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kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
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Something about LLMs is that, more than almost any other transformative/disruptive technology i can think of, the 'dead labor' that has been appropriated to build these machines is ALL OF OUR LABOR. Our surplus value! These machines should be ours to control, shape, use, destroy, share.

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"a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone" -- Jony Ive and the gadget boys trying to remind us how much we miss the device-fetishism of the flatlay era

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Didn't think i'd ever enjoy reading an ayahuasca chronicle but here we go, sarah miller is a genius so www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess...

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[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

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Ideal pairing, in that any successful relationship can only support one menswear guy

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Grounded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s latest book, The Serviceverry, writers @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and @annapendergrast.bsky.social look at the power of reciprocity and gift-giving in various digital spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

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imagine what a degraded and pitiful worm-consciousness one must have to post "@grok is this true?" in a twitter thread!!

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The latest @newpublic.org newsletter is written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. In it, we explore how concepts in Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2024 book The Serviceberry might manifest in digital projects and online spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

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Come and hang out with me and @annapendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific) // 9.30am May 20 (NZ) More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...

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If I ever write a book and they try to put any kind of color gradient on the cover I will shriek so loud

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EVENTS IN SPACE AND TIME (but most likely in Oakland). Our calendar of (not just) literary events continues to blossom across the greater Oakland bay area, come out come out. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

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Just belatedly read Birnam Wood, the new-er Ellie Catton book that i don't think made much of a splash but which kinda fucked me up (even though i'm not sure it was a great book) and perhaps feels even more direly timely a year and a half after publication

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Doing a little dive into the “me and my ChatGPT 🥰” genre on reels and tiktok and boy it’s wild out there - i did not know so many online girls were out there spilling their guts to the bot 24/7

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I enjoyed this new entry into the Stanley Quencher discourse, on the attempted reactionary-bro-ification of the Stanley. thebaffler.com/latest/the-c...

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Dude... things are d a r k dark. It's leftist community prepping time for real -- can't leave the disaster preparedness to the few remaining public servants and heavily armed chud militias excited to protect Target from looters. 📻🪣🧯👨‍🍼💊🥫

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The people are crying out for an unalienated relationship to the world, to work, to our animal brethren!! Unfortunately they are expressing that desire by destroying food safety systems rather than destroying capitalism, industrial agriculture, the wage...

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Would you like to read 4800 words about this evil object? Possibly not... but I wrote it for you anyway! On the golden pager, Ngai's gimmick, Freud's joke, the destruction of Gaza, kitsch, circuits, the end of the Poor Image, & some new theories about space+time. dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...

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i need to eat the perfect lunch or my day will be ruined

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Tomorrow!!! See a few of you there to learn about EMERGENCY RADIO. After that… we get our ham licenses?

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Omg my first terrible bits of handspun yarn 😭 Get in losers we’re making our own hideous clothes from the sheep upwards

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Damn, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. Do the WorldCoin Orb as evil prophetic object next dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...

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finally wrote an unreadably grim essay! ha

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New from me! For Dilettante Army (& visionary editor Sara Clugage) I wrote a deep/dark analysis of the foul and tacky "golden pager" trophy that Netanyahu gifted Trump back in Feb. This is about trees, circuits, jokes, images, explosions, kitsch, evil. dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...

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