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Been watching a lot of stuff lately that touches on the intersection of geo-politics and the cyberization of the body (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, X-Files, The Shrouds, etc.)
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isnāt that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? Weāre the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that weāll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isnāt that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? Weāre the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that weāll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
Apr 26, 2025
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āNOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS CONTENT.ā
by Colin Broadmoor
Made me feel human again
Made me feel human again
May 3, 2024
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š£everything is politics. from vaccines to lgbt matters, politicians have leveraged the things conservative americans donāt understand to stoke fear and confusion.
this isnāt anything new. what is new is the algorithms that reenforce those fears. comment sections weāre told to treat like real conversation just flooded with faceless accounts saying their most vile inside thoughts. itās easy to want to interact and easier to just read it all and be mad. but every second spent engaging is another brain scrambling distraction.
these sensationalized posts and comments do nothing for education, understanding, or empathy. even on the left, slacktivism actively hurts the cause. theres an idea that someone who holds ignorant beliefs is *bad* in all politicized fields. but letās be real, just because uncle jeff is pissed about tuck underwear it doesnāt mean heās a climate change denier. generalizing people is exactly what politicians want from us.
social issues are important and politics arenāt going away from that any time soon. but social media is a slippery slope and i personally refuse to engage. when it bleeds into my real life (āparents just WANT their kids to be transā) i try to engage in conversations that get to the root of the issue. whereās this info coming from, why do you believe that? these are the kind of questions strangers wonāt ask them on the internet.
misinformation is a sickness that weāre all plagued with. to find some truth and understanding we cannot be having these discussions on platforms like facebook or instagram or twitter. if we do, weāre just giving these tech ceos and politicians what they need: engagement and fear
this isnāt anything new. what is new is the algorithms that reenforce those fears. comment sections weāre told to treat like real conversation just flooded with faceless accounts saying their most vile inside thoughts. itās easy to want to interact and easier to just read it all and be mad. but every second spent engaging is another brain scrambling distraction.
these sensationalized posts and comments do nothing for education, understanding, or empathy. even on the left, slacktivism actively hurts the cause. theres an idea that someone who holds ignorant beliefs is *bad* in all politicized fields. but letās be real, just because uncle jeff is pissed about tuck underwear it doesnāt mean heās a climate change denier. generalizing people is exactly what politicians want from us.
social issues are important and politics arenāt going away from that any time soon. but social media is a slippery slope and i personally refuse to engage. when it bleeds into my real life (āparents just WANT their kids to be transā) i try to engage in conversations that get to the root of the issue. whereās this info coming from, why do you believe that? these are the kind of questions strangers wonāt ask them on the internet.
misinformation is a sickness that weāre all plagued with. to find some truth and understanding we cannot be having these discussions on platforms like facebook or instagram or twitter. if we do, weāre just giving these tech ceos and politicians what they need: engagement and fear
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šÆI have some subscriptions expiring soon that I canāt financially justify anymore so Iām on that article grind and for I suppose sadomasochistic reason many of these articles have been about ai and I simply canāt get behind these overeducated assholes proposing it has any humane, beneficial qualities at all. (It is quite literally inhuman.) the main argument always seems to be efficiency or offloading the emotional labor of navigating your own life and an argument that essentially boils down to āfuck the elderly and disabled leave them alone isolated in their homes or institutions with their screens and an algorithm fed on bigoted rhetoric that hates themā. You have to keep the whimsy to remember the time ai saves you is worth nothing if it keeps you from your friends and family and passions and general Ć©lan vital. (Also that nothing is worth the environmental racism, air pollution, and quickening towards the water wars necessitated by data processing centers.) in the scope of universal relativity, the laws of physics, space and time, string theory probably, it is a miracle that any of our consciousnesses have been realized as a tangible collection of cells cloaked in flesh moving around on the single life sustaining planet we know of among one another, each individual their own fantastical miracle at the crosshairs of time and space. That you are ever anywhere with another person has cosmic implications. Whimsy and recognizing the secular miracle of existing is what makes it all mean anything. They want us to forget our miracle of being and sign our time and eyesight over to the ai that further resigns you to the hustle culture normalizing three jobs to afford food and shelter. Mortality makes your life mean something but death in itself is meaningless. It is cruel and random. Itās the life that matters, not the moment it ceases.Take that hammer for your brothers and sisters, remember however gooey you feel inside is the same solubility everyone always feels shifting inside, and it is that persistent threat of dissolution and navigating the slick tumbleweed in each of us that makes us human, that keeps the poets employed. The confusion of being alive is paramount to the human condition, and the clinical precision of ai obfuscates the beauty of being alive with other people. If you prick us we bleed! Heaven is each other, etc. Reject binary codes and techno-fascist yes-men. Iāll show you my ooz and you might see yourself in the leaking I canāt contain. Maybe we can ooze together in a Francis Bacon, Queer (2024) sort of way.
5d ago
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šŖIf you watch the American Kitchen Nightmares on Tubi itās uncensored which makes it at least 20x funnier than it already is.
Gordon is a solid British curser but the weekly rotating restaurant crews are the big draw here. You get cursing in regional dialects from all over the country from all kinds of weirdos who bring their unique, vulgar flavor to the table.
This show is just a total gem in general but the real star is the narrator. The voice over narration on this show is comically dead pan to the point of surreality, kind of reminiscent of something like Fishing With John or The Rehearsal. Itās so good you begin to think it must have been intentionally tongue in cheek but then you remember the audience for this shit was post 9-11 suburban Fox watchers (Cops, 24, American Idol, etc. etc.) and you realize itās all sincere.
Gordon is a solid British curser but the weekly rotating restaurant crews are the big draw here. You get cursing in regional dialects from all over the country from all kinds of weirdos who bring their unique, vulgar flavor to the table.
This show is just a total gem in general but the real star is the narrator. The voice over narration on this show is comically dead pan to the point of surreality, kind of reminiscent of something like Fishing With John or The Rehearsal. Itās so good you begin to think it must have been intentionally tongue in cheek but then you remember the audience for this shit was post 9-11 suburban Fox watchers (Cops, 24, American Idol, etc. etc.) and you realize itās all sincere.
May 26, 2025
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That fuckin piano line goes so hard and gets stuck in my head every time + thereās a chicken on the cover š¤
May 3, 2025
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šPlastic Beach with a full orchestra and all the guest stars āØš
Apr 22, 2025