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imagine what would have happened if a pandemic like covid-19 (one requiring a lockdown) had happened in 1998, when internet access was pretty widespread but generally limited to dialup. internet grocery & food delivery services existed at the time, as well. but the ability to pump high-resolution video to homes was limited to cable companies.
'hey enki, why the fuck are you still on twitter?' well, because so long as i have ad blockers on, every byte i transfer between me and twitter costs elon musk money. praxis is that you and your two thousand closest friends all run scripts that upload 3 minute gifs of 4k-resolution white noise every 2 seconds.
i don't get why people keep asking my new year's resolution. it's the same as always: 1024x768
Bad idea of the day: instead of new year's resolutions, make lent resolutions
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forgive me if this is obvious but it just now struck me as salient for the first time: collage-based pop-art became a thing in the 50s and 60s because of mass-distribution high-resolution photo-mags like Life providing a wealth of material to draw from, and likewise, the 'postmodern' mixing of styles from different decades and genres in music videos and later films in the late 80s and through the 90s were probably enabled by VHS releases of older films & cable channels like Turner's re-running old movies (i.e., even though footage wasn't necessarily used & editing wasn't necessarily done on VHS, VHS re-releases created an awareness of a variety of styles and helped situate them, so that one could draw from a style that wasn't part of a current 'scene' and expect some of the audience to also have a context for it). in other words: technical advances in communication technologies democratized access to visual ideas from groups distant in space or time, preparing people's imaginations for both creating and interpreting new variations. both photo-mags and video tapes are time-binding technologies, and i think this might be specific to time-binding: long before VHS existed, films got re-released for new theatrical runs, and although that occasionally led to artistic inspiration when a particular film ended up being very popular in re-run (ex., Disney's Alice in Wonderland, originally not terribly popular, got re-released in the late 60s and marketed to heads, & 50s re-releases & TV re-runs of 30s Universal horror flicks created the 'monster kid' generation), these hyper-specific genre riffs mostly only happened when it was possible for large numbers of people to re-experience media in detail repeatedly at their own leisure -- especially to rewind, use slow motion, go frame by frame, and eventually to zoom. likewise, you don't get hip-hop without records and tapes (not just the equipment but the actual media -- if records decayed & became unusable in 10 years then hip hop would have looked very different because crate digging would not involve digging so far back in time) and you don't get jazz without cheat books (i.e., jazz has its origins as a popular form in a certain set of process-technologies -- notational technologies in addition to techniques of performance and concepts about improvization -- and those notational technologies have a material basis and economic-social constraint-incentive structures that influence them). videocollage existed before the 90s, because at least some people had film projectors, film splicing equipment, and access to large quantities of developed film, but until the 80s everybody in that category was a Film Person (and probably a Film Industry Person); videocollage only became A Thing when regular people had cheap access to a huge variety of film (and even then, the editing technology was only accessible to Film People), and videocollage will only become democratized when recorded video and the film editing tech is not just cheap but the technical skills widespread. video (and to some extent audio) has actually gone backwards in this respect for reasons of copyright protectionism: streaming is so common that younger people often don't have copies of any film or music (either on media like DVDs or pirated files), and as understanding for how to get access to video in a form that can be edited becomes an additional hurdle people have to cross before editing (on top of getting and learning to use editing software, which is generally quite hard to learn to use) the number of people from a new generation who bother doing any of it drops. IP holders see DRM and (to some degree) streaming as a win because they see piracy as lost sales, but this is actually only a short term win for them (if at all) because the most skilled people in any domain are folks who started young and got a lot of practice -- in other words, people who didn't get 100% of their training on-the-job but instead are former amateurs -- and those people are also the ones most likely to bring new and innovative ideas into a stagnating field. In other words, when streaming and DRM is promoted to the exclusion of media that can be easily edited, the next generation is starved of new talent. the same thing has happened to computing: in the 80s, lots of people learned BASIC without intending to ever become professional programmers because it was one of the things machines could do out of the box; in the 90s, lots of people learned HTML and javascript without ever intending to become professional web developers because it was one of the things a web browser could do out of the box; today nearly all development tools & development tool documentation is aimed at professionals or would-be professionals and put in places where only people who are interested in learning to code will ever come across it, with few opportunities (excel being a rare exception) where non-programmers can 'naturally' slide into doing a little programming in order to make their lives easier. creative industries that don't get fresh ideas stagnate and eventually crash as they hit the limit of what their intellectual monoculture can imagine. because we have misused computer technology for professional protectionism, we are headed for a creative-stagnation crash in software, film, and music within the next 15 years, unless we take some drastic measures (like putting programming & multi-channel editing into the curriculum of mandatory schooling)
New Years Resolutions generated by AI https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-years-resolutions-generated-by-ai/
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