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like meeting a pop star, the horror comes with the realization that you cannot fuck the image, because the image does not exist. perhaps you can fuck the person, but the person is not an image, and if either the image breaks or it becomes so twisted around the edges that it does itself in. the...

@suspendedreason please delete this thread

if i wanted to, I could amp up the pressure on the thread, I could write a bit about the west coast's "ketamine twitter" scene, but I don't think anyone would really benefit from that, the pressure once you've created a "scene" doesn't actually pay off unless you're truly an exhibitionist...

the idea and prospect of sex is core to the moment; the reality of it is incidental at most. it doesn't matter if you fuck a podcaster, it matters that people think you have, it doesn't matter if you think the podcaster is hot, because the big other agrees they are.

One more theory that's a favorite of mine—attempted murders have stayed stable or even increased, but improvements in care have decreased the number of successful murders: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/

likewise, the "Spirit of 68"? Tetraethyllead

lead poisoning is just the reason so many of them got caught.

this isn't even a conspiracy this is just me posting two true facts next to eachother. Notice that the peaks in american dumbassery are consistently in the rust belt, which was the epicenter of lead manufacturing. The scariest thing is that with the way Chinese industrialization has been going...

The automobile had two paradoxical effects in the post-war period—one was a massive increase in wealth, as it enabled movement to the suburbs, which freed economic activity from the constraints of urban landlords. The other was massive, large-scale brain damage from tetraethyllead. Because these...

The New York Times recently, famously, largely unsuccessfully argued recently that the country's "true" founding came with the arrival of slavery. I was told much more convincingly at a party the other month that the real founding of the United States was with the invention of the cotton gin...

Wanna go back to SDC for a moment. pure range. Their output is split about 50/50 between hard rap ("clone wars") and relaxed cool jams ("palmwine"). On the vibier end of the spectrum, you've got stuff like this—liquor, women, music, relaxing: On the other hand, this track has what is maybe...

so much has been written about the religious right that it seems almost unfair to go deeper on the topic. I think the key thing to realize is that these are the people who have out-organized and built a stronger coalition than the mainstream institutions. The American east coast, which is...

we are asking that all huawei servers be removed from the dissensus infrastructure. for, uh, national security reasons.

One more Nigerian rapper, A-Q. Suspect my appreciation for this guy is rooted mostly in an appreciation of craft more than any particular originality.

This is incisive stuff. I think you've hit on the clearest failure of Carly's work, which is that her work is out of step with the times. She's aggressively conventional about song structure. Hook, verse, big chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, etc. A lot of her process seems to be working with...

Key note is that Carly draws more heavily from bisexuals, marginal gays, nervous-looking twinks. Less glam and less pomp. Saw her and Kim Petras both in San Francisco last year; both heavily gay, but the Kim Petras audience was (in contrast) muscled, oiled, gleaming. No ripped men in bondage...

maybe I got it wrong—I didn’t mean vibiness at all; that is something that some of these selections have in droves. (The SDC album at the top of the thread even has a song entitled “In the Vibe We Trust.”) what I meant to point to was maybe something more like a temporal indistinctness.

There is something very 00s/early-10s about a lot of it. There is contemporary US hiphop I enjoy, but a lot of it feels more vibe-driven, less memorable. Streambait, empty sonic calories.

trying to cancel out the last post, i’ve been digging this duo, Kiienka and Veen. Port Harcourt. less than 1000 youtube views, real crate-digging energy: