Whoa, your pop culture materialism roots run deep!

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Hope everyone I know in Mass. had a lovely Patriots’ Day.

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PS — Sending good, healing vibes for your mom.

The cost of in-state air travel rn is preposterous.

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California, 1969: No-fault divorce enters the chat.

Great write up by @profrothman.bsky.social on what the call for new regulation around the Grammarly suit misses about the right of publicity.

These laws are already there and applicable to Gen AI! We need to enforce them!

Deeply relevant as we consider the hastily constructed NOFAKES Act.

Love’s Work — Parapraxis The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

Such a pleasure (ahem) to see new work from @annakornbluh.bsky.social in my inbox. (Yes, I get the @parapraxismag.bsky.social newsletter.) www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...

Scolding the AI.

If anyone wants a single GA ticket to see Gianmarco Soresi in San Jose on 4/19 @ 8:30 pm, hmu. I was supposed to go with a couple friends, but then they didn’t get tix before it sold out. 🫠

Making it too easy for @branhattan.bsky.social now.

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Wow - so impressive. Fall is looking good!

Oh it’s from the beforetimes. Well, the AI had to have it modeled from somewhere.

Non-local businesses whose only online presence is FB or IG don’t exist to me.

And tell me where your HQ is based, even if you don’t have a brick-and-mortar location.

Sounds like AI gobbledygook.

“Our students, in other words, have been reduced to the economic output of the campus machinery. As Schiller notes, ‘[t]he utilitarianism of Effective Altruism has infected even legacy institutions, leading their decision-makers to prioritize visible numbers over holistic interventions’ (74).”

“There's something deeply sinister in this turn of events, and it's not just the extraordinary short-sightedness of looking at earnings in a first job out of college as evidence of the value of the learning done on campus.”

Once again, the feeling that we are somehow living inside of an Armando Iannucci fever dream.

So, US is taking an “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach to blockade of the Strait of Hormuz? Genius stuff. Just brilliant gamesmanship as the world’s economy teeters on the brink.

Oh nice! Yeah, that’s one word for it. 😳 Problematic af is another.

I think the most recently produced aesthetically pleasing sci-fi movie set in space I’ve seen was _Moon_ (2009).

Oh, are you doing the group read with wallace-l?

Hungarians voting out Orban is the best geopolitical news I’ve heard in some time. That JDV shares in the defeat is just icing on the cake.

Chinatown but it’s data centres stealing all the water