Ian Butcher

self portrait with electric brain

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

When I see a bad post on twitter dot com.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

I thought this was the year I was Finally Going to Write Something but lol. On the downside, I've never worked so much in my life and have no time for leisure activities either, so I've got that going for me.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

@fivefteditrix I just read Courtney Maum's novel Touch, which kind of nails some of these things, but which I'm also worried is just me liking something that's saying back to me things I already think.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

This article popped up the other morning and it made me so profoundly sad, which is my general reaction to AI stuff.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

@fivefteditrix It all feels like a significantly accelerated Ted Talkification of everyone's inner lives.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

And then, perfect timing, as I was coming here to post, this ad showed up, which is really doubling down on the sad.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

It makes perfectly reasonable points about the benefits of this app, but then the examples of it in action are so...dull. Like a human, but with nothing inside.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

I interviewed for a job at the start of the summer and was told 1) I nailed the interview and 2) they're not filling the position at this time, so that was a real bummer.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

@gunnertaylorgt This is a painful truth.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

I just watched The Big Short for the first time in several years. Are the montages supposed to be an Adam Curtis reference?

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Just a reminder that twitter can live on. We have the technology.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

A random topic generator, an algorithm spitting out a 200 word hot take on that topic, and then everyone sounding off in the comments. One dedicated blogspot could sustain us all if we have the courage and vision.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

I logged in to twitter for no real reason and once again (still?) it's The End. Everyone was lovely and I miss having fun on here.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Chillwave obsessed--and obsessively recreated--an aestheticized past in order to create a nostalgia that might be the foundation for an optimism.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Heard "Summer of '69" in the car and it struck me that "being able to feel like the narrator of that song about the present" would be a pretty succinct shorthand for a political program.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

It's also why "Deadbeat Summer" hit so hard--the recognition that it was increasingly impossible to feel that way not only about the present, but about the past as well.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Just rewatched "Lisa's Substitute" and will I never not be waiting for my note from Mr. Bergstrom?

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Burial:hauntology::Jai Paul:very online

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

Jai Paul performing at coachella but not being broadcast on the official stream: feed aesthetics in action!

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

I have started taking some notes to myself under the title "Our Days of Kipple and Wonder." Here's hoping it might coalesce into something at some point.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

@stalecooper Happy to be the alert! He had a live concert broadcast on npr years ago that I managed to download and it's always been my favourite thing by him. This album reminds me a lot of that live broadcast weirdly.

[Ian Butcher @ideologian]

The new Tim Hecker album is his most immediately engaging since Ravedeath, 1972, IMO. It's really quite gorgeous and quintessentially his music, which is not a bad thing at all.