#artificial roots

[knotty-et-al]

"Artificial roots"

The lines split in a fibonacci-like manner.

[2023/08/10]

[axolotlworld]

The turn Lavos gets trolled in the 2019 Smogon classic tournament recreated with the text from the resulting forum post

[stackslip]

wonder how the tech industry would have marketed and eaten up vocaloids + how many people would call it inherently evil were it to come out today

[rutadales]

gem au but whoops all c!droolish

[arolesbianism]

Wormwood hc hours

[nycteres]

Wiping away tears bc tumblr users are so fucking stupid

[ech0light]

JUST WATCHED THE LAST 2 EPISODES OF PERSONS OF INTEREST SEASON 2 HAS ANYONE ELSE SEEN THIS SHIT PLEASE

[2nd-book-of-lamentations]

Dirges of the Damned

XII

Part of the Problem is: So many stupid gullible people Lacking amenities & education (And only guilty for a hair of it) Believe they will find A Solution From the godliest of confidence apes

Part of the Problem is: So many smart people are smart enough To play dumb—because they understand Money—how the overwhelm of numbers Overpowers all & unbalances everything

What a pity! How lame! Asteroids are much cooler means Of extinguishing your species Than pouring oil on the forest fires To save on your real estate fees

[cecily-fairchild]

the thing is. if i were actually a robot i would be SO normal about letting people perform maintenance on me and alter/repair/affect the most basic things about me as a person

[whitehartlane]

I'm still so mad about that man messing with vic's gloves, we'd still be hearing whining if anyone did that to Ray4

hi anon!! we just have to let it go. our fanbase is smaller and even if it were around the same size as theirs, we’ve never been ones to whine about everything under the sun. they were happy to shut up about the fact that one of their defenders touched the ball in play with his hands in the cl fixture against bayern, for example, and that the ref ignored it willingly bc he happened to take pity on them. if it had happened the other way around they would’ve been calling for a public execution. pgmol and the refs do not care about anyone who’s not in the title race. they proved that during the nld countless times, and the reaction that the prem has to white undoing vic’s gloves is just pretending it’s shithousing. as bill shankly once said: “they know the rules, they do not know the game.” except at this point i seriously doubt they know the rules either. so what do they even do? there’s nothing else to be done until the league realises that more and more people are turning away from it because of the lack of quality refereeing (bc of their lack of investment in it! refereeing is a tough job i don’t envy the people who do it but they lack resources) and especially VAR when it comes to anyone who is not in the title race/top 4. it’s a farce.

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[artofthemystic]

EAT YOUR VEGETABLES, THEY ARE GOOD FOR YOU by Otto Rapp Via Flickr: Variation of a text-prompt generation in AI Dream Wombo. www.wombo.art/

[marcogiovenale]

cfp / call for proposals: 'roots§routes' accoglie contributi sull'i.a.

[CALL for PROPOSALS Come può l’IA favorire la nascita di nuove forme di espressione artistica e di interazione con il pubblico? Quali sono i margini dell’azione creativa che vedono l’IA utilizzata, da un lato, come strumento a servizio dell’artistə, e dall’altro come alleata in grado di favorire i processi immaginativi e assumere un ruolo centrale nel processo autoriale di co-creazione? E in che…

[notbecauseofvictories]

By the way, the inspiration for this was a Shen Yun performance, and I swear this Jia Tolentino article was hammering in the back of my head the whole time. It's a good article, but it also made me think about how America has been the refuge of weird splinter religions from the start---and most of whom in the 20st century have used media to conduct outreach. For example, there are ads in '30s pulp magazines for the Rosicrucians' LA branch; the Moody Bible Institute had phenomenal (decidedly creationist) school science videos in the 50s; in the 60s and 70s Pat Robertson (rest in fucking pieces) had CBN and The 700 Club which in turn led to the founding of American-Catholic tv station EWTN. I'm not even getting into the big names objectively associated with "cults", like Heaven's Gate, which leveraged the web as early as the 90s.

Yesterday, paging through the program brought me to an ad for the online "Shen Yun video platform" which feels like a rhyme on all that's come before. I mean, is there anything more quintessentially American than a sleek slick snake oil salesman, trading on all the religion and nationalism we've left lying around?

(Even just the concept of "snake oil" has its roots in American-Chinese-Native relations; one of the first cases the FDA took on was puncturing Clark Stanley's claims that beef fat and turpentine were "Native American" medicines.)

Afterwards, I went home and watched a bunch of youtube videos about Chinese dance: different variants of Mongolian biyelgee, the Yi's flower dance, even some beautiful Uyghur performances, because it came up on my feed and I was fascinated. Ironically, that led me down a rabbit hole---through First Nations/Native American rap; Latvian choral singing; Yemeni Jewish pop music; Chilean fusion. Maybe a song or two from The Hu to round it out.

All this to say....smart is for children, curiosity is forever, and also people should keep making music, writing articles, and doing things, because for good or ill---nothing on this earth is more fascinating to be around.

I do think that my seemingly limitless interest in the world is my best quality. I have other good qualities probably! But I am always, always deeply fascinated by the world and everything in it, such that even a lackluster dance performance can inspire thoughts about making a living as an artist and the creation/performance of identity and communicating meaning as a political act, plus a couple hours spent watching videos of folk dances to try and clear my palate.