03 / September 28

Degrade the Threads

“In the past this information has been suppressed / But now it can be told / Every man, woman, and mutant / On this planet shall know the truth of de-evolution”
— Devo

Topics

Cognitive offloading, second screen, blast beats, and rage rap; devolution, slurp juice, mutation, degens; bitrot, slop wars, Shitpostmodernism, Understanding the Slopgeneration, and Why Slop Matters; New Memory, the (a)social (de)construction of reality; New Memory, the wood between worlds, We are happy at CERN; Walter Lippmann, Edward Bernays, propaganda and public relations; the XX Committee, counterintelligence, and James Jesus Angleton's wilderness of mirrors; social engineering, parasocial relations, mis/dis/mal/info, pentesting, redteaming, the malicious hacker to offensive security pipeline; Philip K. Dick, Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Simulationism in art; the Simulation Hypothesis and its discontents; OCEAN, Facebook, and captology; OCEAN and model personalities; NLP, RenTech to LLMs; Young-Grrrl War-Machine, Cyberfeminism Index; Alex Quicho, Everyone is a Girl Online; Mindy Seu, Cyberfeminism Index

Readings 3

The Mandela Effect and New Memory Aaron French Shitpostmodernism: Understanding the Slopgeneration Kieran Press-Reynolds Selections from Cyberfeminism Index Mindy Seu (editor)

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 4

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto Andreessen Horowitz Everyone Is a Girl Online Alex Quicho Why Slop Matters Cody Kommers, et al. Why AI Slop Matters, but Not Like That Sachita Nishal, et al.

Lab

Fitting frequencies: computer perception and aesthetics

Iman Malik
Color
Style, LoRAs
Training LoRAs if time permits