Grimes: "What they don't tell you is that capitalism itself is the most obvious vehicle for intelligence and evolution" and it only gets more genius from there

Jesus, imagine just out right being like: "actually feeding human beings into an insatiable machine is good"

What a creepy lady

She must have read some Nick Land, and in her "gobble up anything techbros and techbro bootlickers say as very smart" belief system she must have seen the meth-powered old man yelling at clouds as a super genius.
Selfish and lazy women doing their part to fight capitalism

She's so painfully idiotic it's no wonder she had kids with melon-musk

why is he a watermelon?
- Elon + m(usk) = melon. Not much more too it

What the hell, you're back?

Thanks for Kissinger.

Yeah, it's crazy right. Dirty owl must have summoned him with that post the other day

Grimes is peak delusional. Everything I seen her say seems like it was said in a fever dream. It is jesse-wtf but irl

She's paid a lot to keep bullshitting in a vaguely techbro power fantasy way while LARPing as the average 's wet dream, so she has no material incentive to stop doing it.

This is what happens when you make music that sounds like a microwave.

I feel the same way about Grimes that I do about Kanye West: I didn't like the music to begin with, liked the message/themes of the music even less, and yet there was a great fandom wall of "this is a tormented genius, separate art from artist" immediately erected once they got their cryptofash on.
- I've never understood the fascination with Kanye West. I knew so many people who just thought he was an absolute genius. The same goes with Taylor Swift.
  I feel a bit like a contrarian in that I tend to avoid anyone that large numbers of people call a genius in the music world.

I can't follow the first part. I think she's partially figured out the "capitalism as real god" paperclip maximizer thing and is crediting women with keeping it from happening, but doing it in an extremely awkward way.

I don't think she has any motivation to have a complete or coherent thought: all she has to do is shove techbro fantasy cliches into a vocalizer the way Bill Murray's Hunter S. Thompson crammed random scraps of newspaper into the fax machine to temporarily shut it up.

che-no regulations protecting us from grime's delusional future by preventing laissez faire capitalism, I think

che-si lazy women protecting us from grime's delusional future

lazy women protecting us from grime's delusional future
- We really do have the best emotes

Grimes: “another day, another banger post”
monkey-typewriter

I wonder if she'll start stacking the pandering props and wear multiple cat ears, elf ears, glitter, light-up neon and quasi-cybernetic props (and costume pieces from recent hit movies) and do it while pretending to be decade-too-late steampunk elf and an uploaded hologram and a robot that attained consciousness and the sapient gestalt of all human communication exclusively through The Everything App Le Epic X Dot Comm all at the same time to try to spike that revenue.
- Grimes V-Tuber arc
can we get her on here

Didn't Musk say he was interested in her because she was aware of Roko's basilisk, meaning she was smart? Lmao.

Rokos basilisk? What's that? I just wamma watch rokos modern life
- I don't think we should be giving small cartoon wallabies lizards with stone-turning gazes.

When she finally saw the movie, she realized to her astonishment that this story she’d adored since she was far too young for it, that she knew almost by heart, that inspired her first album—this story was now her story. Specifically Lady Jessica’s story. This goes by fast onscreen, but Jessica (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is not a wife but a concubine. Grimes saw herself in Jessica, and she saw X in Jessica’s son, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). Paul is more than a duke’s son. He’s a chosen one, tasked with becoming a great leader. “When I see X,” she says, “like, I just know X is going to have to go through all this really fucked-up shit that sort of mirrors Paul-type stuff.” Watching it wrecked her. “I was just crying my eyes out the whole movie.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars

it's a middling, trite sort of dumbass that thinks their kid is destined to be the savior of all humanity. it takes a very special sort of asshole to claim it publicly and tell a story about how you internalize this notion so hard, you sobbed at a movie.

G E R L R I D I O T C H I L D M N C O E H O S F U S
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Before Paul Atreides was mentioned I thought they were talking about Jessica in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Grimes I get that you like Dune but nobody is going to let a bunch of silicon valley dweebs literally become the Tlielaxu and I need you to stop zapping yourself with the bimbofication ray you're already drooling your brain out on the floor for everyone to see and it's fucking embarassing

Even Tleilaxu hated capitalism and if someone of the addled neofeudal brains in universe actually compared their public image with numbers they would swiftly get the clue something is mighty sus there (mentats are shit i guess, fuck the butlerian jihad).
- Mentats are human give them a break

Grimes believes that Cyberpunk 2077 is a documentary and the events took place in real time

You joke, but she might be bazinga enough to see it as a projection of the imminent future because of the simulation having a time skip because the basilisk was feeling sassy that day
- Oh, I wasn't joking
- the basilisk was feeling sassy that day
  
  The Sassilisk. :kelly:
- Well the original game was Cyberpunk 2020, yet here we are in 2024 but the only thing we got from there is pollution and corpos with death squads. No AV's, no cyborgisation, no holograms, no Soviet Union going strong.
Her performance was so fucking bad in that game

I love grimes and elon because they both literally represent the "I've only read the summary at the top of the wikipedia article and will proceed to both horribly misinterpret the topic/subject & also combine it with my own neuroses" class in the US which has historically been underrepresented!

Many of us have probably known. or perhaps even previously been, a proto-Grimes or demi-Elon. The dipshit who used to argue with me about Guantanamo Bay being 'needed' back in 2008 on the bus but, when asked, literally thought it was on US soil? demi-Elon.

The cheerleader who burst into tears in HS when our AP Biology teacher told us in no uncertain terms that we would all have to do an individual presentation on evolution, got fired from her nursing job during the pandemic because she refused to get the vaccine when doctors & nurses were literally dying from treating patients, and since then has been selling Scentsy wax melts on Facebook & constantly posting shit like '"has anyone thought about the fact that during 2020, we had ZERO cases of flu but suddenly there's a 'pandemic'?? WAKE UP!!!"?? Proto-Grimes.

Anyways all this to say I love people like this because I am constantly going "is this slop for me???" and getting into arguments with them because it is always funny

i can't stand people like this directly, but i love hearing about them second hand.

like my aunt is a class 4 (fully blown) dumbass. i guess she drank heavily as a young adult or something and was "wild" but eventually transformed into an extremely pious evangelical and with MAGA characteristics. lots of other negative characteristics as you can imagine.

when covid hit, she refused to vaccinate or mask. due to her own independent research. the broader family isn't perfect, but there are a lot of very elderly people in it and people with spines so everyone decided, as a bloc, to refuse her entry into homes and what small family functions occured, if she would not take precautions.

and lo, there began a great wailing from her mouth, but she would not vaccinate or mask.

eventually she moved away, which i guess was supposed to be a tantrum / invitation for people to chase after, but nobody did lol. the general vibe seems to be "good riddance."

She's the kind of a person who willingly yiffed Elon Musk so what did you expect

I remember seeing a take that she's a super brilliant intelligence asset (studied biomed at a fed recruiting uni in calgary or sth). Then I see this.

Every time I think I'm a bit odd I look at Grimes and become embarrassed at the sheer normalcy of my existence.

Does she have Havana Syndrome? Her brain don't work too good.

I nonjokingly think extended and intimate exposure to left a lasting impression, even now, when she is ostensibly opposed to him and trying to get custody of her kids.

It's like how a lot of self described ex-Mormons still have a ton of Mormonism's baggage.
- The copious amount of drugs and bazinga technobabble from being in 's inner circle is probably enough to thoroughly scramble a brain

Middle-aged white stand-up comic like "my wife is so lazy she's part of the bulwark against Roko's Capitalism Basilisk."

If that joke was workshopped enough, I think it could work.

Well, it'd require the idea that "lazy women are the reason Le Epic Singularity(tm)(r) has been delayed" to propagate more widely than Grimesposting, so I'd rather not think of that future.
- Yeah I'm not gonna fine tune it, it just sorta popped into my head

No wait, let her cook.

Her using the power of horny to convince techbros capitalism is a hostile AI that is out of controll might actually work.

someone needs to direct her to Ian Wright's stuff

https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god/

Wait wait wait is UlyssesT back

No, this is Patrick

When Hexbear needed him most, he returned

needed him most

What's the emergency?

Didn't "House of the Dragon" already self-destruct into yet another pretentious inability to deliver satisfactory conclusions to story arcs?
- You will always be needed as long as there are Yudkowskyites and bazinga brains
- yes

yeah it's crazy how "fast" things change. everybody wants pizza at the party and the pizza shows up, but everybody who eats it throws up and says somebody took a shit on it.

now, just hours later, the number of people at the party trying the pizza is down 10%.

truly, this is the end of pizza.

hello to all my twitter followers, just letting you know digital god is around the corner, that's all for now

jams a bunch of sci fi power fantasy cliches into a randomizer, probably using some sort of LLMs, and cosplays as an anime waifu to make another billion

Following this down the road, cause this sorta rambling is my bag.

Capital goes full Matrix and grows us in birthtanks with our brains plugged into n-dimensional adspace, and this is cheaper than people fucking somehow. The Matrix crashes itself in a market bubble after every uploaded tech-broverlord begins chasing faster turn around and cheaper production by skipping on QA. The last generation of humans is born with only the ability to imagine a single NFT.

The last generation of humans is born with only the ability to imagine a single NFT.

That last line would hit like thunder at the end of a short story.

I regret to inform you (grimes, whoever that is) that capitalism has already developed a baby making factory

I used to argue that back in CA: "The paperclip maximizer is already here and it doesn't even need to be self-aware to destroy the environment to maximize its preprogrammed imperatives."

But no, the treats they consumed said it has to be a scary (and probably sexy) robot deity first for it to be a problem.
- CA?
  
  Yeah, at some point the idea about cyberpunk/whatever other ideas about monstrous god machines being capitalism (or at least modern society, depends on how lib the author is). Early blue curtains, I guess.