anthony

postdoc @UvA_Amsterdam media studies. phd @SFU. wrote algorithmic authenticity (meson press 2023). I research how people (ab)use data, masculinity, and theory

[anthony @anthbrtn]

aaaand it's out! ALGORITHMIC AUTHENTICITY, with @whkchun and others, is available open access from @meson_press in PDF https://t.co/hsv3yzPlfM

[anthony @anthbrtn]

I moved to the Netherlands in order to be quoted in French! https://t.co/4sBUvOYJ3w

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

It's so funny that we actually invented the racism dial

[anthony @anthbrtn]

Imagine watching this and thinking the below is better acted! It strikes me that this is a very good case of the lack of imagination of an AI -- reading the line exactly according to an extremely narrow and superficial reading of the sentiment

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

actors are in serious trouble..

Tavus just dropped Hummingbird-0, it can lipsync any actor with natural human expression and movement

AI actors can act better now

tutorial and more examples:

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Marc Andreessen is a racist, Richard Hanania is a racist, and the reason a lot of centrist Democratic pundits and consultants, including a lot of the people involved with the abundance movement, are in the same group chats and at the same parties is because they agree with them.

[anthony @anthbrtn]

@ByYourLogic "you'll get to eat cake!"

[MR. MITCH @1800ghostman]

Pierre losing is already starting to destroy the brains (even more so) of Canada’s right wing Facebook meme page admins

[ben “reschultzed.com” schultz @reschultzed]

finally, a polling firm brave enough to turn this 26-year-old onion joke into a reality

[anthony @anthbrtn]

@dwkamish I find it very beautiful when the caribou sheds its antlers

[anthony @anthbrtn]

@noetic_emetic That picture is so good lol

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

someone hasn’t heard lol

[anthony @anthbrtn]

yeah I love DEI...., Doing Everything Interestingly

[anthony @anthbrtn]

Twitter's new Grok release sounds like it's been reading pickup artist forums for tone advice

[anthony @anthbrtn]

wanted to buy a new laptop and just decided i could have two

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the https://t.co/kMH4ihnpGw site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

https://t.co/u0iPU0GEmW

[anthony @anthbrtn]

the cringiness of Canadian nationalism is the best argument against the concept

[anthony @anthbrtn]

owner of the gen Xer bitcoin cafe near my house corrected me when ordering an Americano this morning to "Canadiano" and it's like -- you're not getting one over on America by*not* using a word Europe developed to make fun of them!