Damien Pfister

shooting up contraband cancer mRNA vaccine behind the Cyber Arby’s in 2034. the Ring camera on the Wells Fargo across the street recognizes my shape using LIDAR and releases an HHS sanctioned Bobby’s Bullet Buddy drone that shoots each of my nuts clean off one at a time

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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No Kings includes Draft Kings

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

The upside of child sacrifice Those Moloch worshipers were pikers. Back in those days, I imagine the ancients brought a child or two to the altar to be knifed in early spring, in order...

Between Musk's porn generator, Zuckerberg's trauma machine, and the suicide-encouraging bots that Google invested in - Big Tech is finding that child sacrifice is very, very profitable.

I feel especially strongly about this one. New from me:
buttondown.com/creativegood...

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

Gamer publics: live-stream debate networks and the mediation of argument in the digital attention economy This paper evaluates how live-streaming content creators use debate to hail their audience into “gamer publics,” deliberative spheres shaped by the practices of gaming culture. In the wake of react...

Grab your free copy of "Gamer Publics," one of my recent publications about live-streamed debate and argument among gamers. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QSI6X...

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Screenshot with text of an abstract. "In a relatively short time, market and political forces have intensified the reach of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become, in a word, climatic—not only a discrete technological system but also a creeping assemblage of ideological, material, and political forces. This article tracks these forces by developing rhetorical climates of AI as a conceptual framework. In doing so, I aim to (1) link the harms of climate change with the rapid buildout of AI infrastructure and (2) shift the frame of the conversation by emphasizing the extractive, exploitative, enclosed, and knotted supremacist conditions that have been prerequisites for building AI systems at scale. While these pervading rhetorical climates may seem unchangeable, I track how microclimates of resistance have developed, in the past and in the present. In particular, I emphasize the importance of bodily intelligence in navigating asymmetrical conditions of power felt in the AI industry. The article concludes by discussing how rhetoric and writing studies can weather the unfolding rhetorical climates of AI by diagnosing conditions, seizing moments, and plotting futures to imagine a less extractive and less harmful world."

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access!
publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

The New Turing Test

is whether a human is capable of understanding

that

human-like responses from a computer are not good evidence that it perceives or feels anything,

compared to

the biological similarities, including in DNA, between you and members of a vast number of other species.

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My darling. I write from the battlefield. It's so cold today; there is ill news throughout the mid-Atlantic—is what they say about Montclair true?—yet here are good tidings: the pararhyme disarmed them and we plan to turn the tide with metonymy. Their armies are vast but we are not without hope.

For those of you at #NCA2025

Say more!

TIL the postwar Frankfurt School, in the personage of Friedrich Pollock, produced a book-length analysis of the automation question as it appeared in the mid-1950s. Thanks @cominsitu.bsky.social

I find it terrifying that people (men) think they are falling in love with AI chat bots.

The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.

Enduring Digital Damage Networks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connec...

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

CAI SPECIAL SERIES CFP: FEEL THE AGI! GEN AI AND/AS RELIGION Special Topic Series in Critical AIFeel the AGI! On (Generative) AI and/as ReligionSeries Editor John Modern (Franklin & Marshall College) The language of religion courses through the AI hype m…

NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses The defining experience of fascism.

"This absurdity, in fact, is at the very heart of fascist violence. It is the final twist of the knife, the head-shaking feeling of disbelief right before you are tossed in the prison van. It’s not just that we are being destroyed, it’s that we are being destroyed for incredibly stupid reasons."

Teachable Readings - AGAINST AI Image: Bride of the Wind, Oskar Kokoschka

just the hugest shout-out to the site against-a-i.com/short-readin..., with a list of teachable readings that I could pull from for my class this semester

thanks to the team putting it together, led by @annakornbluh.bsky.social. What a service <3

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a flyer for the book Remembering Jefferson, including text about the book's content, praise from reviewers, and a code for a discount and free shipping from the University Press of Kansas.

Good morning! Here's a flyer for Remembering Jefferson--use the code at the UP Kansas web site and get 30% off and free shipping. Just in time for the semisesquicentennial!

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

I’m not saying anything novel, but I wake up every morning, struck anew with the realization that the worst possible behaviors are incentivized, the virtues I uphold have no market value, the most tragicomically incompetent ppl are in charge, + we’re gleefully flooding ourselves with toxic sludge.

The future of education is being built by people who skimmed Dewey’s Experience and Education—the title only— and then go on to install LED swings and ball pits and call it curriculum.

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.

But there was a slight hitch.

It hallucinated the size of those deals.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.