Samuel Biagetti

@seffffffff2 you should bring a yoga mat

Bro GET me out of community college…..

Israel has wiped the Lebanese village of Naqoura off the map.

@PAHoyeck most of the replies to this tweet are shallow and unoriginal

What's everyone's most elitist opinion?

@PAHoyeck Having an inadequately stocked kitchen is a sign of weak character

@BortonDoug @PAHoyeck IQ test is a series of drills in bureaucratic pencil-pusher tasks

@PAHoyeck IQ test as a requirement of voter certification. Minimum acceptable score: 90.

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos “An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms... They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs. Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me. So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page. Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube. Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

@Chigurh_Crash beacuse you wouldn't sell the world

actually i did die alone a long long time ago

@JerryJurellJr @shadyladycakes it doesn't help

@shadyladycakes How are they Nazis when this is obviously just a bad joke? If I a straight men yelled “I’m gay” at a hockey game as a joke would that make me gay?

blurring them out is coward bullshit behavior. these men were brave enough to do this in public, they deserve to have their faces attached to it. don’t cave to n@zis. don’t let them hide.

In the early 16th century Albrecht Durer produced 6 woodcuts of knot patterns, likely inspired by Mamluk decorative metalwork. Each knot is a group of intricately entwined infinity loops made up of repeating patterns that follow circular paths: publicdomainreview.org/collection/dur…

@matthewschmitz The Georgian vestibule & steeple in the image were built in 1760s, when public Catholic worship was technically illegal even in Maryland but basically unofficially tolerated; in the British colonies, it was only really legal in Pennsylvania

@matthewschmitz Great to see the Maryland Catholicism posting! Churches like St. Francis Xavier are not totally unique, but Maryland is a bit unusual in its deep English Catholic colonial history;

On the left: St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Compton, MD. On the right: Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Baltimore, MD. x.com/JoePerticone/s…

ok, so what is the actual evidence showing that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk?

@dioscuri that's just denial with no counter-argument

@SamuelBiagetti I think that most people significantly overestimate how bad things are, and often take a very Western-centric view in doing so. But more broadly, even if you think things are bad, it’s a further claim to suggest that these problems are all or mostly downstream of technology.

When I was a kid, people said television was eroding society and corrupting the youth. Since then we’ve had the same story for videogames, smartphones, social media, and now AI. Not to deny these technologies have all *changed* society, but the apocalypticism never quite pans out

@JoeySalads you are desperate

Tyler Robinson, a Left Wing tranny f*cker, assassinated Charlie Kirk. Anyone who says otherwise is listening to fake news and/or obsessed with conspiracies.

@ZL91083694 @GDRvisuals you are moving the goalposts. And most of New York lives in Brooklyn, Queens, & the Bronx Now go learn some facts and stop bothering me.

@SamuelBiagetti @GDRvisuals I talk about something like a condo on Staten island, not manhatten ...

Living room display in the DDR Museum in Berlin.

Timely reminder of when this guy reviewed that guy... Iggy Pop on Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Classics Ireland, 1995): Caesar Lives by Iggy Pop In 1982, horrified by the meanness, tedium and depravity of my existence as I toured the American South playing rock and roll music and going crazy in public, I purchased an abridged copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Dero Saunders, Penguin). The grandeur of the subject appealed to me, as did the cameo illustration of Edward Gibbon, the author, on the front cover. He looked like a heavy dude. Being in a political business, I had long made a habit of reading biographies of wilful characters — Hitler, Churchill, MacArthur, Brando — with large profiles, and I also enjoyed books on war and political intrigue, as I could relate the action to my own situation in the music business, which is not about music at all, but is a kind of religion-rental. I would read with pleasure around 4 am, with my drugs and whisky in cheap motels, savouring the clash of beliefs, personalities and values, played out on antiquity’s stage by crowds of the vulgar, led by huge archetypal characters. And that was the end of that. Or so I thought. Eleven years later I stood in a dilapidated but elegant room in a rotting mansion in New Orleans, and listened as a piece of music strange to my ears pulled me back to ancient Rome and called forth those ghosts to merge in hilarious, bilious pretence with the Schwartzkopfs, Schwartzeneggers and Sheratons of modern American money and muscle myth. Out of me poured information I had no idea I ever knew, let alone retained, in an extemporaneous soliloquy I called ‘Caesar’. When I listened back, it made me laugh my ass off because it was so true. America is Rome. Of course, why shouldn’t it be? All of Western life and institutions today are traceable to the Romans and their world. We are all Roman children for better or worse. The best part of this experience came after the fact — my wife gave me a beautiful edition in three volumes of the magnificent original unabridged Decline and Fall, and since then the pleasure and profit have been all mine as I enjoy the wonderful language, organization and scope of this masterwork. Here are just some of the ways I benefit: I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day. I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins — military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial — are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy. I have gained perspective. The language in which the book is written is rich and complete, as the language of today is not. I find out how little I know. I am inspired by the will and erudition which enabled Gibbon to complete a work of twenty-odd years. The guy stuck with things. I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.

@romanhelmetguy "My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest" -- mark twain

For all of human history, people bragged about coming from good families. Now people brag about coming from bad families. Probably nothing.

@ZL91083694 @GDRvisuals yes, dear

@SamuelBiagetti @GDRvisuals Adults, on 50sqm in the periphery not in the center?

Working now on a final video analyzing Red, White, & Royal Blue, for what is says about aesthetics and "good" art, and I'm more convinced than ever that this a great and profound film and anyone who doesn't get it has bad taste #RWRB #RWRW