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dustedmagazine · 21 days

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The Unknowns — East Coast Low (Drunken Sailor)

“Supersonic Love” vamps a bass riff to get off the blocks, the roar like a car engine revving at the red light, full of testosterone-fueled aggression. It picks up double-speed drums a little later, then a squalling guitar, and finally an agitated rant which is basically the title with some “oohs” thrown in. The point is that it could hardly be simpler or louder or faster. It’s garage punk boiled to essence, like the Ramones, like the Dead Boys, like the Saints.

The Unknowns, from Brisbane, include two members of the Chats (Josh Hardy and Eamon Sandwidth, both on guitar) but this hard-blaring, punk band isn’t an offshoot. Hardy formed the band with his brother Caleb around ten years ago. It’s gotten a bit bigger since then with the addition of Sandwidth and bassist Nathan Montgomery, but it still maintains the elemental glee of two guys making a racket in their basement. Sophisticated? No. Fun, oh yes, very much so.

The Unknowns aren’t as funny as the Chats, who make songs about getting arrested (“Drink and Disorderly”), suffering STDs (“The Clap”) and eating cheap food (“Pub Feed”) to staccato pogo beats. The Unknowns play it more or less straight, in contrast. Their songs are mostly about the ugly side of romance (“Shot Down,” “Diane” “Rid of You”).

They’re also a bit more rock, a bit less punk strictly speaking, with big riffs and brief, fiery guitar solos. “Deleted” punctuates its break-up narrative with crashing power chords and pinch squalls. There’s a lot of drama in it. You can hear the ghost of Birdman. “Rid of You,” on the other hand, stutters and judders like old school punk – Sham 69 or G.B.H. come to mind.

It's all pretty high octane, not complicated but deeply satisfying. Thank god for Australia. They know how to rock.

Jennifer Kelly

#east coast low #drunken sailor #jennifer kelly #the unknowns #albumreview #dusted magazine #australia #brisbane #punk #rock

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kolos013 · 4 months

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Aspencore

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The amount of people in the notes going "yeah sure it may not be the answer for you but it absolutely is for me," is honestly concerning. It's very much like that one "I'm sorry your hubris was your doom but I'm built better" post that lives rent free in my head. These guidelines are there for a reason ya'll. (Also I'm not removing the wierd caption.)

#time to orbit: unknown #ttou spoiler #ttou

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molags-balls · 18 days

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big things happening in england

#stop messaging me saying this was in wales!!#this was in england .#sometimes (for reasons unknown to man) welsh people visit us

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whendidmythoughtsgocrazy · 25 days

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Don’t let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces.

k.b. // unknown

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perfectfeelings · 1 month

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Repeat after me: My current situation is not my final destination.

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thoughtkick · 1 month

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as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

Unknown

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perfectquote · 3 months

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You will search for me in another person, I promise.

Unknown

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mothcub · 3 months

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I love and respect The Unknown and I hope he steals all of Willy Wonka's chocolate.

#art #the unknown

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whump-in-the-closet · 4 months

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when a powerful figure is reduced to kneeling. when the lord is forced to bow. when the exile stumbles into an unwelcoming bar. when the “beast” is chained by their horns. when a god is dragged behind their enemy’s chariot, a captive and trophy. when the loyal “guard dog” character is muzzled and the silver-tongued thief falls silent in horror.

that’s the shit

it’s about the contrapasso. the reversal of roles and the sudden, plunging terror of being unable to hide.

#did i write a scene with unknown characters where this happens #mmm #maybe #whump #whump writing #whumpblr #whump prompt #whump ideas #whump community #whump prompts #troy talks #whump scenario #thoughts?

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stay-close · 25 days

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I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.

Unknown

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thehopefulquotes · 3 months

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You don’t deserve someone who comes back, you deserve someone who never leaves.

Unknown

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tomorrowhittoday · 4 months

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I Migliori Dischi PUNK Del 2023

A Cura di Diego Curcio Non ricordo quando ho iniziato a stilare questa classifica per Tomorrow Hit Today. E non ho neppure voglia di controllare. Ma sono abbastanza sicuro che, mai ome quest’anno, ho dovuto sudare sette camicie per scegliere i 20 migliori dischi punk, usciti nell’arco degli ultimi 12 mesi. Nel 2023, infatti, sono stati pubblicati moltissimi album interessanti e, a malincuore,…

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#a culture of killing #bestof #bestof2023 #chain whip #civic #class #cyanide pills #grade 2 #home front #les lullies #osees #punk #the men #the unknowns

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nobrashfestivity · 2 months

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Unknown, Halley's Comet: Head, 1910

Mount Wilson Observatory

#unknown #space #astronomy #comets #halley's comet

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opencharacters · 3 months

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Today's Public Domain Character

The Unknown from the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience

The Unknown is like an evil chocolatier who lives in the walls. While the story of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory are copyrighted still (i believe owned by Netflix currently as they bought the rights to all of Roald Dahl's works a few years back)

The Unknown is an original character that was created using AI to write the script for this event. AI creations are not able to be copyrighted. Therefore, its public domain

#glasgow willy wonka #public domain #glasgow willy wonka experience #willy wonka #the unknown #literature

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ktempestbradford · 3 months

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I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

#long post #Willy Wonka #Wonka #Willy Wonka Experience #Willy Wonka Experience disaster #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Willys Chocolate Experience #THE UNKNOWN #Wish.com Oompa Loompa #House of Illuminati #AI #ai generated

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quotefeeling · 4 months

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At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.

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