Dear North American media personalities:
Please don't use the adjective 'visceral' so much. I've had quite enough of imagining your viscera. English is truly blessed with vivid adjectives. Go wild. Be savage. Ravish your dictionary and caress your thesaurus.

I read and write for a living and for life, and this is the best writing I've read in a decade:
samkriss.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
Kinda makes me wanna quit; kinda makes me wanna write MORE.

Ah, capitalism. You'd be so ugly if it weren't for all that money.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

If you're an academic and you publish in a Thomson Reuters journal, you're part of the problem.
If you don't know or care who owns the journal, you're part of the problem. www.404media.co/this-app-let...

I guess the fake world depicted in ads wasn't fake enough: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
We'll all finally be unique as defined by the image advertisers reflect back to us.

Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

samkriss.substack.com/p/against-tr...
A great, if self-serving, piece on AI and today's "rationalists," who've always reminded me of those branches of liberalism that posit a world of homines oeconomici optimizing their utility functions in perfect harmony without any meaning whatsoever.

www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-enshit...
Read this
a) because it makes a good point (a few actually)
b) because it's worth it for the phrase "hegemonic enshittification" alone.

If we're all letting AI do our homework, it's no wonder we all look so foolish. If you outsource learning and feeling, your mind and soul are bound to atrophy.

www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...

Some good content from someone else to add to my content that hopefully leaves us all a little more (or less?) content.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4b-...

To learn what's in the Nazi playbook, ask a Nazi:

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
- Goering

Sur l'illusion de "la guerre contre le terrorisme", il y a ces mots de Guy Debord - tout arrive - dans Commentaires sur la société du spectacle (1988) : "Cette démocratie si parfaite [...] veut être jugée sur ses ennemis plutôt que sur ses résultats".

"Still it must be said that Saussure, at least, had the intutition towards the end that his linguistic enterprise had failed, leaving a hovering uncertainty, the glimpse of a weakness, of the possibly illusory character of so beautiful a mechanism of substitution."
- Seduction

This from Rebecca Solnit is my biggest fear about AI. Writing teaches me about myself, and I can't imagine handing that over to a machine whose only incentive is monetizing every aspect of my life. But many people will make that bargain, sacrificing their own self-awareness in the process.