Corrupting your Soul with Artificial Creativity
The current state of unfathomable wealth consolidation by the few, and the frantic, manic push to replace creativity and mindfulness with instantaneous automation
technology are both rooted in the growing realization and frustration by those few - that no amount of power or money can
acquire and generate actual taste or talent, or the inner peace attained by becoming one with your own creativity.
The ultra-wealthy will always be grasping for an ability to attain some ethereal elixir of true humanity, to be able to do what they cannot, no matter how much they want it - they cannot experience the soul-enriching satisfaction of joyful creation, only endless accumulation, because they are a bottomless well, and they constantly try to close that void by filling the hole with money and belongings and the vapid distractions of excess.
And when that isn't enough, they try to justify themselves by inflicting suffering on others, so they have something to show for their vain efforts, or can push down those they envy to slow their own descent into the darkness at the bottom of their own emptiness. If they can't receive the accolades of the truly artistic, then they'll burn down forests and boil the ocean to
emulate what they believe to be works of genuine art and passion. An infinite artifice of shallow pastiche.
Corrupting your soul with artificial creativity.
08.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.
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Because it's made by dead-eyed morons who understand nothing, believe in nothing, bring no beauty to the world, have no capacity for reflection, and immiserate our collective existence with every hateful sentence they squirt out of their wet, waxy mouths. NEXT.
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Exactly, and is fully related to ai slop bullshit too. bsky.app/profile/roxy...
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An illustration featuring Kiosk Kurioso, with red looping squiggle lines for different objects, and a curious little fellow.
kiosk.kurioso.ch , coming soon ✌️
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New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So
With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
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Lisbon cityscape
Lisbon ceramic tile street art skeleton
Lisbon street art graffiti
Lisbon cityscape
Greetings from the top of gray but gorgeous Lisbon ❤️
08.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I know it’s earnest and a bit cringe, but I am just so tired of these soulless grifters and slop hustlers.
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bsky.app/profile/roxy...
08.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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GET IN THE FUCKING BIN
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Permanent mood, @theremina’s <get in the bin .jpg>
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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”
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Slyida.b by Cody McGrew on Apple Music
Playlist · 105 Songs
This playlist is giving me the groovies, from Sly Ida ( @slyida.b on the insta )
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60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider
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How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick
1978 speech from the anthology The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Ph...
An intriguing entry in the Isolarii little books publishing series. How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later - Philip K. Dick
08.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
Lisbon Ceramic tile street art
08.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Exactly. And they want it automated, they want it instantly. Hot and cold running human connection on tap, available to the highest bidder, no real emotional investment required 🤖
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i think a lot about how much anyone in favor of ai art/writing/music replaces the profit motive for the real value: human connection, a thing ai fundamentally cannot do
08.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 61 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0
bsky.app/profile/roxy...
08.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two things the Epstein Files show us:
1) Billionaires must be taxed out of existence.
2) Money must be severely regulated in politics.
08.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 198 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 3
Corrupting your Soul with Artificial Creativity
The current state of unfathomable wealth consolidation by the few, and the frantic, manic push to replace creativity and mindfulness with instantaneous automation
technology are both rooted in the growing realization and frustration by those few - that no amount of power or money can
acquire and generate actual taste or talent, or the inner peace attained by becoming one with your own creativity.
The ultra-wealthy will always be grasping for an ability to attain some ethereal elixir of true humanity, to be able to do what they cannot, no matter how much they want it - they cannot experience the soul-enriching satisfaction of joyful creation, only endless accumulation, because they are a bottomless well, and they constantly try to close that void by filling the hole with money and belongings and the vapid distractions of excess.
And when that isn't enough, they try to justify themselves by inflicting suffering on others, so they have something to show for their vain efforts, or can push down those they envy to slow their own descent into the darkness at the bottom of their own emptiness. If they can't receive the accolades of the truly artistic, then they'll burn down forests and boil the ocean to
emulate what they believe to be works of genuine art and passion. An infinite artifice of shallow pastiche.
Corrupting your soul with artificial creativity.
08.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
Lisbon cityscape
Lisbon ceramic tile street art skeleton
Lisbon street art graffiti
Lisbon cityscape
Greetings from the top of gray but gorgeous Lisbon ❤️
08.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
jfc can we burn his fucking yacht yet?!
08.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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o rly
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