No he didn’t. We heard "God bless America" and thought he finally surrendered to the script. We were wrong. By also listing Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., he wasn't pledging allegiance, he was reclaiming a continent. He used the empire’s language to tell the empire it doesn't own the word. #badbunny
Epstein + Globalists ?! Seriously The Economist ??
Old school
The horseshoe theory of culture
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Has Rosalía finally invented World Music?
Her work is directly threatening to extraction logic. You can’t monetize a 15-track opera in 14 languages that demands sequential listening. You can’t playlist what requires context. You can’t TikTok what has no hooks.
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The American Dream individualizes both failure and success, erasing the system in both directions. This is how it thrives on perpetual competition while immunizing itself against both critique and redistribution.
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“Yet during that year I have come to see that the arranging of artists in a hierarchy of merit is an idle and essentially dilettante process. What matters are the needs which art
answers.” — John Berger
The risk is that we will come to rely on AI not merely to assist us but to decide for us, surrendering ever larger portions of collective judgment to systems that, by design, cannot acknowledge our dignity.
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Well played but maybe a bit too soon.
We built machines for the future, but we are using them to perfect the past.
The result is a present that copies the past and a future that never arrives.
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“Gorilla marketing” will never stop being funny.
Sadly, this Thomas Jefferson quote did not age really well…
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
How Many Times Can
Capitalism Drink Its Own
Piss Before Dying?
On Al, finitude capitalism, and the collapse of cultural reproduction.
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If you are not loud, you do not exist culturally, politically, or socially. In the age of the algorithm, cultural value becomes synonymous with measurability. Dashboards don’t give a shit about merit, substance or even truth.
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Why I cry at Rothko?
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This is really silly
Line Hotel, Koreatown LA 12.6.24
The subtlety of US headlines. There’s zero chaos. A complicated politic situation yes, but there will be a new PM within days.
