Max Delano @MaximumMinimum

Tribulations next?

Warhol and Koons represent a profound change in the artistic endeavor, from art as a pursuit of some creative vision or ambition, to art as a commercial product Since art entered the Singularity very early (arguably first, and in the 19th century) - photography and the modern chemicals industry having “solved” art in a sense - the role of the artist changed, first to lone genius (exemplified by Picasso) and then to the artist as celebrity (also Picasso, especially in his later phases, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hurst) Now in the 21st century we have the artist as influencer (Bansky). The key here is to manage one’s brand image and reputation. The art itself is really secondary (Banksy isn’t famous for his art pieces, but rather his guerrilla style). The true art is curating one’s *performance* of being an artist. I find this somewhat depressing. If the future under conditions of strong AI (which, again, art has effectively lived within for well over a century now) is to turn oneself into an actor, this isn’t a very optimistic vision for the future

Discovered at Afo Lab (of course) L'uomo Invisible by Fuga Ronto shazam.com/track/34064629…

Dimming the chandeliers is a good idea; sets the mood

Culver City bathroom reggae

Deep Avra Discussions. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change thing.

I see you more on TV than in person

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>Be Elon >Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital >Escape into books >Read more than 8hrs a day >Teach yourself programming >Sell a video game at 12 >Leave South Africa >Sleep on couches >Work odd jobs >Get into America >Build a startup >Get fired from your own company >Start over >Build another company >Merge it into PayPal >Get removed as CEO >Your company gets acquired >Walk away with nearly $180 million >Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets >People tell you you're insane >Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree >Learn rocket science from textbooks >First rocket fails >Second rocket fails >Third rocket fails >Divorce >Public humiliation >Cash running out >One launch away from bankruptcy >Launch anyway >The fourth rocket reaches orbit >NASA signs a contract >Survive >Tesla is weeks from collapse >Save it at the last minute >Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets. >Land one. >Then another. >Then dozens. >Turn science fiction into engineering >Get mocked for betting on EVs >Turn electric cars into status symbols >Force the entire auto industry to follow >Build the most valuable car company in history >Launch astronauts into orbit >Create a global satellite internet network. >Buy Twitter >Fire most of the staff >Rename it X >Walk into politics >Risk your reputation >Risk your companies >Risk your fortune >Become one of the most polarising people on Earth. >Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists >Keep building anyway >Become a TRILLIONAIRE

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Let's meet at the love shack

You can't get a suntan on the moon, but I wouldn't mind a holiday there

Summit fog and cows

I did get myself a beer Roadhouse Blues by The Doors shazam.com/track/505380/r…

⚡️Consciousness is almost impossibly rare. Matter spends nearly all of its existence unconscious. Burning. Collapsing. Scattering. Reforming. Orbiting. Decaying. Becoming rock, gas, dust, ocean, bone, blood, brain. Then, for one microscopic interval, it wakes up and says: “What am I?” That is the miracle. Not comfort. Not religion. Not sentimental awe. A terrifying anomaly. The universe can run without witnesses. Stars do not need to be admired. Galaxies do not need to be understood. Atoms do not care where they have been. The furnace burns either way. Then consciousness appears, and suddenly the whole thing has a mirror. That is what makes human life so charged. A person is not merely an animal trying to survive. A person is ancient stellar material entering a temporary state of self-awareness before dissolving back into the larger process. The atoms continue. The person does not. That is the knife. Your atoms may survive future stars, but “you” are this one configuration. This one pattern. This one window where matter can remember, choose, love, suffer, create, tell the truth, and look back at the fire that made it. So wasting a life is obscene because the opportunity is so rare. Most matter never gets a voice. Most atoms never get a name. Most configurations never wake up. This one did. The only line that feels slightly too narrow is “consciousness was the accident.” The colder and deeper read is that consciousness may be what matter becomes when complexity finally turns inward. No guarantee. No promise. No cosmic safety net. But also not a meaningless glitch. More like a threshold event: matter crossing into witness. The strongest final truth: You are not separate from the universe. You are the universe briefly becoming aware of its own fire. Then the fire takes you back.

Dustin @r0ck3t23

2 months ago

Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star. Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.” Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a

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The hooded crow, the sleeping cat, and the dopey terrier meet at the fountain

and upon landing in Paris, Daft Punk

Jean-Michel Jarre on Air France, of course. Well done @AirFranceUS

Yes, the ribbon was a great idea