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the machine is the garden Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching AI, agency, and aphantasia • machinemachine.net
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Let's just say my Amazon search history reflects my current interests of critical concern

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a whale must be near

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We are laughing

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I fluctuate between recoiling at reactionary, alt-right, "owning the Libs" Trump/Musk style trolling, and rolling my eyes at the people I am apparently aligned with online, who continue to shout the same outrage fuelled "it's called The Gulf of Mexico" type responses they would have in 2016.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Severance season 2 has really not been bringing it... Yet. How did they spend $20mil per episode!?!?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Sigh

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I am actually incapable of grasping all the many significances of this. I am broken. There are just so many levels of abhorrence here that it makes me question my sanity.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is fine

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Meanwhile...

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I would be happy for robots to dream for me occasionally. Sounds freaky

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#ACCELERATE

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What exhibitions are worth seeing in London at the moment? Anything especially related to media arts would be great.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I am amazed it took over a week for the (tech) media to get to this conclusion. This is about as surprising to me as Musk's Nazi salute.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I am amazed it took over a week for the (tech) media to get to this conclusion. This is about as surprising to me as Musk's Nazi salute.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is the headline I've been waiting for

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is the DeepSeek FAQ I needed

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Was this meant to make me cry? Because this has made me cry.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is a fascist

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Trumpism is all about flooding the zone full of sh*t. I didn't expect this so soon, though.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My media art digital thinkers #StarterPack is full! This is a joy, because it means Bluesky is now bursting with the kind of people I want to share a community with. But it's also sad, because there are plenty more people I would love to add. We need 150+++ starterpacks please @bsky.app

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

My media art digital thinkers #StarterPack is full! This is a joy, because it means Bluesky is now bursting with the kind of people I want to share a community with. But it's also sad, because there are plenty more people I would love to add. We need 150+++ starterpacks please @bsky.app

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Whatever happens, I will have Ezra Klein's take (here) on Trump and MAGA 2.0 echoing in my head over the next few months & years. I just hope it's because he is wrong

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk would not know how to handle the Gremlins

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

America needs to cultivate its own versions of this over the next 4 years.

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Elon Musk bashes the $500 billion 'Stargate' deal between OpenAI and SoftBank — and backed by Trump

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Watching Trump and Musk hand-gesture in America's tech-oligarchy yesterday, I had a perverse version of Marx -> DuBois playing in my head: "[F]or working people to be free, they must seize control of the means of *communication*."

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A man representing a company called 'Blockchain' just called. He wanted to help me recover 0.81 bitcoins from a platform called 'Blockchain'. He got angry when I asked him to explain what the blockchain was. Then even more angry when I explained to him how an advance-fee scam worked.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

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This is the future liberals want

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"The entire neo-Nazi movement seems to be eating it up,” says @nick-martin.bsky.social “He gave two unmistakable Nazi salutes and they got the message loud and clear.” www.wired.com/story/neo-na...

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

"Musk directly and repeatedly intervenes to ensure that everything revolves around him... The result is that X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual."

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Elon: *makes an unambiguous Nazi salute during inauguration speech* The entire American press:

submitted 34 days ago • 56 comments

If I had a nickel for every time I've unintentionally given a Nazi salute I would have zero nickles

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Is anyone else getting heavy Grace Jones vibes from Melania?

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Trump has mastered weaponising social media. You can't buy this kind of propaganda.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment