Gnesis Villar
@vgnesis.bsky.social
I (sometimes) write, I (occasionally) teach, and I (mostly) experience existential dread over late capitalism at my university.
Find my work here: https://beacons.ai/gnesis_v
Find my work here: https://beacons.ai/gnesis_v
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It’s being used to surveil and terrorize people at home and abroad. Google for example — and other large companies — has provided AI systems for the American and Israeli militaries. The DHS and ICE are using it to track and kidnap people.
The other ideas of what it can do is PR. This is what it is
The other ideas of what it can do is PR. This is what it is
March 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s being used to surveil and terrorize people at home and abroad. Google for example — and other large companies — has provided AI systems for the American and Israeli militaries. The DHS and ICE are using it to track and kidnap people.
The other ideas of what it can do is PR. This is what it is
The other ideas of what it can do is PR. This is what it is
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In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. can't get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice
Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...
www.latimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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You can become a member of the National African American History and Culture Museum.
support.si.edu/site/Donatio...
support.si.edu/site/Donatio...
March 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You can become a member of the National African American History and Culture Museum.
support.si.edu/site/Donatio...
support.si.edu/site/Donatio...
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Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit.
And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.
And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.
March 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit.
And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.
And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.
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There's no new evil I'm suddenly writing in my fiction. It's all the same long thread of evil. Sorry, not sorry, if it's suddenly more pertinent to some people now?
March 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There's no new evil I'm suddenly writing in my fiction. It's all the same long thread of evil. Sorry, not sorry, if it's suddenly more pertinent to some people now?
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Labour $200
Unity Fees $150
Rent $800
Executive bonuses $75,000,000
Pizza Friday $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my game company is dying
Unity Fees $150
Rent $800
Executive bonuses $75,000,000
Pizza Friday $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my game company is dying
March 13, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Labour $200
Unity Fees $150
Rent $800
Executive bonuses $75,000,000
Pizza Friday $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my game company is dying
Unity Fees $150
Rent $800
Executive bonuses $75,000,000
Pizza Friday $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my game company is dying
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Really impossible to overstate the extent to which this is a movement fixated on the belief that they have an inviolable right to abuse their children
Abigail Shrier has released a new book, the central premise of which appears to be that therapy and mental healthcare more broadly has ruined a generation of children. She reports embarking on this process after being aghast someone would administer a basic MH screen to her son.
archive.ph/VbKfh
archive.ph/VbKfh
March 3, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Really impossible to overstate the extent to which this is a movement fixated on the belief that they have an inviolable right to abuse their children
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Artists & Creatives, there's a browser plugin to remove AI sites from your search results. (Good for getting real references.)
Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
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Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s...
🔁 Please Boost 🔁
Introduction | uBlacklist
uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
iorate.github.io
February 24, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Artists & Creatives, there's a browser plugin to remove AI sites from your search results. (Good for getting real references.)
Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s...
🔁 Please Boost 🔁
Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s...
🔁 Please Boost 🔁
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I think the "necessity of exposing monstrous views" is a belief somberly held by people who haven't yet realized that fascists should be shot, not embarrassed (they can't be) or "defeated in the market place of ideas" (not a real thing that happens).
February 24, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I think the "necessity of exposing monstrous views" is a belief somberly held by people who haven't yet realized that fascists should be shot, not embarrassed (they can't be) or "defeated in the market place of ideas" (not a real thing that happens).
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Future historians will look back on this era and weep at how much important work was forever lost to bitrot
so instead of meeting my writing deadlines I'm archiving the thousands of stories I've written for Motherboard over the years because Vice was run into the ground by by a bunch of failson trust fund brunchlords who are now rumored to be on the cusp of deleting everything
Karl Bode
Everything with the topic 'Karl Bode' on VICE
www.vice.com
February 22, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Future historians will look back on this era and weep at how much important work was forever lost to bitrot
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If you think it's a false equivalence, that worse things would happen in the heathen Orient, then man just take a look at the headlines for all the artists, administrators and university professors whose careers have been immediately killed off for calling what the IDF is doing in Gaza a genocide
Yes. Censorship by chilling effect is very efficient from the point of view of the state. You don't need* to send cops to bang on people's doors when e.g. your institutions of art will police their own students and artists for mentioning Palestine hyperallergic.com/867465/artis...
February 16, 2024 at 6:14 AM
If you think it's a false equivalence, that worse things would happen in the heathen Orient, then man just take a look at the headlines for all the artists, administrators and university professors whose careers have been immediately killed off for calling what the IDF is doing in Gaza a genocide
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Incidentally, if you're a writer, artist, or arts-adjacent in some way and haven't heard about recent censorship crises involving these people (and this is a very incomplete list) I invite you to google the names and follow what's happening. Especially in genre, given the uh isolationist tendency
Adania Shibli, Candice Breitz, Anais Duplan, Ranjit Hoskote, Avril Corroon, Johanna Tagada, Wanda Nanibush, Amin Husain … also, Arts Council England (a public funding body) has just officially updated their grant guidelines to ban politics lol
February 16, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Incidentally, if you're a writer, artist, or arts-adjacent in some way and haven't heard about recent censorship crises involving these people (and this is a very incomplete list) I invite you to google the names and follow what's happening. Especially in genre, given the uh isolationist tendency
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I’m so, so proud of being part of this amazing team and its mission to give immigrant and diaspora authors the platform they deserve. Please consider supporting us if you can, so that we can keep publishing stellar SF
The @khoreo.bsky.social fundraiser has been going for just over a week and we're less than a quarter funded. Social media feels like yelling into the void more than ever: if you can give us a boost, it would be deeply appreciated 💚
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 4
Continuing the future of this IGNYTE-winning and Hugo-nominated speculative fiction magazine.
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February 14, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I’m so, so proud of being part of this amazing team and its mission to give immigrant and diaspora authors the platform they deserve. Please consider supporting us if you can, so that we can keep publishing stellar SF
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The CDC dropping the five-day rule simply because some people aren't willing to do it makes me think we could all band together and stop paying our taxes.
February 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
The CDC dropping the five-day rule simply because some people aren't willing to do it makes me think we could all band together and stop paying our taxes.
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These drug traffickers have more moral fiber than every single person currently in power in America, that’s for damn sure
February 9, 2024 at 7:46 PM
These drug traffickers have more moral fiber than every single person currently in power in America, that’s for damn sure
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Wow the AI industry lost 180 billion dollars what a shock after hundreds of thousands of critics warned everyone that it was a scam. This hasn’t happened since literally last year, when NFTs were revealed to be a scam. Or the year before that with crypto in general. Or the year BEFORE THAT with-
February 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Wow the AI industry lost 180 billion dollars what a shock after hundreds of thousands of critics warned everyone that it was a scam. This hasn’t happened since literally last year, when NFTs were revealed to be a scam. Or the year before that with crypto in general. Or the year BEFORE THAT with-
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if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back. Another dream of mine is to have a ��...
lithub.com
December 21, 2023 at 8:35 PM
if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone
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Anyway I'm not on Substack so I don't need to move my newsletter for that reason, but also TinyLetter is being killed so I have to move for that. But INSTEAD I think what I will do is just stop sending newsletters, because I hate it, and crawl under a rock instead. :D
December 21, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Anyway I'm not on Substack so I don't need to move my newsletter for that reason, but also TinyLetter is being killed so I have to move for that. But INSTEAD I think what I will do is just stop sending newsletters, because I hate it, and crawl under a rock instead. :D
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screenwriters i got your number
December 22, 2023 at 1:48 AM
screenwriters i got your number
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There's a bevy of posts circulating of famous sculptures with the question of WHY DON'T WE SEE THIS KIND OF TALENT ANYMORE and the answer is you don't support the arts, assholes. Those artists had patrons. They could work all day to perfect their craft without worrying about food and housing.
December 18, 2023 at 5:16 PM
There's a bevy of posts circulating of famous sculptures with the question of WHY DON'T WE SEE THIS KIND OF TALENT ANYMORE and the answer is you don't support the arts, assholes. Those artists had patrons. They could work all day to perfect their craft without worrying about food and housing.
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We likely already have more than a 'thousands Mozarts,' but many lack the time or financial resources to express their talent, often working for minimum wage at disgusting companies like Amazon.
December 18, 2023 at 1:57 PM
We likely already have more than a 'thousands Mozarts,' but many lack the time or financial resources to express their talent, often working for minimum wage at disgusting companies like Amazon.
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One of many reasons to not use AI image generators.
December 18, 2023 at 2:16 PM
One of many reasons to not use AI image generators.