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Chica Marx

@mckenziewark.bsky.social

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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark

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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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 6h

2312 is my favorite of Stan’s books.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

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Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"

Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".

They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

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super tragic ultra maudlin boy like me @johnperich.com · 11h

To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

To check OpenAI ability to pay, HSBC’s team first had to build a model to forecast revenues.

Its starting point is to put user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China. That’s versus an estimated total user base last month of approximately 800mn

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says. It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.

The team also assumes LLM companies will capture 2 per cent of the digital advertising market in revenue, from slightly more than zero currently.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, McKenzie Wark

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 13h

Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 14h

I have almost certainly lost more sales to people's bad taste than to piracy over the years lol

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 14h

“My ‘I am not a wife beater’ shirt seems to provoke more questions than it answers”

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 15h

“Sometimes, sitting before a blank page, I get a rush just thinking, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Why is it that everything I write fails to capture the range of what is possible? I think, We could write anything and yet we don’t.”
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 15h

If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

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.”

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers , and 6 more Anne Applebaum, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers, Fabián Muniesa, Kevin Carey, R. M. Wilson, McKenzie Wark, Brooke Harrington, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17h

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Tom Shakespeare, David W. Kerstetter , and 7 more Jason Mittell, Tom Shakespeare, David W. Kerstetter, B. R. Mitchell, McKenzie Wark, James Goodwin, Alfie Kohn, Roland Pierik, Simon Lester, David R. Shumway

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 19h

"Cute may be flirty or even sexy, but to orgasm is not the objective. Cute appears unthreatening, but watch out! Those big eyes distract from the fangs." McKenzie Wark on Cute Accelerationism

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

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

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

Prize-expected prose is definitely a thing.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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

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.

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

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

It actually doesn't get much better than that.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 2d

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

“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