of the early 2020s imho, even just for footnote n. 111
new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna.bsky.social on academic writing itself as a gothic practice www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Academic Meaning-Making as Gothic Practice: A Spell | Gothic Studies
The author uses the Gothic as both method and metaphor to examine academic meaning-making as an affective, haunted practice. Invoking the forces that interrupt, distort, and haunt thought as it become...
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Im so fucking hyped been waiting for years for this youtu.be/XgHTfwMq6tw?...
An Infamous Traffic Trailer
YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios
youtu.be
new ALGOpod episode with Ezequiel Soriano, featuring Milhouse memes, vaporwave, low-content publishing, and infrastructural vernaculars open.spotify.com/episode/2pmE...
ALGOpod #11: Ezequiel Soriano
Off Center · Episode
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I am honestly so done with "AI art" that is just like "I generated a bunch of images and you should look at them because they say something about what AI can do"
new guest post on AI山海经, The Deer Pipe Gooner God, and how Chinese no-fap culture inflected Italian Brainrot, by @dinobot.bsky.social algofolk.substack.com/p/deer-pipes...
Deer Pipes of Mountains and Seas
On the Chinese reception and reinvention of Italian Brainrot.
algofolk.substack.com
