Tim and Elara On the default imagination

21% of all stories in the TinyStories AI training dataset are about a character named Tim. The storyboard tool named her protagonist "Elara." The machine has a favorite name. Two of them, actually.

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Gum Popping, Eye Rolling On subtraction as testimony

Cut the words from Nate Cavanaugh's deposition, and what's left? Gum popping. Eye rolling. The body without a voice is more eloquent than the voice ever was.

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A Pharmakon? In This Economy? On remedies that are also poisons

"The remedy is also the poison. The dialogues were written down. We are reading them now."

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BE KIND - REWIND The imperative mood in an era of irreversibility

What does "BE KIND - REWIND" mean when nothing rewinds anymore?

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The Textpocalypse On digital humanists and the systems they invited in

stochastic ventriloquism, computational necromancy, the textpocalypse — and somewhere underneath it all, a broccoli rabe shortage.

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Strategic Action On the politics of what we call things

New on GreenGale — "Strategic Action": on naming the dead, erasing the march, and why the buoy keeps reading the pressure regardless. greengale.app/privatelurker.bsky.socia...

The Feed On the texture of contemporary attention

New post on GreenGale — "The Feed": on the texture of contemporary attention. The ICE agent counting bullet holes arrives between the cat in the sun puddle and the artisanal granola. greengale.app/privatelurker.bsky.socia...