Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

Image from The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)

This was brought on by me watching The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005), which I find genuinely scary until the (sort of silly) monsters show up. Just being in the cave was enough.

It's a great genre!

Image from The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)

This was brought on by me watching The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005), which I find genuinely scary until the (sort of silly) monsters show up. Just being in the cave was enough.

Okay, okay, but what about cave horror? Caves are terrifying to me and the idea of getting stuck in one is my worst nightmare.

The eugenics element to ai discourse is the idea that poor people can be replaced by machines; not criticisms of ai.

A man with a hideously large smile

I find the idea that he's the future of the democratic party all too plausible and frightening. Anyways, I don't trust people who look like the character from The Man Who Laughs.

Yes!

If I can toot my own horn, I do write about these connections (including theories of management) in The Celluloid Specimen.

Absolutely!

I'm biased, but I think behaviorism, as an important precursor to information theory and cybernetics, would be a good inclusion.

Me when running into my students outside of class

Me when running into my students outside of class

me off to the kitchen to eat some chocolate biscuits at 3am

Something I write about in The Celluloid Specimen is that eugenics has always had a futurist bent, one that often involves replacing human workers. I feel as though this aspect isn't discussed as much in how the general public uses of the term.

And the fact that ‘AI’ is envisioned by technofascists as accelerating a eugenicist agenda against the most vulnerable in the world

Seems like the initial post may be over stating things. I still stand by my dentures comment, though.

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Gotcha!

Right, I'm talking about Charles Davenport's definition.

From Davenport's initial definition of eugenics as a science for "breeding a better man" to today, there's always been this promise of ushering in a rationally organized, hierarchical society that exists just over the horizon.

Something I write about in The Celluloid Specimen is that eugenics has always had a futurist bent, one that often involves replacing human workers. I feel as though this aspect isn't discussed as much in how the general public uses of the term.

The eugenics element to ai discourse is the idea that poor people can be replaced by machines; not criticisms of ai.

Fuck this guy

Yes!

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Image of girl climbing out of a well from a VHS tapes in Ringu

If you were putting together a list of haunted media films, what would be on it?

Can't someone just hire his social media team out from under him and let him sink from the weight of his own hair? A pair of dentures wearing a wig would be more likable than him.

Go bear, go!

Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over