Bowie looks AI-generated

Reminds me of a conversation between Jonathon Pageau and Verveake —

Love them both 🧡💜

Just started to dive in. Treading water now, I guess. 🏊🏻‍♂️🩳😅😮‍💨 …literally just came from listening to Pageau talk about flat-earthers. Good stuff. I’m working on a serious paradigm shift here, or maybe just nursing a headache, Idk. 😌🤷‍♂️😂

Between user and user ‘in simpatico’ certainly. But perhaps more ‘antipatico’ so far (because that what drives engagement for the centralised platforms). Between provider and user mainly antipatico too - the opposite of what was hoped for. Bitcoin fixes this obviously, as other decentralised things (maybe nostr) may also do. So I’d say Bowie’s vision has not come to pass, but I’m hopeful it will be realised eventually.

AI (ChatGPT, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion etc and beyond) is where his mind seems to be going. These are the types of tools, built using the vast sea of content that was created via the internet over the years, that he vaguely foresaw, but which is so different in kind and so new, that he couldn’t fully articulate his vision. Having experienced these new tools, we have visions that are similarly vague, profound, fascinating, and terrifying.

Bloody Starman, even made Paxman trip

We need a gentleman like David talking about Nostr/zaps for the next xxxyears...just a matter of time that some genius musian will tell the world what we knew all the time. I knew in 99 what he was telling...tx David for confirming!!

Same. Bowie was so tuned in. I miss my BowieNet account 🤙🏻💜 #[0]

This, but for ChatGPT

a true Space Oddity

Pretty sure he was an alien here to help us.

Love this interview! I've also started to refer to Bitcoin as a sort of "Alien lifeform" when explaining it to people... I wonder what he would think of all this if he were still with us.

When did journalism become the most clueless profession of all?

„it’s an alien life form“ 😁 Maybe aliens visited us to create the internet as a necessary environment so that the seed of Bitcoin can grow in it. If it’s so, thank you aliens!

From the future 😄 #[1]

Bowie invented zaps ⚡ back in 73. He released BowieNet ISP in 99 🌐. Did the first internet song/EP release years before Spotify or AppleMusic 🎵 Made the tokenized BowieBonds years before ico mania , but monetized good 😊 He was a mastermind... Would not be surprised it he was Satoshi 😆 I like you more, Now that I find out you are a Bowie ⚡ fan 😹, or you quoting him. Oh and did I mentioned his music 🎶, art 🎨and movies 🎥 I love him ❤️

#BowieChain #[0]

He knew

Loving the alien 👽

We do! #BowieChain

He was decades ahead! Still is ⚡

I saw him from 10 meters distance... He was real... Still is ⚡ #Bowie4ever

This is actually amazing

Ancient lifeforn from gilded ages which finally ported itself to the internet.

Full interview is 16 minutes. One important takeaway here is that quite a lot of Brits do learn to construct multiple characters and live various aspects of their life “in character”. This is powerful because you can play a different character at work than you do with your mates, same for family, etc. It’s very easy to do, once you practice it, which a lot of English schooling emulated with uniforms+surnames v’s casual+nicknames. I have never really known Americans do this, and it’s why Americans sometimes come across as a bit one dimensional to English speaking Europeans. It’s also why Brits win 10x more Oscars and Grammys per capita. Then social media came along and violated all your character boundaries and exposed you the creator to your audience, this has since confused younger Brits somewhat as they feel overly “seen”, they have reacted by being more conformist as that’s in their immediate interests, but maybe not their long term interests. There are times in life when it is empowering to become Ziggy, and other times when it’s better to be Bowie. David Robert Jones (real name) had this figured because he live near a lot of theatre and he’s a smart kid who was schooled accordingly. Finally, you can heavily normalise playing some characters and you can accidentally become some characters full time, it’s good to occasionally kill them off or violate their norms to break out of negative habits and move your life to a better place. Full Bowie interview below…

“The monopolies do not have a monopoly”

Legend!

That mf got a nice accent

Bowie read his McLuhan!

What an insight to see the disruption of the internet so early on.

1k ⚡️

Ha! I was just introducing a co-worker to his book at lunch 🥹🥹🥹 This is why Nostr is the best. I'm not a gatekeeper, but having a platform that has a technical barrier to entry and a focus on decentralized tech has put me in a ecosystem with so many like-minded individuals. It will be interesting to see how the feel changes, as both these things change. Hopefully, still a great place, but with a broader range of interests.

Glad to run into a fellow McLuhan reader! Such a fascinating guy.

View quoted note → Bowie 1999: The internet is an alien lifeform just landed that will crush our ideas of what mediums are by creating an unimaginable interplay simpatico between user and content provider.

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I feel this way about bitcoin

True! Genius.

#Bowie #Aliens View quoted note →

Prescient