joanne mcneil

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wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
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Milkman, 2666, Super-Cannes, solidly, then depending on what I’ve read recently or how I’m feeling…The City & The City, Telephone, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, In the Dream House, Our Lady of the Nile, Pattern Recognition, Bleeding Edge, not sure which Marie NDiaye, Never Let Me Go etc etc

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👀 📢 SALE! This time Hild, for $1.99 on all US and Canadian platforms. I've no idea when it started and no idea how long it will last. #medievalsky More about the book here: nicolagriffith.com/2014/02/26/h...

This fall, the Sci-Fi Book Club at the LAPL/Mark Twain Library, is hosting the legendary Joe Haldeman to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic novel, The Forever War. Come join us! It's a free virtual event and all are welcome. Sept 26th, 6pm, Email [email protected] for the Zoom link

My latest for Filmmaker magazine: on the Worcester, MA video store Rewind, which is “supporting real local journalism one movie at a time.” For anyone nostalgic for alt-weeklies & video stores; here's an organization that shows how both can thrive. filmmakermagazine.com/126533-joann...

Mutual Assists: Joanne McNeil on How a Massachusetts Video Store is Aiding Local Journalism | Filmmaker Magazinefilmmakermagazine.com Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

That a lot of us feel unmoored online these days might not be a bad thing. everyone i know is wondering what events, venues, publications, zines, broadcasts (blogs, again? message boards?) make sense in the world right now and *something* has got to come out of these conversations.

I’m not sure that creative merit of work made with LLMs is even worth debating any more. No defenses of “AI art” have been in good faith; it’s “my kid could draw that” for a new generation with added retaliatory contempt for “cancel culture,” the labor movement, DEI, etc

summer reading

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this story brought to mind @jomc.bsky.social's Wrong Way (which I highly recommend) www.bbc.com/future/artic...

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound humanwww.bbc.com If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.

I walked into the press room and the Sónar team told me I was on the cover (?!!) this week www.elmundo.es/papel/futuro...

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@jomc.bsky.social talking WRONG WAY at Sónar+D

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To recap, some entities with a vested interest in AI: -Fossil fuel companies, which need new wasteful tech to offset avoid being rendered obsolete by solar -GPU manufacturers, which need something to replace crypto to keep prices artificially high -Data centers, ditto

Another important interest behind the push for AI is data brokers. The entire modern internet is funded by scraping and selling your personal data, but as ad sales collapse, that data threatens to become worthless. They urgently need a buyer with a bottomless need for new data.

It feels like a bleak time to be a writer or an artist, which is why I'm obsessively looking for new organizations and initiatives that give me hope. there are a few! Can't wait to share my next Filmmaker magazine column on one such project...

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This guy says in the replies that this was 7-10 years ago but it makes you wonder how many companies are still doing it like this with 100% human labor. We already know every AI company is doing this with some degree of human intervention, they just call it “training the model.”

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Doing a reading in the courtyard at Bart’s Books before I spend the rest of my summer reading esoteric books and laying next to rivers, seas, and lakes

it feels impossible at the moment, but this newsletter from Book Post well articulates why we have to try

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Oh hey, I heard you were into terrible things happening to CEO’s, so I wrote you a book about terrible things happening to CEO’s: www.torforgeblog.com/2024/05/06/e...

Excerpt Reveal: Glass Houses by Madeline Ashbywww.torforgeblog.com [raw] [/raw] A masterful near future whodunit for fans of Glass Onion and Black Mirror; join a stranded start-up team led by a terrifyingly realistic charismatic billionaire, a deserted tropical islan...

are you a good witch or a bad witch? jomc.substack.com/p/are-you-a-...

are you a good witch or a bad witch?jomc.substack.com Nine years ago, I was alone in my bedroom watching a livestream from the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore on my laptop. I couldn’t look away. It was late at night. The cops were loading detained pro...

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This month's #MALbookclub book is Lurking by Joanne McNeill @jomc.bsky.social - as always, share your responses to the book as you read along here or on the othernetworks bookclub post! We'll also be trying out a live chat at some point this month, so keep an eye out for that.

a couple times a year I think, “if only there were broadcast news that was good.” Then I remember Democracy Now exists and am reminded again what an incredible resource it is (and that I wish I had space in my mornings to get in the habit of watching every day) www.democracynow.org

something about crossing 2019 — blade runner year — has and continues to feel wrong to me, like I just noticed my shirt is on backwards. Every year after that has sounded like an imaginary year, untethered from reality, while too hostile in a predictable way to hold up as good fiction

the most pre-metoo artifact I’ve ever seen in a film (state of play)

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again, please: if you want to resist AI then don’t put too much faith in the “nobody wants it” angle. go look at youtube thumbnails, read some articles on @404media.co about how its being used on tik tok etc, ask any teachers or profs you know about how their students use it

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I spoke with Douglas Rushkoff on the Team Human podcast about how we can defend the arts from AI/profit maximizing/corporate interests. Toward the end of the conversation, I talked about what does give me hope (surprisingly—a lot!) www.teamhuman.fm/episodes//29...

I’ve never felt as trapped in a film (stressed, claustrophobic, etc) as I did at The Beast (and I don’t entirely mean this as a bad thing). Nocturama, though, is one of my absolute favorites in years. It channeled a rare inchoate desperation in step with these times. I think about it constantly

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This is an upsetting development.

Okay HarperCollins. What, and I can not stress this enough, THE FUCK??? www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

HarperCollins and ElevenLabs AI to create audiobooks for foreign titleswww.thebookseller.com HarperCollins is partnering with audio AI company ElevenLabs to create audiobooks for HarperCollins’s foreign language business.

This Saturday at 2pm, I'll be speaking with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Malcolm Harris at the LA Times Festival of Books. Come join us! Tickets: www.tixr.com/groups/latim...