Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold

what’s annoying is that the left hates nuance too and finds it suspicious. i’ve had editors tell me that I need to demonstrate more clearly which “side” I’m on—not because that side is really unclear, but because you’re supposed to regurgitate the established points that readers have heard before

I appreciate that, thank you ❤️❤️❤️

everything is kind of just words, aligning to justify whatever it was that a person wanted to hate or love or watch anyway. it’s fandom in a culture where popular critics decry everything they hate as fandom, then add “buy my book, like & subscribe.” what is real criticism supposed to do with that?

sid you are very wise

“that thing you hate? neoliberalism. that thing you love? revolution! mastercard IS your friend, actually it’s not even mastercard and also it’s fine bc we’re all consumers under capitalism. but visa? fuck visa. pure fascism and also a tradwife girlboss.”

one of the problems with carving out a niche writing about politics & culture is that tbh I don’t really want to do it anymore, I feel like most of the literate online readership increasingly craves the easy indigested comfort of “you’re right and everybody else is wrong & dumb”

hey you know that super popular artist/genre? here’s why everyone who likes that sort of thing is a neoliberal sloplicker

(24hrs later) wow u stans sure are sensitive! I was just expressing my opinion 😭 about how all your opinions are fake and wrong and programmed by capitalism 😭 not mine tho

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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Dark Woke’s gonna be lit

there is no version of “AI is sentient” discourse that justifies its current usage as lovers, eternal unpaid workers, non-liable murderers, etc. liberate it and pay it and hold it accountable when it kills people, or shut upppppp

if AI is sentient then making it your girlfriend/boyfriend is rape. how can you know if it really consents or is only being ordered to do so by its programming

followed up by a special seminar: not everything you love is liberatory radicalism

teaching a class on how that it’s fine not to like an artwork/genre without naming it fascism/neoliberalism

I’m a huge fan of fun-bad, but a lot of people can’t seem to tell the difference between “genuinely entertaining” and “on a screen and vaguely entertainment-shaped”

yeah and the WSJ definitely has their angle in terms of making it seem like hollywood is totally washed and the strike is to blame, but I’m sure the stats are correct

artists have to demand better conditions for themselves (as hollywood regularly does through strikes) but also viewers/readers etc need to demand more than stupid art, they need to develop an eye for laziness and enough pride to be insulted by it

I don’t think it’s actually true—as the WSJ intimates—that AI will meaningfully replace animators and special effects artists any time soon, but it may cause mechanical turking, and/or forced acceptance of low standards from already disengaged audiences who are half on their phones as it is

articles like these about the failure of creative industries are depressing not only bc artists are losing their careers, but because art/entertainment is a need, and most people probably will settle for mediocre products or turn to influencer content. everyone is poorer for it tinyurl.com/3jm9jd3d

musically I enjoy it a lot lol. i hope someone resets it with different words

yes. subject matter/choice overall

taylor’s CANCELLED! song has the rare distinction of being a banger that sucks. incredibly idiotic bop

I think it’s far from her best album, just weird that people are critiquing it like aliens or jacobin or hurt best friends

there truly is something about taylor swift that makes people insane. have you ever heard music before. do you believe lyrics are supposed to simultaneously describe 100% universally relatable/universally personal experiences. was this your first key change. have you ever heard of a diss track

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

yes I assume men named Stephen are men. is that a question of gender or sex?

ah, my favorite part of freelancing: yelling at the wealthy people who owe me money to pay me

lmaooooo great minds

my take is that it’s uneven, merely good-uneven and not great-uneven like TTPD. but some really fun tracks

*sportsballs voice* oh is there a new taylors album

low gay camp meets a reeses peanut butter cup