i think around june 1st Everything Changed Again and i think the internet is officially over as a cultural force.
Gen X: remember when you'd get to the more boring sitcom re-runs or late saturday cartoons that sucked and were finally forced to go outside and play? that's where we're at now as of or around June 1st.
there's another guy on this week's post page 1 i think talking about his wife getting her period and going mad a few weeks ago, and i was her opposite: i went more "sane." i'm more calm and focused when i'm focusing on what i can do over here myself.
yeah, when i read zerohedge or coffee and covid i want to heave, but seeing as musk is making folks sign up for twitter, that's what made me write this today after deleting my earlier 2 or 3 posts claiming the internet is Over as a Thing.
sure we'll still use it for news business banking (while we have bank accounts) reading Ecosophia and Simon Sheridan and Naomi Wolf, but it's like AI and eating and feeding itself and drinking its own urine no new ideas information or nutrients adding to the mix.
it's deadly boring. even addicts come up short and hungrier than ever.
nothing to do but go outside and PLAY.
i felt it all change beginning of June. and while i'm honoring EL GATO with my art and Los Ungovernables, all the sudden nom de plumes seemed... trite irrelevant safe.
even someone else noticed Papa G's writings have been sparkling with life "a few weeks ago." i noticed, too.
and my art is crazy good with this paintbrush i've only recently started using in my work so my hand shouldn't be this SMOOTH... it's not ALL ME or MINE! it's bigger than me like some other artist is saying "no, go HERE with that line..."
i had that with learning sewing designing patternmaking on my own over here, so i'm not spooked.
but with musk trying to force people to sign up on twitter to see david spade now make "safe" jokes, it's like Petticoat Junction is on and it's time to go out and play.
i'm not saying it's all fun time. on the contrary... things are cracking snapping and splitting and folks are doubling and tripling down.
i'm scared AND excited. because now that the guy in london lost all his bank accounts for simply being a contrarian and not even driving a Canadian truck, there's no CHOICE but to turn away and try to starve the beast.
i'm so glad i never was traditionally successful with a mortgage and entanglements and entrapments beyond what i have just as a citizen of the world. i thought i was a failure but i'm relatively free to be a screw up.
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Date: 2023-06-30 03:07 pm (UTC)Gen X: remember when you'd get to the more boring sitcom re-runs or late saturday cartoons that sucked and were finally forced to go outside and play? that's where we're at now as of or around June 1st.
there's another guy on this week's post page 1 i think talking about his wife getting her period and going mad a few weeks ago, and i was her opposite: i went more "sane." i'm more calm and focused when i'm focusing on what i can do over here myself.
yeah, when i read zerohedge or coffee and covid i want to heave, but seeing as musk is making folks sign up for twitter, that's what made me write this today after deleting my earlier 2 or 3 posts claiming the internet is Over as a Thing.
sure we'll still use it for news business banking (while we have bank accounts) reading Ecosophia and Simon Sheridan and Naomi Wolf, but it's like AI and eating and feeding itself and drinking its own urine no new ideas information or nutrients adding to the mix.
it's deadly boring. even addicts come up short and hungrier than ever.
nothing to do but go outside and PLAY.
i felt it all change beginning of June. and while i'm honoring EL GATO with my art and Los Ungovernables, all the sudden nom de plumes seemed... trite irrelevant safe.
even someone else noticed Papa G's writings have been sparkling with life "a few weeks ago." i noticed, too.
and my art is crazy good with this paintbrush i've only recently started using in my work so my hand shouldn't be this SMOOTH... it's not ALL ME or MINE! it's bigger than me like some other artist is saying "no, go HERE with that line..."
i had that with learning sewing designing patternmaking on my own over here, so i'm not spooked.
but with musk trying to force people to sign up on twitter to see david spade now make "safe" jokes, it's like Petticoat Junction is on and it's time to go out and play.
i'm not saying it's all fun time. on the contrary... things are cracking snapping and splitting and folks are doubling and tripling down.
i'm scared AND excited. because now that the guy in london lost all his bank accounts for simply being a contrarian and not even driving a Canadian truck, there's no CHOICE but to turn away and try to starve the beast.
i'm so glad i never was traditionally successful with a mortgage and entanglements and entrapments beyond what i have just as a citizen of the world. i thought i was a failure but i'm relatively free to be a screw up.
lovely!
(smile)
x
erika