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A long time ago, the whole world could have said that it lived in a golden age of machines that created wealth and kept peace. But then the world was bound to pass from the golden age to the gilded age, to the world of machine superpowers and capitalism, to the one of savage inequality and corporatism. The more machines rely on language, the more power they have to distort the discourse, and the more that ordinary people are at risk of being put in a dehumanized social category.

An AI program, G-P2, wrote the text above when prompted with an excerpt from an article in the New Yorker, The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us? EEK.

#ai #technology #evolution #late stage capitalism #newyorker #quote #quotation

He recently hit a rich vein of discontinued Pop-Tarts.

An “Amazon Nomad” traveling the country looking for arbitrage opportunities

#consumerism economy futurism #america

Since 2015, all of us have been required to measure and remeasure what we consider to be grotesque, the full anatomy of the term, its gorgonic depths.

Talia Lavin for the Village Voice

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/28/stormy-with-a-chance-of-maga/

Some people are nuts.

#furby #music #artwork

“No man at Home Depot is willing to hear a woman when she tells him he’s wrong.”

The patriarchy hurts us all.

#patriarchy #quotes #mansplaining

The Women Are Angry

“I wanted to be cool and desired by men, because even as a teenager I knew implicitly that pandering for male approval was a woman’s most effective currency. It was my best shot at success, or at least safety, and I wasn’t sophisticated enough to see that success and safety, bestowed conditionally, aren’t success and safety at all. They are domestication and implied violence.”

On the evolution of female anger and feminism.

#harvey weinstein #quotes #feminism #women in the workplace #women in the world

Illustration of little anchors? NOPE! Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin magnified 100x

Check out other crazy pictures here.

#photography #science #magnification

Mix of jams of the last century. DJ Dr Dre back in the day.

#dj #drdre #music #remix #remixes #hip hop #old school

A Cage For The Love” (2017) by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye on display at the New Museum in NYC

“Yiadom-Boakye is doing more than exploring the supposedly uncharted territory of black selfhood, or making—in that hackneyed phrase—the invisible visible. (Black selfhood has always existed and is not invisible to black people.)...

Here is blatant virtuosity, hiding in plain sight”

- Zadie Smith’s homage of a write-up.

#lynette yiadom-boakye #painting #portrait #artwork #new museum #nyc

I'm like a large and conservative disco ball right now. I'm the least intimidating I have ever been.

things to say when you're wearing a sequin-covered polo

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