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  1. Alcofribas
    I think he’s been flirting with a much deeper cultural critique for several years now. He’s been explicit about his loathing of electronic music culture and I think the conformist trends of social media are absorbed into this disdain. But he hasn’t laid it all out, really. Maybe he won’t ever do so since he’s an artist not a social theorist or smth. I don’t conflate what he’s doing with edgelord shit. I think there’s a lot behind the scenes and he’s presented it in a very typical laconic, goofy visual way. The art is for instance perfectly in keeping with Rather Interesting’s aesthetic. I think the times have changed so it has a different feel, though. I’m hoping for more written stuff from him tbh but I don’t necessarily expect it.
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    I haven’t quite been able to get a feel for his stuff in the past few years. It seems he’s been exploring a very different technological setup recently and everything coming out feels like experiments of this. Just my guess based on some interviews and stuff. Pop HD seems like a good example of what you’re suggesting tho imo Unsubscribe
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    I would pay for Richard to invite me to his lair where we listen to unreleased SAW tracks and he thinks I’m cool so he slowly starts showing me his whole collection of synths and gear and eventually gifts me something special like a rhodes chroma or whatever and we still talk on the phone to this day
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    interesting. some of the idealogical motivation for this might be detected here: https://atom-tm.com/blog/2023/07/14/entry-14-historie-und-hysterie-ii-keynote/ . hard to summarize but a key point being made has to do with the appropriation of electronic music/club culture by private corporate interests that sanitize the collective and subversive thrust of this subculture in order to make it more profitable and easier to exploit for personal profile development. in other words, perhaps he sees "woke" conventional wisdom in the club community as a pro-capitalist appropriation of its historically radical origins? but this does fit into the greater picture of his work which has always had a sense of humor and satirical dimension, always poking fun at trends of the zeitgeist. relevant for us is his "Real Intelligence" series, spoofing on warp's "Artificial Intelligence" and here the explicitly anti-"imperialist pop" message of HD. i don't think it's too hard to see how hyper-capitalist entities and consumers use ostensibly woke language or concepts to push themselves up in a system that's inherently exploitative and oppressive for the very minorities it claims to valorize. he's a cheeky lad, my first impression is this fits into his basic agenda of being a goof and being something of a leftist. i think we're probably just used to being more comfortable with him toying with less sacred cows
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    come on man, ofc I’m doing that regardless
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    I keep thinking about this and it rules
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    I was gonna vote for Trump but then some guy online told me to fist my ass so you can be damn sure I’m Pokémon going to vote for Biden
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    nothing but empty rhetoric from a completely out of touch, dull politician. “Jobs, infrastructure, business, unions, apps, Pokémon go.” meanwhile Trump was just roasting everyone he came into contact with and absolutely invigorating his audience. sad!
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    "pokemon go to the polls" lost the race for clinton
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    i do think that liberals thinking that posting online is "doing the work" is a definite contributing factor to their loss in 2016 and their persistent inability to hold power or thwart the wild west bullshit of the rightwing. liberals are concerned with expression and appearances, having the correct takes, and other things that have such little impact on people. republicans do not care about this. they are not afraid to be wildly wrong and hypocritical bc it does not matter. when obama was prez the right wing just hunkered down and made absolutely everything about thwarting obama at every turn. and this is precisely why, e.g., we now have the supreme court we have - bc obama and rbg would not do exactly what republicans would do in their place and bc the republicans simply refused to let obama put merrick garland in a seat and he just ate it. so, liberals get to be "right" by pointing out the hypocrisy of republicans or whatever but the republicans don't give a shit and when it's their turn they just stuff whoever they want in the courts and just go wild with partisan rulings. but liberals are content to post their superior opinions in the media and online, inshallah.
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    cool I’ll fly to Australia and we can watch it together
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    wait sorry, am I correct that people paid for this 8 years ago? and now it’s being re-announced that it’s coming out with just like hey sorry this took a while check it out I’ll be shipping soonish? lol this rules. this is echospace and neuron levels of business.
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    looking forward to this.
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    AI Art

    Alcofribas replied to Squee's topic in General Banter

    I’m ready
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    AI Art

    Alcofribas replied to Squee's topic in General Banter

    i intensely dislike the way so much of the ai stuff has that weird smoothness. looks awful. i do like the one on the previous page with the anime girl blowing the flower or whatever the fuck
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    regular American trump guy watching 20 second clips of this trial on Facebook: “sir, you have violated the sacred processes of the justice system, you have no respect for truth, sir, I see by viewing this footage that I have been conned and I solemnly commit myself to voting for joseph biden this November. I am sorry to the United States of America, for my past folly.”
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    please click on link for payment options - Adober
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    “hello what is up cool? can AI do loops for my videos on YouTube content creator like and subscribe turn on notifications (Ads x2 (unskippable)).” ”yes check me out I will take this orchestral loop and make it longer” *types in “longer”* ”wow now that is very cool for the loop to get longer” Adobe
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    delightful
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    I do not need to click to see who faved this post bc it can only be Ivan lol
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    using neuralink to automatically send my bucks to hotmail dot com
  22. Alcofribas
    you guys expect the brothers to release a new album when you’re still catching up to the one that came out 11 years ago lol
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    I’m not sure what you mean by framing? I was just trying to remember something that happened several years ago. Perhaps you mean my saying the accusations were “weak,” by which I simply meant compared to other accusations going around at the time, even ones that were not criminal (Louis CK). Yes, for sure the writings were misogynist as was the pop cultural zeitgeist he was tapped into at the time. I think bro clearly lost his mind by his pseudo-cancellation.
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    he got “cancelled” back in like 2018 or smth. There were complaints that he wrote misogynist (?) material during his gonzo period, basically pretty weak accusations that had a harder punch bc of the momentum of me too and the popularity of using social media to try to ruin people. I don’t think he faced any kind of material consequences or anything but it seemed like he spiraled into an all too familiar anti-woke(tm) persona directly after this which has culminated in his incredibly pathetic behavior over recent years. Many such cases. sad!
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    me: hey, watcha reading goth girl: osama bin laden’s letter to America on tik tok
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