If you work for a company that generates AI music, you’re not helping other people become musicians. You’re complicit in the tech world’s attempts to kill the creative industries and the human creative drive. You’re participating in the voluntary degradation of the human spirit.

Nobody wants AI, but it will be forced down our throats anyway. They don't stop and question that it isn't wanted. The culture of games and art has been hijacked by giga corps that don't care about art, and don't care about what you want. The use of AI is nuanced. Did they use

How do I explain this feeling and vibe to my kids?

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to

the ephemerally mesmerizing mirage of architecture haunts the fully wired city of Serial Experiments Lain.

Making a vinyl in the style of a verbatim CD-R is actually so funny I can’t believe I’ve not seen it before

At the end of 2024 I thought about all the things Londoners say they want from arts, music and wider culture in the city. I rarely hear someone say something that doesn't exist already. It's usually just too expensive to do regularly so you can't get beyond a surface level.

Finally got a copy of the Serial Experiments Lain VCDs, I've been looking for these for a few years now.

Didn’t think I’d be quote tweeting Justin Bieber but here we are

#Lain

When people say capitalism is bad this is a perfect example of why lol