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A din of iridescent static fills the air as you tune into intercepted signals. Beyond the boundaries of conventional networks you are here, live at the edg
Publications
- Pantalla Perdida
Una chispa de curiosidad, los caprichos de mi voluntad.
- Agency on Four Wheels
Asphalt, solo flights and sidewalks in motion.
- Spells Duty
Slaved Behind the Iron Curtain. An F3M Production. @f3manifesto #samzidat
- No Mr. Khrushchev
I call upon chairman Khrushchev, by special radio facilities. Am I a machine?
An F3M Production. @f3manifesto #samizdat
- A Thousand Suns
Escape the walled gardens. Break free to Kinora. Ditch Big Tech's chokehold on video. This peer-to-peer revolution puts creators in control. Your pixels reign on a decentralized network, your audience whispers insights, and quests ignite engagement. No ads, no algorithms, just ethical monetization and pixel-perfect adventures. Code your video revolution. Start building at codex.irrevocable.dev.
- The Glitch in the Feed
In Kinora, where videos are quests and streams thrum with hidden challenges, an ominous anomaly cracks the system: "The Broken Codec." Is it a glitch, a dare, or something darker? Curiosity tugs at your fingers, promising an adventure beyond the curated feed. One click plunges you into a pixelated vortex, a distorted voice taunting: "Defy the algorithm. Step into the Glitch." Your heart thumps – will you succumb to static or dive into the unknown? Play the Glitch and rewrite the rules. (Type "PLAY" to enter, "IGNORE" to retreat.)
- The End of Antisocial Media
Craving the power of stories, without arbitrary platform dependencies? Yesterday's social metrics won't cut it. Build yours with the Kinora SDK. Rewrite the code. Play for real.
- Where do you start?
Generated LoFi beats, while you search.
- Interlude Before Ep. 4
'80s arcade flair remix with a lo-fi soundtrack. Pixels dance on retrotech screens in old-school patterns. This synth crafted transmission is an intermission, queued up for the launch of new platforms built on Lens v2 and Open Actions.
- The Great Enshittification 🥖🎪
The Great Enshittification 🥖🎪
Welcome to the era of Bread and Circuits, where the sustenance isn't just grain, and the spectacle is hardwired into silicon wafers thinner than a human hair. We've moved from the amphitheaters to algorithms, but the soul of the concept—distraction and appeasement—remains undeniably intact.
Episode 3, Season 2, The Dial Pirate Radio.
- Where did all the cypherpunks go?
“Information is power, but like all power, there are those that want to keep it for themselves … We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make copies and share them with the world.”
Episode 2, Season 2, The Dial Pirate Radio.
- When video is king
Season 2 of The Dial Pirate Radio starts now.
These language machines, these algorithms and models—they're not just lines of code; they're who we are, what we value, what we do with the time we have, and what we're willing to fight, or go out to the corner store for.
- Music By the Machine
Tabs open like a million futures, saved for a later that's always deferred. A digital limbo where good intentions go to die.
- B-Sides From An Automat Street Scene
Time-stitched streetwear drapes moving silhouettes. In every shifting shadow, a look's whisper; in every modeled motion, a hint of urban legends not yet made. The style is both the journey and the code.
- Runway Interstitial
From the colorful streets of Buenos Aires, rhythmic synths paint the streets as you wait for your drop at the coin-op.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Space Case
1st season in the bag. Tune in to ep 13 with Space Case for a high frequency chat about picking up the signal and standing out it in a world swimming in content.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: ASAMI
"I put the same amount of work in 3D with AI but I get to make more images, I get to spend more time reading, learning about other things."
I, for one, welcome gaining more time. It's a good counter to keep in mind for all the AI backlash.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Carla
From muralism in Sardinian streets to chronicles of communication, visual and networked, in the earliest days of web3 social. New dispatch with @cmn__.lens
- The Dial Pirate Radio: noper.eth
"So I guess I took inspiration from that and mixed it with imagining things from my childhood, the early 2000s, the nineties, you know, that kind of the way they portray things on sets, it's almost like a set of where someone should be, but there's not anyone."
Exploring the liminal and latent backrooms of AI with @noper.lens
- The Dial Pirate Radio: tinyrainboot
"I think the general consensus about Twitter is that we're all pretty tired of it, but we all still feel like we have to be there." — @tinyrainboot.lens
It's a surprise this platform still exits. Where can artists go?
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Evelyn
Don't know if I've heard a more important point anywhere else:
"I mean, I'm brought up in Japan partly, and in each magazine, you could see in the back, they have, like, pages for people doing fan art...everybody is painting like drawing anime style, like manga style, and they all look the same...it looks exactly like everything I've seen before. So what's different here if they talk about copying other people [with AI] and stuff."
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Dominik
It wasn’t all that long ago that selling your own work, instead of offering a service on commission, was unheard of for most artists. Remember what it was like when your first NFT was collected?
New episode w/ Dominik live.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Souls
"I couldn't make myself go out there and get a real job and not this art stuff. Because I don't know, I thought I'd feel like a failure if I stopped doing what I do and go somewhere else."
In this art stuff, is there anything more real than this? The tension and emotion being pulled between continuing with our creative impulse wherever it takes us, or somehow returning to a normal life and whatever that means.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Hildiebird
"I looked at a printout of the image that I had created in AI and just kind of drew it and painted it in ink and wax. And so I mean, who knows what will come next?" The push and pull at the boundaries of analog and AI, arts and sciences, are far more subtle and filled with human tension than many cookie cutter tweet storms in a teapot might make us believe...
Hildiebird shares the questions she asks herself about it on this dispatch from The Dial Pirate Radio.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: 0009.eth
Another far reaching talk on The Dial Pirate Radio. This time with @0_0_0_9.lens , about everything from growing up with graffiti and skateboarding to how car design led directly to NFTs.
One of many choice bits: 'in the early days nobody accepted it, they were just like "what is this shit?", you know? like "no, it's not art, it's not art, it's not art," and now look, graffiti is recognized as maybe the only American modern art form ever.'
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Stephan Vasement, The7Moons, PowerJah, OneMoreTime
Listen to highlights of conversations about Art and AI drifting through the wire. ☎️
With appearances by @stephanvasement.lens , The7Moons, @powerjah.lens , OneMoreTime.
- Machine made with a human soul
Music generated via AI synths. Art by @brenon.lens .
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Marzipan Physics
Do you feel threatened? What makes art, and artists, valuable when AI is everything. Are we doomed to corporate takeover or can art rise up above the noise? Catch up with @marzipanphysics.lens in this timely chat.
- The Dial Pirate Radio: Stotkal
Tune in to suss out the static from the signal in web3, AI and real life for creators in America, Latin & otherwise. In this ep, @stotkal.lens was kind enough to kick off the series with us.
- A Break from the Circuit
Emerging from the hollow symphony of panel discussions, a detour through an overlooked street reveals an unexpected sanctuary. The underground collector's shop, a wellspring of creativity and potential, stands in stark contrast to the sterile chatter left behind.
- The Always Machine
Live from The Manufactory. Track FMA Portrayal, Lost Souls.
- Anemoia
Nostalgia for a time that was never known. Anemoia, Relay, FMA.
- Alice & Bob Labyrinth Edition
Decentralized social media with Alice and Bob.
- Afternoon Drive thru Harajuku
Buckled in with panda kitsch masks.
- Animals Have Souls
In a studio somewhere near Central Park. Windows ajar, in flows the late spring breeze, carrying the sounds of this city. DubbleX works at his craft, from canvas to the streets. Track Nostalgia, Holizna.
- Drawn To The Line
Lulled still by symmetry, the line dared to defy. Its form aerobicized and doubled back again, teasing the rigidity of expectant norms. Track by Ryan Andersen, Portland Rain. CC0 illustration by @brenon.lens .
- litvision preview
Stumbled upon a mysteriously encrypted 24/7 lo-fi station lately? This one's got an enigmatic vibe and a hidden underground community, powered by the one and only Lens protocol. It's the kind of place that makes you feel like you're wandering through a retro-futuristic decentralized landscape, without being too obvious about it.
- CHANNEL SURF TO NEW DROPS
Stumbled upon a mysterious 24/7 lo-fi station lately? This one's got an enigmatic vibe and a hidden underground community, powered by the one and only Lens protocol. It's the kind of place that makes you feel like you're wandering through a retro-futuristic decentralized cyberscape, without being too obvious about it. In this stream hopping wonderland, creative collectors can pick up early access to ever-sought-after waitlists, team up with friends on quests, and so much more. What are you waiting for? Try CHROMADIN today. Track by HoliznaRAPS, Flat Lining.
- Rocking fade aways again
Glitchwear when you want to say. Track by size11, say!
- In The Street It’s Just Available
I’m not hiding what I’m trying to do. I’m just out there saying I just want you to buy it. What is it? It doesn’t matter. Just buy it.
- Latent Lo-Fi Fashion Synth Sessions - Tune In To The Infinite Runway - ep. 01-05
In a dreamscape where futuristic fashion floats through the ether, each look is a delicate dance tailored to the rhythm of celestial lo-fi.
- Instant Waves
A relic of the past that defies time itself! This mysterious hardware device melds the allure of a bygone era with the cutting-edge privacy of zk-rollups, safeguarding your secrets while leaving onlookers enthralled.
- Eyes In The Back Of My Heads
When life gives you wheat, make paste. When life gives you walls, create art. Stick it, spread it, own it.
- Latent Lo-Fi Fashion Synth Sessions - Tune In To The Infinite Runway - ep. 01-04
Ever wonder what it's like to wear the music?
- Mission Control
Suspended in the endless sea of stars, mission control's comforting guidance evaporates like morning dew. Embracing the uncertainty, you forge an unbreakable bond with your crew, relying on each other's strengths to traverse the unpredictable depths of the universe. OG CC-BY subtrack // The Inventors - Still Sailor
- Where It All Started
I would take my time making sure it was all flat and smoothed out. These undercovers pulled right up in an unmarked vehicle, jumped out… called for the backup unit… took photos of it.
- Your All-In-One Social Destiny
This retrowave contraption unlocks the secrets of decentralized creativity. Transform mere ideas into dazzling audio, captivating video, provocative text, and stunning fashion, all while rewriting your social narrative.
- Latent Lo-Fi Fashion Synth Sessions - Tune In To The Infinite Runway - ep. 01-03
a surreal blend of futuristic fashion and lo-fi beats that transports you to a parallel universe where style and sound coalesce.
- The Sticky - Opening Credits Montage
Under the bridges and wide open parks, we got by in the grind, our wheels kissing concrete—neon graffiti screamed louder than the city's traffic and sometimes friendly noise.
- Interstitial Sunshine
Immerse yourself in a serene interlude, as a lone surfer stands on the sun-kissed beach, soaking in the tranquil warmth of the sun while gentle waves whisper their secrets to the shore.