mrtrick.bsky.social
I run Motive Unknown. Music maker. Gardener. Failed meditator. I also write the Network Notes newsletter: https://networknotes.motiveunknown.com
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That, my friends, is how to write brilliantly. Zachary Lipez, take a bow! 🙌🏻👏🏻
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"Teenagers – a recently invented term for a class that had previously been a source of cheap farm labour, whose numbers were determined by luck, vermin, and a Papal workaround known as the rhythm method – were, all of a sudden, the judge, jury, and executioners of culture."
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"Once upon a time, during what was not so much a “golden age” as an ejaculatory age of denim and leather (and occasionally lace), there was no higher human aspiration than to “rock”."
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Do, it's a gem!
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I'd imagine at some point that all has to break though. The money isn't endless - especially now that the world economy is getting hauled over the coals. Something will give there.
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Yeah, and that's the real issue for me. It's doing good things! But it's been sold as some kind of all-pervading thing that should be in every corner of our lives, and that's just nonsense. It reveals the trenchant greed of Big Tech.
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Fair enough
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Yep, but I don't see them as wholly negative either. Hence my point in my piece really; they do a load of harm, but they also do have some positive uses. Much like computers. I don't really buy into that view that they're unilaterally bad. They're just being wildly overstated and forced on us all.
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I feel like there's a bunch of leaps there but I get what you're saying. I mean, if you post AI shite day in day out for clout on here then... you're wasting a lot of good life 😆 But I don't think it's as b&w as "using AI is bad". But I don't think that's what you're saying?
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What's the "agree to disagree" on that? I wouldn't disagree with that at all, LOL
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There needs to be some kind of "saw them at the Underworld in '92 and they were just OK" bot to respond to posts like this.
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I've heard that people have almost gone blind if they get sap in the eye. Gardening: more dangerous than you think 😆
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Entirely tangential but this is reminding me of gardening and getting sap from Euphorbia on my skin. Didn't realise it totally kills the skin's ability to deadly with UV, causing blistering in the areas where it touched you (and which then see UV on them). Nasty plant!
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Man that sounds like anyone's worst nightmare. I really don't get these forced obsolescence policies; your response to it is entirely normal and expected, so how are they a win for anyone?
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Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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This is the common theme through my interviews with bands, like @aplaceforowls.bsky.social, @lasfindelmundo.bsky.social, @casperskulls.bsky.social and more.
Great bands, playing their hearts out and trying to build communities around their music.
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Just stepping in to shout "AMEN!!!" at the top of my voice having had a friend mown down by some twat on a bike who blasted through a red light at top speed.
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All sidetracks = my fault 😂
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Same here.
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All dub techno - which, ironically, almost goes one step further, in that it's not just one artist doing much the same thing over and over, but hundreds of them... and yet... I fucking love it all, heheh.