#simulacrum

2025-11-23

There's a #mechanicalkeyboard tagged at USD 3,600-8,090 now. Don't get too excited if that alone makes you want to have one. It's sold out and the waitlist is long.

To quote from the product page:

"Nothing about this makes any sense. It is over the top. Needlessly lavish. Exuberantly irrational. And that is the point. If you're looking for a #keyboard to solve only an earthly practical need, the <c̶e̶n̶s̶o̶r̶e̶d̶> is admittedly maybe not for you."

They should've called it the "#Simulacrum" instead.

filmdenken.defilmdenken
2025-11-04

The Secret Sun Institute: How 1983 Broke Reality (and Hurled Us into a Digital ) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=jQpoqZqW-CM

2025-09-22

AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’

web.brid.gy/r/https://www.tech

Il Mitte Berlinoilmitteberlino
2025-07-12

A Treviri nasce SIMULACRUM – Arte & Fede. Il mio cammino: un ponte tra Calabria e Germania nel segno dell’arte sacra.

" ilmitte.com/2025/07/a-treviri-

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦dbcurren.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-27

#Deleuze: "Modernity is defined by the power of the #simulacrum. It behooves #philosophy not to be #modern at any cost, no more than to be nontemporal, but to extract from #modernity something that #Nietzsche designated as the #untimely, which pertains to modernity, ..."

2025-02-04
Fascinated with 'doubling the subject' in portraiture. Both oil paintings here are copies I created from Franz Winterhalter portraits of the same lady. Jazzed her up with a modern grid and nick-named her "Infanta in two moods". #portraitpainting #portraiture #modernism #oilpainting #mondrian #pietmondrian #fashion #pixelfedart #painting #graphics #duality #dualism #sampling #simulacrum
2024-12-31

how are we deteriorating our society and our accomplishments by doing the minimum, by focusing on maximizing value instead of completing our creations? so-called AI chatbots are the epitome of this. they don't even need to be right, they just need to always have an answer. they take from us the opportunity to appreciate our own art.

the Torment Nexus isn't the worst thing we could make, we are happily creating a much bleaker dystopia right now.

the worst thing we're happily constructing is the Simulacrum Nexus, adding smoothed edges that hide and lie to us about our rough, nuanced world. reality hidden under layer of layer of convenience and simplification and false expertise and knowledge. to simply be tormented would be a kindness instead of to become untethered from reality, tormented by false pleasures, enthusiastically choosing torture every time because we are so lost from what is real.

sheep that choose slaughter because they believe it to be salvation.

#tormentnexus #simulacrumnexus #ai #llm #chatgpt #simulacrum #technology #capitalism #greed #greed #greed #greed

Peter Kisner ≈PTR_K@dice.camp
2024-09-15

@futurebird

The thing that fascinates me is AI ads for vague technologies as a lure to dubious clickbait websites.

AI: "This looks cool-technology-ish, right?"

#AI #Enshittification #UncannyValley #Simulacrum

On a bench top sits some sleek, unidentifiable piece of technology with a curving light in the base and almost like a bucket seat made of clear acrylic above. various shaped lights are in the middle and the outside seems to have a matte gray finish.

I suspect the image was posted by an AI.

Caption below the image says "Here Are 97 of the Coolest Gifts for This 2023"An advertisement that depicts a sleek, gray, vaguely loaf-shaped or mushroom-cap-shaped piece of equipment. a few small LED lights are in a row along the middle of it, and below seem to be some switches or connection ports.

Printed prominently in prominent white letters on the surface is a shape attempting to be a word which looks like "Slusbok".

Around the image the advertisement says:

Consumerbags Sponsored
Here Are 29 of the Coolest Gifts for This 2023
29 insanely Cool Gadgets You'll Regret Not Getting Before They Sell Out.
Learn More
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#TheMetalDogArticleList #BraveWords SIMULACRUM Change Lineup For Fourth Album; Band Welcomes New Drummer Into The Fold; Video bravewords.com/news/simulac... #Simulacrum

🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘TheMetalDog
2024-08-13
(((Cindy Weinstein)))CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2024-06-02

On the making of a #simulacrum who then becomes #President: "While on location, he [#Trump] could barely put a sentence together regarding how a task would work. Listen now, and he speaks directly to what needs to happen while the camera conveniently cuts away to the contestants, who are listening and nodding. He sounds articulate and concise through some editing sleight of hand."

slate.com/culture/2024/05/dona

(((Cindy Weinstein)))cindyweinstein@mastodon.world
2024-06-02

On the making of a #simulacrum who then becomes #President: "While on location, he [#Trump] could barely put a sentence together regarding how a task would work. Listen now, and he speaks directly to what needs to happen while the camera conveniently cuts away to the contestants, who are listening and nodding. He sounds articulate and concise through some editing sleight of hand."

slate.com/culture/2024/05/dona

2024-04-25
(((Cindy Weinstein)))CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2024-02-19

@exchgr. Well-put! Time for me to reread #baudrillard.

#simulacrum

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