Earth Telephone

@minordissent Sure man

Clav is important in part precisely because he is so unhappy. What he is aspiring to is what our culture implicitly tells us is the ultimate good, his autism making that implicit explicit. As he ascends to what every young man with a modicum of ambition secretly aspires to be, but never achieves due to laziness and risk aversion, only to find that its attainment means little and does not fill the hole in his soul, he becomes more and more distraught. And when he eventually realizes that the goal is foolish and searches for something more worthwhile, live in front of millions of acolytes, he will unleash a spiritual and cultural reformation in young men the likes of which has not been seen in centuries.

@idiot_onthe_net @__decoherence__ @Howlingmutant0 @nikitabier "waaaahhhhh"

@__decoherence__ @Howlingmutant0 Why is this allowed @nikitabier? You KNOW this hurts the platform longterm Everyone please report these posts

@keithm00nshead The Davey von Bohlen post-credits scene is frying me

@EarthTelephone If successful this will launch the Kinsella Cinematic Universe (KSU). Phase 2 will include “American Football”, “Owls”, and “Analphabetathology: The Cap’n Jazz Years”. End credits scene of the latter shows Davey being recruited into the Promise Ring Initiative

Do you think it'll touch on the Cap'n Jazz years first?

@benshapiro Can always count on you to simp for the rich and powerful, Ben

This smarmy Marxist doesn't see taxes primarily as a way to provide necessary public services. He sees them as revenge. He celebrates the confiscation of wealth he did nothing to earn. This is pure class envy, and it's hideous.

@ginamilan_ Okay but then you're not a Catholic, so stop calling yourself one. What you are doing is called "Protestantism."

@DC_Kakle I stand with Christ. There is no pope in the bible. Kick rocks.

I’ve been a Catholic for 35 years, and no one speaks for me. I stand with my brothers and sisters in Christ. I stand with President Trump. I stand with America. I do not stand with Pope Leo. He does not represent me, and he sure as hell does not represent the Catholic Church. I will never bow to radical Islamic extremism. I will defend my faith unapologetically and call out every single ounce of evil that dares come against it. “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.” -Ephesians 6:11

@willmenaker Mice-sized mice living in a mice-sized abbey but (and here's the kicker) in a mice-sized universe

This project broke down because no one could decide if they were human-sized mice living in a human-sized abbey, mice-sized mice living an human-sized abbey, or mice-sized mice living in a mice-sized abbey

@lazyes36978 @esaagar The "vibe" was "stabby?"

@esaagar I used to be very libertarian on Marijuana, then I went back to Seattle and changed my mind. Even around the market the smell was overpowering. Also the vibe was 1000% more stabby. If you want your city to be even more un-liveable for families, go ahead, legalize away.

The smell of weed is the smell of death. The pungent odor of civilizational decay Normalizing it is normalizing decline itself

@fluffy542 @AllieJade1 Not buying the essay on how your rudeness and awkwardness is a virtue.

the Gen Z stare is one of the most misunderstood phenomenons. it's because, in order to notice it, you have to be making a mistake and unaware that you are. gen Z stare happens in response to fakeness. that's it. nothing more to it. fakeness is what you call normal. "hi how are you" without sincerity is just strange -- have you ever sat back one day and thought about that? or when you walk in a shop and expect the person to put up a fake smile, signal emotions which they aren't actually feeling, and greet you according to a script instead of how they actually feel. do you think that is ok. do you, the person insisting for it, not consider that it's inhuman? gen Z recoils at this fakeness and is the first real generation this country has had in a century. you're witnessing their resistance to your fakeness, and your insistence to it. ... and you aren't even aware you're doing it. you are so helplessly unaware that you believe something is wrong with them instead. it's ironic that you call gen Z disturbing; it's you who disturbs.

I've read about this Gen Z stare and up til now, I'd never encountered it. That was until today. I walked into a local take out shop. 2 cash registers, 2 people ready to take your order. The first girl was busy with customers, so I look at the girl at the 2nd cash. She just stares at me. Her face never moved, she didn't blink, she just stared at me like I was invisible. It was like she didn't know how to acknowledge or give basic social cues. I'm looking at her thinking, usually people behind the counter say hello first as a cue to advance to their wicket. She just stared at me! So I ask: Hi, do you want to take my order? Her: Sure. That's all she initially said. Honestly it was the oddest thing I've ever encountered, it was like she was on auto pilot. Once I started speaking to her, it was like her batteries kicked in and then she smiled became friendly. Has anyone else ever encountered that stare?

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo I imagine you've never had the plot to begin with as you don't seem to even understand what it means to create something.

@EarthTelephone @lilbrudder2 @diplo I think y’all lost the plot on this whole artist thing. Discouraging mediums that allow others to join the pool and defining the very act of using whatever tool is at your disposal to create something rather than nothing as not being an artist. Y’all done lost the plot.

if you are a creative you need to adapt or just like give up and become an uber driver until everyone has a waymo. I know it’s not cool or classy to speak like this but i’m not gonna candy coat the future - it is what it is . sorry for bad new’s my purist . there will always need a human mind and touch because ai will never suffer from bipolar disorder and autism like me and other creative people 🤪

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo Pardon, I did not realize you were responding to someone else who mentioned infringement. Copyright infringement is not what I am talking about though.

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo The topic isn't infringement but who performs the creative labor. If you were inspired to write, arrange, perform, and record a song, then you are the one who created that song. When you prompt AI, you literally don't do any of that work, so you are not the artist.

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo Only now are people dumb and arrogant enough to believe that commissioning work makes you the artist.

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo No it isn't. The color green cannot perform the labor of creating something. AI *is* the thing which performs the creative labor. Not you. When you prompt AI you are just commissioning work from another source. People have been doing that for thousands of years.

@diplo Well, at least we can say we will always appreciate the music you made yourself before you lazily outsourced your creativity to AI and became a non-artist who tries to take credit for work he commissioned from a computer program.

@DavydKeyes @diplo No, the AI made the music you wanted. You simply commissioned work from it.

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo the creators and owners of the "art" you've generated, since it is actually their product which produced the content. You will create nothing, you will own nothing, and you are so stupid and creatively bankrupt that you are cheering on the cessation of human creativity.

@CassidyAWaters @lilbrudder2 @diplo The barrier to entry will not be demolished; people will simply cease to cross it. You confuse the ease at which you will be able to access AI-generated content with creativity. When copyright law catches up, it will almost certainly be the AI companies recognized as ...

@cjandshea @BogataTimar An internet-ruined mind. Touch grass.

Well I’m so glad you get to sing in subway cars enjoy it now, because take one look at London to see what your future looks like. Not only will you not be singing but you won’t even dare leave your house at night by yourself. It will happen fast, you were sold a big bag of bullshit. Ask us how we know? Those very same people congratulating Hungary on democracy (especially those coming from the U.S.) are the very same people that ACTUALLY stole an entire democratically held election from the citizens of the U.S. and installed a man with Alzheimer’s for 4 years, and have done all of those things you describe and worse here in the U.S. the EU is running what we call a color revolution in a Hungary with the help miscreants like Soros, but sadly you don’t seem to want heed the warnings and you will be forced to learn the hard way. I hope for Hungary’s sake I am wrong but that is unlikely.

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.

@himmlermaneuver @SheaSerrano How long do you think it will take for someone to notice when you finally decide to do it? I'd guess quite a while

@SheaSerrano If you weren't Mexican, would *you* want Mexicans here? I fucking doubt it.

wait hold on are all the idiot trumpers who are always telling me to go back to mexico actually just looking out for me??????