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Hi all: This is currently down because the mods thought it was spam. I am going to be re-imagining it tomorrow on stream (https://twitch.tv/princessxen) to be a custom feed instead of an autoreply bot.

I mean, it is spam. Autoreply bots are spam.

>I miss the era of Internet that lead to people creating works of public art like this.

I understand that for some, anything that gets people talking about it meets the definition of art. Unfortunately, this definition of art includes bum fights and taco stands that give you diarrhea.

I think all OP was getting at is that they miss when the internet was fun. Nowadays everything is either serious business or a cynical grift. Or both.

For me, Stealth Mountain is a much more whimsical form of art than the diarrhea taco stand. But there are plenty of uncomfortable works out there that firmly fall within the category of art. I’ve seen a literal shit machine at a gallery [0], and it would only take a few seconds of searching to find dozens of performance art works to make one uncomfortable.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_(art_installation)

I thought Musk turned off the firehose.

This is on Bluesky, not Twitter.

The original bot was undoubtedly using the Search API and not Firehose (real-time tweet stream).

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