this is like an inverted mandela effect

“what’s ur favorite rutger monologue tears in the rain or babies selling crack”

i think u glitched this into the world, i had no idea it existed. from the trailer the style looks somewhere between mandy and tony scott’s domino, which for me were less “films” than a kind of novel psychoactive drug consumed ocularly. thank u for speaking about “hobo with a shotgun”

Why is context a problem? the context transmutes it. A Drake album is music. A Drake song is music. once clipped and paired with ten million videos for a Drake Song Challenge it has been recombined and transmuted into content. a better example tho closer to what ur getting at is Drift Phonk. I’d argue that the entire genre is content, not music, because nothing else explains why it has hundreds of billions of streams yet the artists can’t tour because no one would come. It is music made for a specific digital context, platform environments with specific physics, it exists for its attentional, affective and memetic utility. it has no social embedding or imaginary like Drake does, it can only exist in digital environments. a true hybrid however would be Brazilian funk, which is engineered both to capture attention and circulate online but also has a rich social embedding, purpose and imaginary. it is a superposition of both that resolves differently in different contexts, which is why it’s both so popular and so avant garde. rather than forcing some black and white binary, i think treating content as a distinct medium makes the current media landscape far less confusing. and it certainly depends on context, mediation, social relationship and imaginary (or lack thereof), and utility.

this gonna be online anywhere? i love ur interviews

why is anyone even concerned about the loss of “quality content,” i personally do not have a single warm memory of a wonderful experience i once had with quality content. content is not films or music or podcasts even if it contains them, because the sole purpose of content is attention and circulation. its like how porn is not cinema because its sole purpose is sexual arousal. the only people whose lives would be worse without either are people who make a living from porn or content. i guess thats like 50 million people or something so maybe i just pwned myself.

content is a medium unto itself no matter what medium it contains. i don’t know how yet but i believe there will eventually be an “outside” for non-content media. a snake can’t eat its tail forever.

my doctor in germany said “hydration” is just a marketing gimmick made up by American Big Drink in the 90s and that americans drink too much water and it’s unhealthy and u should just drink water when ur thirsty. but ripping 0.0% beers whenever u want is a great way to hydrate

once i asked a pumped-up gay circuit party boy how much he bicep curls and he said “they’re just club muscles they don’t actually do anything” is this left vitalist praxis

also i am tired of the argument QQ is flawed or doesn't matter when it's obvious low QQ people bring disproportionate risk to society. ppl with low QQ are simply incapable of understanding reality like high QQ ppl, and yet we allow low QQ ppl to influence the direction of our future. QQ is falling fastest in wealthy nations and if this trend continues it could literally lead to extinction.

u have a high IQ ok great but we need to talk more about QQ - qualia quotient - because a lot of high IQ ppl have terrible QQ scores high IQ but u dont notice the amnesia of online time, the impoverishment of ur episodic memory? u have low QQ high IQ but dont see a difference between a jpg of a painting and the real painting? even lower QQ high IQ but willfully exist in a skinner box, one-note stimming with crypto trades and feed refreshes, oblivious u have become a mining rig of meat in a meaningless loop, waking up from the matrix and choosing no pill, because being a human battery without even a simulation of real life is what u know? single digit QQ confirmed

the fact that it’s not immediately apparent to so many in this thread that music preceded language feels like another sign of the digital ontology rootkit taking over everyones brain

hey as an ‘body unc’ im all about the Phat Beats but time moves on… the kids these days don’t even have bodies they think it’s ‘cringe’

2027 will be a beatless year. entire rap albums without any drums, just 808 bass and walls of chords and harmonics and 20 layers of autotune bathing the mind. music for disembodiment, pure cerebral bliss without somatic drag, without transients twitching the nerves. beatless and reverbed will be the new slowed and reverbed. on the feed tempo shifts with each swipe, the discomfort of resetting the internal metronome, reminders of heartbeats, of clocks. beatless solves this, freed from time, freed from flesh, u float.

medium hot by hito steyerl how to see like a machine by trevor paglen there’s a new edited volume “artificial intelligence and art history” from liverpool university press manovich’s whole artificial aesthetics project a new book coming from northwestern doha i think called “hyperimaging” gideon jacobs is writing essays / doing talks on images after ai, ruby justice thelot has written a lot about it, many many more and then there’s all the artists + artist researchers engaging with AI and the AI image… and all the philosophers of technology writing about it within other tracts on ai ai disrupting the nature of the image, the shift from representational to operational, could only be a massive topic of discussion within art. machine vision has been for decades, ie farocki new material comes across my eyes all the time, i’m not even searching for it but our embeddings are different

there are books and books about the AI image from ppl in critical fields. what is the intelligent thought they missed?

it’s never about what it looks like, it’s about what it feels like.

this fr fr fr it’s crazy. we need a third wave coffee of weed. that OUTDOOR HEIRLOOM. i just want to buy some “panama red” from a guy named randy.

you are confusing content and protocol. it has nothing to do with brain rot videos. its the protocol of the short form video feed itself. the design and physics of the platform itself is brain-rot, independent of the content.

have u heard of this podcast new models might be a good place to discuss this they have been following this topic they aren’t really on twitter but one of the hosts @LILINTERNET is idk if u know him