sowing an existential distrust

late night greetings

i'm in the middle of STILL working on this one story and I had to stop and research (again) some minute detail... which led me to looking at kim kardashian's instagram and...

[photo description: kim kardishian west is walking through a palacial looking hallway with neon lights in the distance, that is apparently somewhere in las vegas. her left hand is poised to shield her downturned face from camera flashes, as she strides purposefully on. she wears a white bandeau top, tied in the center of her chest like a bow. this is complimented by a completely translucent and openly billowing, ankle length jacket, with -also translucent- wide leg trousers. her hair long deep brunette tresses cascade over her shoulders. is she barefoot? it's hard to tell but one must guess she is wearing those clear plastic high heeled slides that are making the rounds]

haaaaaave
you ever read super sad true love story?
a housemate suggested it to me several years ago. it's about a guy that's hard to wanna read about, and i read most of the book in disgust. i guess i read it to the end for the dystopian (re:realistic) portrait of crumbling american empire... and anyway, there is a fashion brand called OnionSkin Jeans, which are see through.

i dont much pay the kardashians any mind, but now that i'm on KKW's IG page I see that she went to Catholic school. Hear me belly laughing. This superhero dressing ass media mogul infiltrated the always-already infiltrated ass white house lol WILD

ok it's days later on the solstice. happy solstice. my boo sent me a link about how philip k dick's scifi is very apt for discussing today's sense of unreality, and inevitably compares that reality to the unreality of shit today via twitter...

Twitter has failed to become a true mass medium, but remains extraordinarily important to politics, since it is where many politicians, journalists, and other elites turn to get their news. One research project suggests that around 20 percent of the measurable political discussion around the last presidential election came from bots. Humans appear to be no better at detecting bots than we are, in Dick’s novel, at detecting replicant androids: people are about as likely to retweet a bot’s message as the message of another human being. Most notoriously, the current U.S. president recently retweeted a flattering message that appears to have come from a bot densely connected to a network of other bots, which some believe to be controlled by the Russian government and used for propaganda purposes.

i had read an article by Liu Cixin or Ken Liu about unreality, and apparently Haruki Murakami also dropped an English-translated essay on unreality recently as well... I think it's interesting people say unreal instead of surreal. I like discussing the origins of words and shit, but for some reason decided to call this shit unreality kind of unnerves me. Like magical realism... and other genres of "speculative" writing... Besides having a reference term for fans to use, why categorize a written narrative away from "reality" in the first place?

meh!

we'reee in troubleee!

the other night i twittered "are we sharing news or generating content or?"
that same night i saw someone on IG post a propaganda poster that exclaimed

POSTING
IS LABOR

and i threw my hands up in a hallelujah.

i must admit i am not loving... well ok, i changed my mind and wrote one sentence at the last minute and then forgot the topic of the original.

btw if you submitted something to METROPOLARITY's ~bad user agreement~ episode, just wanna say...we got mad submissions and it's taking so long bc only 1 person is handling the majority of the work, and we're all at capacity rn...

tangentially related, yeah uhhh..... everyone that loved METROPOLARITY and had access to institutional money that DIDN'T put us on and instead jacked some "inspiration" off our vibe, there ya go.

sike i'm just trying to throw blame around cause i AM still feeling irked about multiple instances of indeed getting snubbed. the bad user agreement idea originally started around the concept of being offered some sort of collaboration opportunity or deal, and lol it's actually INSULTING and exploitative.

ohhh yeah!

NYC freaks, plz find urselves invited to the release party of this anthology I ended up in, coming this Monday at the Museum of Sex, 7-10PM.

if you click the image you can see the product page and longer description.
anyway i'll be there at the jawn, come say hi if u wanna.

since i'm in promo land, DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR tees continue to be on discount at my online shop & IRL if you hmu


ALSO
instagram started doing this IG TV shit annnnnd i'm p sure i'm gonna start reading stories on there cause i love the sound of my own voice, TRULY. lyk. my IG is @cyborgmemoirs

[image description: a drawing from a communications textbook. there is a red circle that draws our attention to a man with a knife chasing a man running away, and in the foreground is a cameraman holding a TV camera that shows only a small part of the action, so that it looks like the escaping man is attacking the attacker, whose knife is kept out of frame]

if you don't like the post do your your politics still have meaning?
if you don't share the post are you a fraud?
if a white person calls a white supremacist stupid to their in-group does that make the white supremacist any less violent?

happy solstice.








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also make sure to laugh out loud (fake it if you have to) and raise your arms above your head every once in a while.



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monk