Emily Bick

where are the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social listeners on this hellscape app? Please forward lol. TY.

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There are no AI bands with a large and engaged listenership. That black mirror nonsense is not happening, at all, anywhere. Each time one of these prompt-generated music projects is in the press because it's doing meaningful numbers, it's just a stream-fraud ring stealing income from the pool.

july now but absolutely yes

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Some sonic soup for the soul

Thanks Andrew!

You can order a digital subscription to read it online--the next best thing to the physical magazine, you get it the day it's published, no customs hassle, and you also have access to a searchable archive of every past issue to the very beginning, as long as your sub lasts. Cheaper too.

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it's about power and wanting to be acknowledged by power; no one cares how unavailable a basement incel is

also that should say precarity in the first post here
(damn you autocorrect) but delusions of precocity/specialness also makes sense

...novels like acts of service, most of sally rooney, & loads of other "young artsy & broke woman + older, powerful withholding dude with status & ££" stuff lately as the perfect inversion of the young-girl trope, its cardboard foil under image-based capitalism & there are too many novels like this

I dunno, I read this less as having to do with love, more with the narrator's anxieties about her own status and precocity, the dude was a surface to project all of that onto and the more unavailable he was, the more worthy an object to test herself against--i see the dudes in stories like this...

Glad to hear from you, and remember that road trip well. I've often wondered what you got up to. Followed, if you want to chat instead of talking in the replies here.

Ah! I think I know who this is. Ungoogleable spartacus-type name, Lum's kitchen? Hope life has treated you well.

Good god, yes--who is this, you must be someone I know, that was done under a bunch of silly pen names when I was 15-16? Can't believe anyone even remembers that, wow! I did eventually get to interview thomas dolby, decades later, but the zine was never spoken of. Thanks for reading The Wire.

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also hope you feel less sore soon

this is not a reply to this actual post, just wanted to say i saw a branch of zeit für brot in angel (first in london??) today and thought of you

That's not even getting started on the energy/environmental costs...this stuff is dead on the vine, even Nina, which has been shilling similar for half a decade plus now, only has a few thousand users, and most of them also sell on bandcamp etc. It's all toxic, rentierism + energy wasting

If you're a company making sales dependent on your own volatile, valueless token, that you just happen to scrape fees off of every transaction, in a walled-garden marketplace-- sure, you must be a 'much needed alternative to the current exploitative models'.

slacker and metropolitan, we watch them every new year's eve

so sorry to hear it, what a wonderful creature. glad you were able to give her a loving home.

And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

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this should be hit 'em of 2025

door's always open, and I love what flaming hydra is doing so will look for this there!