The village is silent. No
one will leave their homes.

Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online The mysterious Cornish electronic music pioneer has gained an extraordinary second life in the TikTok era. Writers and musicians explain why his glitchy slipperiness is so in tune with life today

Thanks to the TikTok memes, my mint vinyl copy of Drukqs seems to be currently worth more than £500.
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I look back on the past few years and realize the most peaceful period I’ve had and long to return to is when I was out of commission due to a gum graft. The toll it took on my body made endless scrolling and my phone unsavory (couldn‘t eat solid foods) so I entered a deep meditative state instead

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The Shrouds! I couldn’t stop thinking about it — one day after I left the theater. when it finished I was confused but then I let it cook. Glad I did.

… and he SERVED ✨

so it begins

I work for urban dictionary and I still don’t know what it is. We need our Secrets

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

“When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.”
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Books: Ian McEwan’s new novel What We Can Know (just finished it), The Maniac, and a book of short stories by Martin Amis named “Einstein’s Monsters”

I’m reading again! Oh, but what is this? I’m fixated on fiction about the consequences of nuclear weapons? Winter is coming, I guess…

I wouldn’t call them my “favorite” works I’ve watched this year but scenes and lines from Eddington, One Battle After Another and The Lowdown (FX/Hulu) still swirl in my brain…I’m all in for the modern western. We live in a world of guns and bitchslaps

My dog was also a big fan (my first criterion marked by his teeth, he always had great taste)

“Is everyone in Hollywood just okay with whatever OpenAI prefers?”

☎️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social trying to give the town a (necessary) wake-up call re: AI cos trampling on IP rights

“…the AI ship is going to sail… with Hollywood staying well behind—and eventually wondering where its business went.”

I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.

They trademarked it lmaooo

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Hahahahahah

Situation Wanted, Women. Artists. MOTHER OF THREE-10, 11 & 15-DIVORCÉE. AMERICAN. THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE AS AN ACTRESS IN MOTION PICTURES. MOBILE STILL AND MORE AFFABLE THAN RUMOR WOULD HAVE IT. WANTS STEADY EM-PLOYMENT IN HOLLYWOOD. (HAS HAD BROADWAY.) Bette Davis, c/o Martin Baum, G. A. C. REFERENCES UPON REQUEST. [accompanied by a headshot of a smiling Davis]

It’s 63 years to the day since a desperate Bette Davis put an advert in Variety’s situations wanted pages, resulting in her being cast in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and resuming her decades-long feud with Joan Crawford. Well, that’s the legend, anyway... 🧵

Friend texted me this morning to share that she watched this crazy movie last night (In the Realm of the Senses) and it gave me an opportunity to share passages from one of my favorite “directors share their thoughts” books. Always in awe at how transgressive Oshima was for his time

"The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil."

Me doing my physical therapy exercises to get back to running away from my problems faster

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I can’t stop thinking about a documentary film that my coworker recommended offhandedly this week: TRAINS (2024; Maciej J. Drygas). If you have the opportunity, please see it. Comprised of only archival footage and no dialogue, collected from over 40 archives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKE_...

Omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m an adult. I’m listening to the new @nin.com Tron: Ares soundtrack in bed, lights dimmed, while completing a crossword puzzle