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@jinijane_ @xwanyex The system: youtube.com/watch?v=mg_JPY…

@porterstansb @SharpertureM Was probably Windows'95, which was indeed crap. '98 however, turned out to be a big step forward and a much better OS than its predecessor.

I see people dunking on this but like look around. To like 98% of people this is the dream. The podcast circuit is dominated by ceos, opportunists, stolen valor pillheads, rise and grind vampires, war criminals, the cia, and military contractors. We shouldn’t know who most of these people are. It shouldn’t matter who the new autonomous drone manufacturer ceo is but these are the things people aspire to be when the only thing left is rape. It’s a rape economy. There’s no art but there’s lots of raping and killing and bombing. Everyone wants to be like Kevin OLeary and hold the shiny object and weep. Not because it’s beautiful but because all the good in our world was sacrificed for it. And now there’s nothing left

Umar @umar_xbt

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Kevin O’Leary says he wept when Rolex gave him a watch even its own staff had never seen. “Grown men weep just looking at pictures of this mystical beast. Does it exist? I got on my knees and begged for it.” “The morning before the Oscars, the phone rings. They gave me an

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@PalmyrPar Which would mean that right wing people are ok with ancient Greek gayness, BECAUSE they were pedos? It's not surprising, given the guy they put in the WH. I'm still not sure if you're supposed to be proud of it though.

It’s very important we return to a more traditional morality. Not me, personally, because I’m very sophisticated and kind of beyond such things. But you, it is important for you to obey

@johnnyjmils "They don't want to escalate. Because they are European. But the incomentant British Foreign Office. And EU commision are pushing them to do so." - LOL

fuck you

cow @cowincrisis

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horses always clopping. just walk normally. fucking idiots.

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Destroying the @internetarchive's @waybackmachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

In the age of weaponized artificial intelligence and the antichrist, where war crimes are an everyday occurrence, and a global economic crisis is staring us right in the face... We are witnessing the birth of a historic art movement that has literally nothing interesting to say.

@realKIRAC Here you go: tiktok.com/@padreguilherm…

Refik Anadol’s work frequently employs terms like “fluid dynamics,” “latent space,” and “algorithmic brushstrokes,” which give the viewer a false sense of intellectual depth. But the reality is this: these terms often serve to mask the artist’s aesthetic choices behind a façade of scientific authority. When the artist says, “I am visualizing bird sounds recorded in a forest,” the viewer is led to believe that the resulting image is a natural and objective representation of those sounds. However, as discussed earlier, the direction of the flow or the choice of color is entirely arbitrary. In a scientific experiment, input A should consistently produce output B, or at least the relationship should be demonstrable. Here, however, input A (bird sound) can be transformed into color C or motion D depending on the artist’s mood that morning. This is not an experiment; it is simply decoration. Phrases like “artificial intelligence is dreaming” or “data sculpture” mystify technical processes. Calling a pixel-generation process based on statistical probabilities “dreaming” is nothing more than presenting a basic mathematical regression as something magical. This causes the work to derive its power not from its own aesthetics, but from the “coolness” of science and technology. If we were to replace the bird sounds with the sound of a vacuum cleaner using the same “mapping” settings, we would still obtain a “mesmerizing” visual. In other words, the beauty of the image does not come from the essence of the data, but entirely from the artist’s graphics engine. In this context, extracting data from bird sounds is not a technical necessity, but rather a storytelling device—a marketing element of the project. Wrapping data in a scientific veneer reinforces the illusion that the work is “meaningful.” But once this illusion dissolves, what remains is merely a high-resolution “screensaver.” Real science uses data to understand reality; this kind of “art,” by contrast, uses data merely as spectacle. Instead of saying, “I shaped this data according to my own will and created something beautiful,” the artist claims: “Through scientific algorithms, I revealed the hidden architecture of the data.” This rhetoric is nothing more than putting on a mask of scientific authority to influence the viewer. This form of pseudo-scientific framing is monetized; data is dramatized, the viewer is drawn into a sense of technological awe, and reality is obscured through spectacle.

@leventnacakci This is a good comment that was long due. There are conceptually sound screensavers that legitimatetly claim to belong to the tradition of fine art though. Just because you haven't seen them, it does not mean they don't exist.

@danielsethlewis @John_Hempton Just compare the speeches of the US presidents of the last 30 years with those of the current one.Then do the same comparison among the leaders of the rest of the Western democracies.It will be pretty obvious what has changed,even without paying attention to the content.

@sean_tatol (The guy was indeed an asshole btw., as was Gesualdo for instance, but luckily, they are both dead.)

@sean_tatol Rookie mistake. Pro tip: Instead of "The origin of the Work of Art" read "Das Gerede"(Idle talk) from Being and Time and apply it to art. It will work.

@CeraGibson Cinema was the leading art form of the 20th century, just like the literary novel, the ballet and the opera were of the late 19th. It is nowhere as dominant as it was in the 1960s. I think it will stay with us though, as a niche art form like painting or analogue photography.

@VoltEuropa This name is utterly cringe. Do better!

@NXT4EU It would also help to recognize the difference between (fine) art and propaganda, but neither the political left, nor the right is able to make that distinction atm.

@NXT4EU Cool. But please, for the love of God, ditch the ancient Greek and Roman aesthetics! It's just cringe, backwardish, boring and has not much to do with the reality of the present. (Even if you want to use ancient ideas, you need to express them in a contemporary form.)

@allenanalysis Vocationally trained labor will also be dirt cheap if every breathing human being chooses to go on that path. There is no unlimited demand for plumbers, electricians, carpenters, or oil rig workers either while the supply side can be multiplied in a couple of years.