The impasse of LLMs unsettles post-structuralist claims of truth as discourse. There, apparently, is a lot outside the text, before the language, and beyond the symbolic.

World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

I'm sure you know of this already... a brilliant essay on cardboard packaging by Shannon Mattern. @shannonmattern.bsky.social
placesjournal.org/article/soci...

It took me four months — and required some (paid) help from a former student — but I finally migrated about 1000 gallery + museum newsletters, a couple hundred newsy newsletters, and a bunch of other stuff over to RSS. I'm really hoping this'll help manage the paralyzing deluge

AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.

AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.

The normalized and mainstreamed racism and Islamophobia after 9-11, accepted by both conservatives and many liberals, is rearing its head and leading US into war with Iran, a genocide in Gaza, and Cuomo returning to power.

Do we learn? Nope. Rinse and repeat.

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new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb...
#digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

With quality synthetic data, most concerns about surveillance and exploitation will evaporate.

RSS readers have to be revived!

It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!

It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!

Trump's negotiation style follows three phases: flirt, punch, talk. Only Un and Starmer have figured this out yet and avoided the punch.

When would be relieved of this ontological anxiety linked to device batteries and recharging?

The Web We Have to Save The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?

X (Twitter) and all other social media are essentially personalised television, as I laid out below ten years ago. So why such a shock when Musk bought a television network and rebranded it? medium.com/matter/the-w...

What's your email?

I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!

Is there still a tool to import all your follows from Twitter to here?

AI is not a technology, it's an extract of humanity.

United Kingdom of America.

Check out the latest episode of MEnbar, where I talk to the awesome June Park about the politics of AI Chips in the Gulf states.

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Hi Marc... I sent you a message on Twitter.

Where can you discuss it when Twitter is down?!

Is twitter down?

What My Solitary Confinement in Iran Revealed About the Dangers of Personalized Consumption Online platforms and near-future technologies will exacerbate our physical and cognitive isolation from one another, somewhat similar to how our bodies and minds are controlled in prison.

Did you see what I wrote for Wired on the consequences of mass personalised consumption?

سلمان فارسی vs. سلمان دودی

به ابوالفضل نصف مافیای مصباح و جلیلی همجنسگرای توی کمد هستن.

فونت اینجا توی آیفون چرا اینجوریه؟ همیشه یه ذره از سر حرف دوم میاد توی حرف اول!

آخه یه نفر چند بار توی‌ عمرش میتونه به یه پلتفورم تازه کوچ کنه و از صفر سرمله اجتماعی جمع کنه!

از همه‌تون زودتر گفته بودم که اگه توییتر دست اون دلقک فاشیست بیفته نابود میشه. حیف اون همه عمری که سرش گذاشتیم...

پادکست هفته پیش نیویورک تایمز کلی از بلواسکای تعریف کرد. و گفت که احتمالا بتونه جای توییتر رو بگیره و هنوز چون کوچیکه خیلی مفرح و متمدنه. راست میگه؟