Thomas Patterson

In more prosaic news, I have a new day job, working remotely to create and curate audiovisuals for @PIH, a Boston-based international NGO. They are affiliated with organizations such as @harvardmed to provide health access and research to the world’s most vulnerable communities.

@danghentschel Your process is similar in quality and tone to Joyce writing Ulysses

The scene towards the end that takes place at the beach July 4, 2009, was actually shot by me, on July 4, 2009!

@trailblazers I am loving these edits lately. V classy. Bravo.

The journey continues. Don’t miss our game tonight vs the Utah Jazz 🏀

@JosiahOnAir To my ear, it’s Braxe and Falcon with the guy from Phoenix singing the Panda Bear parts

Emotional about these cave paintings again

@JosiahOnAir @altnation Can you sneak Enything by quickly, quickly onto that channel

Hosting on @altnation Mon/Tue/Wed mornings this week! 🌄

@World0fEcho Y asunari Kawabata E dwidge Danticat S ylvia Plath

J esus and Mary Chain O livia Tremor Control Y ellow Magic Orchestra C an E artheater C octeau Twins A ir R ancid O s Mutantes L eft Banke O peth A theist T ype O Negative E xodus S layer

@JosiahOnAir Covering Just Be Simple?!? MJ Lenderman approaches his final form as New Jason Molina

@BobGolen The knockoff is literally called Sierra Mist

What other mountain fluids would make a good soda pop?

@MenInBlazers Fulham #ffc legend ❤️ @WhiteNoise1879 @coreydu

Incredible scenes in the Colombian league final 🤯 Hugo Rodallega is in tears after getting injured and barely able to move. Yet play resumes, and the hobbling 39-year-old scores the goal to win the title for Santa Fe ❤️

@JoyceCarolOates JCO from the top rope

why is such silly, reductionist / stereotypical thinking back in style? it's the way cartoons would think, if cartoons could think. surely not even very stupid people think in such simplistic ways?

@ArtButSports @Sam_Vecenie Wha… wut? Hahahaha

@Sam_Vecenie x.com/artbutsports/s…

It doesn't happen without this man.

@alldelightedppl Literally now playing

Mind you

@proffwolff quietly taking to the ship, or, barring that, deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off

Top 5 best feelings as a man 1) squeezing colaborer’s hand in a vat of spermaceti 2) the physical touch of a cannibal 3) someone yelling “thar she blows” 4) when a team’s various wheels fit its captain’s one cogged circle 5) first quaff from a harpoon socket What am I missing?

@BillChurchMedia Getting Stephen Shore vibes from this

This is Florida.

@sterlingcrispin This is breaking my brain @jonhouse_

incredible oh my god x.com/sbgriffi/statu…

*Slavoj Zizek sniffs loudly touching his nose* Ah yes yes the corporate pastoral. This is a perfect ideological object. You see, you see here Sam, he pretends to give us a modest, one could say intimate conversation between two friends. No. This is a mythopoetic act of ideological laundering. *Sniff* This is not, you see, this is not a product announcement. No. Sam is giving us a myth, you see. *Sniff* This film, if one can call such a thing a film, is a strategic myth making artefact to construct an origin story. This is a biopic about themselves played by themselves, you see. Masturbation. *Sniff* The hubris is astounding. *Sniff* This opens, what do we see, what do we see first? *Sniff* We see the power shot, the money shot yes? Looking up from the ground up into the towering city. We are small. Silicon Valley is big. Money you see, technology, forbidden sex, and so on. San Francisco to be precise. Yes? *Sniff* Then what? Soft lighting, yes, soft focus, flowers in the city and so on. Two friends. No. *Sniff* These are not two friends. These are the ideologues of techno capital, you see. *Sniff*. The priests preparing you for the sacrament of their new device. *Sniff* They smile, you see, "We know we are building godlike machines, but we are such nice people!" *Sniff* Yes very good Sam. And thank you. They shake our hands and smile, while the machine, you see, the machine takes our jobs and our soul, or what have you. *Sniff* Yes? But the cafe, what a nice cafe I must say. The cafe invites us in. Not just two friends together, you see. We are, as the viewer, we are also their third friend. *Sniff* Perhaps lover, or some such. We will see how the night goes, you know? *Sniff* But Sam, yes, he does not care about money. Power? No. *Sniff* This boy king, the caring sovereign, he worries about us. The little people you see. *Sniff* The master holds the weight, the original sin, so we may enjoy without guilt. *Sniff* Sam is our Jesus, so we can ask the computer our little questions and not worry. Not to worry about the labor, or the exploitation, or the environmental costs and so on. *Sniff* So you see, this is, you see this is to build a moral legitimacy around leadership figures at at a time when, you know *Sniff* AI is taking our jobs, and "How will I feed my family" and "Oh no we are all going to die" and so on. *Sniff* Notice. Notice they do not talk about technology you see. Values. *Sniff* This is the hand of ideology that distracts you while the other, the other hand you see, it takes from you. But thank you for the coffee Jony, and yes the iPhone. *Sniff* Jony is the great thinker Yes? And Jony gives us emotional connection, yes? And the family man stands hand in hand with Sam, as deliberate contrast to the tech overlord he pretends not to be, you see. *Sniff* The European family man with the children and, you know, the forbidden sexual desires of San Francisco and what have you. *Sniff* We have our origin story, the myth you see, chance encounters in the cafe. *Sniff* "It is funny running into you here Jony!" Yes it must be nice what are the odds of such an encounter. *Sniff* And what? Personal anecdotes they give us, yes, some shared vision to reinforce authenticity in a film which, let us be honest for a moment, this could very well be in the post credits scene of a marvel movie or, you know *Sniff* some such profane act of capitalist entertainment, a mickey mouse adventure or what have you. *Sniff* And for what? For what is all of this labor and AI and devices and so on *Sniff* So we can find ourselves in a moment, lost, "Oh no" we say, "Oh no I wonder. I have a question to which there is no answer, I cannot think for myself?" *Sniff* No. Let us go to the phone yet again. We must ask the device. But no. You see. *Sniff* My phone is in my pocket. We need a new device you see. Yes? *Sniff* A device which, a device which always listens, you see. *Sniff* An all knowing god who can answer my questions, and tell me what to think, and what should I say, *Sniff* what should I do, and I am afraid and oh no who am I and I am sad and who should I fuck and so on. Yes? *Sniff* So you see *Sniff* This film is not a documentary yes? *Sniff* What we see here is christ carrying the cross alone through the streets. *Sniff* But not a cross you see. Jony. Jony gives us the iPhone and Sam puts AI inside the device. *Sniff* And now? Now we don't need to think *Sniff* We can just have the AI and the AI, you see, *Sniff* It's wonderful.

@Talk_2_Em_Chris She’s your daughter? Gotta be Aftersun.

My oldest been saying she wants to watch a movie that’s gonna make her cry all weekend. We tried a walk to remember and hardball. Not even a sniffle. Tonight I’m breaking out Marley and me. If this don’t get the job done she goin to therapy

@viajoshhunt Holding out hope he was/is a Songs: Ohia fan

It's weird that the new pope could have seen Big Black or Cap'n Jazz.

@JMcNallyBooks ATTN: @fatherjohnmisty

Vladimir Nabokov / Laughter in the Dark New Directions Books