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I recently finished both McKenzie Wark’ Capital is Dead and Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism. I am not entirely unsympathetic to their aims, but I have some thoughts. Not unlike Mason’s Postcapitalism, there’s a weird fetsihization of information doing far too much work.

“In this, it resembled many other things in the world, where the hardest part is showing up and trying.”

Welcome to the sim soaps, where for fun you and your friends watch a movie about what might happen to you all in scenario x

Tempted to argue Fielders rehearsal is protocol art given the whole elaborate production is in service of demonstrating the efficacy and reason behind altering fundamental rules

My expert social media style is posting about things I’m thinking about and forgetting to announce anything we are doing

A legitimate concern with AI models is not their potential to create “better” novels/essays/pictures/songs Rather that they will create new habits and media experiences that invalidate traditional consumption So it’s less about competition, more so about utter indifference

Jack thinking it through!

This has got to be some kind of record

17 year wedding anniversary today that’s pretty mad

PSG so elite they clearly set an internal challenge to win with full backs scoring just to make it more interesting That’s 5 in last 5 UCL knockout games

It is mad John McGinn appears to be the only player PSG couldn’t handle this year