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December 4 2024, 12:18pm | Comments
Bookmark How millennials’ “epic bacon” humor became cringe - Vox
Remember when “epic bacon” was the height of comedy? Thirteen years ago, a man was sitting at the Denver airport. Bored, he turned his attention to his favorite website: “I see…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Verge
The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training…

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom
The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training…

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

April 7 2022, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech | WIRED…
Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

January 19 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ
Communist Interventions Vol. 2 (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

June 3 2020, 9:59am | Comments
Podcast Cache The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast |…
Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

November 2 2018, 12:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Slime Is Everywhere: A Cultural Compendium - GARAGE
“There are periods when ears and eyes are full of slime,” wrote Nietzsche in 1879, “so that they can no longer hear the voice of reason and philosophy or see the…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint
In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry -…
IN Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Zero Books, 2017), Angela Nagle does two remarkable things.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare? - Motherboard
Memes, as any alt-right Pepe sorcerer will tell you, are not just frivolous entertainment. They are magic, the stuff by which reality is made and manipulated.

February 2 2017, 10:53pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments
Bookmark Gender fluidity and the waning power of men - Frontpage - e-flux…
In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning.

June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments
Bookmark When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire - The Establishment
By the time she started saying “Hitler was right I hate the jews,” people had started to realize that there was something wrong with Tay.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark The Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement | Next Nature Network
We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and…

April 22 2016, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls for Vogue... -

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark The feminist groups disrupting bro-tech culture in 2016 | Dazed
Why has the narrative of computer history come to be defined more by images of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg than by the pioneering work of Ada Lovelace, who is often…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly…
BuzzFeed has achieved an outrageous amount of success in recent years, reaching an estimated 203 million people a month, including 112 million in the US alone, according to Quantcast. There are…

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology : Makery
The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers. But also for themselves.

July 7 2015, 4:20pm | Comments
Bookmark D-Accelerationism | Topical Cream
Last month, Taco Bell tweeted “Taco Bae.” The cycle from early adopters to late-capitalist commodification from urban dictionary to corporate twitter seems to be accelerating at a quicker and quicker rate.…

February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments
Bookmark LOWTECH MANIFESTO
A rant approximating the content of this document was delivered to an audience of new media artists and activists by James Wallbank, Coordinator of Redundant Technology Initiative, at The Next 5…

February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments
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February 18 2015, 12:01pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments

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