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editor-in-chief @proteanmag / contributing writer @Truthout / a personal acct.

 Portland, OR
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Joined August 2015
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1882! suck it Hopper you horny hack
Masterpieces of Japan
@JapanTraCul21h
Night View of a Ginza Store, by Inoue Yasuji, 1882
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my dislike of Hopper is probably one of my more unpopular opinions. in part it’s because i’m a devotee of Register, who paints the quiet mundane in a way that makes EH look like crap. but i also read an EH biography—he was a mediocre talent in the right place, right time
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if you want to be like me and learn to hate Hopper, though, all you need to do is to page through a book of his whole oeuvre—you must see beyond “Nighthawks,” “Sun in an Empty Room,” and the Cape Cod house. you must witness, in the aggregate, how he paints women
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my personal favorite
L'uomo degli abissi@Fanrizio2113h
New York 1951 Ernst Haas
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runner up
Eye On Axis@eyeonaxis2h
Saul Leiter could create a masterpiece with an unfocused red curtain, a woman and half a man.
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child’s play. a mere trickle. if you want to see a REAL one check out Lake Peigneur
GH HILL
@GHHILL1911Oct 27
Morton salt is mined 2,000 feet below Lake Erie. And now the lake is leaking into the mine. The mine was evacuated, with no injuries. Do not expect the mine to reopen anytime soon. Or ever.
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This is the trouble with referring to this technology as "intelligence." It is not. It is basically just large-scale pattern recognition software aggregating what it's been fed. So you can make it regurgitate any old bullshit if it's what the Internet or its programming says.
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler4h
Just had a long conversation with Gemini, and it says Trump achieved this by flooding the internet with lies. So, I guess, be wary all responses from Google's AI about anything MAGA lies about programatically?
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fascinating—a pre-Copernican understanding of the relationship between self and world
PoIiMath
@politicalmathOct 27
OK, I'll bite. If John Cassavetes is so insanely influential and brilliant, why have I not heard about him until recently? I've been on a side-quest with classic and esoteric movies, mostly through the Criterion collection. I've watched dozens of Criterion closet picks from filmmakers and actors I admire. They pick Cassavetes films ALL THE TIME. Probably more than any other director except Scorsese. I haven't seen a single Cassavetes film. I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about a Cassavetes film outside of those videos. I'm not a slouch on film, I've got a pretty wide spread on what I've seen & what I appreciate. How has Cassavetes slipped through that net so completely for so long?
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Honored to be included in this year’s shortlist from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association.
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glad to see Long-Haul covering this topic in a great article from @samrussek—plasma donation has always been one of the most egregious horrors of literal capitalist extraction, and combined with the maquiladora system and cross-border exploitation, it’s an utter nightmare
Long-Haul@longhaul_magOct 26
All along the US-Mexico border, workers cross checkpoints after their shifts in sweatshop factories to donate plasma to U.S. corporations, feeding the most profitable part of a global plasma industry. longhaulmag.com/liquid-asset…
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i’m just finishing Bolaño's 2666 right now, which is really lending an appropriately nauseating backdrop to this piece
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my favorite poorly targeted PR email of the day. you'd think they could see that clearly we're protean mag not carb mag
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Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

On Ghassan Kanafani | Los Angeles Review of Books

An essay and translations considering the influential Palestinian writer, thinker, and activist.

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hmmm equalityalec.substack.com/p/… xitter.cf/equalityAlec/status/21…
Drop Site
@DropSiteNewsOct 26
⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported. Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia. The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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The grift is so transparent. Every one of these apocalyptic AI posts is written by a CEO trying to sell their shitty product.
Brad Groux
@BradGrouxOct 26
This is the canary in the coal mine, y'all. The AI math doesn't math. Microsoft is offering buyouts for nearly a quarter of it's workforce. AI adoption for businesses is a 24-month journey in a perfect scenario. They aren't seeing adoption fast enough to offset their CapEx spending... and they aren't alone. Add Anthropic's measly revenue numbers (compared to their CapEx), and hopefully you get the point. These aren't buyouts because Microsoft found efficiencies with AI, they are buyouts because they (the AI industry) spend trillions (collectively) building the best tools the world has ever seen, and no one knows how to use them. digitalmeld.io/blog/who-is-p…

Who Is Paying for the AI Boom? | Digital Meld Blog

AI is already useful. The financing behind frontier labs is increasingly circular, provider revenue remains hard to isolate, and public evidence does not support planning a business around near-term...

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sad case, too jealous of Brecht. happens all the time
Alina Stefanescu@alinerOct 24
A great book, though I strongly disagree with how Scholem treated WB’s trust and projected his own issues— and yes GS had plenty of them— onto WB. Many of WB’s friends did this, unfortunately—
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the “Good Enough” Illiterate
🎃 herbert von carrion 👻@ragandboneshopOct 24
sometimes i accidentally wander over to threads
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Fariña was Pynchon’s acidhead buddy, gone before his time. “Been Down So Long…” makes for an interesting point of comparison, like a controlled variable that helps define the madcap acidhead style that Pynchon drew on but spun into something altogether different
Stephen Piccarella@spiccarellaOct 23
My gf just found this on a free shelf at an antique warehouse. We had both been looking for a copy forever.
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