Charles PM

Need a NY Post version of this website
mamdanitimes.com

Gen AI-powered necrocapitalism

This is the way

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Godzilla: The Series surprisingly managed to correctly predict the advent of Gen AI in 1998, and had an appropriate lesson at the end of the episode.

the PBS / NPR stations are asking for your fiscal support. if you do not have that to give, advocate for their survival instead of dreaming of their premature defeat.

on the falsehood of PBS / NPR’s demise spreading faster than the truth, digital liberalism shows its teeth: accepting defeat in mourning instead of taking responsibility for what could be if we worked towards it…

A Raichu Pokémon fit plush

Refuse to perform a Labubu summoning ritual, but there’s a new wonky-eyed Chu on the team

Hegemonic masculinity *is* always in crisis, because it's a set of divisive assertions at odds with lived reality, constantly challenged by the shifting frontiers of real knowledge, committed to trying to make people be things they aren't, and forced to continually make up new excuses for itself.

The way Marvel hasn't made much noise about Eyes of Wakanda had me concerned, but the show is actually fantastic? I'm not really sure 🌚 why the studio basically stealth dropped it, but it feels like the sort of project What If wanted to be. A small review from me:

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

Whole situation's not great, but v funny that the game managed to replicate the experience of pulling a misprint

A Pokemom TCG card missing its immersive Lugia art because it was removed from the game

Go girl give us nothing

"gas station lafufu" is my new sleeper agent activation phrase

If Richard Reeves can read and cite bell, you can, too! 😉

It's always funny when a white guy is like, "no one is talking about this thing or how to solve it!"

And it's something about which bell hooks wrote extensively.

Tee hee.

It’s just like his approach to COVID — the problem is never that people are suffering, the problem is that the government is bothering to keep track of how many people are suffering.

Feminism, which is a range of liberal to radical theories of sex, gender, and sexual relations, has existed for a while

For anyone who was looking for a “leftist version of this sex stuff”

Feminism, which conservatives are counternarrating

Like L O L

This administration wants everyone uninformed and to have as little access to educational / enriching programming as possible

You don't have to share bad Substack takes, you know. Very easy to just...not

The way Marvel hasn't made much noise about Eyes of Wakanda had me concerned, but the show is actually fantastic? I'm not really sure 🌚 why the studio basically stealth dropped it, but it feels like the sort of project What If wanted to be. A small review from me:

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Not a sociologist, but kinda feels like the uptick in people casually talking about phenotypes online and ad agencies doing "gene" wordplay are part of the same ugly problem

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

lol

Mark Zuckerberg records 'romantic' cover of rap hit Get Low for wife - BBC News The Facebook founder collaborates with T-Pain on a cove of Lil Jon's 2002 filthy floor-filler Get Low.

If this isn't in the movie, what's the point?

Welcome back, rapper Kendall Roy

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Substack sent a push alert to users not just of a Nazi sub but one that uses a swastika for its icon and people are still writing about the discoverability on the platform being hard to replace - I mean what are we even doing here

The War Over Credit Cards Censoring Games Is Just Getting Started Free expression advocates are flooding Visa and Mastercard call centers hoping to break through

Anti-censorship advocates flooding Visa and Mastercard's hotlines over the Steam and Itch.io NSFW purges claim it's having an impact as reported call center confusion turns to frustration in some cases.

It comes as games like Vile: Exhumed get banned.