The only thing this photo makes me think of is the insight of
@peligrietzer
that T Swift is like an autistic person whose special interest is “normal stuff”
I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school. They represent the summun of popularity and success. Those who fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy. A mirror into your soul.
Amateur investors, perhaps propelled by a mix of greed and boredom, are looking to teach Wall Street a lesson. They’ve come together on a popular Reddit page, Wall Street Bets, to push the stock of companies like GameStop — up 1,700% — to outrageous highs.
I am extremely pleased to present the new
@nemesis_global
memo MAX PAIN (A HISTORY OF THE RECENT PAST) which was accordingly suffered over for months to provide a few moments of reading pleasure
Or pain
Whatever works for you
Today I’m ~very excited~ to launch three new works on
@foliafoliafolia
– CODE OF HOLES, PLASTIC BEACH and THE FUTURIST. These three NFT works are generative poems I created with new digital language models and algorithms, plus my own poetic composition.
I'm starting a small press called DELUGE. more on that soon. our first event is on Zoom tomorrow, Friday, August 7th at 7pm PT and I would love it so much if you joined me. you can register at
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of startup pitch meetings and then asked it to re-create a startup pitch meeting of its own. Here is the first page.
Kaddish for Virgil today. Still haven’t processed it, don’t know when I will. He was an amazing friend and collaborator and his generosity of spirit inspired so many people including me. An amazing life. May his memory be a blessing 🖤
what if art schools were more like k-pop academies, you train for 4 years until most of you are relegated and the ones that survive are amalgamated into a single practice that is shepherded to stardom by a stern but charismatic leader
We just posted our
@1nterdependence
episode with
@khole_emily
! We discussed her new novel "Mercury Retrograde", and how lessons from the post internet art era informed her new publishing experiments on web 3
🤝🪄🌹
My first Guardian op-ed is here! It’s about today’s great conjunction and resulting epochal shift, trend forecasting and a new “up in the air” era 🏄♀️✨
I keep fantasizing that if I create the perfect annotated bibliography with all the right sources and first person testimony organized just so, all the myths busted with clarity, my family will stop being rabidly genocidal. I know this is idiotic
TIME TO PREORDER AMOR CRINGE
BY
@kalladomcdowell
A novelette written with the intention of being as cringe as possible, half traditionally written, half AI generated, sick beyond belief, about a Tik Tok influencer who seeks g-d <3
COMES OUT APRIL 12
@deluge_books
It's been a difficult night for us, exhausted after spending hours in bomb shelters, but waking up to so many messages of support from you guys helps.
Thank you ♥️.
The
#gamestop
situation reminds me very much of the Bling Ring in which teens saw a particular marc jacobs bag in US Weekly and instead of saving their pennies to buy another identical one, took the media at face value and went and stole THAT MARC JACOBS BAG from Rachel Bilson
Kaleidoscope guy now out here with some new journal/platform for Terraforma, trying to get full grown adults to write 2000 words of complex cultural analysis for 200 euros...these ppl need to get a grip ASAP
The Dada era "art vs life" divide as the essential creative-philosophical question has become, for us, the internet vs life divide. no further questions at this time :*
Trying to come back down to earth this weekend...more updates on $NOVEL soon...for now please accept my massive gratitude to everyone who contributed + encouraged, it has been incredible
Our huge web launch is tomorrow...and on top of it, i get to look forward to this event on Dec 1, hosted by real ones and in conversation with an absolute icon !!!
Ignota Hosts: Mercury Retrograde — 1 December
Join
@khole_emily
and
@TeaMichelle
for conversation and tarot to launch Mercury Retrograde, Emily’s debut novel published by
@deluge_books
, a new mass experimental queer press <3
Coffee + vinegar is worse than its constitutive parts. A suit + sneakers is a greater kind of corny than either worn separately. Most emergence is trivial. The Umami Theory of Value centers on losing your sense of what’s trivial and what’s valuable 💫
“When we are looking at the world in terms of vibes, we are seeing the world the way an algorithm sees it.”
@khole_emily
, co-founder of
@nemesis_global
at VISIONS