Taylor Carik
@taylorcarik.bsky.social
"Originally considered a critical failure, it has since gained a cult following"
Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, former publisher of arts + culture print pub DISPATCH, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things
Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, former publisher of arts + culture print pub DISPATCH, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things
We’re also post-revolution artists #birnvenidosdystopia
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re also post-revolution artists #birnvenidosdystopia
this whole series is mega- mega- depressing for anyone who was extremely online during the glory days of blogging and social media
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
this whole series is mega- mega- depressing for anyone who was extremely online during the glory days of blogging and social media
this whole series is super, super depression 😪
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
this whole series is super, super depression 😪
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As Twitter's new geolocation tool started to reveal accounts’ information, the effect was like watching the Scooby Doo kids pull one disguise after another from the villain of the week.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Twitter's foreign influence problem is nothing new
The platform's just-debuted geolocation tool illuminates a disturbing and persistent issue.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As Twitter's new geolocation tool started to reveal accounts’ information, the effect was like watching the Scooby Doo kids pull one disguise after another from the villain of the week.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
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On the same weekend that Carol Becker was concern trolling on the lack of diversity in local politics, she was using one of her several reddit accounts to defend a claim (made by Becka Thompson) that white candidates are disadvantaged because council members of color win based on their race.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
On the same weekend that Carol Becker was concern trolling on the lack of diversity in local politics, she was using one of her several reddit accounts to defend a claim (made by Becka Thompson) that white candidates are disadvantaged because council members of color win based on their race.
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"Get busy fighting for new art and new voices, or get busy dying." Thrilled to see my old Indiana buddy Darius Van Arman writing in Stereogum in the most meticulous terms, about the precarious state of the music industry amidst our current techno-feudal nightmare. Brilliant guy. tinyurl.com/2c7uu84r
Op-Ed: The Struggle For Independence In The Modern Age
Jagjaguwar's Darius Van Arman on our shared fight against market concentration and for art, culture, and access.
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Get busy fighting for new art and new voices, or get busy dying." Thrilled to see my old Indiana buddy Darius Van Arman writing in Stereogum in the most meticulous terms, about the precarious state of the music industry amidst our current techno-feudal nightmare. Brilliant guy. tinyurl.com/2c7uu84r
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"Sisu: Road to Revenge" was almost exactly like "Sisu". By that I mean super fun. Go see it
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Sisu: Road to Revenge" was almost exactly like "Sisu". By that I mean super fun. Go see it
Dear god in heaven
20th Century Fox press kit for the Fall & Christmas 1990 seasons: Banger after banger.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Dear god in heaven
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Did Hodges mess up big time and lose the election over this? Yes. Has Frey messed up like 1000x worse but somehow got reelected twice? Also yes! Did the Strib clearly hate Hodges but love Frey? Yes again!
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Did Hodges mess up big time and lose the election over this? Yes. Has Frey messed up like 1000x worse but somehow got reelected twice? Also yes! Did the Strib clearly hate Hodges but love Frey? Yes again!
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i’m sorry
but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net
and the resemblance is uncanny
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...
but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net
and the resemblance is uncanny
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzz did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal wi...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
i’m sorry
but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net
and the resemblance is uncanny
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...
but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net
and the resemblance is uncanny
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...
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The media story of our time…
Why are we still getting sanewashing coverage of POTUS?
Is there any credible journalist who believes this man is mentally fit to be President?
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Why are we still getting sanewashing coverage of POTUS?
Is there any credible journalist who believes this man is mentally fit to be President?
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The media story of our time…
Why are we still getting sanewashing coverage of POTUS?
Is there any credible journalist who believes this man is mentally fit to be President?
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Why are we still getting sanewashing coverage of POTUS?
Is there any credible journalist who believes this man is mentally fit to be President?
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t
bsky.app/profile/atru...
America, including Minneapolis-St.Paul, is openly hostile to artists and art. You don't even need to talk to someone from Europe, just look at the numbers and what gets financial support and recognition.
'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing. n.pr/3LLFZ0J
As a labor force, artists are 'invisible.' A new survey tries to change that
'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
America, including Minneapolis-St.Paul, is openly hostile to artists and art. You don't even need to talk to someone from Europe, just look at the numbers and what gets financial support and recognition.
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If we care about stopping countries that abuse human rights, we should invade Israel and Saudi Arabia. If we care about stopping the flow of refugees, we should have boots on the ground in Sudan. Why is Venezuela being singled out for an attack?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...
There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars
Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?
www.currentaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If we care about stopping countries that abuse human rights, we should invade Israel and Saudi Arabia. If we care about stopping the flow of refugees, we should have boots on the ground in Sudan. Why is Venezuela being singled out for an attack?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...
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"In my country, we have no bungholes" he says, calling to mind Deleuze's body without organs, the never-penetrated plane of pure immanence.
Cornholio in many ways is a manifestation of the madness he lives under. Forced to be a pawn he yearns for freedom, he lashes out against the world around him but cannot bring himself to do so *as himself* because to do so would mean to confront the devil Butthead and the suffering he has inflicted
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"In my country, we have no bungholes" he says, calling to mind Deleuze's body without organs, the never-penetrated plane of pure immanence.
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New video: We asked leading historian and author, Jack Goldstone, the internet's most burning questions about revolutions- why they start, how they end, and what they mean for us today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kiv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kiv...
Historian Answers Revolution Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New video: We asked leading historian and author, Jack Goldstone, the internet's most burning questions about revolutions- why they start, how they end, and what they mean for us today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kiv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kiv...
Uber but surveillance state
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Ever notice is never student loan data that manages to be "irretrievably destroyed"
Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ever notice is never student loan data that manages to be "irretrievably destroyed"
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Through more than 70 interviews with former inmates and officers, reporters from @mississippitoday.org and @nytimes.com discovered a system where guards in a Mississippi jail ordered beatings, inmates who participated were rewarded, and those trying to raise an alarm were ignored.
How a Mississippi jail turned its inmates into weapons
After a violent scandal involving his deputies, a popular sheriff survived calls to resign. But another scandal was already brewing in his county jail.
revealnews.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If this were a mistake it wouldn’t have happened 78 times; it’s the core function of news media
Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
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How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If this were a mistake it wouldn’t have happened 78 times; it’s the core function of news media