Pleometric

the story goes like this writing is a technology that fragmented consciousness and that produced the detached individual subject, the perception of "I". It also enabled things like linear causality, the creation and codification of legal abstraction, bureaucracy and the management of nation-states. It made certain things possible (science, history, the autonomous self) while atrophying others (participation, pattern recognition, mythic consciousness, presence). High modernism vs Retvrn. "The Gutenberg era" was a 500-year intensification of these tendencies. Electronic/digital media are unwinding that, a return to simultaneity, immersion, the primacy of the image and the voice.

@pleometric McLuhan on writing:Socrates on Writing::E-acc:doomers ?

it's a tragedy that McLuhan is understood to be some sort of "media" guy, something to be studied by marketers and the like. To this day, his work has me hitting the Sallieri at every other sentence.

@Algon_33 web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/class… I can make a brainrot version some other day, honestly just read him he is very straight to the point

I am now 29

@Algon_33 Writing Will Die And That Is A Good Thing

@pleometric Cliff notes on McLuhan?

this is actually how it's taught too! Wow tv made the world small... yeah the internet too I guess lmao

[For the “message” of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs.] wooow dude this is like about tv or something 🤯

"strange and grotesque creatures" has been a staple of popularity with kids for a few decades now.

Skibidi Toilet and Italian Brainrot are now profitable media franchises with licensed products, born from an iterative process of algorithmic remixing with user feedback. Little of note that has been written about this process, mostly sneering with proclamations of doom. why?

@max_spero_ @tbpn reddit, a place famous for its taste and ability to discern literary value.

@tbpn wow. that's crazy. if only there was a way to tell if something was AI-generated just by looking at the content

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods — among other options — to ensure there's a human behind each prompt while allowing users to stay anonymous:

@somewheresy the degraying part makes sense since follicular mineral composition hypothesis seems to place the blame in a lack of copper because of iron displacement. I'll look into it!

@pleometric Less occasional blemishes, some scarring has gone away, stretch marks from prednisone use going away, hair is growing a bit thicker, less grays, skin holds moisture better.

Been using this. People have been giving me compliments on my De-Aging

@deepfates total McLuhan victory

The interesting thing about generative AI is not the algorithmic feedback loop creating "slop", but the speed at which people can now communicate through pure image. Bypass the linguistic for a language of pure gestalt. Mutation, selection, heredity. Visual oral culture

@norvid_studies @croissanthology @patio11 @grok no mods here, just me

@pleometric @croissanthology @patio11 @grok mods...

People love a good fraud story and in light of the most recent compliance shenanigans I would like to recommend this book. It analyzes a few big schemes to map the general architecture of financial fraud. quoting @patio11's review of it: "every fraud has a monetary hole in it. That is the very essence of fraud, it purports to have value where no value exists. Any operational hiccup being brought to light would expose the hole, and the fraud. This necessitates a new fraud to keep the old one running. This digs the hole deeper and accelerates the fraud to collapse, both because the fraud needs more victims, because the fraud naturally promises higher-than-achievable growth rates, and because it gets operationally more complicated to execute on."

@croissanthology @norvid_studies @patio11 @grok @norvid_studies I'm also gonna do you in for that tag the other day

@croissanthology @norvid_studies @patio11 @grok total penguin victory when you get to duck-hell tell 'em the purple one sent you

@nosilverv there were plenty a couple of years back but they scattered to the wind

i need to find a midjourney (/vibe coding/archival self) cozyweb dicussion forum i need to find a midjourney (/vibe coding/archival self) cozyweb dicussion forum i need to find a midjourney (/vibe coding/archival self) cozyweb dicussion forum i need to

@croissanthology @norvid_studies @patio11 @grok the day will come when you will be mallard-au-vin in my dinning hall

@norvid_studies @pleometric @patio11 My werewolf erotica is factchecked by multiple sources, including @grok and similar truth-seeking providers I'm filing this as baseless slander

@BurnZeZ @patio11 everyone also loves people who commit fraud! financial or otherwise. It's only bad if you don't look cool while doing or if you apologize. Adam Neumann of WeWork fame has been slowly staging his comeback, for example.

@pleometric @patio11 If you do the same thing in an operating system they call it “virtual memory overcommit” and everyone loves you.