Electronic Panopticon

"Are we not dealing, through our hypertechnologies, with the transformation of all matter into virtuality, into information, into irradiation?"
- The Perfect Crime

welp

If you have time this summer, I recommend reading Lennard J. Davis’s 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 and David L. Williams’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 together.

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How am I learning about this now?!!!

Who is number one?

YouTube video by Zachary Jackson Nick@Nite 90's Broadcast Reimagined Volume 8

i could continue to doomscroll or i could watch recreated Nick at Nite www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM6C...

Manners maketh monsters.

Picturing a John Watersesque version of smellovision. Immunovision (tm)

"Our children are dying."

Roishetta and Kamea Ozane are a mother and daughter from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," where oil and gas pollution is linked to a host of health issues. They are in New York this week to protest "toxic billionaires" who finance the industry harming their community.

Bailey needs to host a retreat to teach his relaxation techniques.

@pbs.org’s The Gilded Age documentary is free on YouTube and now would be an excellent time for everyone to watch it youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?...

This is a video of a bear on a trampoline. Whatever argument you may or may not have tonight is invalid.

Drawing of men visiting factory with robots assembling new robots. Caption: Sometimes I ask myself, "Where will it ever end?"

Charles Addams 1946:
'Sometimes I ask myself, "Where will it ever end?"'

If you think about it, it’s bizarre that in any given organisation almost anyone can call a one hour meeting for 10 people, but almost nobody can authorise a spend of $1000.

Given the current goings on I thought it might be interesting to point out that the US court system ruled that werewolf porn wasn’t obscene more than a decade ago: www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

This is when I make my, this is the auro-erotic canibalism phase of capitalism joke.

We are going Live in a few hours!

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social in conversation with ‘Empire of AI’ author @karenhao.bsky.social

12pm BST, on Substack.

Watch here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

We live in a system that makes this statement controversial when it shouldn’t be.

Part of the problem is the conflation between generative AI (completely bollocks “spicy autocomplete” that’s killing the planet) and machine learning (the scientific uses to expose patterns in enormous data sets which can then be explored by humans)

BATMAN: (Gravelly Batman voice): Maybe there's another way. What if all these violent criminals are fueled by the very poverty that Wayne Enterprises creates? What if instead of fighting crime, we focus on affordable housing and good-paying jobs? What if I'm the real villain?

I'm Batman.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Four photo panels showing an Sphaerocoris annulus aka the Picasso bug. A beautiful multi-colored shield-backed bug Sphaerocoris annulus can reach a length of about 15 millimetres (0.59 in).[2][3] The basic color is green, with eleven ring-shaped spots on the scutellum. The colors and the design of these bugs represent a warning to predators. They also emit a noxious odour when disturbed. Main host plants are Gossypium species (Malvaceae), Coffea arabica (Rubiaceae), Citrus species (Rutaceae) and Vernonia amygdalina (Asteraceae).[4] This species reproduces at the beginning of the dry season (November–December). Eggs are laid on the underside of leaves, and nymphs will spend a majority of their time in flowers feeding. Once they molt into adults, however, their feeding becomes more generalized. The full development lasts 56 days.[5][6] Sphaerocoris annulus nymphs are a creamy-white color with black stripes and dots, and gain their colorful spots when they reach maturity. [2]

I’ve never had a favorite bug before; now I do.

The Picasso Bug

YOINKS!

He's Lucy with a football.

Front matter for a book entitled The Church Committee Report edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman

I love getting page proofs. Our abridged 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report will be out January 2026.

It's the first time *ever* this landmark investigation into abuses committed by the American Intelligence apparatus has been published by a major press for the general public.

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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The MLK file you ought to read today is the 1957 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," which spread widely through churches and civil rights groups and helped inspire a young John Lewis to become active in the movement for racial equality.
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A Swabian German unit of measurement for a small length (or amount) is a Muggeseggele, which means “a housefly’s scrotum.” For example, you could say “that dish needs a Muggeseggele of salt.” In 2009, Muggeseggele emphatically won a newspaper reader’s poll to find the “most beautiful Swabian word.”