turing

@the-turing-machine.bsky.social

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CompEng, former gifted kid, occasional filmmaker, aspiring gamemaker/writer, motorsports nerd on Sundays. Hiding my poor guitar playing by adding more reverb. Too much, really. https://letterboxd.com/turingsmachine/

Screenshot of my Tidal Rewind saying I'm Spacemen 3's 37th biggest fan
6.8 IMDb score for Tron: Legacy
Baritone from the Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercial calling Jesse Singal a babyback bitch
Entirely possible that my plangent cries about the impossibility of rebelling against an aura that promotes and attenuates all rebellion says more about my residency inside that aura, my own lack of vision, than it does about any exhaustion of U.S. fiction's possibilities. The next real literary "rebels" in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of "anti-rebels," born oglers who dare to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse single-entendre values. Who treat old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point, why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk things. Risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. The new rebels might be the ones willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "How banal." Accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Credulity. Willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law.
GIF of Troy Barnes-Community saying "I want TBD! Is that new?"
A sicko (or rather, a stand-in for all sickos) peeps through a window and exclaims "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"
A sleeping Jeff in place of the cat tax