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What is any Tumblr about if not “infinite productivity”? Andrejevic quotes Kathleen Stewart, who argued that “The internet was made for conspiracy theory: it is a conspiracy theory: one thing leads to another, always another link leading you deeper into no thing and no place.” - Rob Horning, There Are No Accidents

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Life after GPT-3

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Goths Up Trees

Sandra submitted this photo with the comment “Earlier that day I had been disappointed by a robot exhibition, and decided to make up for it by climbing a tree.”

You can recover from most disappointments by climbing trees, I’ve found. When I say ‘most’ I mean things like: crappy robot exhibitions, lack of salted dark chocolate at the market, learning that they’ve sold out of the only Lip Service item in their recent collections that you actually wanted, the Dark Shadows movie. Things that cannot be recovered from by climbing trees: that bastard buying those New Rocks you’ve been saving up for (and they knew you wanted them, damnit), running out of vodka when the bottleshops are closed, haemorrhoids.

Here we have an eldergoth looking quite relaxed and thoroughly spiky with her scornful look and her accessories. It’s a sunny day, sadly, but she looks quite high up the tree.

4.3 out of 5 - Have reasonable expectations about what climbing trees can do for life’s disappointments.

(from July 27, 2012)

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Anger is an energy Anger is an energy Anger is an energy Anger is an energy Anger is an energy

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The Last Word from S. Kay

Name: S. Kay

Creative Occupation: Writer

Current, latest, or forthcoming work: “Reliant,” an apocalypse in tweets, from tNY.Press

Online Home: @blueberrio

1. How would you describe your work?

Experimental and brief in form, amusing and techie in content.

2. What substances do you consume while working and what effect, if any, do they have on your creative process?

Coffee, it makes me write a bit faster.

3. What is an artist’s role in society?

To reflect on society and present that reflection to it.

4. If you could do one thing over in your life, what would it be?

Get married to my wife again, because it was so much fun.

6. In what ways do you undermine your own success?

By sticking to an experimental form that doesn’t meet most submission guidelines.

7. Which creative work by another artist do you wish you had created, and why?

J. Bradley’s “Pick How You Will Revise a Memory” - although forthcoming and I haven’t read it yet, I love the concept and his work so I’m sure it will impress.

8. The thing we need less of in the world is… Alcohol.

9. The thing we need more of in the world is… Love.

10. The last word:

Thank you for being different!

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I miss my wife.

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Brain in the Blood in the Water (from grandson: Blood // Water)

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The Super Bowl of Hyperphosphorylated Tauopathy, shown with mouse model of acute head impact (Tagge et al., 2018).

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The hazards of just-so stories in neuroscience

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just-so stories in neuroscience

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Vulgarity used by president projected onto Trump Hotel in D.C.

The projection is apparently the work of a local provocateur.

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I'm wiped I'm so tired

Carry me for a little while Carry me for a little while Carry me for a little while Carry me for a little while

Kristin Hersh - Your Dirty Answer

2015

{I’m always grateful that Kristin Hersh can channel my pain.}

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It’s not my fault It's not my fault you don't love me It's not my fault you don't love me When I'm drunk

Kristin Hersh - Your Dirty Answer

2001

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The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out The sky's gone out

-Bauhaus, Exquisite Corpse

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Pantone M&Ms, Adam Hillman

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A brain-enhancement amusement park mockumentary.

“Some of the test results were a little too extreme to be published.“

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Proof that cats are liquid 

via Fat Cute Cat Going Under Door

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In his 1953 masterpiece, “The Captive Mind,” the Polish poet and dissident Czeslaw Milosz analyzed the psychological and intellectual pathways through which some of his former colleagues in Poland’s post-war Communist regime allowed themselves to be converted into ardent Stalinists. In none of the cases that Milosz analyzed was coercion the main reason for the conversion. They wanted to believe. They were willing to adapt. They thought they could do more good from the inside. They convinced themselves that their former principles didn’t fit with the march of history, or that to hold fast to one’s beliefs was a sign of priggishness and pig-headedness. They felt that to reject the new order of things was to relegate themselves to irrelevance and oblivion. They mocked their former friends who refused to join the new order as morally vain reactionaries. They convinced themselves that, brutal and capricious as Stalinism might be, it couldn’t possibly be worse than the exploitative capitalism of the West. I fear we are witnessing a similar process unfold among many conservative intellectuals on the right. It has been stunning to watch a movement that once believed in the benefits of free trade and free enterprise merrily give itself over to a champion of protectionism whose economic instincts recall the corporatism of 1930s Italy or 1950s Argentina. It is no less stunning to watch people once mocked Obama for being too soft on Russia suddenly discover the virtues of Trump’s “pragmatism” on the subject. And it is nothing short of amazing to watch the party of onetime moral majoritarians, who spent a decade fulminating about Bill Clinton’s sexual habits, suddenly find complete comfort with the idea that character and temperament are irrelevant qualifications for high office. The mental pathways by which the new Trumpian conservatives have made their peace with their new political master aren’t so different from Milosz’s former colleagues.

Bret Stephens, Don't Dismiss President Trump's Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity

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“Rejoice! Our times are intolerable” http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/holzer-no-title-p77400

-Jenny Holzer, from Inflammatory Essays (1979-82)