You can track a certain mindset re: technology by tracing Bill Leeb's transformation from a guy clearly terrified (but fascinated) by the dystopian implications of rampant, unregulated tech to a now 60 year old using AI art in his work

lmfao

Nuovo Testamento are blistering live.

Nuovo Testamento time

The isolated sprites of characters taking the Sharpshooter in WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game.

The idea that games are only relevant when reviews can affect quarterly profit numbers is yet another small way in which corporatocracy has subtracted joy from real people's lives. Games don't go away in two months when their corporations stop caring about them. Thanks, Aftermath ❤️

i will never apologize for a post

I'd add that the broader fascination with it speaks to why some really want to be billionaires: what if, rather than the money, nobody ever told you no? And maybe a broader crisis of intersubjectivity: I am the only subject, or so I wish.

One, galling. Two, utterly unsurprising because the site is a superfluous third nipple on the broader academic body. It doesn't do anything, never really did anything, and was charging for some vague networking promises which never seemed to materialize in any serious way. Of course they went here.

Dragonfruit flavored? It's made up. It doesn't exist.

There was this store in Winston-Salem called Shopper's Paradise which my friends and I would haunt. It was a transit damaged and salvage store, but it had EVERYTHING. People have dim memories of Current Affair running a story on a guy who bought a grenade launcher www.reddit.com/r/winstonsal...

Dragonfruit. Largely flavorless but with the interior texture of a too firm kiwi, the combination of which is disgusting.

A carbon copy of this except at night happened when I was in Manchester last fall www.tiktok.com/@mattiegoodv...

You know what’s better than participating in platform discourse? Finding 6-7 of the most deranged reels you’ve ever seen and sending them to your siblings to fuck up their algorithms. I have been in a six month algorithmic cold war with one of my brothers and seen things you can’t even imagine.

I feel like wild conspiracy theories are the collective expression of something that widespread materialism suppresses: an understanding that coordination between people really does have a (potential) quality that is magical, in the sense that it can create something from (apparent) nothing

This is ultimately the nub of the issue. Every retweet or like runs the risk of career damage because the bulk of people over there are nasty. Retweet enough, it'll happen.

Anyway where's my Google+ clone

it's where they peaked.

The strangest thing to me is that we were all on however many forums, platforms, group texts, whatever and we all just left after they closed or went rancid. The supernatural pull of Twitter is something. It's really something.

ibid flaminghydra.com/issue-479/#g...

You don't have to stop posting but you do have to stop posting THERE. It is a uniquely, fundamentally detrimental website to you as a person. It incentivizes racism, violence and — the worst crime of all — vagueposting. You are living in a permanent teaser ad for the 11 o'clock news.

Season 8 of X Files is way better than I remembered

Going to be reupping this periodically over the next month. Have thoughts about traditional craft work? A project on where traditional and platform economies collide? Analog/digital relationship in craft and creative work? Send me an abstract.

Those are two capital S striker's goals

Eze hates Spurs

I just don't know what to make of Gyokeres, man. He's going to hit 15 league goals, he has a chance of heating up and hitting 20, and he's also bad at like everything.

I don't know how to explain it but two long game delays because the ref's comm equipment keeps breaking is the most English thing in the world

Mentally weak imo

I can’t keep doing this. Gifting goals to the opposition every week. I can’t.

That was nice by Eze

I think Arsenal blew the league title last week and I'm anticipating a draw today. Hioe I'm wrong on both counts tho!

This is why some of the media remains addicted to twitter. Someone with a big following says something insane, everyone reposts and reacts to it and they can report on it by quoting both sides while doing no reporting or investigating. Or even deciding if it’s newsworthy. And repeat.

I published something in LARB once. The editors were nice and it was well received.

I should get some food

I don’t have a dog in this fight anymore but moving off campus would do more teratogenic damage to the DNA of Carolina basketball than shutting down the JV team. You can only push things so far before they become something else.

They didn’t “miss this” lmao

Discord: You'll need to supply to age verification if you want access to certain features. Users: Hang on, wasn't there a thing in October where user ID data was leaked? Discord: Ok, yes, but the chances of that happening again are-- **one week later**

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

Guys being Dudes

“I’m alone and nobody is in the mirror.” Jorge Luis Borges

I don't know what the hell you do with the games industry but I do know that you need a) people who believe sincerely in games as art while not getting fixated on the content of said art and b) people in charge of the money who believe in good old fashioned not selling out.

the idea of hiring someone from the gig economy and the panopticon economy for microsoft's next chapter is pretty telling!

fuck me i know we're not doing well but that is slow af

Streaming games and rented hardware let's goooooooo* *I don't know if that's what this actually means but it's weird and not good.

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

Trying to find out how many pecans I can eat before I get sick.

Big deal, nobody knows how to read anymore. Is the world worse off? It is? Well if that were true I'd have read about it somewhere