What Do Rosalía’s Lyrics Actually Mean? Dear the artist’s English-speaking audience: you might be better off not knowing

my latest for @artreview.bsky.social: "I have to wonder if her exoticism, combined with the Spanish listener’s eagerness for a homegrown international pop star, and her honest-to-God singing chops, are all casting a beautiful mantilla over something seriously mediocre." artreview.com/what-do-rosa...

AI Gothic The signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit.

for @emptysetmagazine.bsky.social, "As wide-ranging as they can be, these made-for-the-feed horror videos all bear the signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit to make the underlying violence go down easy."
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The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?

For @thecut.com, I wrote about "second-hand thinkers" using ChatGPT in escape rooms, and what the AI's pivot to leisure (and video) says about the state of the industry: www.thecut.com/article/woul...

The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America

is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...

Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online? Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place

you don't have to be *yourself* online and you should beware any demand to create a robust (trackable, surveillable) online *presence.* forgot to share my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...

Why Do We Have to Be Ourselves Online? Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place

the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...

How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...

I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...

How to See the Puerto Rican Art Scene The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...

I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...

008: AI Excess On the excess and horrors of generative AI images.

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ai accelerationism 🤝 primitive accumulation

The "priest of AI" & tech's pursuit of eternal life : It's Been a Minute Have you heard of Bryan Johnson – tech centimillionaire turned longevity evangelist? He made headlines when he started getting infusions of his own son's blood as a part of his quest to live forever. ...

I was on @npr.org “It's Been A Minute" talking about longevity bros, techno-mysticism and Silicon Valley's fascist bend towards self-destructive transhumanism www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...

Sam Altman’s AI Short Story, Reviewed Soy-Boy-in-Chief Altman’s death march on culture continues. The most real thing, if anything, about his LLM-‘authored’ short story is how desperate it is to be liked

for @artreview.bsky.social i wrote about sam altman’s saccharine post about his creative writing model and how he asked trump for special exemptions from copyright law so that “AI’s ‘freedom to learn’ from copyrighted material” just two days later artreview.com/sam-altman-a...

The Tech Bro Longevity Complex Bryan Johnson wants to be ever young, Elon Musk wants to live on Mars and Artificial General Intelligence promises to facilitate it all – no matter the cost

my latest for @artreview.bsky.social is about eugenicist impulse shared by AGI evangelists and longevity hackers like Bryan Johnson
artreview.com/the-techbro-...

ins and outs for 2025

every book I read in 2024 and all the books I hope to read in 2025

every book i read in 2024

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It Was Never About Artificial Intelligence The year in technology: AI came at us fast and hard in 2024. What is it all for?

contributed to @artreview.bsky.social end of year package with my thoughts on the Year in Technology artreview.com/the-year-in-...

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some of the books i want to read in 2025:

part two of my Girlbots essay is on: woman-machine metaphors, Serial Experiments Lain, and the monstrous-feminine

004: Girlbots II Part 2 of 2 on The Ginny Suite, the TESCREAL bundle, “Serial Experiments Lain” and other cyberfeminist considerations.

part 2: out now. on the dark side of Silicon Valley’s transhumanism + Serial Experiments Lain open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

accidentally marked my whole inbox as read and I'm deciding to leave it that way. I earned this.

003: Girlbots I Part one of two on The Ginny Suite, the TESCREAL bundle, “Serial Experiments Lain” and other cyberfeminist considerations.

wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌

BUT i am really enjoying all the distortion-based, abject video works im seeing in galleries and online. including this one reposted by the unlikeliest of IG users, Hilton Als

i hate AI and everything it stands for. AI is an ideology masked as a technology (its constituent technologies have a wide range of more-precise and accurate names). no, i don’t think it raises interesting questions about ‘what is art’ that we didn’t ask ourselves in the ‘60s.