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virtual mallrats

A way to sell selling itself (infinite regress edition).

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General 🙜 Technology

5 Jun 2025

ballad of a con-man

The times, they are a-changin’.

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Futures 🙜 Technology

29 May 2025

I have long been aware that the reason spam emails such as 419 scams are so poorly written is to filter for, uh, low-information voters, shall we say—those who are more likely to follow the entire phishing chain, if they’re insufficiently (media) literate to recognise the initial contact as spurious.

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Futures 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Technology 🙜 Weak Signals

20 May 2025

help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

I don’t think it’s difficult to foresee the effects [of LLMs] on academic knowledge production at all, as the effects outside of the academy are glaringly obvious: I mean, have you tried searching the internet recently?

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Art 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Technology 🙜 Writing

18 Apr 2025

a bear of very little intelligence

One wonders what sort of things those two discussed over their plausibly liquid lunches along the Strand?

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General

15 Apr 2025

virtual mallrats

ballad of a con-man

international police cops

help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

a bear of very little intelligence

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