There is, of course, going to be a massive move back into reality & our real world as the utility of the internet dies. For 20 years technocrat-billionaires deliberately “addicted & addled us” (more…)
An ode to Jake Lorenzo… and a world of collaboration in business that we lost.
I’m finally catching up, and in this mystifying world, I am further mystified why they would drop a column like yours, as this speaks to what so many of us have experienced in the last 30 years of hospitality, (more…)
Alan Watts’ Trust the Universe, Baudrillard’s Simulacrum, Eckhart Tolle’s Joy Ease & Light, BBC’s Adam Curtis & Hypernormalisation, and stepping back into the really real world
WHAT YOU STARE AT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. It’s part of my decoupling from the manufactured world they want us to live in, vs just staring at beautiful things like water and rolling hills. =) I think that’s (more…)
Owning in lieu of subscription fatigue: physical media is on the rise
AI Slop really is biting Youtube, IG, and Spotify. Even my wife, sis and dad who don’t care and just want a pleasant playlist are caught off guard they’ve heard fake artists and fake albums. But it’s (more…)
A manufactured overlay to make reality seem simpler: Epstein Files vs the BBC documentary Hypernormalisation
The 2023 BBC Adam Curtis’ documentary is getting renewed attention, its day in the sun so to speak, as we have simply just uncovered a global criminal elite wealthy technologist pedophile ring (more…)
AI Slop is ruining music like AI is ruining minds. Spotify publishing new songs from dead artists
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission (no paywall here: https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley) https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/ According (more…)
1997 MTV’s Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more.
In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, at (more…)
Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race.
Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent (more…)
My obsession with the Las Vegas sphere is so unhealthy.
“$2.3 billion MSG Sphere in Las Vegas is almost ready. • 366 feet high • 516 feet wide • 18,000 seats • 164,000 speakers • 580,000 sq ft of LED panels” Happy (more…)
WHAT IS OMEGA MART? YEAH, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS OMEGA MART? WHAT? YEAH.
Omega Mart is a surreal pop culture escape room style experience of complete mind bending madness. Brought to you by Meow Wolf. From my newsletter, and what tipped me off to (more…)