Posts by o7@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AaHZRZz0CX9fPHfy2i by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:04:18Z
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@clive To some extent I can see that the overall idea of treating all human art as an easily generatable afterthought when you're trying to build something artistically useful like a website or an ad campaign or a society is bad. However...
(DIR) Post #AaHapUrOzxHmQK5cGm by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:05:55Z
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@clive I think the more modern rise of the concept of "content" is actually more grounded in the idea of how the consumer actually interacts with these modern cultivated cultural landscapes: they comb a vast array of short stories, political comments, funny quips, experimental music, thirst traps, educational documentaries, brain itching distractions, bigotry and hugboxes, and circlejerks and close nit communities,
(DIR) Post #AaHapVobRqdnNvmtXs by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:06:16Z
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@clive and then remix each of these pieces, synthesizing the art forms, applying memetic references, and ultimately what comes out of it in aggregate is something akin to a homogeneous cultural sludge you could call content.
(DIR) Post #AaHapXny3BJxYXVPpg by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:06:25Z
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@clive And the average browser's way of stumbling through this online hyperspace takes them through something that I think is close to sampling at least some portion of this average, they absorb a little of this and a little of that and eventually they are satiated; not satiated in their desire for community or enjoyment of the high arts but satiated in their desire for content.
(DIR) Post #AaHapZi0yHkPSejgpc by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:06:53Z
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@clive It is art, simplified in many ways yet more complex in many others, a snack like nibbling of culture but also a dive into the minds of anonymous individuals.
(DIR) Post #AaHapbUGMNw4yaJjfs by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:07:01Z
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@clive Content in its modern form isn't so much a problem but a new form of cultural communication. It can be greyer and more formulaic and calculated, often lacking luster in places where what would classically be deemed "art" would shine, but it can also be more experimental, more shocking, more niche, more free form, more raw, and more real than what "the artist" classically conceives of.
(DIR) Post #AaHapdA88D1IAiugZU by o7@mastodon.social
2023-09-30T05:07:06Z
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@clive So all in all I think there is a good reason to use the term, for these cultural artifacts that fall in this newly conceived realm of our digital limbo.
(DIR) Post #AaW3iDvBl30snr2d3A by o7@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T03:29:59Z
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@malwaretech Interesting follow up question: At what point does a site become a nazi supporting site? Mastadon is used a lot by nazis because many of them have been banned from twitter. Does supporting or contributing or maybe even posting to mastadon because mean you support the whole mastadon project as well as all the nazi spin offs? Doesn't mastadon's popularity kind of mean nazis might get boosted too, even if mastadon instances are more separate?
(DIR) Post #AaW3iFoAk6aaefm3OK by o7@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T03:31:52Z
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@malwaretech All I ever see here is take after take. At this rate I think it will devolve into reposting and complaining about takes from nazis eventually. The real problem is probably the culture that twitter has created - it's just takes. And everyone just wants hot takes. The whole culture just fucking sucks.
(DIR) Post #AaW4T2BVDGNe0ozdNQ by o7@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T04:56:36Z
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@Tij what do the double implication arrows mean
(DIR) Post #AaW4vXefnedPizENfM by o7@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T05:01:25Z
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@Tij pls don't bully me I just got here ;.; I literally access this shit through firefox. I literally google "mastadon" every day and click the purple link.
(DIR) Post #AaW5WO1gYw9gZlZ0dM by o7@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T05:10:12Z
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@Tij phased in from a higher plane to slap the mortals of this primitive world. okay. i will shop around for other instances.