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Communication Studies PhD student, Concordia University. Machine Agencies Lab Coordinator. AI, Synthetic Media, and Monsters. Leftist. He/Him Training isn't theft Everything for everyone. All of us first.

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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 1h
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
it's not even a question of "slop" or commercial art. Every single time this subject comes up we only talk about stuff you buy at a store (which can still be art!) and not actual aesthetic innovation as it appears in museums and galleries. Media art and algorithmic are are decades old!!
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
Blocked but want to make this point Who cares their intent as long as they're open. The notion of having this amorphous pool of reference that can be traversed with algorithms is itself alone too profound to give up as a development. I'd rather have that Babelesque resource more than anything else
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
Yeah being trained on libgen or Anna's archive is based as hell
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
It's when I open my mouth and the autism comes out
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
They say they're talking about art but their examples in the replies are all commercial products. Completely ignoring (or ignorant of) any historical examples of media / new media / algorithmic art or even conceptual or avant garde art
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
An ongoing list of art works that incorporate AI into their workflows that have been exhibited all over the world by legitimate museums and galleries. bsky.app/profile/dyla...
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 3h
Media art as a genre of fine art has not only existed since the 60s it has been collected and exhibited in world famous galleries and museums. Conceptual art and avant garde literally articulated their mission as removing any human presence from their work. You are talking about COMMERCIAL ART
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 4h
Also: discovering likes on FEELD expire and they surreptitiously hide people who like you from the discover feed unless you pay for a subscription has made it even worse
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 4h
Literally the only thing keeping me sane is that I have a—for lack of a better term—friend with benefits (emphasis on friend) who is in an open marriage but I haven't seen her in over a year because she lives in the US and I'm in Canada
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 4h
Pure hell. I haven't been on a date in over a year. Longer since I've had any sexual relations. I get almost no matches ever anymore. It's been a decade since I've been in a relationship
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 6h
Yes. It drives me crazy that we think every conservative pundit is pretending to have the beliefs they publicly espouse. Just accept the fact that they are either really crazy or really stupid!
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 6h
scream it from the rooftops
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 6h
based
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 6h
it's so weird how if rape or sexual assault happens on a campus it is somehow considered not as severe of a crime? Like, the worst that happens is you're expelled? What happened to going to jail
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 9h
Seems like the Cornell 7 has precipitated new metoo style reckoning. Here's lifedrive___/Alice Aster on Instagram sharing receipts of NYC art world / theory people being heinous in a groupchat (with presumably more receipts to come) www.instagram.com/p/Dd9RCWpEep...
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 11h
You really get the sense that these guys are not actually into CNC but use it as a permission structure to be abusive. I've heard similar stories from women whose dating preferences are non-vanilla. Men conflating abuse with dominance and showing little respect for their partner's desires
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 12h
I think I need someone to catch up here. Why does everyone hate Aaron? Is it about AI?
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 12h
I am pretty quick to distrust major corporations especially OpenAI and Anthropic, but this "secret calculator" angle seems a bit conspiratorial
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 12h
Discord hiding ignored messages with an "ignored message" in its place really defeats the purpose of ignoring messages. I want no trace whatsoever that a message ever existed!
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 13h
Great corrective to the insanity from @leifw.bsky.social
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
hm. Probably bad
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
Like all of these critiques depend on caring about what the agent is or is not doing. I don't care!
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
I don't really care if what agents are doing can be called reason or thought as long as I can impute value in some shape or form onto what is produced. Intent, motivation, impetus, sentience don't matter. I can like market-driven Hollywood entertainment for same reason
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
when I'm dictator of video games I am going to make it a requirement for all games and *especially* soulslikes to have an ultra easy story mode
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...
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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
I'm willing to concede the stochastic parrots metaphor because I don't really care about how an output is produced as long as it stimulates thought or entertainment Same way that I don't care if a movie is the consequence of a corporate boardroom as long as I can enjoy or think about it
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 30/09/2026
Using my food processor is muscular surrender.
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
Once again, we are regressing to a time before conceptual art and experimental writing
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
it's so odd for a weird fiction author to be so sentimentally attached to the "human" and the "minds of others" as preconditions for how to define writing. Especially when he's the source of one of the best metaphors for latent space! (The "shimmer" / Area X)
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
The way Outlook won't mark an email as read until you click out of it is maddening
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD GOAT OR BIRD GOARB
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
10 USD in CAD is 14 dollars so in real dollars it is more than TWICE as expensive to purchase in Canada
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
That a book listed as 10 dollars will be 3x more expensive in Canada (and not because of the conversion rate!) is crazy to me
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
Dear lord what is wrong with you
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
Weather in the 50°'s but with 93% humidity is diabolical
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 30/09/2026
fuck
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
Ironic to call this elitism when an anime super fan once told me I wasn't a "real anime fan" because I preferred dubs despite the fact that I had been watching anime for longer than she'd been alive.
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
the midterms are gonna be pretty bad for republicans, huh
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The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 29/09/2026
If calling to make doctor's appointments enriches your life, get better hobbies
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
what the fuck
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 29/09/2026
Elon Musk looks like a regular sized version of an Attack on Titan titan
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
"Youth CCRU," I say, trying to make a joke, forgetting I am probably the only person alive who is familiar with both the late 80s / early 90s hardcore punk genre and the esoteric academic research group from the late 90s early 2000s
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
Knock it off Novicoff
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
Just the absolute sweatiest freak of nature
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GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 29/09/2026
Just the weirdest shaped dude
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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s politically inconvenient for some people that a lot of the best AI poasters on here are trans women
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