aid*n
@henribergson666.bsky.social
bad modernist at the permanent carnival of fetishized interiority / 'very gentle and decent'
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· Mar 5
2025 reading thread
amazing book btw
james purdy, in a shallow grave
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
amazing book btw
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counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition
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.
October 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition
have you heard about this jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/play
Play, by james K
from the album Friend
jameskmusic.bandcamp.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
have you heard about this jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/play
‘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).’
‘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...
@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...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
‘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).’
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
September 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
completely laid out for the weekend by the covid booster sandy.bandcamp.com/track/immunity
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wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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
September 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
phil neel, hinterland
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
phil neel, hinterland
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Vivian has 1,372 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West by Susan Buck-Morss...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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i got a phd and all i got was this phd
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
i got a phd and all i got was this phd
on the uses of 'unconditional surrender' (from enzo traverso, fire and blood)
June 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
on the uses of 'unconditional surrender' (from enzo traverso, fire and blood)
mallarmé on rimbaud: ‘a perverse and superb puberty’ (kristin ross, the emergence of social space)
June 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
mallarmé on rimbaud: ‘a perverse and superb puberty’ (kristin ross, the emergence of social space)
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Fred Jameson’s nominee for the Nobel: Alexander Kluge
June 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Fred Jameson’s nominee for the Nobel: Alexander Kluge
alienated majesty books in atx posted this display honoring the late dag solstad 💙
March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
alienated majesty books in atx posted this display honoring the late dag solstad 💙
the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live
March 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live
library sale, with an extra discount on irish books 👍🏻
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
library sale, with an extra discount on irish books 👍🏻
hahahahahahahahahaha oh man
March 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hahahahahahahahahaha oh man
at long last an answer to the riddle, ‘is michael clune dumb or evil’
February 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
at long last an answer to the riddle, ‘is michael clune dumb or evil’
does anyone have a reliable english translation of lacan’s sonnet, hiatus irrationalis
February 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
does anyone have a reliable english translation of lacan’s sonnet, hiatus irrationalis
lucien goldmann supervised julia kristeva’s dissertation. i love learning.
February 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
lucien goldmann supervised julia kristeva’s dissertation. i love learning.
idea i just invented: henri bergson 666
February 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
idea i just invented: henri bergson 666