Jamie Stantonian

YouTube video by Jamie Stantonian The Tyger, by William Blake (Music Video)

I turned Blake’s The Tyger into a pop song with AI. #insulttolife
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Fire: The Metamorphic Medium The evolution of fire and the mythopoetic mind.

Fire as technology, myth and social media jamiestantonian.substack.com/p/fire-the-m...

Divided on so many issues, but united in opposition to this pathetic power play. It almost gives me hope.

We seem to be entering the age of AI generated folk-songs

Organic Intelligence Imagination in the age of the machine mind

My thoughts on AI and human imagination jamiestantonian.substack.com/p/organic-in...

Steven Crowder's "Change My Mind" Campus Sign | Know Your Meme Steven Crowder’s “Change My Mind” Campus Sign is a photograph of conservative podcaster Steven Crowder seated behind a sign that reads “Male Privilege is a

This is Steven Crowder. knowyourmeme.com/memes/steven...

I know who they are through cultural osmosis. But that's not the people I see gleefully celebrating on facebook.

X is having a Floyd-Level Event, but over here the story is barely visible.

LinkedIn is reading like the Daily Mail this morning.

Fell for it again award

Eric Roberts outfit and that sweet Victorian Tardis were amazing let's be honest

Between the CGI bloat, baffling, delirious plotting, poor treatment of legacy characters and heavy-handed hectoring, that finale did manage to somehow conjure one or two inventive, poignant moments. Overall it makes me long for the days of Eric Roberts chewing scenery in that timelord drip.

Decided to dip into #doctorwho for the first time in years, and found the Intertsellar song show episode almost *unimaginably* shite.

Yet the one set in giant skeleton castle run by team of Cenobites controlled by the Rani was enjoyable in extremely naff late 80s sort of way.

Heard the new Kanye single

Goatee is suiting you. Coincidentally I dreamt about Anthony Ainley last night.

Planet Kayfabe Wrestling, television and the boundary collapse of fact and fiction.

Made in 2023 but relevant right now

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YouTube video by Long Now London Understanding Media Today - An intellectual history of Marshall McLuhan

My talk on Marshall McLuhan's life and ideas for @longnowldn.bsky.social is now up!

This was given at the Hundred Years Gallery last spring to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of his bestseller, Understanding Media.

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Tyranid lore is better than Xenomorph lore and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

Exalted Words and Machine Minds The Soviets believed that to control language was to reshape reality. All it did was blind them to it.

The Soviet fixation on language, the fetishisation of abstraction, and its consequences.
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Perception of the Planetary Thoughts on the evolution of awareness for February 02025's Long Now London gathering.

My contribution >
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Planetary perspectives from Long Now London. February 02025 - Experimenting with form. Information about our next gathering. Six perspectives on the "Planetary" by members of our community here in London.

We just published the new Long Now London newsletter, featuring some excellent contributions from the community on this month's theme of; Planetary.
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You see that on your Alt aye? 😆

Quick, tear it down and build some student flats!

Taken down the big tree outside the Regent!

Any chance to write about two of my favourite thinkers. jamiestantonian.substack.com/p/mcgilchris...

The seduction of Callisto Ursa Major and the oldest story ever told

Some thoughts on the ephemeral endurance of oral culture

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AI and the future of sensemaking Will AI bring clarity to complexity, or obscure reality behind a computational mirage?

Thoughts on AI and maintaining our ability to understand the world

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Percepts and the Pyrocene Thoughts on fossil fuels, media and cultural memory.

Given current events, I suppose it makes sense to share my first Substack of the year. jamiestantonian.substack.com/p/percepts-a...

Announcing Pace Layers The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.

We are thrilled to announce Pace Layers, a new annual journal of long-term thinking.

Our first issue is a 282-page compendium of ideas, art, and insights on what we call the pace layers of our planet: fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, and nature.
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