joanne mcneil
wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
- whatever you are doing right now probably isn't as fun as watching Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Twists In The Cord (1994), a short documentary on the history of telecommunications told through interludes of cyber and phone sex archive.org/details/Twis...
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- Reposted by joanne mcneilHow many of these articles will the Times publish. Damn near every week they do another version of “Is this chatbot alive? No, but what if I want it to be?” Where’s the shame?
- Just received my copy of OTHER NETWORKS A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK. Such an achievement by @loriemerson.net shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
- I saw CURE (by the other Kurosawa) for the first time this week. And now every other horror film seems like it’s trying too hard in comparison. What are other good films that build tension out of simple (however implausible) premises?
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- Reposted by joanne mcneilAfter Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
- Great Filmmaker Magazine newsletter today from @scottmacaulay.bsky.social on some of the unexpected ways tariffs will impact film production newsletters.filmmakermagazine.com
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- No one is better than @niedermeyer.online at showing up on a podcast to explain how Elon is even more insane than we realized. This time on @systemcrash.info!
- am i…being microtargeted?
- I get so frustrated with tech reporting these days but 404 Media continues to be excellent. Rn listening to today’s podcast where they clearly and thoroughly explain 23andme’s many fuckups right down to how the company might have prevented the 2023 hack www.404media.co/the-404-medi...
- there's a vast chasm between the lifestyles of those on either cusp of what makes up the US middle class. which culture produced by members of the upper end (or above it) tends to elide www.nbcnews.com/business/per...
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- the world’s biggest loser, maybe the biggest loser in all of history
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- There really hasn’t been a response to Big Tech as galvanizing as artists against generative AI. Contrast this with say, Google in 2007 deciding to photograph essentially all streets in the world (general response: ok, weird, maybe useful, not cool that you’re photographing my house but whatevs)
- it’s possible to not care if people (humans, readers) pirate my book—or even feel pleased they do, if anything; and, at the same time, express fury when corporations grab and grind the text up like scrap metal for their word-garbage generators
- me, just now: who is this psycho right up behind me, making it impossible to parallel park *looked behind me* …of course.
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- When I handed Christopher Priest my well-worn copy of The Affirmation—a decommissioned library book, well-worn even before it came my way—and told him how much the novel meant to me, he couldn’t have been kinder.
- My dad told me he watched and liked V for Vendetta, evidentially picking up on a conversation we must have had in 2006. I got to tell him all about Alan Moore. “So he’s about your age, he’s pretty weird and a total genius and lives in England…” and dug up the copy of Watchmen I had at the house
- my general practice of never emailing people on Friday after 2pm unless I absolutely have to, has now extended to not emailing on Fridays at all, pretty much. And I really think it helps!
- What’s also funny about this is the Cybertruck is designed solely to protect the people inside with complete antisocial disregard for pedestrians and other drivers. an aberration of the the basic rules of the road, as car designers I know see it
- Quite stunned to see Katherine Losse written out of this media cycle, despite being the first Facebook whistleblower, the first to experience Facebook wrath and retaliation (and the first to publish a tell-all book!)
- We talked about a lot of things from the threats Bluesky presents to non-impossible initiatives to preserve local journalism; but I especially appreciated the opportunity to discuss what a book even is in the 21st century
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- @jenszalai.bsky.social Just read your review of Careless People and wanted to bring this book to your attention. It's a memoir by Zuckerberg's former speechwriter published in 2012, blowing the whistle on the company at a time when few understood its power www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bo...
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- The "Gutenberg Version" of Chris Marker's Immemory is almost here! Out May 13, 2025. Congratulations, @dadadrummer.bsky.social and Exact Change!! exactchange.com/books/p/imme...
