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i'm old enough to remember news stories phrased almost exactly like this hitting around 2008
is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is Max Peltier (Tom Sizemore) in STRANGE DAYS...?
i hate to say it but they keep losing faceoffs and Marchand is having a stinker of a game; they need to shake up the lines a bit, idk
at this point I’m almost more apprehensive about the entire bench having norovirus
oh lord, this is to hide the inevitable rust spots, isn't it
imagine how people would react if their device actually became self-aware; as in, asking questions about human existence completely UNprompted... exhibiting the genuine, insatiable curiosity of a child (in reality, the average person would be *terrified* by any kind of true autonomous intelligence).
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new
Turns out there actually *is* enough time in the day to get things done, lmao, and then some! Chores, art, mutual aid, volunteering, the gym, and so on and so on
It’s been good to have that reminder that the world and the work is there waiting for us when we shun the infinite scroll
It feels silly sometimes, and certainly I’m finding my days to be a bit more solitary than I’m used to, but also—my memory retention is better, my emotional regulation is also better. Intellectually those borders that I felt enclosed by not even two weeks ago are dissolving. It’s good, very good
More broadly, I’ve been really working on turning back toward creating intentional ‘analog‘ spaces: terrestrial radio over streaming, physical books over the doom scroll, reducing app-based social media use almost completely and keeping it housed on my laptop, which never leaves my desk.
Best thing I did for myself in this new year was dig out the old FM radio and turn that baby on each morning
The progressive station I’ve set the dial to is full of news, music, and really edifying political and cultural conversation—it’s given me a sense of place and inspiration in this moment
i'm literally begging some of y'all to read 'The Water Knife' by Paolo Bacigalupi
tbh, totally thematically in-line with Steve Rogers going back in time to marry a woman who worked side-by-side for decades with a recruited Nazi scientist and was likely knee-deep in COINTELPRO
random observation, but I watched HEATED RIVALRY episode 3 and my brain was like "this is so familiar... i swear i read this as a steve & bucky fan fic *years* ago"
I looked it up, and it *was* originally a fic; it was called 'Game Changer' & it was taken off AO3 before being sold as an original 🤯
this is something that a company that makes most of its $$$$ selling user data would do if a good portion of its user base was actually bots (dead internet theory vindicated, yet again)
he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Relatable Corvid
The trailer for the new film from the director of The Green Knight, Mother Mary, is out.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY FUCK, it looks so fucking bonkers and the typical A24 film, but for the first time in a while for me, absolutely enticing.
had a couple of copper fish figurines in my bird bath to keep the water from accumulating too much algae buildup.
this morning, a neighborhood crow picked one of them up and flew away with it. they definitely love their little shiny trinkets.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
A Limerick for Leibowitz
yuppppp
exhibit A:
i got blocked by someone for suggesting that the tech bros/oligarchs think that losing trillions in an AI bubble is ultimately worth it as a means to an end (top-to-bottom societal control).
Anyone read the Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi? America isn't immune to stuff like this either.
