Living Antimatter

You're goddamn welcome. Now stop electing fascists

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Close enough I guess. I'd like to protest that "Bota" in Portuguese can mean "Put" and "Pour", as well as "Set" (as in Set Alight)

Overall: a good album with a very bitter aftertaste. I am, in fact, still mad. Favorite track is "Driving to Destruction"

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Kinda weird that the theme of this album seems to be taking that one line in the Dr. Steel song "Fibonacci Sequence" about a highway as a metaphor for irreversible global calamity and making 8 whole songs out of it

Does Buttafuocco perchance mean "firestarter" in Italian

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

I'm hearing a bit of "Hey Humanity" in this one. Bookends and all that

Time signature changes, huh. How human of you

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

"Enigmatic Terminus" is the callback to "Driving to Destruction", which is itself a callback to Infernal. Remember Infernal? What a good album that was. 2018 was the worst year of my life, and yet I kinda miss it right now

"The Legend of Mary Jo" is a very funny name for a track. This is the 14-minute showstopper. Hey didn't PRR's latest record also end with a 14-minute song

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

"Charlie Knew" is a good track. Unfortunately there is very little I know about it, including whether it's even real

"Siren in the Storm" is the current track. The album has a unique style, but it seems to be blending together a little by now. That's fine, not every track can be a standout

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Speaking of, where's Valerie Gracious? Ariel Farber? Seems like it's mostly just Phideaux himself singing. His vocals are a good deal better than in his last outing, but I miss the harmonies. His band isn't in the credits either

See what I mean? Now I feel like I'm overthinking again. Did Phideaux really do this one by himself? Were his friends uncomfortable with the generative AI on display, or worse, in the tracks? Why did it have to be like this

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Also any artist using genAI is playing russian roulette with the concept of art itself. If you make something by secretly using AI and it reaches some dimension of popular acclaim, the audience will be forced to reckon with this sooner or later. What happens then? Does it become normalized?

Sorry, I'll try to stay on-topic. Funnily enough the current track is called "Stay With Me"

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Am I being hypocritical. I've aired my reservations against AI criticism, and it comes down to this: a lot of it assumes technological power cannot be unseated, and so our engagement with platforms and technology can only be seen through this lens. And I think this is incredibly defeatist

At the same time, there are real material problems we need to be wary of. I'm less concerned with abstract things like the ownership of art or numbers around water usage and more like, consensus reality. The reason I oppose Phideaux using genAI is because it calls his process into question

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

"Hey Humanity" was the first track that hit streaming before the album was released if memory serves. It's the first truly great track of the record, which bodes well

"Driving to Destruction" starts with a riff on one of the motifs from Infernal, which makes sense thematically. That album was also about the inexorable progress towards annihilation, brought about in no small part by technology

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Did nobody around the guy tell him maybe this wasn't such a good idea. I know he works with classically trained musicians all the time. He also does TV and hangs around actors and writers. This is doin my head in

He played "Do What You Will" on General Hospital, if I'm not mistaken, and that's the first track. It's alright I guess. I wonder how the show's audience received it

Fine let's finally listen to the Phideaux album with the bad cover art. For the record, I'm still mad

Am I the only one who cares about this. The bandcamp is full of people praising the record, which I don't doubt; Phideaux is my favorite music artist active today. The genAI cover art is very disappointing though

11h

I was gonna make a 1984 joke but this really is more like Brave New World

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I'd like to humbly request to not be fucked not a fan of sex

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Jeopardizing the practice of democratic self-government by watching and caring about the news Democracy famously works very well when the population is apathetic and misinformed

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

16h

Kamiya must've been on that 4D collective consciousness shit when he made Devil May Cry. Truly ahead of its time, the first Aura Farming Simulator

16h

I mean it's true this person is Sephirothposting but they are talking at least a bit of sense

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THIS! I am a Monster... so hate comes so easily that I must regulate and evaluate all of my thoughts. "Hate In Specifics" That is the best rule I have put myself under in order to keep things nearer to Reasonable Vague Hate is laziness. Lazy, and cant be articulated without idiocy

The Hater's Code

What a lot of people don't know is after the election, Flavio and Lula have to have a sword duel at the Three Power's plaza in Brasília's Monumental Axis. The votes are kinda like monopoly money they can use to buy armor and weapons for the fight

Needless to say, Lula won his fencing bout against Bolsonaro Sr. in 2022. His opponent failed to show up due to being in the hospital

youtu.beVILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY - Ghosts in the sky (Official Video) | Napalm RecordsYouTube video by Napalm Records

youtu.be/V2qPiHWztsE Listening to this while waiting on the election results

youtu.beAlma de Guerreiro (Ao Vivo)YouTube video by Seu Jorge - Topic

If you need a more authentic Brazilian flavor: youtu.be/OJiW620PszE

I think we knocked the map offline

youtu.beVILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY - Ghosts in the sky (Official Video) | Napalm RecordsYouTube video by Napalm Records

youtu.be/V2qPiHWztsE Listening to this while waiting on the election results

I do enjoy tabbing over to the election map and judging the places I have beef with, like Curitiba

Making an account in one of those prediction market websites to start betting exclusively on bad news, so when the world invariably disappoints me at least I make some money off of it

It's called Hedging, look it up

Compulsory voting in here is kind of annoying but on the other hand the little computer that tallies the votes makes a funny noise, so it evens out in the end. I think it runs Linux

melissa capriglione @ Shop Open 10/27

How to draw bird characters Step 1: draw a sock Step 2: draw a bird

Living Antimatter reposted

@mcapriglioneart.bsky.social

a message from the future

I don't know what "crumbl cookies" is or why anyone would need it when you can put lemon frosting in between two crackers and that's pretty much the best cookie ever made right there

Oh boy

Internet Archive@archive.org

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

To be fair to the replies, it is tech companies' own fault that their products became so radioactive in the court of public opinion. Still, I stand by my position that most AI criticism is deeply unserious

"You see, if we capture encrypted traffic then quantum computers will one day easily be able to brute-force any encryption keys!" Meanwhile:

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social

computers were a mistake arstechnica.com/security/202...

In awe at the one that's just 4. This has got to be some kind of encryption horseshoe theory where it's so dumb that no attacker would ever bother with 1-digit strings