Kevin Shea Adams
@kevinshea.bsky.social
Photographer / Musician bylines at NYT, Playboy, VICE and more. Interests: media theory, philosophy, art, tech criticism. 📍Sausalito, CA kevinsheaadams.com
One Battle After Another blindly fulfills the dystopian prophecy of the book it's based on, which is kind of a bummer, man. boxd.it/bbphgn
A ★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Certainly no Inherent Vice, this film is only very very loosely “inspired by” Pynchon’s novel Vineland. I loved that book, as well as Paul Thomas Andersons’s adaptation of Inherent Vice, but here he s...
boxd.it
September 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One Battle After Another blindly fulfills the dystopian prophecy of the book it's based on, which is kind of a bummer, man. boxd.it/bbphgn
no, that's like what we've been saying for 10 years
September 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
no, that's like what we've been saying for 10 years
Practitioners are almost always left out of "task reductions" in the AI discourse. Most people who do anything will look at the way technologists caricature their practice and say, "that's not what I do at all".
This from a well established copywriter: substack.com/home/post/p-...
This from a well established copywriter: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I Do An Easily Replaced Job For A Living
The death of advertising has been heralded for at least the two decades I’ve worked in it.
substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Practitioners are almost always left out of "task reductions" in the AI discourse. Most people who do anything will look at the way technologists caricature their practice and say, "that's not what I do at all".
This from a well established copywriter: substack.com/home/post/p-...
This from a well established copywriter: substack.com/home/post/p-...
GPT is like the guy at the party who takes a super insightful little thing you say and paraphrases it 10x to the entire room, pedantically formalizing all the obvious grammatical relations, and trumpeting in some zippy new terms from a champagne-stained thesaurus.
August 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
GPT is like the guy at the party who takes a super insightful little thing you say and paraphrases it 10x to the entire room, pedantically formalizing all the obvious grammatical relations, and trumpeting in some zippy new terms from a champagne-stained thesaurus.
practicing artists should take a vow of silence on the "ai question". like honestly, let them believe lol
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
practicing artists should take a vow of silence on the "ai question". like honestly, let them believe lol
One of the crazy assumptions of the AI-assisted language modeling paradigm is that it believes language still functions when you decouple sincerity conditions from speech acts.
Woops am i not supposed to say this here? sorry, i'll have just have the Dave's Single combo
Woops am i not supposed to say this here? sorry, i'll have just have the Dave's Single combo
June 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of the crazy assumptions of the AI-assisted language modeling paradigm is that it believes language still functions when you decouple sincerity conditions from speech acts.
Woops am i not supposed to say this here? sorry, i'll have just have the Dave's Single combo
Woops am i not supposed to say this here? sorry, i'll have just have the Dave's Single combo
So cool how you can't go to a local rock show without giving some weird other company your: credit card number, phone number, email, and installing an app that uses your location, can access your contacts and jump into your face at any moment in the future. Make sense.
June 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So cool how you can't go to a local rock show without giving some weird other company your: credit card number, phone number, email, and installing an app that uses your location, can access your contacts and jump into your face at any moment in the future. Make sense.
Chewbacca, the endlessly bored and perpetually yawning dog man
June 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Chewbacca, the endlessly bored and perpetually yawning dog man
I am being primed for global war by a 3rd grade screen-doodle in computer literacy class.
June 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I am being primed for global war by a 3rd grade screen-doodle in computer literacy class.
i'll have the semiotic saudero on a corn tortilla pls (i'm GF)
June 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
i'll have the semiotic saudero on a corn tortilla pls (i'm GF)
Possibly the biggest heist in history, but one that maybe was inevitable in the age of infinite ambient knowledge. I suppose the only question is how far an AI interface for the internet could be open-sourced and decoupled from corporate control. nymag.com/intelligence...
Google Is Burying the Web Alive
AI, chatbots, and the end of the link economy.
nymag.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Possibly the biggest heist in history, but one that maybe was inevitable in the age of infinite ambient knowledge. I suppose the only question is how far an AI interface for the internet could be open-sourced and decoupled from corporate control. nymag.com/intelligence...
lowkey cars are kind of poverty coded
May 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
lowkey cars are kind of poverty coded
Nathan Fielder is the preeminent philosopher of our time.
May 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Nathan Fielder is the preeminent philosopher of our time.
I’m the president now buy my new money send no one ever
May 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I’m the president now buy my new money send no one ever
You could not cast a better face for the role of most bitch-ass "destroyer of worlds" ever
May 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
You could not cast a better face for the role of most bitch-ass "destroyer of worlds" ever
lowkey (and quite unexpectedly) chatGPT is boomer coded ?
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
lowkey (and quite unexpectedly) chatGPT is boomer coded ?
if you actually read this 19th C. dystopian novel you would so not name your supermarket after it
May 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
if you actually read this 19th C. dystopian novel you would so not name your supermarket after it
watch, having mystique will start trending and i will be rendered just another mysterious man
May 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
watch, having mystique will start trending and i will be rendered just another mysterious man
if we can only get Leo XIV to say “feel the Bern”
May 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
if we can only get Leo XIV to say “feel the Bern”
So awesome that Bernie is pope now, and a perfect penance for the troll president’s lil AI joke
May 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
So awesome that Bernie is pope now, and a perfect penance for the troll president’s lil AI joke
the palpable papal pomp and pageantry is proof of peoples pining and preparedness for a primal and primo GREAT AWAKENING 🇺🇸
May 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
the palpable papal pomp and pageantry is proof of peoples pining and preparedness for a primal and primo GREAT AWAKENING 🇺🇸
if i had 10x agency i would choose to be even more agentic
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
if i had 10x agency i would choose to be even more agentic
I liked the Lena leaving essay but like, I gotta say, nyc (and really all cities) have changed so much since 2020 or so that I would have much rather read her observations about that more recent and ultra dramatic change
May 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I liked the Lena leaving essay but like, I gotta say, nyc (and really all cities) have changed so much since 2020 or so that I would have much rather read her observations about that more recent and ultra dramatic change