Joey Walnuts

@jolwalton

AI slop Ian Hislop. Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World

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Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· 23d

Cat, I Must Work! which I wrote ten years ago, which sort of predicted vibe coding www.bigecho.org/cat-i-must-w...

Rather agreeable flames rage up my cheeks. ‘Whatever,’ I mutter. ‘Thing is, it gets easier once we invent assembly languages and high-level programming languages. At that stage, code starts looking like weird witch recipes with lots of maths in them.’

‘Easier for humans to interpret than screeds of zeros and ones.’

‘Exactly, and from then on it gets easier and easier. Before long, we’re using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editors, and frameworks like Bootstrap, and games engines like Unity. Lots of pre-made elements. Lots of cleverly chosen defaults you can tinker with, once you know what you’re doing. The latest generation of user‑friendly frameworks, you know what? It’s like you’re not really even coding anymore. It’s more like you’re answering a big quiz, and at the end it burps out the thing you need. Are you seeing where this is going?’

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jul 27

This book is fucking amazing

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jul 15

such a weird dataset ... ordered by average distance, but can't be across all goal scorers, and these can't be like the top 12 goal scorers of all time (Messi) so it has to be something like 12 players with lowest average distance of players scoring over x goals, but what is x & how is it motivated?

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· May 8

Industrialisation, yes ... human population, no

Attenborough saying he was finally convinced by graphs where temperature rise coincides with human population and industrialision growth

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Mar 19

There is no UK city of culture which is not at the same time a UK city of barbarism

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Feb 20

Bird Bunny baby

Line drawing that can either look like a rabbit or a duck

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Feb 11

Losing my mind at the aesthetics of the new AI Skills Hub, rumoured £4m PwC contract

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Feb 5

ai slop uRonta

large rectangular foundations being laid with the help of machinery, shutterstock watermark

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jan 21

Looking out plane window at 20000 feet and there's an ominious entity crouched in the wing. It's from Twilight Zone

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jan 20

modified cartoon about misogyny, it's a corporate meeting, bunch of men sitting around and one woman, caption used to read "that's an excellent suggestion miss triggs, perhaps one of the men would like to make it," modified version is like perhaps an LLM would like to make it. I don't know really

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Dec 29

No shade to Erin & no inference of bad faith or deception, but this transparency statement does not accurately communicate the role of genAI in the production of this text ...

Penalizing creators for incidental or third-party AI use in surrounding business processes doesn’t protect the arts. If realistic standards are not established by creative communities and their organizations, the result will be decided by others who do not have our best interests at heart.

For transparency, I used speech-to-text to capture my words and generative AI to clean up grammar and structure. I needed an efficient way to get my thoughts down quickly so I could move into the work of manually editing and refining this text. I went through it multiple times, revising language, examples, and arguments until the final version fully matched my vision. This was done intentionally to demonstrate how AI can function as a communication tool for business purposes. This letter isn’t a work of art or artistic creation.

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Dec 4

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Oct 30

King Midas was not just the guy who turned everything to gold open.substack.com/pub/jonlyfan...

Trippy forest, maybe there's a party or something in the distance? Text: [Money Abolition]: Why I Am The Goat. The King's new ears were cool. What could go wrong?

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Oct 26

This bit in Ghost Fictions:

Of course, some of these charlatans are simply nervous. To gild the lily is to feel you control the lily’s loveliness! Others can’t resist the allure of the ephemeral. When a new technology nudges the line between the believable and the unbelievable, for a brief time more lies become tellable, so why not tell them? Others just mean to be polite. The machines are pretending to be human, so they pretend to be the machines in return!

But in the early 21st century, there were also more troubling reasons. We must remember that, in those days, many people were so accustomed to assuming everything around them was automatically produced—human labour would have made them feel guilty!—that it plunged them into a state of permanent confusion. When they saw something a machine really had done, sometimes they instinctively pretended a human had done it, just so they could go back to pretending a machine had done it.

If that sounds very mixed up, that’s because everyone was very mixed
up. Just as strangely, many people still felt that automation was always, at its core, a sort of theatrical illusion. Machines could never be more than actors playing parts, they told themselves. So they considered themselves to be good sports, playing along with the illusion, rather than illusionists themselves.

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Oct 1

The famous planetary boundaries OH NO!UGHNUT, updated for 2025 + disaggregated into MINI DOUGHNUTS

Diagram showing three "doughnuts" (planetary boundaries and social boundaries) showing huge amounts of climate change being caused by the richer countries, and huge amounts of social protection shortfall in poorest 40% of countries

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Aug 27

Wow I wonder if Labour will win loads of votes with its cunning anti-immigration stance!

Reform email, subject line "Our plan for mass deportations"

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Aug 27

This is stupid and great arras.net

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Aug 15

Soon Lucille

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Aug 5

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"As writing, translation, paraphrasing
and poetry become increasingly automated, professional writers
and editors may become “bosses to bots,” instructing them on what
to write, how to tailor material, and what to re-write when results
do not meet professional or personal standards."

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jun 21

Nairobi: Applied African Science Fiction. Tomorrow! Part of Sigana Storytelling Festival. At Cheche Bookshop from 10

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jun 11

'Di Great Insohreckshan' by Linton Kwesi Johnson poetryarchive.org/poem/di-grea...

dem seh wi commandeer cyar
an wi ghadah ammunishan
wi brill wi barricade
an di wicked ketch afraid
wi sen out wi scout
fog oh fine dem whereabout
den wi faam-up wi passi
an wi mek wi raid
well now dem run gaan goh plan countah-ackshan
but di plastic bullit an di waatah cannan
will bring a blam-blam
will bring a blam-blam
nevah mind Scarman
will bring a blam-blam

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· May 7

Jeff Nagy on Skibidi Toilet www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/fil...

Excerpt from article, beginning intermixed with sudden, grotesque stasis

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Mar 16

Today in Do Not Make The Torment Nexus

Screenshot from Muckey 17 advert. A cast member is being interviewed and saying "Maybe I will print myself." A moment earlier another cast member said she'd bring back her grandma and everyone went awwww that's sweet!

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Mar 4

funny and haunting pairing of Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letter #3 with 'When The Enemy Attacks Have These Things Ready [to protect your wife and children]' in The Whole Earth Catalogue (1970)

Be Prepared / Revolutionary Letter #3 / store water; make a point of filling your bathtub

at the first news of trouble: they turned off the water

in the 4th ward for a whole day during the Newark riots;

or better yet make a habit

of keeping the tub clean and full when not in use

change this once a day, it should be good enough

for washing, flushing toilets when necessary

and cooking, in a pinch, but it’s a good idea

to keep some bottled water handy too

get a couple of five gallon jugs and keep them full

for cooking

//

store food—dry stuff like rice and beans stores best

goes farthest. SALT VERY IMPORTANT: it’s health and energy

healing too, keep a couple pounds

sea salt around, and, because we’re spoiled, some tins

tuna, etc. to keep up morale—keep up the sense

of ‘balanced diet’ ‘protein intake’ remember

the stores may be closed for quite some time, the trucks

may not enter your section of the city for weeks, you can cool it indefinitely

//

with 20 lb brown rice

20 lb whole wheat flour

10 lb cornmeal

10 lb good beans—kidney or soy

5 lb sea salt

2 qts good oil

dried fruit and nuts

add nutrients and a sense of luxury

to this diet, a squash or coconut

in a cool place in your pad will keep six months.

//

remember we are all used to eating less

than the ‘average American’ and take it easy

before we

ever notice we’re hungry the rest of the folk will be starving

used as they are to meat and fresh milk daily

and help will arrive, until the day no help arrives

and then you’re on your own.

//

hoard matches, we aren’t good

at rubbing sticks together any more

a tinder box is useful, if you can work it

don’t count on gas stove, gas heater

electric light

keep hibachi and charcoal, CHARCOAL STARTER a help

kerosene lamp and candles, learn to keep warm

with breathing

remember the blessed American habit of bundling

When the Enemy Attacks Have These Things Ready
Everyone should now realize that the cold war sometime is bound to turn into a nuclear war. The Chinese with their terrific
hatred of us would welcome nuclear war that would destroy all of North America. They must have land for their people and the
obvious thing for them to do is to destroy North America completely then to colonize it after several years. A group of Russian
bombers which the Chinese have could be sent to bomb us any day and before we bothered to find out who the pilots were we
would bomb Russia and Russia would bomb us. The starting of a nuclear war would mean absolutely nothing to the Chinese to
achieve our destruction and they, of course, now have nuclear bombs.
Hae these minimum items ready for your wife and children. You may be able to tough it through or do not care whether you live or not but you should give your wife and children a chance to survive. These things will mean more to them than all of the wealth in the world that you could give them.
When a bomb strikes all electricity, coal, food, gasoline. medical and clothing supplies are cut off. Gas lines, railroads. high-ways, gasoline refineries, supplies and all transportation will be knocked out. Your money will be absolutely valueless. Food in your electric freezer will spoil. Canned food will spoil if frozen. You must live on what have stored in your home.
I. A sleeping bag for every one in your family. — 2. One or more wood burning stoves. —3. A 5 plastic water bottle for each member in your family. — 4. Minimum of 500 wood matches. — 5. Year's supply of mosquito and insect repellents. 10 yards of mosquito netting. — 6. Year's supply of aspirin, iodine, laxatives, bandages. — 7. 1 gallon of canned honey — 8. Year's supply of dried foods such as beans, peas. flour, corn meal. sugar. cocoa. tea. rice. powdered milk, coffee etc., per person. —9. Two gallons of apple cider vinegar per person. --10. Year's supply of canned cooking grease — 11.…

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Feb 25

makes you think

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jan 27

I love it when you search for a keyword expecting a few hits and it turns out the text is teeming with it. Fredric Jameson uses the word 'experience' a lot

The scroll bar for Fredric Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future, with lots of lines to indicate where the word "experience" appears in the text

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jan 12

I assume this is about them removing my video about the door handle

Screen grab of news, "Supreme Court considering a possible TikTok ban"

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Jan 4

no I haven't seen anything since then

Screenshot: Your most recent watch was Tuesday 24 December, 2024. "Red One" (2024) Directed by Jake Kasdan. Seen anything since then? LOG A FILM

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Dec 20

Fresh session, 4o, I got a creepy date-stamped output of all the context it's retained about me over the last couple months or so

[2024-09-26]. User's work is generally collaborative and focuses on climate justice in their research and teaching, which exemplifies courage, inclusion, integrity, and kindness.

[2024-09-26]. User holds the perspective that courage and integrity in a professional context often involve challenging the organization’s values, norms, processes, or impacts.

[2024-09-26]. User is considering the awkwardness of reflecting on institutional values in professional appraisals and questioning how best to embed these values in an organization.

Joey Walnuts@jolwalton· Dec 3

I wrote about measurement and climate action for Branch magazine. 'Pause': branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue...