Tag: memes

  • HA HA! BUSINESS

    HA HA! BUSINESS

    I use the HA HA! BUSINESS! meme a few times each decade. The original is pretty small and pixel’y, so I asked the robot to upscale it and it did a damn fine job:

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  • Related to your interests, Thursday

    Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art – “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.” Nobody knows how large software products work – “It’s easier to write software than to explain…

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  • The case for memes as a new form of comics –

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  • What is green text?

    “Greentext” refers to a style of writing popularized on 4chan and other imageboards. It’s characterized by using the > symbol at the start of each line, which turns the text green on 4chan’s interface. Originally, this syntax was meant for quoting previous posts, but it evolved into a distinctive storytelling format, often used for short,…

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  • What the AIs think of the US presidential debate

    What the AIs think of the US presidential debate

    Today it’s just links and fun finds that I’ve been storing up for a about a week. Great “Please Eat Me” specimen, from Russell Davies. Also, a big sign of the same. What the AIs thinks of the debate I asked Perplexity about the US presidential debate last night. I wasn’t very interested in “fact…

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  • Link: Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture

    ‘What is changing, I argue, are the cultural formats people are using for discussion — the carrier waves for this signal. This is where “authenticity” isn’t a useful claim any more, having been wholly co-opted and commodified into its opposite. Culture and the way we communicate — shaped by media affordances — have become more complex, ironic, and multi-layered than that.…

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  • Here is a very funny parody of the infamous dancing banana. This is a piece of crap that dances just like the banana. The turd stole his moves! He’s probably very smelly too. http://www.sherv.net/dancing.shit-emoticon-497.html

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  • The Internet is now the check-out isle

    I’m not actually mad at either Scalzi or Amazon; I’m getting good entertainment value for money. But I am in awe at the effortlessness with which successive instalments of cash are being whisked out of my wallet. In the hands of someone evil, this could be dangerous. –The Scalzi/Amazon Trap Have you seen that meme…

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