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loackme @loackme.bsky.social · 9h

What Draws Us #13

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 14h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15h

This is what the internet is for

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 19h

I had a ramen phase 4 years ago or so where i repeatedly tried Buldaks and always every single time not only burned my mouth and face and tongue and everything but also got burning hot hickups for hours after these bastards.

René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21h

I call this "logic of the edit". The new in digital media is that it is never fixed and always editable. Software isn't "symbol generating industry" (i mean sure, but pens and paper mills already went there), but a "symbol editing industry". Flip a bit, change the symbol in media. That's what's new.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

Computer software is also a symbol-generation industry and not an information profession

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21h

And now everybody is fighting over the pole position to shape that mass with virality, old mass media penetration or raw political/finacial power, all of these intersecting.

Long live the new media flesh, i guess.

René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21h

On top of this property of digital media you get a new form of oral/written-speech. Things on the web are both ephemeral and fixed, speech is written and said, everything becomes a fluid formable editable symbolic mass, culminating in LLMs.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21h

Media of the past allowed for some editing too, but it was hard. Delete a sentence from a printed book or change a letter, try to hack a TV broadcast and so forth. With digital, all you need is a txt-editor. This changes a lot, if not everything.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21h

I call this "logic of the edit". The new in digital media is that it is never fixed and always editable. Software isn't "symbol generating industry" (i mean sure, but pens and paper mills already went there), but a "symbol editing industry". Flip a bit, change the symbol in media. That's what's new.

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gregorg @greg.org · May 24

emerging artist Olafur Eliasson made drawings on his artist/sailor/dad's boat by suspending pens over paper greg.org/archive/2024...

a dense tangle of pen lines with concentrations in various colors–pink, blue, highlighter yellow, black, brown, a green—under where the pens were suspended on strings like pendulums, marking the paper as the boat they were on voyaged somewhere off the icelandic coast. a drawing from 1998 by olafur eliasson and his artist/sailor/dad elias hjörleifsson, being sold in denmark at bruun-rasmussen in june 2024

a 1999 snapshot of a pendulum drawing apparatus on an icelandic fishing boat. a tabletop made of a flattened cardboard box is pushed into a corner and taped to the wood paneling. five pens of different colors or models dangle from strings that extend out of the image. each pen tip barely touches the piece of paper on the apparatus, which is partially filled with little clouds of marks in a variety of colors, made as the ship rides the ocean waves. via olafur eliasson dot net

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 2d

I'll see your creepy robot-hugging pillow and raise you a surveillance tribble.

"Moflin: always by your side." A young woman takes a selfie while holding a furry surveillance device. "Your Smart AI companion: A calming presence. A quiet reassurance."

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 2d

So many actually, so so many

Q The Winged Serpent, the first movie i rented on VHS. David Carradine against a dragon which eats people out of swimming pools.

Dont Look Now, that dwarf!

That czech movie about an Car Vampire featuring a motor made from flesh.

So many.

René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies 2 get 2 know me

Poltergeist
Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein
Dawn of the Dead
The Blob
The Hitcher
Carrie
The Burning
Prince of Darkness
Evil Dead 2
American Werewolf

ghost ship gore @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies 2 get 2 know me

Day of the Dead
Raw
Freaks
Near Dark
Pet Sematary (1989)
Carnival of Souls
Suspiria (1977)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Dead Ringers
It Follows

Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me

🪩Phantasm
🧟Return of the Living Dead
🤠A Nightmare on Elm Street
🤰Rosemary’s Baby
📼Videodrome
🪓American Psycho
📖In The Mouth of Madness
🦉Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
🛒Intruder
🐉Q The Winged Serpent

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 2d

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