I wouldn't say it's necessarily FOMO but more cost of not engaging with some things when they might go somewhere interesting, and you can get some press/audience by engaging with these dopey emerging technologies and get people interested in your core project
― mh, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
I always come back to thinking to the David Letterman show bit "is this anything" where someone would do something weird for the audience and then Dave and Paul would say "hmm" and kind of riff back and forth about whether they thought it was something but usually wouldn't draw any solid conclusions
― mh, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
So, she was invited yesterday to speak at an event in Stockholm dubbed “brilliant minds 2023”.
Her bio for the event:A provocateur and philosopher, Grimes has been both criticized and lauded for her theories on AI, futurism, and luxury communism, among other topics.
LOL
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
Writing shallow tweets is enough to call yourself a philosopher and playing with midjourney prompts makes you an expert on AI apparently.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
"provocateur" is definitely the most high brow word for "asshole"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Hey now stupid asshole
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
that video clip of her speaking at some event where she replied to some comment about "smashing the patriarchy" with "I really like the patriarchy!" and one of the things she listed was "supply chains" was *chef's kiss*
― mh, Friday, 16 June 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
brilliant minds
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
She saw Taylor Swift's keychain and took it literally.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
Russia and Ukraine should fight in Fortnite.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 June 2023 03:24 (one year ago) link
Is that a quote of her? It is isn’t it? ffs
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 19 June 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
Appalled I ever contributed to her wealth.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 19 June 2023 07:15 (one year ago) link
sending her a few dollars today in the hopes she says some even funnier shit
― mh, Monday, 19 June 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
Save it. She gets plenty of money from Peter Thiel.
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 June 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
ok, I give up,p. I’m posting it
she actually said this pic.twitter.com/JKaXhN7TxK— MOSCHINODORITO (@moschinodorito) June 13, 2023
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
So… Cringe Claire apparently was at Curtis Yarvin’s birthday party a few nights ago evidenced by a leaked drawing wishing him HBD YARVIN on a whiteboard.
I don’t even
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link
This is a good read on the shockingly stupid and somewhat dangerous views she and the people around her are into
https://viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/the-darkness-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-artificial-intelligence-and-neoreaction/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
yawn - roko's basilisk again? (J/K, I love you, future AI)
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link
Techno Marie Antoinette
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
(Googles "roko's basilisk," googles "Newcomb’s paradox," gets a headache ... )
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
she's one of those artists i can't imagine ever touring again, and i'm guessing her absolutely demented associations aren't getting more blowback and backlash because ppl don't care about her anymore, unless they're extremely online stans.
― omar little, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
i think she's playing some festivals in south america later this year
as far as backlash being reduced, she's barely put out any music in the last few years so that's surely a factor. if the new album ever comes out then that'll be enough for her to get more attention and get more backlash
― ufo, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
It’s a weird standard. Ariel Pink and John Maus got cancelled and get removed from festivals (eg: https://pitchfork.com/news/john-maus-exits-electronicon-2023-lineup-curator-george-clanton-apologizes-for-booking-him/ ) for attending the Capitol riots, which yeah sucks and fuck them, but meanwhile Grimes is partying with facists and she’s still around.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
I guess you get a pass if you’re not explicit enough and tweet racist dog whistles instead.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
at the risk of getting canceled myself, while her comments are bad, it sort of seems like if you accept a crude definition of patriarchy, as many do, then you sort of have to come to her conclusion. if a system of oppression is total then it’s responsible for the good things too. put another way, by trying to show just how deep things go, we can sometimes grant them more power than they really have. i think a lot of nu-fascism comes crawling through little conceptual openings like that.
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
it’s just goofy
― mh, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link
so if you think about things in an intentionally shallow and pretend-ignorant way, you reach bad conclusions? lol
also I don't how nu "but patriarchy built the roads" is
― rob, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
seems like a variation on "mussolini made the trains run on time"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
well also roads suck. fuck a world dominated by cars, asphalt, and dumb men
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
yeah if you didn't watch the clip she names: the supply chain, food, Uber, roads, and civilization as good things that came from the patriarchy. thanks for all the food, patriarchs!
― rob, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
woman, man, person, supply chain, food, Uber, roads
― peace, man, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
We didn't start the patriarchy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
isn't it enough to say "i'm allowed to criticize the system without needing to flatly reject every helpful aspect of contemporary existence" ?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
that's @ uptown
― budo jeru, Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
in any event, citing uber like it's one of the crowning achievements of western civilization is just laughably stupid. good thing we live in a meritocracy, so deserving intellectuals and artists like her can rise to the top!
― budo jeru, Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
to reiterate, it’s goofy. for every change in the system you can say that everything that has existed got you to this time so why change?sounds like some shit from the nxivm documentary
― mh, Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
It's like when Matt Walsh recently said that slavery was good because if it hadn't happened then maybe his grandparents would never have met and he'd be wiped out of existence
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
sounds like some shit from the nxivm documentary
lol yes
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
xp: waht
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, June 29, 2023 10:27 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
another mark against slavery
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWKfvZjhv10
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Look, I also wouldn’t exist were it not for slavery but that in no way justifies the existence of slavery and, not to brag about myself or anything, but I’m way better for humanity than Matt fucking Walsh
― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
somebody stepped on a butterfly
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
She’s a shallow hype parrot, the worrisome aspect for me is that she’s parroting the dangerously dumb shit she’s hearing with the sillicon valley nepo babies and techno fascists she’s been hanging around with for the past years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
I mean, it was the libertarian burner-adjacent post-hippies in montreal years ago and before that she did the "not a houseboat" thing
I think Thiel and company fund this crap because they know where people can likely end up as far as political and economic stances go, but so much of it is just fatuous bullshit that sounds like it came from a 20 year old who has been away from home a couple years and decided it's interesting to be contrarian in a trolly way. And some people just never outgrow that. Most of them don't vote, luckily
― mh, Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
lol
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_652,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86973eb3-0373-46c8-a898-a436f1d5e21d_1600x900.jpeg
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 08:14 (one year ago) link
thought this was going to be the not very good new song but lmao
― ufo, Sunday, 30 July 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link
It’s great that I haven’t heard of two of those people but I’m comfortable assuming they’re dumbasses by proximity.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 30 July 2023 08:53 (one year ago) link
yeah grimes is the least reactionary person involved lol and hopefully will derail the whole thing with inane points about how vr is going to cause a new sexual revolution or something like that
― ufo, Sunday, 30 July 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
Triggered by Meta releasing the “legs” upgrade I expect
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 30 July 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link