Month: September 2024
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Robots with Passion: How Creators, Platforms, and the Lizard Brain Redefine Creativity
In the digital age, creators have become central to the success of platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Yet, many of these creators would not pass the Turing test, a benchmark for determining whether artificial intelligence can imitate human intelligence to the point of being indistinguishable from a real person. Their content often feels robotic,…
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Star Wars/Deleuze Guattari
To speak of Star Wars themes and machines like into Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical concepts, we can draw on their ideas of assemblages, lines of flight, desiring machines, multiplicities, and the concept of the Body without Organs (BwO). The universe of Star Wars can be viewed through the lens of these dynamic forces and virtual…
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Operational Obfuscation Specialist
Monty Python-Style Job Interview for “Specialist in Hiding Loopholes” [Scene: A dingy office. The interviewer, wearing a bowler hat and carrying an enormous clipboard, sits behind an overly large desk. The job candidate, dressed in an impeccable suit, is seated in front of him. There is an absurdly large sign behind the desk that reads:…
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Bounded Rationality and the Noble Lie
Bounded rationality becomes an expression of the implosion of meaning. Individuals, caught in the web of late capitalism, consumerism, and media saturation, no longer make decisions based on concrete, objective facts or even limited rationality. Instead, decisions are filtered through the endless series of simulacra—images and signs that represent nothing beyond themselves. We live in…
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Making Movies
Making your own movie is a bit like algebra—a creative endeavor with straightforward steps you can learn and apply, like plugging numbers into equations. It’s all very comforting, if not a tad boring. You follow the rules, and voilà! You’ve got a film. But distribution? Ah, that’s where it gets murky—like calculus. Suddenly, you’re grappling…
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The Little Colonel
The three industrialists sat in a plush room, smoke curling from cigars, their sharp suits immaculate, reflecting the wealth of a world still emerging from a previous conflict. The polished oak table between them bore half-drained crystal glasses. Outside, the rhythmic hum of a factory provided a comforting backdrop to their conversation. Industrialist 1 (Herr…
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We take bribes, you take bribes. We admit it, you don’t. Who’s more honest?
We take bribes, you take bribes. The difference? We don’t waste time hiding it, compadre. It’s all out in the open, like the sun burning through a desert sky. Why bother pretending? This world runs on greased palms, quiet deals in the shadows—you know it, I know it. It’s what keeps this whole chingado mess…
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Mainstream Monoculture
The mainstream molds us like clay, shaping us into a monoculture—an artificial orchard of uniformity. Each of us, like the rows of apple trees, stands neatly in line, subject to the same pesticides that poison our authenticity. Our minds, pruned and cut, are directed to grow in ways that serve a larger machinery. This training—this…
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Thucydides First Draft
Alright, buckle the f* up, because I’m Thucydides, an Athenian, and I decided to write down the complete and total fing sshow that was the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians. Why? Because the moment these dumbasses threw the first punch, I was dead certain this was gonna be the biggest fing war anyone…
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Burning down the house
The music is still there. The sounds that shaped my early life, like sharp needles pricking my teenage skin, embedding themselves deep in my veins. I adored it. The riffs, the lyrics, the goddamn poetry of it all. The raw, uncut power of Boomer music was a truth I couldn’t deny. Clapton, Joni, Bowie—these people…