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The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
via: wired.com
July 3, 2023 8:19 pm
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The Artist's Responsibility - Brad Troemel
Satire on this very tedious discourse
via: altcomics.tumblr.com
June 22, 2023 5:18 am
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TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away.
"It’s absolutely conceivable that the streaming subscription model is the crypto of the entertainment business."
via: vulture.com
June 11, 2023 8:39 pm
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I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing
On the beauty of a printed book unsullied by an internet steadily filling with garbage
via: arstechnica.com
June 11, 2023 4:54 am
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The Ren & Stimpy Show Soundtrack
371-track Spotify playlist collecting all the incidental/library music (mostly from the '50s) used in the animated cartoon.
via: open.spotify.com
May 23, 2023 1:11 am
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The IP Era's Venture Capital Philosophy Has Poisoned Movies
"We’ve had slop shoveled onto our pop culture prison cafeteria trays for decades, and the prison-industrial multiplex expects us to give our compliments to the chef for another meal of empty-calorie Easter eggs."
via: pastemagazine.com
May 10, 2023 6:43 pm
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McDonald's hamburger recipes
Should you want to, here's how to make your own Mickey Deez at home
via: web.archive.org
April 27, 2023 2:47 am
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Subway: What the Hell Is That Smell?
A half-comical examination into the absolute foul "surely that can't be bread" smell that emanates from all Subways worldwide
via: vice.com
April 27, 2023 2:46 am
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The Gist: "My superpower is not knowing"
A simple explainer of April 2023's Blue Check Apocalypse, @dril vs the dumbest billionaire ever, and the Irish connection
via: thegist.ie
April 27, 2023 2:42 am
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Revisiting Scratch Video
For a very short while, if you had a coupla VHS players and a Video Toaster (kids, ask yr arty uncle/aunt) you could create art chaos
via: screenworks.org.uk
April 6, 2023 4:05 am
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AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression
A fascinating article about the assumed universality of American concepts like "smiling", "emotion", and where feelings exist, as experienced through AI models. (As someone dealing with AI's inability to render a British accent, this is of interest, and reveals AI as yet another imperial project.)
via: medium.com
March 29, 2023 5:10 pm
AI america emotion colonialism
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Twin Peaks Tarot – An interview with the Creator of the Magician Longs to See Tarot Deck
Benjamin Mackey talks about his excellent Twin Peaks tarot deck, of which I own a copy
via: tarotparlor.com
March 21, 2023 9:11 pm
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The Devil’s Milkshake | Tarence Ray
On the bullshit public spectacle of politicians drinking polluted water to show it's safe.
via: thebaffler.com
February 25, 2023 1:07 am
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Top 10 Plants for Minimum Effort and Maximum Impact
Researching "what's like letting your garden go to seed, but instead of weeds it's actually pretty?"
via: houzz.co.nz
February 12, 2023 2:16 pm
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Right Woos Left | Political Research Associates
When I was a young'un I used to listen to a lot of late night left politics on KPFA. That's how I discovered Noam Chomsky. But it turned out a lot of the more out-there guys were actually rightwing loonies, but insinuating themselves into the left because they spoke out against the Gulf War. A good dive into this pre-Internet moment.
via: politicalresearch.org
January 26, 2023 12:15 am
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What’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?
Charlie Warzel looks behind the curtain of AI art apps like DALL-E and finds, well, a lot of copyright infringement
via: newsletters.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2022 2:57 am
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I Spent the Day in a Giant BrewDog and Saw the Depressing Future of Pubs
Everything in the UK is pretty shitty right now, so there is no reason this won't come to pass
via: vice.com
September 10, 2022 2:51 am
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The Impotent Decoration: An Interview with P. Adams Sitney
Currently reading Visionary Film, an essential text on 20th century experimental film, and I began to wonder who author P. Adams Sitney is/was. This 2015 interview with him at the end of his tenure (and tether) is a wonderful, bridge-burning farewell to academia.
via: nasslit.com
September 10, 2022 2:50 am
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Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid Has Never Looked Better
Interview with Gus Lanzetta who used AI to upscale a beloved film currently unavailable to watch officially. A celebration of bootlegging.
via: thefilmstage.com
September 6, 2022 7:48 pm
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Unmasking Adrienne Fidelin: Picasso, Man Ray, and the (In)Visibility of Racial Difference | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Adrienne Fidelin was as much a muse of the modernists as Lee Miller or Kiki de Montparnasse. Why was she erased from history? (Take a guess)
via: modernismmodernity.org
August 24, 2022 4:52 pm
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