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ok quick one i got perma-banned from paypal this summer. i don't fully know why. i think it is because i set my username and profile to "Sequoia Capital" (you know, the venture capital firm behind paypal) and it got flagged as an investment firm which is against paypal's TOS. i appealed and sent an ungodly amount of personal information proving i wasn't Sequoia Capital, but i got suspended…
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in the manifesto for this site ("slop") , i wrote that this site was meant to be a place that i could publish my dumb bullshit. the only stipulation was that i couldn't publish anything bad, but "unfinished is different from bad." that helped me turn around a bunch of essays and dumb jokes very quickly, but after april 27 , i've been having lots of trouble writing. my university actually pointed…
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On April 25, 2024, the Liberated Zone in Indiana University's (IU) Dunn Meadow began, demanding that IU divest from Israel, end its partnership with the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center , establish a Muslim and Middle Eastern Cultural Center, and that IU President Pamela Whitten, Provost Rahul Shrivastav, and Vice Provost Carrie Docherty resign. On the first day of the encampment, Indiana State…
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Photo of the ORGAN 2 /ASLSP Halberstadt organ by Ronald Göttel, 2022 On the evening of September 4, 2001, a small crowd milled through the hollowed interior of a heavy stone cathedral to see an organ concert. At midnight, the concert began. The fan motor that powers the organ whirred to life and the organ's bellows creaked and clicked as they pumped air through the machine. No notes sounded that…
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i *love* reading people's writing on the internet. online-writing, in my experience, often has a lot to do with being online, which is an extremely political way of being. so before i fall in love with a collection of online writing, i often try to suss out the politics of the person, like a nutritional label: where do these ideas come from, what are they doing, what is the purpose if someone is…
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The Tower of Babel, (detail) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563, Oil on Panel, 44.9 in × 61 in "Now all the earth used the same language and the same words. And the people said to one another, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves...' The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the Lord…
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they should turn my body into glass. not a sculpture. it shouldn't be like my body. it should be a monolith, a smooth transparent block. it would be cool to the touch. it could refract the light that passes through it, but only in the corners where the edges meet, razor sharp. it would be precise and and very beautiful. it would amplify the texture of everything around it, the threads of cotton or…
@mileszim, "Midjourney is getting crazy powerful—none of these are real photos, and none of the people in them exist." , tweet, 13 Jan 2023, 18:26 UTC, photo 3 of 4 "AI is the end of art." 1 Depending on who makes this claim, it is either an artist's lament or a tech-enthusiast's triumph over the regime of twentieth-century "old money" which has sustained the division between art and popular…
The quality of being non-binary is to position oneself outside the bounds of binary gender. It is an act of negation; the quality of being not-man and not-woman. Through the negation of this binary opposition wherein the masculine stands apart from the feminine, to assume the quality of non-binary requires, first and foremost, disaffection with the gendered standards of being. To be non-binary is…
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I have a channel on Are.na called slop . It doesn't have a theme. I just put everything I like in there. Box of rocks? Slop . Design-bait Reebok ad? Slop . A drawing of a tiny frog playing a keyboard? Slop . There isn't a "slop 2" because there doesn't need to be. Everything can be accomplished through the internal tension of the first "slop." There isn't any theme except what I vibe with, which…