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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
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Open Source Years of Lead.

Love that I have Aellagirl's kink survey results in my Google Sheets right next to a spreadsheet of what Warhammer minis I need to get and a calculation of how long humanity has spent watching the top 20 incest videos on Pornhub (40,000+ years).

One of the problems here is that we have cultural touchpoints for AGI (Hal 9000, Data from Star Trek etc.) but we don't have stories of something that seems intelligent in every way but is not thinking (except Blindsight). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

chat did you know that you can just tell AI to be 100 times smarter?

We're always on the lookout for new writers and contributors. This is not a paid gig, fyi. Send us a DM or email if you're interested or want to learn more. #metalsky

It gives them licence to do what they want to do, or at least to enjoy other people doing it.

This was really important to the film's success. I don't think anyone would have watched it if the actors blinked.

Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

David Walliams won't see your posts calling him a talentless hack who has deserved to be forgotten about for decades, but the 57 underpaid creative writing graduates who actually write his books will.

North East ppl, come to this!

Almost certainly a Google VEO 3 generation - shared unrestricted and widely on the white supremacist social media site being propped up by thousands of institutions and individuals still refusing to stop contributing to it. What a fucking time to be alive. www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjan...

Absolutely screaming the quiet part with that 'blurring boundaries' line.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

New meta just dropped. The old meta was that you made a character black or trans and dumb chuds would do your marketing for you. The new meta is you do something kind of self-conciously rapey and white women who live in the suburbs with cop boyfriends will make TikToks about how its not feminist.

#facts

Great conversation about the political implications of a topic none of us can avoid lately—AI.

freddy kruger

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqy...

In one afternoon in 2022 I documented 300+ different examples of things being called ‘woke’. The list included headlines denouncing as ‘woke’ the US Federal Reserve, capitalism, the NYPD, BlackRock, DoD, the CoE, Wall Street, the Met, and Islamic fundamentalists, all published in a two month period

I always find it amazing that Democrats don't talk about the extremely obvious psychological problems that Miller has. Newsom should come back at him with the story of how his father lost his job and they lived in a slightly less rich area - make him the story.

Which way Western Man?

When you read interviews with Hamas higher-ups on what Oct 7th was supposed to do, they'll say it was to provoke an outsize reaction in Israel that would shock the people of the world into supporting Palestinian liberation. That's exactly what happened, but they didn't factor in...

Today in book writing: I worked out that the most viewed video on Pornhub has been viewed for a combined 11,796 years.

You can tell this is empty vice-signalling through the 'disrupt the flow of funding' part. There's no funding my man! People are just going to a part of a city they already live in.

They're all in a group chat coordinating their propaganda.

Technological civilization DESTROYED by rural England? Where have I heard that before?

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years away, so we'll need to develop light-speed travel, build a ship that can self-sustain for multiple years and set off by about September.

FETTERMAN ACTIVATE

I don't want to live in a world without Vibes Coders. Girls please DM me I shouldn't be left alone right now.