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@henribergson666.bsky.social

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bad modernist at the permanent carnival of fetishized interiority / 'very gentle and decent'

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · Mar 5

2025 reading thread

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · 7d

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 8d

A data point to mull as you wonder whether it's impossible to build "a conservative LLM": we definitely can train a language model on pre-1920 text that will defend the British Empire, condescend to childlike native people, recommend radium therapy and eugenics as SOTA medicine, &c.

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 7d

adam hanieh, rob knox, and rafeef ziadah, resisting erasure: imperialism, fossil capitalism, and race

aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 7d

have you heard about this jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/play

Play, by james K

from the album Friend

jameskmusic.bandcamp.com

aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 12d

‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire).’

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12d

‘As the far right’s use of deepfakes shows, fact-checking and correcting discrete lies is as unlikely to push back fascism as “stopping the boats” is to fix the NHS.’

@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on AI-generated misinformation, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 15d

inès cagnati, free day [trans liesl schillinger]

aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 18d

bae suah, untold night and day [trans deborah smith]

aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 18d

completely laid out for the weekend by the covid booster sandy.bandcamp.com/track/immunity

Immunity, by Alex G

from the album God Save The Animals

sandy.bandcamp.com

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 22d

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 22d

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social · 22d

just read an astoundingly bad substack post that doubles as a cautionary tale against reading too much sontag & barthes and reading too little anything else