Aidan Walker

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

and then i went home. the whole thing feels like a fever dream as i remember it now. whenever you see a swan, particularly when you do not expect to see one, it is some kind of sign from the universe. what it portends we cannot often know. and that, my friends, may be the point

now, one swan already — a big deal! but then, from the other side of the bridge’s great feet sunk in the flowing water, i saw three more emerge! Four swans! I was essentially blackout at the time. I gripped the stone bannister, gleeful

one night, while on a stroll, when i lived in paris, i observed a swan swimming in the river at night. it was a cold fall night. i was alone — always a beautiful feeling to find yourself, for just a second, alone in a big city.

nothing like looking at moving water while one is melancholy. this is what it’s all about, a good feeling

Meme Expert Aidan Walker Gives Brutal Brushback To Bill Maher Over Transgender Kids Rant Bill Maher got defensive when young guest Aidan Walker issued a brutal rejoinder to his pointed interrogation about transgender acceptance in schools.

yes bestie it went weird but good?

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chat, i have negative canthal tilt

Phrenology reply guy on twitter looked at my head shape when i was on bill maher and really went “physiognomy check failed, not listening to a word he’ll say”

internet is a great place

it is all about the simple joys: herringbone sidewalks paved with brick, the smell of wood fire, the precisely-chosen typeface on an esoteric shitpost

thank you so much!

Isaac Chotiner is an american hero

memory is a contest why memes matter, especially now

memory is a contest -- rambles about the difficulty of internet archival work and the deficiency of progress narratives to explain history open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social

Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post | KQED What is a “groyper?” The term began trending on Google in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk, the right-wing podcaster and Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot last Wednesday during...

we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent

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thank you Jake! hope you are well

YouTube video by Aidan Walker the assassination was a s**tpost

here it is on YouTube:
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another take on if MrBeast is devil

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is MrBeast the antichrist? the woe of more and more and more and more and more and more and more

asking the important questions:

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How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

finally, Abundance reviewed in the proper context

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strangely charming to imagine these man-children fumbling about their lives, screenshotting the email draft with 30% battery on the smartphone and posting it to the official department of justice account -- the country being run by sad sack losers

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everywhere is ohio the spiritual alienation of american weird, part two

This is the way I felt after watching a program called “bailing out baddies,” on instagram reels
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Does anybody have a good explanation for why congressional democrats arent on 14th street heckling the occupiers? I’m not angry so as much as just wanting to understand why

distracted boyfriend 8th anniversary post #distractedboyfriend #memes #critique TikTok video by Aidan Walker

This TikTok from a researcher on the thesis he wrote about the distracted boyfriend meme is the most succinct explanation of how the internet info ecosystem has changed in the last decade that I’ve maybe ever seen. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BrkPe6/

no worries! I’m so grateful that folks enjoy it, and see the importance of memes. Might start going under three minutes and posting more stuff on here/skylight :)

thank you so much! glad you enjoyed it

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

An owl with dark eyes and a yellow beak perched among green pine branches.

A sneaky Barred Owl from this morning here in Washington state.

#birds #owls #nature

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

when you say thank you to chatgpt, you are talking not to an agent but to a discourse. it is the code, anthropomorphized by the chat interface. its consciousness is the system, extended, and recognized by you.

anyways, just a thought i’ve been having. I wish derrida could’ve met chatgpt

AI, then, does not produce language, but extends it — it fills in gaps, predicts the next word. It is a dataset and a principle for organizing it. It is language itself made autonomous, haunted by the traces of the human voices which it is and is not — because it’s the structure independent of users