1 |
Karen Zoid |
"Yo Yo" |
single |
The advice to do what you love |
2 |
LP |
"Long Goodbye" |
Love Lines 4 |
is not for your benefit, |
3 |
Olivia Rodrigo |
"love is embarrassing" |
GUTS |
it's for our protection. |
4 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Strangers" |
Strangers |
Love of your real goals is the only effective force |
5 |
Conquer Divide |
"PRESSURE" |
Slow Burn |
that reliably counteracts all the expedient incentives |
6 |
Blame Me! |
"Always Misplaced" |
Always Misplaced +2 |
to optimize your efforts for their intermediate rewards. |
7 |
Calva Louise |
"Square One" |
Square One +3 |
Generative AI is not dangerous because it's sometimes wrong, |
8 |
The Joy Formidable |
"The Hat" |
single |
and it isn't even most dangerous because the AI "itself" always doesn't care, |
9 |
Air Drawn Dagger |
"Stigmata" |
single |
it's dangerous because it appeals most to humans who wish to have done |
10 |
End Street |
"Sayawan Na" |
single |
things they don't want to do, |
11 |
Pipiolas |
"No Soy Un XoXo" |
No Soy Un XoXo +3 |
and it gives them unmanageable and uncritical superpowers. |
12 |
shakeitmila |
"Resaca de Verano" |
single |
You don't want to read averaged extrapolations elicited by "content owners", |
13 |
KANGA |
"Midnight Horses" |
Midnight Horses 5 |
you want to read burrito critiques by somebody emotionally invested in the future of burrito eating in a city you share, |
14 |
LYRA |
"Lovers" |
single |
and in cities and their food as social systems. |
15 |
Louis The Child |
"Stay With Me (with Absolutely)" |
single |
A bad writer who really loves burritos |
16 |
Morgan Saint |
"It Hurts To Be Human" |
single |
and wants you to also love them |
17 |
Can of Bliss |
"petty debris" |
MYRTLE BROADWAY & THE BIG BANG THEORY |
is already and always better than any language model, |
18 |
Tkay Maidza |
"WUACV" |
WUACV +2 |
but also, the bad writer who wants you to love burritos will learn to be a better writer |
19 |
Tinashe |
"Treason" |
BB/ANG3L |
because they have to in order to persuade people. |
20 |
CELESTE |
"With idle hands" |
With Idle Hands 2 |
The language model will never eat a single bite of its own, |
21 |
Harms Way |
"Undertow (feat. King Woman)" |
single |
or care about a single bite of yours. |
22 |
Kvelertak |
"Krøterveg Te Helvete" |
Endling |
It will refine, at best, towards an unobjectionable anonymity. |
23 |
Uada |
"The Abyss Gazing Back" |
Crepuscule Natura |
The tiny, sinisterly glowing eyes in the menacing abyss always turn out to be ours. |
24 |
Mānbryne |
"Piach i niepamięć" |
single |
You are complicit if you facilitate joylessness. |
25 |
Morokh |
"Coma" |
Insomnia |
You are complicit if you direct collective action towards the likelihood of facilitating joylessness. |
26 |
Mephorash |
"I Am" |
single |
You are complicit if you are not willing to stand up, as routinely as necessary, |
27 |
Wolfheart |
"Iku-Turso" |
single |
and say "Wait, what are we doing here? And why?" |
28 |
Shylmagoghnar |
"Follow the River" |
single |
You improve the future when you increase tangible joy, |
29 |
Finsterforst |
"Kapitel IV - Katharsis" |
Jenseits |
but this is perilously circular: |
30 |
Kuggur |
"Muhit al ahlam" |
Outlived |
if you are writing about the qualities of a particular burrito |
31 |
Claudia León |
"Phantom Of The Opera - Radio Edit" |
single |
or the twittery cadences and charming accents of a specific EDM pastiche, |
32 |
Secret Rule |
"Disorder" |
single |
then all you can do is care. |
33 |
ExWHYZ |
"NOT SORRY" |
single |
The generative abstraction removes you from this moment, |
34 |
AIBECK |
"Pink Chain" |
single |
and thus removes intent and motivation and tangibility. |
35 |
Afterglow |
"燦々" |
single |
Making tools that can only be used to increase joy is much harder |
36 |
RAISE A SUILEN |
"DANCING DARING" |
single |
than putting the texture of perfect carnitas into evocative individual words. |
37 |
WAGAMAMA RAKIA |
"Vertex" |
single |
At worst, the introduction of nominally connective mechanism between humans inherently defeats its own purpose. |
38 |
Roselia |
"Call the shots" |
single |
But at best, these machines are ours, and we do not have to use or design them to amplify our worst destructive selves. |
39 |
Poppin'Party |
"新しい季節に" |
single |
Most of the vectors that can be used to separate people |
40 |
熊田茜音 |
"Take My Chance (feat. 樋口 楓)" |
Another Self |
can also be trivially repositioned to present those people with a new shared experience. |
41 |
yutori |
"安眠剤" |
夜間逃避行 |
The same algorithms that produce anonymous "recommendations" |
42 |
SWANKY DANK |
"Everything" |
single |
can reveal the collective knowledge of sometimes-unseen communities, |
43 |
WANIMA |
"夏暁" |
single |
and thus help them to be seen. |
44 |
-真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ |
"Stay with me" |
single |
The same surreal techniques that fabricate hallucinatory images |
45 |
FTISLAND |
"Sage" |
Sage 6 |
or spuriously plausible essays |
46 |
KLEAR |
"เหลือแค่ลืม" |
single |
could be used to guess at the consensuality or likelihood of opinions real people actually hold, |
47 |
CLAIM |
"Hermoso Caos" |
single |
or the forms in which they are explained. |
48 |
Hreimur |
"Þar sem himinn ber við haf" |
single |
It's not that generative AI isn't an unexpected technological advance, |
49 |
Vistas |
"Bad Idea" |
single |
it's that, as is often particularly the case with unexpected advances, |
50 |
Belako |
"Dump" |
Sigo Regando |
it's one that is temporarily dragging us in the direction of its own inertia |
51 |
Sundara Karma |
"Wishing Well" |
Wishing Well +2 |
by our hair tangled in its gears. |
52 |
MAYKIDZ |
"The Signs" |
The Melodymatic Punchlines |
The first punchlines are never the end of the most interesting jokes. |
53 |
Six Going on Seven |
"Sexy Like the Titanic" |
single |
We are the hapless creatures who sometimes need disaster to explicate an obvious truth, |
54 |
Tenchio |
"ONSET" |
single |
but we do persist. |
55 |
Grayscale |
"Not Afraid To Die" |
single |
We write a new version of "When We Were Young" and have the courage to not call it "When You Were Old". |
56 |
Do Not Delay |
"Incomplete" |
single |
We start sentences before we know how they will end, |
57 |
Ossian |
"Továbblépni" |
single |
and try to listen to what happens to our undecided voices: |
58 |
Nitrate |
"All The Right Moves" |
single |
how they linger along eroded contours, |
59 |
Edge Of Forever |
"Where Are You" |
single |
how they echo at first with tentative repetition, |
60 |
Frozen Rain |
"One Mile from Heartsville" |
single |
how they twirl when they think nobody is listening, |
61 |
Florian Grey |
"Destroying Kingdoms" |
Destroying Kingdoms |
how they roar to get our attention again. |
62 |
The Dark Atom |
"Reconstruct" |
single |
Pick an endeavor whose outcome matters to you more than its process, |
63 |
Tempus |
"Red Flag" |
Vida Colorida |
and then learn whatever you have to learn to convince the process that you are right. |
64 |
Kuggur |
"The Misanthrope" |
Outlived |
This is how you apply love to industry. |
65 |
PreHistoric animals |
"He is number 4" |
He is number 4 +2 |
This is how you decide if a new tantalization is empowerment or distraction |
66 |
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate |
"Sold The Peace" |
The Light of Ancient Mistakes |
or commodified nihilism. |
67 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"Bang Ya Head (feat. Fred Durst)" |
Bang Ya Head 2 |
What are we doing here? We're kicking in something. A door? Maybe. |
68 |
Can of Bliss |
"Some Chords/UR NOT GOING ANYWHERE" |
MYRTLE BROADWAY & THE BIG BANG THEORY |
It might also be a wall that we'll need help to get our foot back out of. |
69 |
The Haunt |
"Overdose" |
Dead On Arrival 6 |
Sometimes a hole kicked in a wall is a portal to freedom; |
70 |
Katelyn Tarver |
"Ignorance Is Bliss" |
Ignorance Is Bliss +3 |
sometimes you find out what was behind it and understand why. |
71 |
SUDS |
"Hard For Me" |
Hard For Me +1 |
If you love the room this room could be, |
72 |
CMAT |
"Stay For Something" |
Stay For Something +3 |
you will learn what it takes to remove and rebuild walls |
73 |
Joan Osborne |
"I Should've Danced More" |
Nobody Owns You |
so that our ceilings will not have fallen down on us, |
74 |
Kristin Hersh |
"Bewitched Reruns" |
Clear Pond Road |
and how our time can be spent differently within constructed boundaries. |
75 |
Professor Green |
"Nervous - feat. K Koke, RA (Real Artillery)" |
Nervous 4 |
Fix up how you're moving. |
76 |
Mabhlukwe |
"Leli ikhaya Lami" |
Amabhinca |
Listen like you care how you hear; that's a start. |
77 |
QHUBINJA |
"MALAVALAVA" |
single |
Make your next action worthy of the next song. |
78 |
Mfiliseni Magubane |
"Nabhala" |
single |
This is how you decide if you are dancing |
79 |
Amavikelambuso |
"Uvele abekisandla" |
Amagwinya Ashisayo |
or leading the way into an abyss or a trap. |
80 |
Slikback |
"NAGARE" |
single |
Draw a map like the destination is your own, |
81 |
Ayesha |
"V7" |
single |
and then follow it to see where you go. |
82 |
Vince Clarke |
"The Lamentations of Jeremiah" |
single |
This is all you need for today: |
83 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Perennial Fantas" |
single |
songs, a walk, maybe a burrito before the storm comes; |
84 |
Kuggur |
"Ólafur í Hvarfi" |
Outlived |
another song, another step, until we get somewhere. |