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a gentleman at the guitar store posed a question: is there a NIN best of album. since NIN albums are concept albums intended to be listened to in track order I doubt it is possible. this lead to a discussion with my children (both fans) and the conclusion is:
all of pretty hate machine
wish
all of downward spiral
all of with teeth
all of year zero
it would be a bit long but as a single album that would be the best of.
new word just dropped:
halforism: an aphorism that has lost the second half changing it's meaning
examples:
the customer is always right... In matters of taste
Jack of all trades, master of none... but better than master of one
curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought it back
I made a TV show! I was the editor for a group of creators called the Content Krew and this is our first episode of Modded Amongus with Proximity chat. the proxy chat is in 3d and I personally edited down the hours of footage into our first episode. I'm sure you will like it, maybe give it a view?
cat?
I fixed it
Twitter's demise is much bigger than I think anyone is talking about. If the site stays online at all, which I doubt it will, what will likely happen is archival tweets will start silently disappearing. Not a big deal you say? What will historians do when they finally research the roots of the Arab spring? How about the #meToo posts? Election lies? Covid disinformation? You can archive your own tweets but from the perspective of history we don't know what we need to save till decades later. The death of Twitter will become a hole in history which is a ton more important for the future of society than some memes. A digital dark age is already happening.
This is actually insane and also kind of marvelous. Now history is not only mutable or even written solely by the victors.
It can actually be entirely wiped. Especially with the rise of the âthere are no actual facts there is only your truthâ crowd and then the conspiracy theory crowd proclaiming that all media reports are lies, and the only truth you can know for sure is what youâve seen yourself.
And then thereâs AI image, video, voice generation, which can replace images and videos of what actually happened with a more suitable narrative. Which seems like it proves those crowds right, but the thing is they arenât right yet. We are ensuring they are right.
I really have the urge to tell people to stop using google (your searches are training AI). Stop using the fun image generators (you are training AI). Stop using the voice generators (you are training AI). Get off social media (you are training AI). And get off tiktok for the love of god.
I know no one will listen but truly. We are actively involved in training and testing these programs under the guise of entertainment and convenience.
Get offline, and start keeping your own records with your own cameras and your own hard drives. Not your phone either, nothing on it is private and that means it can be erased and manipulated.
Also, start fucking talking to people. This is a priority. Start talking to and building connections with your neighbors and your coworkers and your acquaintances and even strangers because the ability of corporations and governments to control people is based entirely on the isolation of those people from each other.
This is why media focuses on the awful things that are happening above anything else. The âtrue crimeâ fascination went right along with media reports that crime is RISING TO UNHEARD OF LEVELS AND ITS SO UNSAFE AND EVERYONE IS GETTING SHOT AND ATTACKED AND KILLED AND RAPED AND IT COULD BE ANYONE IT COULD BE ANYONE YOU MEET STAY INSIDE AND DONâT GO TO THE UNION MEETING TRUST NO ONE THEY ARE ALL MALEVOLENT AND MUCH DUMBER THAN YOU THEY ARE NOTHING LIKE YOU and hereâs four new convenient ways to feed the parasitic and viral service and consumption economy that are largely useless pointless and menial, and exist entirely to keep people busy and exhausted and unfulfilled and unimaginative and too depressed to consider that they deserve better. Hereâs four new (basically AI themselves) celebrities that are living lives you could never dream of. They even own houses! Crazy right? Does that make you jealous and angry? Does it feel unfair? Comfort yourself with an app full of images of the perfect lives other people are living and keep scrolling until it feels like itâs your life. Youâre lazy because youâre depressed but youâre depressed because youâre lazy and you should probably ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THIS NEW ANTIDEPRESSANT WE MIXED FUCKING NYQUIL AND WELLBUTRIN SO YOU DONâT EVEN THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE OR HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER OR WHAT YOUâRE OWED or who keeps running off with all the god damn money or how a dozen eggs is now $6 and every grocery trip for essentials seems to set you back $400 or how you somehow owe that psychiatrist $200 even though you have insurance.
And itâs not that these terrible things arenât happening, itâs that they arenât as common or as direct a threat to anyone as theyâre made out to be. They want us afraid of each other so we wonât ohhhh I donât know, rent strike or labor strike or turn off our listening devices.
Also hey maybe do your own shopping and pick up your own delivery food and go to a store to buy things instead of feeding the bottom line of mega corporations.
You have choices, even under capitalism.
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Last week the energy union in France turned off the power to one of Macron's ministers' offices in solidarity with those protesting the raising retirement age, and this week they made the bills to low income households zero. They took power from the politicians and gave it to the poor. This is what the fuck I'm talking about, we cannot let fiscal capital colonise our minds to the extent that we think that the only way to redistribute and shift the balance of power is by giving people money. The union is showing the power it has by taking energy - literally power - from the rich and giving it to the poor. The rest of the world should be taking notes
Do you have some good links in French?
When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed
When George Hayward was working as a Facebook data-scientist, his bosses ordered him to run a ânegative test,â updating Facebook Messenger to deliberately drain usersâ batteries, in order to determine how power-hungry various parts of the apps were. Hayward refused, and Facebook fired him, and he sued:
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/
If youâd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, hereâs a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained
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I just found this on my computer while looking for something else. It may make you appreciate the filmmaking magic that gave us sunny days in Soho...
Why does Douglas MacKinnon have this look?
They should have done a photo like that while they were burning Aziraphale's bookshop. đ„đ„đ„
That would have been terrific!
That's been up for a few years now...
Also this.
"Civilization"
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some of you are miserable because youâre mean. like youâre just mean to people and things
âwhy donât i have any friendsâ because you are mean
this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you đ
âbut iâm not meanâ ok, cool! do you:
point out peopleâs mistakes and failures to them? in front of others?
belittle their accomplishments and successes? in front of others?
make fun of people and laugh at them? in front of others?
do all this secretly to your âfriendsâ because friendship means being able to âjoke around withâ each other, or âbe brutally honestâ with each other?
bring up past grievances with people over and over until theyâve apologized âenoughâ, or just to shut down arguments with them, or get out of conversations you donât want to have?
refuse to do favors for people? like when you feel they havenât âearnedâ your time or effort? or at all because you donât want to be âtaken advantageâ of?
try to get out of paying your share of bills, doing your share of chores? spend time figuring out exactly how little you can contribute to groups in terms of time, effort, and money, without anyone noticing or getting too mad at you?
get angry and jealous when people are happy about things that donât concern you? get angry and jealous when people pay attention to each other and not you?
spend any amount of time âgetting evenâ with people?
THIS BEHAVIOR IS MEAN.
you might feel like youâre a perfectly nice person who cares a lot about people but also speak your mind and take no shit! but if you do any of this stuff, people wonât like you anymore, because it fucking sucks to be around you. you suck to interact with. no one fucking likes being mocked, criticized, picked on, upstaged, pushed around, mooched off, or revenged upon. they will, if they have any self-respect at all, avoid you.
the worst case scenario actually isnât that you end up alone. itâs that you end up with other people who are just as mean as you are, and you all mutually tear each other to pieces on your way to drug addictions, losing all your money and property and kids, and jail time. this happens a lot, i have seen it go down, and itâs not fun even for bystanders. please consider putting the time and effort in to be nice, instead.
A lot of people need to hear this.
This made me feel much better about removing some mean people from my life. Sometimes allowing mean people like this in your space keeps good people out of it because they have the self respect to keep the meanies out.
some of you are miserable because youâre mean. like youâre just mean to people and things
âwhy donât i have any friendsâ because you are mean
this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you đ
âbut iâm not meanâ ok, cool! do you:
point out peopleâs mistakes and failures to them? in front of others?
belittle their accomplishments and successes? in front of others?
make fun of people and laugh at them? in front of others?
do all this secretly to your âfriendsâ because friendship means being able to âjoke around withâ each other, or âbe brutally honestâ with each other?
bring up past grievances with people over and over until theyâve apologized âenoughâ, or just to shut down arguments with them, or get out of conversations you donât want to have?
refuse to do favors for people? like when you feel they havenât âearnedâ your time or effort? or at all because you donât want to be âtaken advantageâ of?
try to get out of paying your share of bills, doing your share of chores? spend time figuring out exactly how little you can contribute to groups in terms of time, effort, and money, without anyone noticing or getting too mad at you?
get angry and jealous when people are happy about things that donât concern you? get angry and jealous when people pay attention to each other and not you?
spend any amount of time âgetting evenâ with people?
THIS BEHAVIOR IS MEAN.
you might feel like youâre a perfectly nice person who cares a lot about people but also speak your mind and take no shit! but if you do any of this stuff, people wonât like you anymore, because it fucking sucks to be around you. you suck to interact with. no one fucking likes being mocked, criticized, picked on, upstaged, pushed around, mooched off, or revenged upon. they will, if they have any self-respect at all, avoid you.
the worst case scenario actually isnât that you end up alone. itâs that you end up with other people who are just as mean as you are, and you all mutually tear each other to pieces on your way to drug addictions, losing all your money and property and kids, and jail time. this happens a lot, i have seen it go down, and itâs not fun even for bystanders. please consider putting the time and effort in to be nice, instead.
A lot of people need to hear this.
