texting my nonbinary roommate to ask if i can put a metrocard vending machine in our living room

Metropolitan Transportation Authority@mta.info · 6h ago

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me in any conversation about anything lately:

contradictions: heightening

1980 - Ryuichi Sakamoto on arrangement and Haruomi Hosono on bass

Yoko Katori - Savanna Sunset (1980, Japanese Urban Mellow)

YouTube video by Portal Records

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i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.

great example of something the internet is good for (preserving a lost VHS instructional video for a Sharp word processor made by the creator of Lupin III)

Kenny Lauderdale@kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've uploaded a standard capture of this on Youtube. Preserving lost media is thankless work, but hoarding things is 10,000X worse. I bet someone out there really wanted this. youtu.be/Av6hVnr00bA

apparently Skrillex played like 4 of my friends’ tracks in his Dekmantel set. the homies are truly blowing up you love to see it

linkedin adding a Report AI Slop button is extremely funny as the platform that pioneered human slop (7,000 word essays from gary in marketing about teamwork and b2b sales)

it feels notable that the most recent example of what this tech wishes it was is the new Blade Runner movie, where its target audience is an artificial person with no human rights who spends his days as a disposable meat sack tasked with murdering his own kind.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

Today in luxury surveillance.

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

using ai could never replicate the pure whimsy and joy i felt making this image

vanoreo@vanoreo.bsky.social · 6d ago

the amount of time i've wasted on posts that didn't even do numbers is staggering but i still do it after all these years because its what makes me want to be alive

finally found a channel that helps with my Mandarin studies

mourning the humble jukebox, which has been reduced to this touch screen abomination (you need an app to use it)

there's an old abandoned video store in my neighborhood with faded posters for Batman Forever and White Chicks in the window that look like they've been untouched for 20+ years. and everytime i walk past it i start fantasizing about opening a video store.

i doubt i'm the first to note this, but the right losing their minds over Ms. Rachel is such a perfect mask-off moment because it reveals the same thing as the "debate" over Trans kids - the fact that some people view children as people, and others view them as their property.

yes, actually I do think AI-use/adoption is a fundamental declaration of what you value and what you don't and its really silly to believe that such declarations won't be noticed by those around you

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

in the latest episode of “Jan Can’t Be Normal” Jan goes to a birthday party and ends up explaining the homosexual fan canon of Gundam Wing to a random person at the bar

thanks for reading my articles, y’all 🫶 i want to continue covering the weirdest/coolest corners of the tech backlash / post-internet beat, but i need your support. please consider throwing me a few coins: ko-fi.com/janusrose v_nm0 - @ janusrose pic unrelated, but in another sense very related

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · last wk.

i went to a Luddite festival in NYC that was organized entirely off social media to prove you don’t need captive tech platforms (yes, including this one!) to hang out and have a good time. @404media.co 📵

- horrifying news event occurs - pissbrain CEO is given media platform, says something like "we could prevent this by implanting israeli drones directly in your anus" as tech journalist nods along - VCs read article, throw money at it - tech is rolled out against the wishes of any sane individual

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Some schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado will be equipped with drones this year that can go through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. The program follows a wave of high-tech campus security spending. https://wapo.st/4gVNMXn

tech companies are going to respond to the growing anti-tech backlash by re-branding their AI pervert glasses & wearable surveillance tech as "helping you get off your phone and back to real life" - please quote this post when it becomes clear that i was correct

communing with transient media entities

Another excellent piece from @janus.bsky.social . This shit gives me hope that we may yet still transcend the trap of slacktivism, that since Occupy we've learned our lessons about disseminating awareness without further entrenching power of the major tech platforms. www.404media.co/luddite-even...

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

404media.co

"must have experience using Canva" has to be the most insane job requirement for creative professionals. like telling someone you've been riding a bike for 15 yrs and their first question is "ok but do you have experience using training wheels"

already hearing some disappointment re: I Want Your Sex but i will see it anyway bc i will always love Araki even through his flop era

thanks for reading my articles, y’all 🫶 i want to continue covering the weirdest/coolest corners of the tech backlash / post-internet beat, but i need your support. please consider throwing me a few coins: ko-fi.com/janusrose v_nm0 - @ janusrose pic unrelated, but in another sense very related

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · last wk.

i went to a Luddite festival in NYC that was organized entirely off social media to prove you don’t need captive tech platforms (yes, including this one!) to hang out and have a good time. @404media.co 📵

“This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” attitude feels like a perfect encapsulation of the future we’re already living in: one where wealthy elites can afford privacy, while the rest of us are forced to live in a corporate surveillance panopticon.” www.ms.now/opinion/tayl...

Opinion | Taylor Swift was able to buy her privacy at MSG. What about the rest of us?

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

ms.now

it’s true, the puppet’s name is Gowanus and they are named after the Gowanus Canal where they found said garbage (this was one of the only times press were allowed to take photos)

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.

"I first met the Luddites a week earlier in Tompkins Square Park, for a press conference hosted by their official spokesperson: a puppet made of garbage." www.404media.co/luddite-even...

i went to a Luddite festival in NYC that was organized entirely off social media to prove you don’t need captive tech platforms (yes, including this one!) to hang out and have a good time. @404media.co 📵

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

404media.co

another one. this one i hate even more because it’s selling your cynicism back to you

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

LLM's especially appeal to middle managers because their entire job consists of transferring meaningless bullshit from above to below and vice versa. They don't realize it literally makes them obsolete, because if they were able to think that they wouldn't be middle managers.