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i could totally see how a person, upset by critics praising fine/abstract art that they themselves feel is dumb, would come to believe that art only needs to make others upset with how dumb it is

a lot of things qualify as art! that doesn’t automatically make them valuable or worth consideration. “if my art makes you mad, then i’ve succeeded” is an empty thesis

“is this art” gets asked a lot, and regardless of the answer to that question, “is this shitty art” is a better one

great article

i honestly thought maybe discord was just a pretty obfuscation of irc

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship. Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

i have a lot of thoughts about starfleet academy episode 5 but i will save them for the return to the podcast. but also, the only discourse about it on youtube seems to be that it was bad not bc it was bad, but bc woke and the actors are not sexy enough

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

all my hot friends love going to chrome://flags and deactivating every. single. gemini or ai function within, and then going to cmd prompt and using group editor to disable copilot

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

seabowl

@regretagarbo.rip karoline leavitt says “go patriots” any thoughts?

i’m rooting for the football. get thrown, get caught, full ball, can’t lose

Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

[jason statham voice] they’re colled skeets mate. nawt tweets. tweets are frum the offa websoite

SCREAM 7 using A.I. and sports betting in the advertising shows you just how washed that movie is. I urge people who love horror to just stay home and not support that drek with your hard-earned $$.

i haven’t watched the latest starfleet academy out of fear that i will dislike whatever they did with ds9

good news! it is very easy to suddenly not have money anymore. it’s actually never been easier

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko

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this is about billionaires

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

there has been a recent trend in design where barred Is are used everywhere (not monospace type) and it drives me insane

UPDATE: hey, would you look at that. Adobe Animate is staying, and no longer being discontinued. This shows that bullying corporations can always work.

this is about billionaires

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

BREAKING: ea-nāṣir corresponded with epstein weeks before trade scandal

animate is not good, but i have yet to find a vector brush tool that feels the way that animate’s does. what can replace that?! i worked in flash for literally half my life

Even in Elon Musk’s denial of his involvement with Epstein—which directly contradicts the available evidence—the world’s richest man is still claiming he knew all about “pedo island” and didn’t do anything to stop it. Even in their fantasies of innocence they’re still directly enabling child abuse

If you have Adobe Animate and you're concerned about losing access to your FLA files, you can open them in Adobe Flash CS6 and re-save them. And then of course, CS6 files can be opened in CS5 and re-saved. And then CS5 files can be opened in CS4, etc.

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“At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity.”

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

Good things in this world are possible

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this hit me harder than i thought it would, ugh. i just watched waiting for guffman again

democrats demand ICE say “sorry” as they kill you

retraction: i didn’t realize that that AI movie was from aronofsky. it is a bravely unique work of cinema

here is a foundational problem with AI art that AI cannot solve: anyone using it to make art cannot identify bad art. you learn how to recognize bad art (and improve as an artist) via MAKING art, which they have already fully rejected. the sets do not intersect.

wtf is “here we go again” supposed to mean