First: "BlueSky is incorruptible!"
Then: "We'll take money, but only from the righteous rich."
Next: "Sure, they're crypto bros, but decentralization makes us pure!"
Now: "Ads, but just in search. We promise!"
The slope isn’t even slippery.
It’s a fucking waterslide.
🥱
This line perfectly captures the cruel paradox of regret: always too late, yet perpetually lingering in the now.
A gentle reminder that the past is a graveyard, & your memories are the flowers you forgot to bring.
Lucy and Charlie Brown from Peanuts cartoon. Lucy is holding the football for a kick. Smiling at Charlie Brown who's looking worried. Caption says I PROMISE THIS CORPORATE SOCIAL NETWORK WON'T BE ENSHITTIFIED LIKE THE PREVIOUS ONE
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Book text: Pantheon. by Awet Moges and David Misialowski. THEY WERE EARTH'S LAST GODS. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER... VOLUME III: HETEROGENIA
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HOI POLLOI: proof that quantity rarely guarantees quality. Their noise is the symphony of mediocrity; tune it out & let silence do the talking.
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With all the hype about Hearview glasses..Hearview glasses provide voice-to-text on lenses for $1,399 (discounted from $1,999)Many Deaf influencers share emotional unboxing videos with promo code, but the real question is who is Hearview, and what are their true motives and integrity? Let’s discuss!
Success doesn’t just change your life; it changes your relationships. Often, the people who rooted for you from the start are the first to disappear.
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#FASCISTOCRACY (n.):
A regime where democracy’s facade conceals authoritarian rule, with public apathy or adoration enabling subjugation. Laws feign serving the people while feeding oligarchs, & elections devolve into rituals of powerless consent.
Perhaps agile ones will survive. But thriving?
That takes more than bylines.
it takes platforms that pay. Till then?
The real kleptokakistocracy might be the economy that treats truth-telling as charity work
Sure.
Local action is vital.
And so is vigilance.
Kleptokakistocracies thrive in the cracks where outrage dies & apathy grows.
True, but today's twist is darker. The neo-Peronist GOP fuses fatcat greed w/ populist demagoguery. Billionaires like Musk recast themselves as folk heroes, co-opting democracy & silencing dissent. Kleptokakistocracy now comes with a messianic PR spin, making the grift harder to spot & resist.
When a private fortune outgrows nations & media becomes a puppet, the line between governance & grift dissolves. Democracy doesn't die in darkness, it's sold off, headline by headline.
Kleptokakistocracy: a regime where rulers plunder with impunity, wealth trumps democracy & the press bows to billionaires. Soon-Shiong's LA Times exemplifies this decay, stifling criticism of Musk & Dump while undermining journalistic independence.
Empires decay not from the weight of their conquests but from the erosion of memory, when the pragmatists who built them are replaced by zealots who worship the stories of their creation, mistaking fables for blueprints.
HISTORY, n.
The art of cataloging grievances under the guise of progress, where “us” pens the victories and “them” bleeds into the margins.
People are seeing themselves in Derrick. That's terrifying.
He was supposed to be a mirror. Now he's a megaphone. If you read it & felt something (anger exhaustion or even relief) thank you. This story is yours now. Run with it. Burn it down.
Or maybe just crack the mirror.
I posted my first short story on Substack
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For our Black Friday sale, we are offering two skeets for the price of one. Offer available while supplies last. Void where prohibited. Do not look directly at the happy fun ball.
It takes seventeen muscles to form a smile but only three to look at your phone. -- Brian Bilston
Love it 🫡
An avatar is too important to be taken seriously
Heavy Metal styled version of Kaeli the warrior goddess with red afro & golden armor, jeans, with one hand held upright.
Heavy Metal styled version of Kaeli the warrior goddess with red afro & golden armor, jeans, with one hand held upright.
I pivoted anyway. Fine. "Render it in the early Heavy Metal style"
The Ai sputtered, whirred, & spat out something passable. A shadow of what could have been.
The supposed master of mimicry buckled under its own weight, spitting out something about copyrights & a mystical cut off date of 1912. 🙄
Refused to touch anything postmodern, let alone the sacred works of Moebius. A halfbaked response from a halfbaked prophet.
Not bad. But not GOOD either. Merely proof the machine had capacity to listen but its ears are stuffed with cotton candy & static.
So feeling bold, I told it to reimagine my art in the style of Jean Girard. MOEBIUS himself. The genius of Heavy Metal Magazine. And that's when DALL-E cracked. 😱
Warrior goddess, giant red afro, in golden armor and huge golden mallet with long handle, in loud comic book poster style
Warrior goddess, giant red afro, in golden armor and huge golden mallet with long handle, in loud comic book poster style, part realistic, 3D version of Hanna Barbera cartoon
The results came back as two bizarre samples. Totally warped echoes of my original art.
Kaeli standing in an infinity room, holding the Hammer of Thor, with a bunch of artifacts behind the mirrors, wondering to herself "I am a vagabond immortal, a permanent hostage to infinite time. I am a dumbshow in a hall of mirrors, a prisoner, Mise en Abyme"
So I upped the ante. Fed it a baseline, a reference drawing of mine straight outta Pantheon Volume II.
A simple prompt requesting the image of a warrior goddess, dark-skinned with a fiery red afro, pulling off the nihilistic shrug. That defiant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we've come to know & love. A low stakes experiment, a casual test of the machine.
Fear & Loathing in the Age of AI (a thread)
Earlier this year, I dove headfirst into the digital abyss, fooling around with DALL-E. A hallucinatory tool promising the creative magic of a cyberpunk oracle. My first attempt was pretty innocent enough.
