My favorite part of the screening was overhearing a discussion between two Gen-X lesbians on the way out. "I enjoyed its raucous explicit spirit but he no longer has the je ne sais quoi that he did in the 90s" "susan, none of us have the je ne sais quoi of the 90s anymore"

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 2h ago

I enjoyed Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX primarily because it was amusing to go to the mall & see Olivia Wilde lube up a big pink dildo and stick it in Cooper Hoffman's ass.

I did not know this.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Really happy to be back at Honcho Campout again as an artist. Jules and I will be writing a writing workshop in the library.

Summer afternoon just made for yacht rock. Don’t usually fuck with nostalgia or white ppl music but the groove on this is immaculate. open.spotify.com/track/5QhikA...

Lowdown (2023 Remaster)

Boz Scaggs · Silk Degrees (2023 Remaster) · Song · 1976

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hey that's @mckenziewark.bsky.social announced today, cool! www.honchocampout.com/blog-content...

Respect to Bari because “failing upwards until your incompetence costs the richest people on earth billions of dollars” is a dream of every journalist

the odyssey is a realistic depiction of what it’s like when you’re trying to get home to your girl at 2 am on the mta. it’s always some shit

OMG these are all true.

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 6d ago

Angela Carter writes like she’s on the run from Horny Interpol

I’m subsidizing every billionaire who “lives” here. Much rather help the real ppl get groceries you fucking ghouls.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Many, many years back fore LLMs this was already the problem with writing. The struggle in and against the generic aspect of all language. Duras succeeded against like few others.

the onion ass headline

Israeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concerns

LONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept...

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Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

insidehighered.com

One of my favorite ideas in this episode & in @mckenziewark.bsky.social’s contribution to the e-flux issue is that escapes (real & virtual) from totalitarian supervision are as tactical as confrontations. Not being where you’re “supposed to be” - whether place, platform, or occupation - is radical.

Vectoralism, Vulgar Marxism, & General Intellects (Vandal Live @ e-flux Brooklyn)

with McKenzie Wark

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the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

Every tragedy a podcast, every podcast a tragedy.

“Power is for those who lack the courage to be beautiful.” —Constance Debré

Some contenders for my autofiction writing class in the fall

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Love and Money, Sex and Death

After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation ...

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Advice for academics

Noctambulate@noctambulate.bsky.social · 3d ago

The legendary kingpin Uncle Rich in Colson Whitehead’s COOL MACHINE divides his heists into those he does to meet obligations and those he does for sport: “A man builds his legacy. It accrues. And one day you have to hang your hat. Three money jobs and three personal jobs. Then I’m out.”

this guy gets it

CAPITALIS DEAD came out in Czech last year, apparently: oushop.osu.cz/kapital-je-m...

Kapitál je mrtvý. Je tohle horší?

Prodej a tvorba designu univerzitních předmětů, kompletní nabídka tištěných publikací OU, pečlivý výběr od dalších nakladatelů

oushop.osu.cz

My guess is that it'll take a while for the decisive applications of LLMs to emerge and they might not be where ppl think they are.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

In that classic janitor to delivery driver to adjunct professor to sex worker pipeline.

I just don't understand why people don't seem to enjoy the transcendent pleasure of crafting artisanal thoughts with your own brain.

just walked past an incredibly hot ~25yo blond himbo wearing a yellow tank top that says "who's your daddy" while he was in the middle of saying "heh... and so that's why i decided to get into acting" and i froze for a sec mouth agape like i was samantha jones walking into a vegas bachelor party

Just sayin

Beyoncé: Put A Ring On It

ALT: Beyoncé: Put A Ring On It

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Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5d ago

Have you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...

Hackers of the world unite

Raise your hand if you are a lit mag editor or reader who is very worried about the AI stuff the new Submittable CEO plans to try to force on us? That email introducing him yesterday is haunting me. We don't need or want AI anywhere near our submissions process.

If anyone is on posting2 I'm @Mckenzie there