why does every two truths and a lie i read on a girl's dating profile include a story about them being mistakenly apprehended at some random country's border? is this a psyop or does it really happen that often??
brat truly felt like a watershed moment for the decline of lower-case meta modernism. it's the dawn of techno-individualism.
honestly feel sad that david lynch died just as it was finding its feet :(
the last 10 years from a cultural lens has felt like a competition to see who can care the least—obvious on any dating app, where passé profiles + anxiety-isms are the norm
it's early 70s culture moving towards the 80s, and i see it affecting language & mannerisms in a major way
what is art if not an expression of the intangible—a way to bridge the gap & walk the walk without ever moving
this captures it so beautifully in such diff ways for joan & bob. his demeanor's reticent, his voice transcendent—the world disappears in the soul of a complete unknown
@AnandButani it would probably require us re-wiring our neurological pathways and un-doing entire geological periods worth of evolution.
our best shot is probably to have them perform most tasks out of sight, or re-work infrastructure so we can de-anthropomorphize them without a utility loss
haven't been able to get this image out of my head the last few days
it feels like an eerie premonition of the acquiescence of technology to human status... 🧵
@AnandButani it's largely instinctive in primates, but humans have specifically evolved to make their response to human movements even more complexly emotional (through stuff like art, social cognition etc)
this could, as a species, be devastating—we're already facing greater distrust, more splintered community, and less sensitivity to worldwide tragedy, but this stands to grow even stronger as this sort of technology develops: