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the AI 'tiktok voice' seems to be totally accepted (within the medium anyway), despite sounding pretty rough. i was surprised by that. but then i'm surprised by most of the aesthetics of the online video form, like the jagged youtube jump-cut style and so on. tiktok, insta reels and some...

meagre as usual, anything dissensus approved on here? https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2023/

been exposed to this rapid-fire fantasy / sci-fi thing recently. it's a really hyper-condensed form of those genres. i'm not saying its good but it's another indication of the general direction of travel for popular media

it's not something i've thought about before, but having what is probably the main storytelling medium of the present moment being so consolidated and hard to penetrate is perhaps one small thread running through our culture at the moment. a lack of alternative horizons.

One thing that is kind of interesting is that contrary to films, music, art, theatre, the US/UK axis hasn't produced (so far as I know, I don't watch much of this stuff) anything that could be identified as a kind of alt tv series. there's stuff made for different segments of what could broadly...

It's partly that for sure. There's another thing though which is an established part of the HBO fancy drama series form, which is that they leave you without resolution a lot of the time, either in individual episodes, or with entire series. I don't watch much of this stuff so I find it...

i saw that series before my red scare phase. i thought that character was really good

found it frustrating at first, coz of the lack of resolution of anything in the first two series. i'm not used to that tv series thing where they deliberately keep you hooked by leaving things unresolved and with a load of pending questions. but there was enough there, and the third and fourth...

in general there's something going on with the speed of concept and language creation at the moment. It was a practice that I always thought mostly took place within the niche world of social science.it was one of the most notable things about the k punk blog for me, he had a way with finding...

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i suppose the other thing is that i was the right demographic for facebook, for twitter, for insta, for internet forums way before that, for youtube and so on. so you can map those experiences onto tiktok to some extent

i guess i'm around enough people under 30, and see what they write on the internet enough, and i suppose as well i hear people talk about thier what their children are up to enough, to think i can make some sort of caveated judgement. you're right though obviously, it's always hard to know about...

my girlfriend is definitely too old to be on tiktok, i want that to be on the record i mean it's all part of the much bigger thing of how the internet affects everything. but yeah the structure and constraints of each particular app do i think make a difference to which ideas circulate on them...

the core of the appeal of his writing for me was the integration of politics and theory into music and tv reviews. i've never read anyone else who could do it as well as that.

a bit hard to talk about coz the consequences are well and truly a multiplicity. instagram has been explained to death coz its a bit old now. the main thing with insta, or probably more accurately a mode of online interaction that insta heralded, being how much it increased the extent to which...

a bit of a bugbear of mine - not that it particularly matters - is how much music writing and discussion remains wedded to a conception of the world that was formulated in the 1980s and 1990s and has as its basic coordinates a kind of permenent 90s, namely that music was always a central driver...

not produced by algorithm in the same way as like OpenAI produces images. although of course, that is presumably coming. but its doubtless been produced in response to metrics over the last decade. the data provided to labels etc through streaming platforms, especially when they can combine it...

it says something about both i think. it's easy enough to be aware of your own sensibiliites and preferences and seperate them from a more analytical perspective about how these forms of mass media / mass consumption have broader consequences. i do think that entertainment / media products...

watching my girlfriend use tiktok makes me feel like it's 1992 and i'm 50 years old and i've just heard hardcore for the first time. or 60 years old in 1950 hearing rock and roll. or the way my dad feels about rap. it is so offensive to my sensibilities. so obviously shit according to my...