Eliot May Be Howard

open out generously, divest from entitlement, love what you love. yes what i do is like a “choose your own adventure” (they/them)
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[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

when i was four i jammed a bunch of toy figurines in a tape deck and said: “they play!”

It remains my proudest moment.

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

watch out or i will shove you into The Pile

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

as much as lawmakers tend to let us down on things like this, we do have an existing apparatus to deal with intellectual property theft — one of my few hopes for improvement in the next decade is for massive landmark legal cases to squash these culture-vultures

[Jacob Geller @yacobg42]

The name of the dataset is called "the Pile." Couldn't make this up. All of culture boiled down into a shapeless gray mass that's forcefed back to us. "The Pile." Eat shit.

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

as always, fuck anyone who’s trying to shape the future of culture into interchangable resaleable slurry rather than a shape which values individual culture-creators’ ability to eat

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

@genevrael Oh, I’m goin’ to scotland for a master’s degree! Very exciting, a little wild 😅

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

how do you leave a place you have grown from for thirty years

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

oh shit oh fuck holy dog

[Taps BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN @TappyToeClaws]

There's a reason every scientist you know is like: I can only speculate and I won't give prescriptive statements beyond my specific field of study.

Yet every other economist and MBA you know is like: I did math correct once, I should be given the nuclear codes.

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

is it too centrist of me to yearn for truth in the reverberating spaces between statements, more dialectic than declarative, less correct than in process

[Reb @soundrotator]

st teresa sayin it's ok to repeat urself

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

all i ask is that you keep conscious of the currents flowing around you, watch how they are reflected in the eyes of your comrades. we feel this rising tension, the course of years; be available to your conscience.

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Proust on the pains of waiting

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

this poem has been stuck in my brain for a few days

[big bad butch WIFE, baro dyke of Tipperary @BadGeef]

paradox keep accidentally modelling economics so accurately all their players become marxists and I for one cannot wait for their next move

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

metatext is inside us, we cannot help but be attracted to the objects which transform our anxiety into catharsis,

but to bring that into the world asks uncomfy questions of us, so many fight against the idea of media having meaning beyond aesthetics at all, resist “politics”

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

never gonna stop yelling about pop fiction being a litmus test for national attitudes

what’s being made, how it catches on, what analysis reveals about its emotional undercurrents

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

most recent version of this is how information age -> prevalence of the multiverse, but there’s a trend emerging from the failures of neoliberalism

“phew we were able to restore order because the pantheon is on our side” -> “what could we make if the pantheon were no more?”

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

@lily_lxndr higher lonesome killed the bitter parts in me on the valley stroll to work today. thank you for this gift!!

[Eliot May Be Howard @firstlightwrite]

come for the sociological meditation on your purpose and life path, stay for the folk song that will wring the juice from your eyes

[Listen to my new show TS TV ‼️ @lily_lxndr]

My new video is out: "Can Art Change the World?"

OR, how I learned to stop worrying and love the algorithm

OR, how I learned to film a video essay while getting tattooed

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