I have written on Substack about why it's basically impossible to move your—or at least, my—Twitter life to Substack.
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Ian Bogost
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Writer & game designer. Director of Film & Media Studies and Professor of Computer Sci & Eng . Contributing Writer . Also @ibogost@journa.host
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Found this in my camera roll
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The Etsy error screen is so intense.
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I never really ever have a “hamburger.” Always a cheeseburger. That makes me a little sad.
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The stain of the Real and so on and so on.
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For years now, my iPhone has been autocorrecting “gamers” to “Gamers`” and I can’t stop it and every time it happens I feel like I’m in a Žižek lecture.
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Can’t believe you made me do this.
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My mom’s retirement gift from her office:
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If you wear a scarf indoors for long enough you become an architect.
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Imagine if there were an LA Mag and it wrote a version of that NY Mag story from an Angeleno perspective. It would be, like, “Do whatever you want. Nobody cares.”
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Kind of amazing, in retrospect, that this actually happened.
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Kind of amazing how apples were literal garbage until 1991, at which point they invented a good one but also kept all the gross ones anyway.
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“Remember ‘Melissa?’”
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I’m late to it but this NY Mag cover story is like when a particularly afflictive but loquacious duo gets seated next to you at a Manhattan brunch spot and you and your companions talk about them occasionally for the rest of your lives.
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Eczema Days Blowout - These Deals Won’t Last
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT “human-or-AI detector” made me realize why AI suddenly feels so real: because I can imagine it’s imminent bureaucratization.
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They’re just straight up letting four-year-olds name pharmaceuticals now.
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Twitter is great now because nobody sees my tweets but yet I still also get death threats.
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In a new one even for me, someone burned an InMail chit to send me a hate message on LinkedIn.
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“Procurement may adopt a new Workday plug-in to ensure vendor-work-product approvals are following AI best practices, a requirement you will now have to perform in addition to filling out your expense reports—not to mention your actual job.”
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT “human-or-AI detector” made me realize why AI suddenly feels so real: because I can imagine it’s imminent bureaucratization.
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Please don’t.
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“Academe”
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Video games
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Interpellated
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Faceted gold object
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* Peggy Olson flips easel board *
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The built environment
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Microsoft Outlook sent me an email cataloguing the emoji reactions my emails had received.
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Think of the dumbest possible future. That’s the most likely one. theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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BuzzFeed and CNET aren’t innovating: They’re using AI to reinforce an unfortunate status quo, where stories are produced to hit quotas and serve ads against—that is, they are produced because they might be clicked.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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Do you ever think about how Bon Jovi had a song called “Shot Through The Heart” and it’s a different song than “You Give Love a Bad Name”
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Who out there was like, “I can’t post longer videos to Twitter FML.”
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