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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

Spotted in Oakland

Wrong Way street sign with a crossed-out swastika

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 5d

An astonishing essay by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

“Any art that excludes the irreparable excludes the possibility of genuine affirmation, as I’m trying to articulate it here; such art can only ever be propaganda for life, which can’t offer us any help at all.”

Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 5d

‘When I was a 14-year-old gay kid in the American South and pulled Baldwin’s novel off a bookstore shelf, it radically reoriented my relationship to dignity. The more I’ve read and taught the novel, the harder I’ve found this to explain.’

— @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

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Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell

On the place of affirmation in art

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 21

https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/

#predictivecapital

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Austerity, AI, and 21st-century genocide are manoeuvres in the manifold but homogeneous operations of Predictive Capital -as articulated in this excerpt from the Dispossession & Disappearance chapter at the end of section 1 of my book Predictive Capital […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

“Al is an austerity-machine”,” McQuillan writes —a formulation that names precisely the
operation of next-token prediction under Predictive Capital. McQuillan ig right, to
understand so-called ‘Al' we must understand 21st-century capitalist austerity.
Furthermore, to fully understand the ever deepening economic austerity, we must also
understand 21st-century genocide. Not only do thay follow the same necropelitical logics,
they are manoeuvres in a single project. As with all austerity regimes, the logic is not
merely economic but disciplinary, punishing, and selective. Here, as ever, Capital functions
as pharmakon —administering the poison, then selling the cure. What could be more
‘efficient’ than being paid twice for a single act? Simple: blaming the very subjects it has
already marked for abandonment or elimination for the crises it has itse'f engineered.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · Dec 28

One problem with all this data being public: only those w/ the capital necessary to provision the resources necessary to process the data necessary to produce the predictive models necessary to support the monetization schemes necessary to pay the venture capitalists will produce capturable “value.”

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Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 5d

‘When I was a 14-year-old gay kid in the American South and pulled Baldwin’s novel off a bookstore shelf, it radically reoriented my relationship to dignity. The more I’ve read and taught the novel, the harder I’ve found this to explain.’

— @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

harpers.org/archive/2025...

Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell

On the place of affirmation in art

harpers.org

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

Just got my copy of Gilded Rage by @jacobsilverman.com

Please buy this important book about how tech zillionaires went off the edge.

(Bonus: I’m in it!)

Book Cover of “Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley” by Jacob Silverman. Featuring Elon Musk with a makeshift crown.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 6d

“Humans have always understood — and those living under repressive regimes feel acutely — that art sustains us and points the way forward, through this difficult day and toward a better future.”
—@jessicafjeld.bsky.social

Freedom & The Arts: Drowning Truth & Poetry in a Sea of Irrelevance

by Neil Turkewitz

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 6d

“AI threatens not only to undermine the livelihoods of authors, artists, and other creatives, but also to destabilize the very knowledge ecosystem it relies on.”

Consent and Compensation: Resolving Generative AI’s Copyright Crisis — a Review

Consent and Compensation: Resolving Generative AI’s Copyright Crisis — a Review By Neil Turkewitz Frank Pasquale and Haochen Sun recently released a very interesting paper entitled Consent …

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 6d

“Grok is running a lot of inference compute & reasoning to look at all of the source data…& then thinking about each piece of information & adding what’s missing & correcting mistakes & removing falsehoods from that training data.”
—Musk

Grok is “thinking?” I call shenanigans. Pure BS. This stinks.

Musk targets Wikipedia as he enlists Grok to 'rewrite the corpus of human knowledge'

#75 | PLUS: Film producer introduces 'AI director' | MPA slams copyright-violating Sora videos | Major study confirms wariness over AI in news |✨AND: How to prevent AI snafus in high-stakes settings

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Zombytrope @zoey.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is long and pretty dense, but it's SO good. Essential reading if you want to understand how a malignant synthesis of capitalism and so-called "AI" is permeating everything.

CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · Jun 9

Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe (2025) by atomless 🤖💀

→ www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #genAI #criticalAI #futures #resist #openAI #ethics #capitalism #labour #simulation #vibecoding #Violence

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Love this. We should all be out on a global general strike. But this is a great start: https://nomusicforgenocide.org/

No Music For Genocide

cargo.site

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @cnn.com, what’s happening here? Care to explain, using your plenary powers, why you excluded an extremely material part of the interview?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 10d

Woot! Happy Birthday CAN! 🥳

CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 11d

Online for 6,209 days (1️⃣7️⃣ years, 0 months, 0 days), published 4,024 articles about 2,712 people, featuring 172 tools. Supported by 1,638 members, and providing access to 516 educators and their students.

Happy Birthday CAN! 🎂 🎉

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CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 11d

Online for 6,209 days (1️⃣7️⃣ years, 0 months, 0 days), published 4,024 articles about 2,712 people, featuring 172 tools. Supported by 1,638 members, and providing access to 516 educators and their students.

Happy Birthday CAN! 🎂 🎉

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 10d

The Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter is two months old! We've covered: the TESCREAL ideologies, Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, the AGI race, AI slop and AI bloopers, etc. If these topics interest you, please subscribe, share, and recommend! :-)

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The Right Time for a Realtime Roundup!

Here are the fun topics we covered over the past two months!

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 14d

There's a sense of urgency and churn to a lot of the content economy that requires more processing and translation into the form of its mediation rather than sitting down and thinking about ideas to the extent that one really can, because you're kept rushing through the circuits of productivity.

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Paul Lander @paullander.bsky.social · 14d

The first words from the AI actress were ‘What I really want to do is direct.’

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

Peter Thiel *destroyed* by priest:

“Heretical.”

“Cynical.”

Read: “I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk,” via @sfstandard.com

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk

The cynicism of the billionaire venture capitalist stands in deep contrast to the true values of Jesus.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

Tony Blair's institute took $350M+ from Larry Ellison, whose company powers Israel's military tech.

Ellison & Rupert Murdoch are buying TikTok—a platform Netanyahu calls a critical "weapon" in the war.

Oh, and Trump just made Blair the man who'll govern Gaza.

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...