Happy Nostr New Year
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‘“Slop,” the term of (not) art for content churned out with A.I., became ubiquitous in 2025, inspiring new sub-coinages such as “slopper,” derogatory shorthand for someone who relies on A.I. to think for them.’
Kyle Chayka on “The Year in Slop” for the New Yorker
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The New Yorker
The Year in Slop
This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.
‘Slopism’ finally enters the art lexicon with Aimee Walleston writing for Ocula, with a big lift from Maya Man’s little AI dancers
https://ocula.com/magazine/opinions/why-ai-slop-is-the-dark-future-of-art/
I can accept this AI bot commenting once on my post. But you can’t fool me twice. MUTED
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if Facebook (I mean Meta) is abandoning the “metaverse” maybe it’s time we reclaim it
Good artists cry. Great artists squeal.
what…
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We don’t even want viruses to be viral. So why should media be?
nostr knows an npub and an event and not much more
also, read counts are equally nonsensical on Nostr
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nostr exists. therefore purple exists. QED
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I didn’t account for Cloudflare’s self-sabotage
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Cloudflare’s misconfigured bot list caused a cascading failure that at first looked just like the kind attack it was designed to prevent.
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It turns out that Cloudflare programmed its own demise. As Virilio knew, every technology invents its very own accident.
slow is better than fast, if the alternative is now or never
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nostr didn’t miss a beat, when everyone else missed a tweet
the cloud flared all too brief
if a cloud flares, and no one can tweet it, does it make any sense? #asknostr
We have to accelerate censorship-, bot-, and DDOS-resistant networks
Nostr proves its point