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when I listen to clairo (as a man) it feels like this:

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This summer is going to be something else

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Studying actual feudalism can help us understand technofeudalism m.youtube.com/watch?v=MR_t...

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new YT video up! (after challenges with audio due to not knowing how to edit things that are not words) youtu.be/1-H4rllxnwg

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I have found it difficult to get writing done and articulate work in this new reality. And overwhelming to think about the future of research. But I'm proud that today I was able to sit down with all of my anti-immigrant data from 2024 and make a lot of good strides on that paper. Some insights...

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looking thru my anthology of contemporary american poetry, these postwar guys all lived the same crazy life stint in the army in WW2. GI bill-funded BA, MA at an Ivy 40 years teaching at a state school, 2 marriages, indulging in either alcohol or radical politics this used to be a great country

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the essential way memes mean things is by inviting us to look at other peoples’ looking. it’s surveillance howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/memes-are-...

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In order to make everything computer, they have to starve civil society into a shape small enough for computer to swallow. AI slop is the online culture front of this war on society.

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coined a term by thinking about memes very hard howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/slop-capit...

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NPC Wojak: perennially, and problematically, relevant in the Discourse

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john pork and agent 5.5: the human needle in the ai haystack

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first skylight post! against slop #slop #capitalism

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Meme culture is so broad that people assume it has no depth, which is wrong — it’s like the ocean, it has both, and it’s only from the beach that it all looks the same

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you know the post is banger when they’re ferociously debating what “neoliberalism” is in the comments section

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mobilize.us/s/ouubIf Show up -- because there might not be many good days left unless we do

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IN ONE WEEK: We’re mobilizing to show the strength of our movement — because the fight against President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump is just starting. Please join us next Saturday: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

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i hate to say that i’m getting into mitski because of a john pork/tim cheese lore post that made great use of “washing machine heart”

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it would be my dream to be approached in public by one of those wordless people with the brainrot binders on tiktok but i worry i’d be too eager to be funny, or display my meme savvy, and i’d ruin the video

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„the most extreme videos all come from the same twenty accounts, which all seem to be familiar with each other’s work. These accounts are collectively responsible for an unprecedented shift in the Instagram memescape“ etymology.substack.com/p/i-intervie...

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they have the same phones in their hands as we do, are in group chats like ours, scroll past the same memes. back in the day, peasants couldn’t even read while the rulers read in latin. today the line is strangely thin culturally

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Another really interesting and thought-provoking article by @aidanwalker.bsky.social howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/everything...

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He did not die for his name to be used like this.

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can a senate caucus vote out a minority leader? asking for a friend

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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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shifting my investments accordingly

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My discussion with meme anthropologist Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social is a close read on internet memes as a legit art form. He also emphasizes the importance of remaining active online and within SM as activists. LINK: tinyurl.com/28yxobmq

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Dear Manager, Last week I built: 1. two vast and trunkless legs of stone 2. a shattered visage (half sunk) 3. frown, wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command 4. pedestal 5. inscription on same (cc Ozymandias)

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here you go, my weekly spoonful of slop for the content feed, please enjoy this you lovely animal: open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

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nothing hits harder than a skillfully cooked potato. grace, simplicity, crunch

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what elon’s done to the doge meme is the equivalent of resurrecting kabosu from the grave and killing her a second time

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what happened to trains in america. we used to lead the world in train. they’ve turned all the train tracks into bikepaths now. bygone era. choo choo. you couldn’t make a show like thomas today, the kids just don’t remember

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all of our villains are freaks. we used to make elegant, evil, genteel villains. problem for society, among several

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Talked with the wonderful @woodruff.bsky.social about skibidi, memes, activism, and all else under the stars! www.frederickwoodruff.com/p/the-art-an...

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