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Chica Marx
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School. .. more

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7m
The evolution of the BBC article on Graham Linehan's conviction and how it describes the trans victim of this crime is beyond atrocious. They actively went out of their way to dehumanize the victim here. They removed all pronouns for her and gendered honorifics such as "Ms."
Screenshot of a news article discussing Graham Linehan’s court case. The text states that Linehan was cleared of harassing a trans activist but convicted of damaging her phone. It describes how he knocked a teenage trans woman’s phone from her hand, and includes a highlighted sentence saying: “Ms Brooks, who was 18 at the time, is a trans woman who was born a biological male.” Screenshot of another section of the same article. It covers the judge’s comments about Linehan’s social media posts not meeting the legal definition of harassment. A highlighted portion reads: “a biological male who identifies as a woman,” referring to the complainant. Screenshot of an additional section of the article. It summarizes the accusations, including Linehan calling the complainant derogatory names online. A highlighted section states: “Brooks, who was born a biological male but identifies as a woman.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 48m
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1h
Same, girl. I treat the free pdfs as advertising. Grateful to ppl who see the advertising and go on to buy the books. Print books in particular are much nicer things to have and unlike reading on a device—don't spy on you.

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h
If you buy them that is EVEN BETTER thanks but I would far far rather you stole them and read them than didn't read them

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1h
I keep seeing posts going around about Anna's Archive so I just want to say, no criticism of anyone who feels differently, but for me as both a published writer, and also as a publisher, if you want to "illegally" download my/our books you definitely should and I would love you to do so

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 20h
Prize-expected prose is definitely a thing.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 20h
"Why do these prizes and awards only seem to breed more prizes and awards? [...] Maybe our work was too much about acknowledging failure, about doubt. We saw something beautiful and comradely in our doubt. Maybe prize committees prize confidence, the ooze of it."
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

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chloe @chloesposts.bsky.social · 1d
They should write a narrative about trans women that’s still compelling after you’ve done this for a few years

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Saint JESSICA DUNN ROVINELLI @jdrllc.bsky.social · 1d
a cat is a good roommate because she can't move out suddenly but a bad roommate because she doesn't ever pay rent

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
The social life of this chunk of the ruling class is so cursed. nymag.com/intelligence...
What Harvard Is Whispering About Larry Summers
A jerk, yes. But a creep? The mood, post-Epstein emails.
nymag.com

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
So long Jimmy Cliff. Who sang one of the great hard times songs. open.spotify.com/track/1dZxI6...
Many Rivers To Cross
open.spotify.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
It actually doesn't get much better than that.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, David J. Berri, Daxton R. Stewart

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 1d
Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

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Caden Mark Gardner @cadenmgardner.bsky.social · 1d
For tomorrow night's TCM appearance, I just want to highlight that when researching the true story of Dog Day Afternoon, the 'gay wedding' referenced within the news report of the film did happen and Lee G. Brewster's DRAG Magazine covered it only to follow up on it later. Photos from DTA.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations! Looking forward to this one. 🖤🌈👾👽🔥

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 1d
I know everyone is upset about Gmail’s AI thing right now, but why does nobody talk about the fact that it’s search is absolute pants

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Love it, seen it many times. Big love for the Commie screen writers.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 2d
from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.

decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca

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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 2d
we are living thu
the movies i grew up on

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Signed, numbered copies of “Deserter’s Dance” zine, made by Karmaklubb Oslo, available free at Hive Mind Books Brooklyn.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d
I predict a James Frey scenario. She’ll lose the Vanity Fair job but recast herself as a novelist, win even bigger advances & publicity budgets, & within ten years achieve literary world celebrity & another NYT profile. I think Balzac already wrote the whole script.