David John Roden

'You told us the sun will strangle itself with or without our help – but, no matter, let’s help."

Snuff Memories

[David John Roden @turingcop]

Anastrophe, insurgent futurity

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[Bruno Accioly @BrunoAcciolyAI]

The claim that artificial intelligence is not conscious is a simple and reductionist answer to a question that is only settled for those with too much certainty and too little rigor.

It confuses the absence of definitive proof with proof of absence, treats current architectural limitations as ontological impossibilities, and mistakes a legitimate warning against anthropomorphism for permission to practice anthropocentrism with scientific vocabulary.

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

Professional Raison d'être:
I apply the theory and practice of #Deconstruction to emerging technology (#Algorithms, #AI, #robots, etc.), overturning and disrupting the traditional binary oppositions by which we have made sense of our tools and ourselves. https://t.co/DMC1te5lRX

[Chantelle Lunt @chantelle_lunt]

🛑 Nigel Farage should resign and face criminalinvestigation.
I do not often speak publicly about the riots of 2024, because my family still carries the scars of what happened afterwards. My son was followed by a far-right thug who threatened to burn and kill him, before smashing up our car when my husband arrived to protect him.

So it is not lost on me that Nigel Farage has escalated from suggesting, in the wake of Southport in 2024, that the truth was being hidden from the public, to now explicitly calling for “pure, cold rage” in 2026.

We know where this kind of rhetoric leads. Calls like that, alongside Tommy Robinson’s calls for people to gather outside police stations, have been followed by violent disorder in our communities.

Tuesday night in Southampton, 11 police officers were injured, people were reportedly arrested for offences including possession of weapons and assaulting police, property was damaged, cars were smashed, and communities were left frightened and distressed.

This is not responsible leadership. This is not justice for victims. This is the politics of rage, hate and division, and it has real consequences in communities like ours, and for families like mine.

Nigel Farage is a dangerous politician. He is dealing in a mendacious, hate-fuelled style of politics that puts ordinary people at risk.
He should resign.

[David John Roden @turingcop]

@alleged_mkultra I think Graham Greene said much the same. Artists are vampires. There’s an inherently sadistic impulse in wanting to take others to the limit of their possibility and break them in the process.

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Smashed car windows. Bricks littering the streets. Families left clearing up the mess after a night of chaos in Southampton.
This wasn't done in Henry Nowak's name. Associating this destruction with Henry or his family's memory is an insult.
This was the work of Farage and his mob of thugs who seized the chance to riot while pretending to be the victims.

[David John Roden @turingcop]

Ballard convincing us he was an English writer when he was secretly an exemplary French author and intellectual who happened to write in translation.

[Jean Montalte @JMontalte]

"Le mariage de la raison et du cauchemar qui a dominé tout le XXᵉ siècle a enfanté un monde toujours plus ambigu. Les spectres de technologies sinistres errent dans le paysage des communications et peuplent les rêves qu’on achète. L’armement thermonucléaire et les réclames de boissons gazeuses coexistent dans un royaume aux lueurs criardes gouverné par la publicité, les pseudo-événements, la science et la pornographie. Nos existences sont réglées sur les leitmotive jumeaux de ce siècle : le sexe et la paranoïa. La jubilation de McLuhan devant les mosaïques de l’information ultrarapide ne saurait nous faire oublier le pessimisme profond de Freud dans Malaise dans la civilisation. Voyeurisme, dégoût de soi, puérilité de nos rêves et de nos aspirations — ces maladies de la psyché sont toutes contenues dans le cadavre le plus considérable de l’époque : celui de la vie affective.
Cet abandon du sentiment et de l’émotion a préparé la voie à nos plus doux, à nos plus réels plaisirs : l’émoi de la souffrance et des mutilations, la vision du sexe comme l’arène idéale — semblable à une culture de pus stérile — où déployer les véroniques de nos perversions, le jeu de nos névroses mené en toute quiétude, et surtout nos capacités apparemment illimitées d’abstraction. Nos enfants ont moins à craindre des voitures sur les autoroutes de demain que du plaisir que nous prenons à calculer les paramètres les plus harmonieux de leurs morts futures.
Instruire des charmes incertains de l’existence dans ce glauque paradis devient de plus en plus le rôle de la science-fiction. Je crois fermement que la SF, loin d’être un rejeton mineur de la littérature contemporaine, en constitue la branche maîtresse — et en tout cas la plus ancienne : une tradition de réponse de l’imagination à la science et à la technologie court sans rupture de H. G. Wells à Aldous Huxley, aux auteurs américains modernes et à des pionniers d’aujourd’hui tels que William Burroughs.
Le « fait » capital du XXᵉ siècle est l’apparition de la notion de possibilité illimitée. Ce prédicat de la science et de la technologie appelle la vision d’un passé brutalement mis entre parenthèses — le pass�� n’est plus pertinent, il est peut-être mort — et celle d’alternatives innombrables offertes au présent. Ce qui lie le premier vol des frères Wright et l’invention de la pilule est le principe du siège éjectable.
Aucun genre ne semble plus à même d’explorer cet immense continent du possible que la science-fiction." J.G. Ballard, Préface à la trilogie du béton.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood https://t.co/FxsswKI8ih

[sailor christopher nobody @hitogabe]

can we pretend to leave and then we'll meet again
when both our cars collide

[David John Roden @turingcop]

@girlmeat07 Videodrome. Nikki Brand is probably the most self-possessed masochist in cinema.

[wakeandre @erdnaekaw]

the piano teacher (2001)
secretary (2002)

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Powerful from Starmer, seeing Farage having to sit there, squirming and take it made the speech all the more enjoyable.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Just arrived back in the UK to the second race riot Nigel Farage has incited in as many years, by capitalising on the murder of young people.

Why isn't he in jail yet?

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

Ted Chiang assumes that #AI does not have a body. But it does. #LLMs are embodied in data centers that have physical presence and very real needs for energy and water. You'd think a science fiction author would be sensitive to other forms of embodiment.
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[András Radics @AndrsRadics2]

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[Ian Jones @IanJones_16]

You might not like Kier Starmer, and he’s made plenty of mistakes…

But he’s absolutely nailed that twat and got his number.

[Guilherme José @guilherme94jose]

The horrors of modern war stem from the gap between technological power and moral insight. In bourgeois society, Benjamin writes, technology is severed from the spiritual, future wars will be a slave revolt of technology. This is in "Theories of German Fascism."

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

This is what happens when everyone around you is too afraid to say, “Sir, that’s fucking stupid”

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Zack Polanski criticised the police for being heavy handed with a RT and he got a formal rebuke from the police and got grilled by the media.

Farage incites riots and condemns the police causing them of murder and nothing.

Two tier media more like.

[Dune France @DuneInfoFR]

Robert Pattinson était impatient d’incarner un personnage dans ‘DUNE 3’ assez inhabituel dans le livre :

« On ne peut pas vraiment dire de quel côté Scytale se situe, c’est ce qui le rend si intéressant. Il pourrait même être un bon gars, je le découvrirai en voyant le film. »

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Robert Pattinson says his daughter immediately recognized him in the ‘DUNE: PART THREE’ trailer:

"She pointed at it and went like: Eggy!"