Robert Bolton

@since21xx

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

@daniel_eckler @Ryanair ✈️💸

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

We used to call them journalists. Now we call them oracles.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

The way Johnny Ive’s brand resembles From Later,

I should have just called it Early Again.

[Noah Kumin @marsreviewer]

The cost of getting a new drug to market in the US is ~$2.3 billion, and it takes over 10 years.

For the bio-hackers whose motto is "Don't Die," that process just isn't good enough.

That's why they've made their HQ on a private island in Honduras. @samfromvenis investigates.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

the shift is from an era of thinking/feeling to an era of making/building

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

co-own subvert today

[Subvert @subvertworld]

A collectively owned Bandcamp successor

We are organizing thousands of artists, labels, and supporters within a self-governing cooperatively owned legal entity.

A platform owned and controlled by us all.

Join tomorrow. 11 am ET

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

JREG reskinned paper scissor rock: “far left beats far right. far right beats centrist. centrist beats far left.”

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

What part of the internet taught you human psychology?

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

an r&d lab for r&b jams

[Subvert @subvertworld]

Introducing Subvert

A collectively owned Bandcamp successor.
Pioneering a new model for shared ownership.
Owned and controlled by its artists, workers, and community.
The beginnings of a new cooperative creative economy.

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[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Have the audacity to claim you've been shadowbannded.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Thinking of an art that leverages soft infrastructure and online platforms the way skaters did drainage ditches and public plazas.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

@KurtisBlender Some phrases are a bit much. I keep telling chatgpt, not everything is an "intricate dance"

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Gonna start overusing “delve” in everyday conversation.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Have you ever met a successful cynic? No, have you ever met a cool optimist?

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

lines > dots
edges > nodes
forces > components
bonds > elements
connections > ideas 
relations > people

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

So far:

Pure writing
Psychography/automatic writing
Ritual, seance, trance, spirit board
Pretending/acting/improv
Lucid dream
Prompt +LLM
Work w archives (cut-up method, erasure, copypasta)
Participate in music (sampling, rhythmic traditions)
Listening very carefully, waiting

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

What are good ways to dialogue with ppl from past?

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Messy home, stressy dome.

[Robert Bolton @arowbe]

Anyone else noticed people using the phrase “by the way” more frequently in the past year or so, but with a slightly different tone than it used to carry, as if to say “here’s some incidental information but also I’m very smug about it” ?