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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 5h

Thx! Wie hier @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

www.404media.co/hurricane-he...

Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop

The era of politically-motivated AI slop is here and it sucks.

www.404media.co

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 5h

AI Antifa

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 12h

"What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds reasonable www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 14h

“We are living in an authoritarian state. It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and dew from the grass glittered on my boots in the rising sunlight.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 18h

incl. "The Conquest of Cute"
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/pol...

Politics and Propaganda in the Digital Media Age | Baker Institute

Steven W. Lewis and Brandon Zheng explore how governments and organizations around the world are leveraging digital platforms in increasingly savvy ways — from TikTok videos to anime mascots — to spre...

www.bakerinstitute.org

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, and Vance posts his first TikTok as VP

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

thehill.com

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 18h

In President Donald Trump’s first TikTok post in office, and since 2024, he said he “saved” the app. No doubt they will increase their usage of the platform. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/10/06/i...

‘I saved TikTok’: Trump posts first TikTok in office

President Donald Trump posted his first TikTok in office.

www.alaskasnewssource.com

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 19h

“Politics needed memes to keep up with the pace of digital culture – the pace of digital political campaigning” Burroughs (2013, p. 260)

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 19h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 20h

Sora could also spell the end of music’s TikTok era www.billboard.com/pro/sora-2-m...

I Spent a Day Scrolling on Sora. The Music Industry Should Pay Attention

Sora 2 is here, and the music industry should pay attention to the AI social app — which could be the future of social media and a disruptive force.

www.billboard.com

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

Climate Science Denial Slop www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

www.desmog.com

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

Strawberry Fields Forever

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

"Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen und keine Provokationen."

Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 2d

„Wenn sie erkannt wird, verliert die Provokation ihren dunklen Zauber.
Das, was Russland (in manchen Fällen gesichert, in manchen Fällen mutmaßlich) tut, sind also keine Provokationen.“

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Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen

Und keine Provokationen.

open.substack.com

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad”

Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 1d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 2d

"I read Benjamin Bratton's book, The Stack, in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program."

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 2d

"Authoritarian propaganda, plain and simple" www.commondreams.org/news/portlan...

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams

Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networ...

www.commondreams.org

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 2d

An infinite SlopTok app

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.