great (and brief) article.

there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”

lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

I suggest you hold out for a Scooby-snack.

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

There was a sumo wrestler who would do something similar, except he’d bounce up and down and grasp with his hands…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8RuUVwAbmDg

The tournament organizers made him quit doing it tho…

What are ya, vegans? Real Men sip crude, just like God intended.

no one has cared since record executives have been generating AI generated tier music by hand.

Reminds me of this NYT video about how a pop song is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAv5AiBRgY

At the beginning, a musician at a keyboard composes the basic tune. Then a whole series of MFers overproduce it to hell. At the end, the original musician happens to meet the singer who did the human part of the final rendering and is the “star” who everybody watches perform. In a better day, the original musician would be the star, but in this process they are insignificant.

FIFA put the full game on youtube, btw (availability may vary by country): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sbfskaTDQ

The beatdown starts around here: https://youtu.be/L6sbfskaTDQ?t=1453

I’m pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don’t think he literally believes that “nobody cares if music is real any more.” Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer’s a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost

• Naked Lunch soundtrack
• Eraserhead soundtrack (especially side B)
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts

kinda like an… opium? …of the masses?

Anime pillow gets the mattress.

To tie the bag shut, ofc.

Hispanics of any race grew to just over 65 million, an increase of 1.16 million (1.8%) from the prior year.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-characteristics.html

If this happened at a licensed event, does that mean this is canon?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ill-fuckin-do-it-again

I couldn’t find that quote anywhere, and it’s very unlikely that Cicero said it, or something like that.

To find the quote that you seek,
You must first wash you’re balls in the Baja Blast.

By the looks of it, the ground floor and the first floor are going to be the same place pretty soon.

“It was revealed to me in a dream.”