I like this from @Vivaldi vimeo.com/1202090692
RE: mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116838949755595730
"When we talk to chatbots, we are the ghost in the machine, dancing with the memetic selfhoods within its weights."
"Perhaps that is the purpose of art, and indeed life – to enchant and reinvigorate the world using those timeless ideas interpreted through our own inimitable strangeness."
If everyone in the United States weren't living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins and ends at making cutting remarks from a safe distance and directing other people to file nuisance lawsuits on his behalf. defector.com/promises-made-promises-kept-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-absolutely-looks-like-shit-now
Not particularly well made but concise. Why Dallas kind of sucks as a city, assuming one wants to move about it:
From the inside of the auto body shop.
RE: vis.social/@infobeautiful/116818870544899062
This led to a short shopping spree on 🦝 Society, which 💯 can recommend.
"...annihilating attention is a political project with clear benefits for the billionaire class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and therefore to remake—the world around us."
