The Empowered Nerd.

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Sean Booth, Autechre:

"I would do tapes, so I could avoid being picked on as a nerd, which is what I was. It was easier to give tapes to the hard kids, and suddenly they're your best mate. If you tried to get on with them otherwise, it wasn't going to work. So I used to just make tapes, hardcore remixes of tracks they already had and stuff. They'd be going, "Where'd you get that from?" and I'd say, "Oh, it's an import." It'd be ammunition."

Index Magazine

www.indexmagazine.com

 

[luka]

If he gave me one of those tapes I would have thrown it on the floor and stamped on it

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Luka vs. Sean Booth's tape.

 

[luka]

Having said that there is something strange and magical in the esteem just knowing about music grants you at school. Part of the origin story of every dissensus member. Except Mr Tea.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Having said that there is something strange and magical in the esteem just knowing about music grants you at school. Part of the origin story of every dissensus member. Except Mr Tea.

Hey, I knew loads about music at school! Admittedly there were some gaps in my knowledge, such as artists other than Nirvana.

 

[pattycakes_]

8 years later the thread premise is more prescient than ever plus I just saw this vid and needed somewhere to put it

 

[Clinamenic]

I feel empowered. I am the bi-coastal elite.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

 

[yyaldrin]

Autistic supremacism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[yyaldrin]

it's funny i never heard about that before, some people are saying musk is an aspi supremacist he just done a sieg heil salute on television

 

[luka]

the autists have played a blinder politically. they've convinced people that their way of being weird has to be protected but no other type of being weird counts even though a lot of other ways are more interesting, eg being a manic depressive is cooler than autism but doesnt get the same workplace protections.
i guess it is because the autists have made themselves valuable economically through the IT work that only they can do. they have a monoloply on all computer work so they're a protected species and now companies doing autism awareness training and tailor their policies towards the aut communitiy.

 

[.....]

er... there is a significant correlation between autism and manic depression

 

[IdleRich]

Having said that there is something strange and magical in the esteem just knowing about music grants you at school. Part of the origin story of every dissensus member. Except Mr Tea.

I would have definitely been bullied if I hadn't been in the football team. Noone in Oxfordshire has even heard of music so no cred to be gained there.

 

[Corpsey]

Elon defenders are claiming his double sieg heil was autistic stimming

 

[IdleRich]

Elon defenders are claiming his double sieg heil was autistic stimming

They will make the same excuse when he rounds up people into extermination camps. Anyone criticising that is just bullying the disabled.

 

[Corpsey]

Same excuse being used for him walking out on stage to "parhelic triangle" by autechre

 

[IdleRich]

Same excuse being used for him walking out on stage to "parhelic triangle" by autechre

Much worse than death camps

 

[hmg]

Gamergate is the genesis of all of this. The autists rallied around that and have never disbanded.