'The Odyssey' is great btw. Would die for Sam Morton. Love to be on a sofa with a boozy drink & occasionally turn to my sofa-mate and tut 'Men :('. Love Matt Damon having feelings / killing sprees in Europe. Appreciate context etc but calling the palace dudes “the suitors” felt very evil boy band.

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(strong endorse for tag-teaming 'Backrooms', 'There Is No Anti-Mimetics Division' and a healthy dose of magnesium glycinate for a good and exciting weekend of sleep phasing)

(no-one likes him! no-one likes him!!!!! if you collected all of the 'fuck u wes streeting' placards from the past few years of various flavours of pride marches in the UK, you'd could build the walls, floors and ceiling for decent-size museum of abject shame)

(sincerely enjoyed Devil Wears Prada 2; fully on board for sharp commentary on late capitalism and a free media; would die for Emily Blunt; as many films as possible with Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci as [essentially] life partners pls)

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I think I may have cracked it

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

(mediating the horrors by writing a guest lecture on infrastructure fiction bringing together the Butlerian Jihad, Marf Summers, 'A Memory Called Empire' [ @memilies.bsky.social ], Chris Foss, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 's Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies, and more) bsky.app/profile/aime...

Aimee Witteman@aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 2y ago

@rewiringamerica.bsky.social has been organizing “front porch ribbon cuttings” across the country with homeowners, to celebrate new electric appliance purchases made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. They’re so joyful. This is yesterday in Philly. #electrifyeverything ⚡️ ⚡️🔌💡

me: "AI" as a public or public-facing technology is primarily oriented toward the performance of plausibility and the post hoc rationalization/justification of a priori assumptions on the part of the user or audience. cs people: nuh uh!!!

nitasha tiku@nitasha.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

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One of the key phrases that is central to disability politics is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, and as an exhibition that firmly aimed to place disabled culture and identity at its core, it was...

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Valentine's Day is in 4 days time...👀 🛩️

Dan/iel Mudford@danmud.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I love that you can get a 1/48 scale model kit of The Ground.

(begging that perimenopausal folx / trans folx are just given a box filled with hormone-infused soil to bury ourselves in for the duration, like Dracula in his ocean crossing to Whitby)

And 'The Bone Temple' is even better again; more unsettling but/and more measured; first time in an age I've been in a cinema where the audience has spontaneously applauded during the film (and again at the end).

Georgina Voss@gsvoss.bsky.social · last yr.

In an extremely specific way, '28 Years Later' feels like a sister-piece to 'Isles of Wonder'

Bought a metronome.

And may I suggest also, Chapter 5 of 'Systems Ultra' (Verso) on payment processors and the adult industry? :)

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you watched the first episode of the new season of Industry may I suggest you also watch the Wirecard documentary on Netflix? No reason!

(friends in Toronto, NY, Vancouver, N Carolina - everything is bad *but* Wet Mess is coming to yr cities & I cannot recommend their show enough; astonishing, filthy, life-affirming. Think I've seen them perform 4 [?] times on the past few years and they are 🔥 💦 👑 ) www.instagram.com/p/DTGWaucDfA-/

The 20mm Oerlikon cannon was a deadly weapon in the right hands. It also made a fantastic climbing frame for cats, as Pussy and Mickey are demonstrating on Polish merchant ship SS Kordecki off Normandy, summer 1944. 📷 IWM HU 128285 🧵10/17

anyone know of any good papers on how the vocal tone/inflection of the ChatGPT voice interface was/is trained?

(every Christmas card handwritten in my illegible, Guy-Fawkes-after-torture scrawl is a poke in the eye against the frictionless perfection of AI!!)

Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway. Rosencrantz: What? Guildenstern: England. Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

late to the game (literally) but having a very nice time with Hades II

And whilst I'm here! If you're thinking of buying SYSTEMS ULTRA as a festive gift (neon cover also doubles as SAD lamp), I'd be happy to mail you a set of bookmarks and holographic stickers to go along with it - please get in touch [1/4]

Georgina Voss@gsvoss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Systems Ultra

Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on code...

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

delicious writing from @gsvoss.bsky.social about undelicious food photography slop

胡子哥@notsaved.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Summer arrived and, finally, unhappily, AI images of food began to bloom in the wild, their tells lurid and unmistakeable. I regretted ever wishing for their presence." www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...