Some topics discussed.
Representation. Competence. Money. Religion. Parents. School. Crime. Art. Nature. Friends. Mgmt. Safety.

What is the takeaway here? Never ever ever EVER ask why the website is broken. Let broken websites be broken. Let them stay broken forever. Never ask. Never be curious about why broken things don't get fixed. It is not worth knowing. Just flee.

the art industry is by the nature of the market a network defined by disposable incomes and levels of disclosure

the question we must ask ourselves is if that means the friendships therein must also always be disposable or undisclosed or both and if they are not friendships what are they

what social mores are they accountable to

or is it fundamentally an antisocial structure existing only to serve the marketplace of branding and dissemination

why not just sign a contract with a pr firm like a normal human

The position of women in society has changed in the last 50 years such that if you live together🏠, or if finances🏦 are merged, that is family, and you are basically married. If you hide marriage or cohabitation or try to justify lying by saying it is not a spouse, you are trash

https://twitter.com/SkyTheViking/status/1975555062320800182

If you do not clarify the nature or existence of a cohabitation or marriage and pretend not to have a family to entrap, intended or not, targets to exploit without consequences for energy, attention, or money and you think you are so special you are entitled to it, you are trash.

나도 본인과 똑같은 사람이라는 사실과 내가 살아가는 이유를 이해지 못한다면 내 친구라고 하긴 어렵지. 왜 나보다 나이가 더 많은 사람들의 윤리도덕 숙제를 풀어줘야 하는지 모르겠다.

Bomb after bomb over ~9 days. Suddenly revealed, a big hitherto-hidden-to-me new variable to worry about forever, changing everything.

They attempted damage control for lying. Performative statements. Gestures. I gave one rule. Not respected. Massive new dangerous bombs instead. How to get out:

Delete all manipulative compliments completely and just look at the giant history of lies of omission, the lack of actions taken to prevent more disrespect and the irresponsible dropping of more statements that are 100% not okay. Nonconsensual secrecy /= safety.

people of integrity >
people of images people of structural integrity >
people of performative images

when structure perpetuates caste systems, elaborate grammars of performative niceness emerge to direct attn away from structural cruelty. "benevolent slave-owner".

when the structure is egalitarian and historically integrated, ppl can seem cold but your world is soft and free. there isn't an amount of performative niceness that melts away structural cruelty and dehumanization.

"you are categorically wrong. you are categorically beneath this category of human or above this one by virtue of birth or corrupt pipelines stifling merit."

it's anesthetic.

idk how i feel about how trad art and whatever the rougher stuff is have a secular devout quality. i go back and forth on this. people need somewhere to put the attn & energy, but secular or not, so much of it is wasted. but maybe that is part of the freedom, the meandering nature of exploration..

it just doesn't feel organic how it's done now, ricocheting off of different conferences, groups, and organizations in "freeform" but then not really

it's not manufactured... but then it's not not.

░,▒,▓,│,┤,┴,┬,├,─,┼,,█,▄,▌,▐,▀
┌,┐,└,┘,┼

like the next step, unless it's already been done, you know, is going to be this grand dramatic "uncovering" of "secret" talent, and you know who they're going to be right? you KNOW who they're going to be. you KNOW their affiliations. stop pretending like you don't know. stfu. will others be sprinkled in? sure. but think about who a narcissistic artist, who believes himself to be better than all of ny combined, will reveal, directly or via proxies, as the "next big thing"? there is one correct answer if you know the background. only one answer possible

📸📸📸📸📸📸📸 fucking morons it's on the blockchain, that has to be right.
it's in a published photo, that has to be right.
can't possibly be manipulated. nope. infallible.
word of god.

one thing i'll never understand about crypto art is that those who frame their whole mission as upending the trad art world are irl the most toxic trad art snobs..

and yet assume that dragging trad art creds into crypto will then prove authority/merit/legitimacy..

pick a battle are you trying to build out crypto art

a) separate from trad art creds
b) attach the two w/ a semipermeable membrane
c) fully integrate pokemon battle style
d) categorically subordinate one to the other?

no one is really managing to separate them long term, so which style is it

if art cults tied to specific disciplines walked their talk, american public education would be internally and externally be fixed inclusively, not shoved off to the side, voodoo spelled into obsoletion while technocratic neoimperialists rave atop the graves of public potential, functional democracy, and national security.

their politics is solely for a new-old oligarchy of lying shitheads who only pour just enough institutional glam and public donations/patronage onto pure unadulterated narcissisms to sound virtuous for the duration of the powerpoint.

geeky nordstrom christmas sweater vibes


i guess for some reason for the characters they don't show up on screen video the same color, but for letters they more or less do

americans should found ancestry dna companies with data security and get in touch with their roots. the disconnect btwn the generations is making people say really crazy stuff. it isn't about preservation of culture, but a tantrum about how they too have culture when they do not. there's much to be said about diasporic culture(which i'd argue is all that koreans have left at this point regardless of which passport(s) they have), but the lack of direct linguistic/cultural connection to their ancestry is tripping way too many americans up. illiteracy sucks.

Bring this energy to preventing rape in America by American boys and American men against American girls and American women first.

Eradicate rape within American borders first, then speak of war. When you wage war, who and what exactly are you protecting from whom and what?

https://twitter.com/DeptofWar/status/1973041625447235876

All of the funding, leeway, equipment, training in the world has not prevented sexual exploitation of American girls/women by American boys/men; nor has it prevented identical or worse abuse by men in the U.S. military of girls/women in U.S. territories/colonies/occupied lands.

amazed that it even occurred to denmark to colonize greenland, especially after seeing the people who live there. like greenland is so far away (2,200 miles) from denmark, and the kinds of policies (like forcing iuds into girls) denmark used there to suppress indigenous births is horrifying.

makes me not want to learn what else happened in the ~300 years of danish colonization of greenland

If your work's nothing than more hella expensive shiny new device evangelism, your "art" is just an elaborate commercial that people pay to own a piece of.

It is more a dignification of advertising and of 💰 extraction than of art or of people.

Clever, but "doesn't mean much." It's high quality, low-risk homework and minor collaboration, but "doesn't mean much".

It's a world of colorful mesmerism, but it "doesn't mean much".

Big marks flock to say your name. "It's nice, but it doesn't mean much", until smth transparent transparently matters to you.

Patriotism in the U.S. is loyalty to the country as a civic project, not as a domain of hereditary or oligarchic rule by any one ethnicity, religion, gender, or class (or a select handful of them).

Rich white male Christian nationalism is the least American movement ever, really White male Christian nationalism is acid on the potential of the U.S. to move Western Civilization forward, up, and out of the clutches of mediocre tradbois threatened by progress, demasculinized by the idea of women with equal power, if not more, even when earned fair and square

There are the country club people, who act as one might expect, and then "rebels" who sell a story of infinite opportunity, and one set of rules for everyone, but how they actually distribute resources is more about using country club people, not about fixing what's broken. It won't just be about resources, but about narrative, which will be fake. Country club narratives are standard marketing department fodder. The "rebel" cult stories are pseudo-gospel, not based on transparency, merit, or honor, and vehemently oligarchical the more you learn.