Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech
@williampietri I was just scrolling on Bandcamp! Turns out we have a mutual friend and they showed someone in the band the photo, said it had their vibe, and the band loved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lnnWgprN0A forgot that this little video essay I made in 2023 for an online lecture series at a Mexico City artists space was pretty good
(the photo in question, which escaped containment at some point and sometimes people will be surprised to learn that I was the originator of it
https://thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-here-and-everything-needs-to-be-destroyed in 2016 I posted a photo I took of an electronics shredder company's trade show booth and the photo went viral bc of the company's incredible slogan and today I learned an extremely good punk band used it as the title for their new album, who says posting never leads to anything good
https://placing.technology/expanding-on-the-zirp-geo-hypothesis-with-data-probably-part-1 I made some charts to try and see if data backs up my hot take that open source geospatial tech was a zero interest rate phenomenon
Oh my gosh then a block later I ran into ANOTHER neighborhood dog friend, message received universe maybe life is worth living cool
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-136/ this week in sentences: Ozymandian, uncomplicated, Fish Falls, dust mote, Esperanto, historical buffet, least terror
@a I mean the line between comedy and horror has always been fine, cringe comedy takes it closest to that threshold
@kdawson ha, thank you!
@rose_alibi ok ok I can handle memes from the sketches
@rose_alibi I feel like there's a reason sketch comedy is a good fit for him and that reason is "small doses"
@rose_alibi I'm so upset