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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @optimism 28 Aug
Can you elaborate?
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202 sats \ 8 replies \ @billytheked OP 21h
throw dirt on it --it is dead
it is what it does --high velocity communication media --gossip dabble journal pontificate --form does little to influence the result --long form --tweets --notes are all written to be burned after reading --and unless they garner a few seconds of attention for being mildly amusing-- ridiculous --rage-baity -- repulsive -- incendiary -- then they arent even afforded their 30-seconds
--as McLuhan wrote --the media is the message
--mere knowledge of science --philosophy --the arts --is no longer a scarce resource --but practice --living a good life --possessing wealth --is becoming infinitesimally more scarce by the second --
--if everyone made hyroglyphs --cave paintings or Mona Lisas they just wouldnt be interesting today would they --
bitcoin does not fix artistic form or communication media --what is broken --it is not that posting online incurs one little to no monetary cost --for we pay in our time if notnin sats-- --the intenrt has relegated all actions to a speculation about the future-- whether it be a bet on virality of a post --meme --nft --etc --nor has bitcoin or nostr reformed artistic value --nor will it ever i surmise --but has put the onus on everybody to become unwilling patrons of the art of Tomorrow
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111 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 15h
I love the internet. If it has a downside it's that it homogenizes us -- maybe fewer weirdnesses in the world.
But, on the flip side we get all this great woozy goofiness and when you thought you might be the only person alive who was in to turning Gothic romance book covers in to bitcoin propaganda, it comes out that actually a few people dig it.
Also, I'm a collager -- I make things out of other things. The internet made it so on can get to other things much easier.
It's not dead, just a bit boggy.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 14h
--im quite obsessed with the dead --have learnt everything i know from them --it is the dead walking by definition
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 20h
Bitcoin doesn't fix this. But in your experiment, didn't you get at least some artistically acceptable content at all?
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @billytheked OP 15h
off course it did --but to that i say it is dead walking
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110 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 12h
No one can take the moment that you cherish something you find awesome away from you, unless you forgot to mute your phone. So as long as you always mute your phone, you get to spend time to appreciate the things. When you find something good, you sit back and you tell yourself "yes! I enjoyed that".
Just because there's more ugly it doesn't mean that there's less beauty to be seen.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @billytheked OP 10m
touche my friend
it was written elsewhere thet it homogonizes us --which i think grossly understates the point of dead --and which im here responding to --meabbe we feed on it like the mycelium unxer the mossy woood-- but it is dead --a walking chimera whose agency we give by believing it is anything besides --it does not do very much to us that we dont allow it to
--do you worship the dead or the living*?*
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 5m
I am agnostic. There's beauty to be found in both.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 4m
Bingo
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 10h
I think the attention span is generally low. I've recently gotten some flak about some of my entries in my blog being too long, or else heard about how people like shorter posts. I think back to all the times I've had to read some imposing tome whether for study or personal reasons and I wonder how these fragile souls get along in the world--do they always get to do what they want with little effort and less attention?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @blogclif 28 Aug
death the ultimate editor
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