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frederike.substack.com/p/europe-203...
Kinda argues that panic about Europe lagging in AI is the fascist's version of "It's the economy, stupid."
Good, long read.
Kinda argues that panic about Europe lagging in AI is the fascist's version of "It's the economy, stupid."
Good, long read.
Europe 2031 is a bet, not a forecast
Widely cited, barely examined: the scenario asks Europe to trade its sovereignty, climate goals and labour laws for frontier model access, on a chain of assumptions that are anything but certain.
frederike.substack.com
July 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
frederike.substack.com/p/europe-203...
Kinda argues that panic about Europe lagging in AI is the fascist's version of "It's the economy, stupid."
Good, long read.
Kinda argues that panic about Europe lagging in AI is the fascist's version of "It's the economy, stupid."
Good, long read.
I'm raising money for a project starring Amanda Plummer, Brad Dourif and Crispin Glover. What is it? I can't wait for them to tell me.
Who's in?
Who's in?
April 23, 2026 at 10:46 AM
I'm raising money for a project starring Amanda Plummer, Brad Dourif and Crispin Glover. What is it? I can't wait for them to tell me.
Who's in?
Who's in?
Got a sec? Encourage Spotify to add the option to exclude AI slop (or at least to label it) in the app: community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Idea...
Muzak has been around for 60 years, if that's what we wanted. Just click the link and then click on "Vote". Artists and music lovers thank you.
Muzak has been around for 60 years, if that's what we wanted. Just click the link and then click on "Vote". Artists and music lovers thank you.
Mark / Disable AI Generated Songs
The platform is increasingly flooded with AI-generated songs (especially the Release Radar), making it harder for users to discover authentic, human-created music. To improve the listening experience,...
community.spotify.com
March 31, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Got a sec? Encourage Spotify to add the option to exclude AI slop (or at least to label it) in the app: community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Idea...
Muzak has been around for 60 years, if that's what we wanted. Just click the link and then click on "Vote". Artists and music lovers thank you.
Muzak has been around for 60 years, if that's what we wanted. Just click the link and then click on "Vote". Artists and music lovers thank you.
It occurs to me that people who tell to do your own research do not mean to comb the archives or go titrate in the lab. They just want you to be mesmerized by the same 3 fools on youtube that bamboozled them with polysyllabic words and maybe a graph or a picture of something Aztec.
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It occurs to me that people who tell to do your own research do not mean to comb the archives or go titrate in the lab. They just want you to be mesmerized by the same 3 fools on youtube that bamboozled them with polysyllabic words and maybe a graph or a picture of something Aztec.
The zine might be just the medium we need right now. Fire up the samizdat!
www.404media.co/icezine/
www.404media.co/icezine/
Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
www.404media.co
February 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The zine might be just the medium we need right now. Fire up the samizdat!
www.404media.co/icezine/
www.404media.co/icezine/
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.
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.
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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.
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.
samkriss.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
Kinda makes me wanna quit; kinda makes me wanna write MORE.
What's the point of words?
There is no such thing as philosophy
samkriss.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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.
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...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah, capitalism. You'd be so ugly if it weren't for all that money.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
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...
If you don't know or care who owns the journal, you're part of the problem. www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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...
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.
We'll all finally be unique as defined by the image advertisers reflect back to us.
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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.
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...
Chatkontrolle stoppen!
Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...
weact.campact.de
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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.
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.
Against truth
Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular
samkriss.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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.
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.
Read this
a) because it makes a good point (a few actually)
b) because it's worth it for the phrase "hegemonic enshittification" alone.
The enshittification of American hegemony
"It's MAGA baby ... it's a brave new world"
www.programmablemutter.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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.
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...
www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong
A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book.
www.404media.co
May 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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...
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-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4b-...
The Outrage Economy: How Hysteria Became Content
YouTube video by Hannah Marie
www.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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-...
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
"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
February 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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
"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
Reposted
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".
October 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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".
Reposted
"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
- Seduction
November 16, 2023 at 3:56 AM
"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
- Seduction
Reposted
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.
October 6, 2023 at 3:24 PM
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.