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"None of them had thought, When I grow up, I want to consume pornography in such immense quantities that strangers will fear for my sanity. None of them had lovingly sketched, on the backs of geometry worksheets, the gooncaves where they would one day jerk off, should life go according to plan. "

"Anyone paying attention to online porn’s evolution over the preceding twenty years could sense, in its brain-melting variety and abundance, the blueprint for a new kind of person, a new relationship to human sexuality."

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

This harper's piece on gooning...
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Confused by that as well. 1 hypothesis via r/newyorkcity: "..assuming that question was meant to tee up an attack on Mamdani on the Columbus Day parade, but Cuomo obviously wasn't ready for it. And Sliwa was still trying to figure out the difference between mayor, governor, and president."

YouTube video by Adam Conover Sora's so bad, it proves AI is a bubble

now that's what I call we're cooked vol. fuck this timeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4...

Ship it now, someone else will deal with it later. AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity archive.ph/KkvD7

Breaking up the sporadic AI panic w/ a rare #mechabare post. Full smut is mostly, quarantined to Twitter.

🔈 [Ghost / Bunnybot in the Medium] “AI is a new medium, and therefore the message is us, rearranged—fragments of our cognition returned to us in a form we cannot control.”
- Marshall McLuhan

AI That Works for Workers: Survey Results How do people actually feel about artificial intelligence in the workplace?

"AI is at least 4 different transformations happening simultaneously - in how we work, how we invest, how we power our world, and how nations compete. We're trying to integrate an unpredictable technology into systems that weren't designed for it. What’s happening in this messy middle?"

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

"...the impacts will depend on how many in the management class fall for the hype from the people selling this tech, and retool their workplaces around it. The more this happens, the worse off everyone will be.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in NYC mayoral primary leaves Wall Street 'alarmed' and 'depressed' His potential victory could bring what the Street despises the most — tax hikes and tighter regulation that threaten corporate and investment interests.

beautiful www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/m...

Fuckin a

holy shit NYC i don't want to get my hopes too high

"real connection feels too elusive to chase" The kids aren't alright. Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. archive.ph/AK8Bu#select...

You and I have lived our lives without being touched by war. Patlabor 2 image.

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America Friends,

Palantir is now busily combining personal data on every American gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, and Internal Revenue Service... robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-t...

"Therein lies the issue: Generative AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." archive.ph/LAZyH

YouTube video by Big Think The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century | Derek Thompson

Amistics “the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives.”

shit is gonna be (more) bananas when Facebook and the other surveillance apps do similar things when they pour more gas on optimizing for ai engagement

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

ruh roh “What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"Because lies are also a kind of violence, violence against the truth, against the compact we have that words describe realities, and we live in a shared reality."

AI isn’t magic. It’s just weird A new paper argues that AI should be treated as a ‘normal’ technology like electricity or the internet. But it’s far more unknowable

"The uncertainty in programming came from my own fallibility, the reality that it would take me dozens of iterations to solve a problem correctly. For gens... it was normal to accept that we humans would err, but that our computers would remain stubbornly, inflexibly logical & rational."

It's time to drink coffee and listen to the new Stereolab.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to finally watch HyperNormalisation.

It’s time to drink coffee and listen to Fugazi.

After watching Love on the Spectrum, it’s very difficult to watch Love is Blind.

When tattoos suddenly seem like a good idea.

Well it looks like AI has officially killed the Buzzfeed quiz.
❌ Wat type of bread are u?
❌ Which Disney villain is yr attachment style?
✅ What does yr highly specific #mechabare kink reveal about yr unprocessed relational trauma, subconscious needs + the structural limits of yr coping mechanisms?

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

“By the time we all get over the novelty of these new toys and start taking stock of the social, political and economic wreckage, the tech is already so ubiquitous that the courts and policymakers throw up their hands.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The good thing about having therapy homework is now I have something more uncomfortable to procrastinate on, so I’ve been able procrastinate by applying for new jobs.

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Q: What would you say are your skills? A: Maintaining while fucked up. media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...