Kind of funny that porn and tobacco pouches and online gambling have brought back a specific type of wastrel that we all thought went extinct around 1850
"em dash is an AI indicator" "semicolons are an AI indicator" "describing things in threes is an AI indicator" "the word genuinely is an AI indicator" "the oxford comma is an AI indicator" "flowery prose is an AI indicator" should we all die? should we just kill ourselves
Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”
@shortswereshort@1607WestEgg Yeah, something about it doesn't grab me either, despite liking the original kit. There's a part of me that loves and has collected retro kits, and a part of me that doesn't want current year designs to collapse into endless nostalgia fuelled rehashes
[after five decades of thatcherite housing policy results in me and my other uni chums on the blood and soil graduate scheme having to pay half our monthly income to rent a mould infested cupboard in zone 4]: see now, the problem is that we didn't sell off enough social housing
The government HAS a story to tell:
'We have been, and will continue, restoring little pieces of the demolished social-democratic settlement, at a somewhat slower rate than the pace at which AI-boosted platform capitalism is destroying the bases of our social existence'.