mike
@crypticbland.bsky.social
co-creator of songs for the dead at vault comics. I generally do not enjoy things
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mike
@crypticbland.bsky.social
· Jul 11
telling the aristocrats joke but the punchline is me killing myself
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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A great thread and applicable to my industry. Friends in the biz ask why I don't want to use AI to shotlist or draft ideas. Because that is *what* I love; the maddening, mysterious, staring into space or the blank page and connecting to creative ideas from the ether. That's the whole f'ing thing.
I’m still thinking about this and it really is one of those “everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until he gets involved in your field” moments. I’m gonna be a total bore and think about this seriously, please don’t read on if you don’t care what a landscape architect thinks about this shit… 1/?
Oh shit waddup
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A great thread and applicable to my industry. Friends in the biz ask why I don't want to use AI to shotlist or draft ideas. Because that is *what* I love; the maddening, mysterious, staring into space or the blank page and connecting to creative ideas from the ether. That's the whole f'ing thing.
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Look none of this shit is for me but the slick zero friction zero humanity and emoting like a mascot in a big suit aesthetic of like Fortnite and kpop demon hunters etc was created to try to convince children there’s no value in human life or art,
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Look none of this shit is for me but the slick zero friction zero humanity and emoting like a mascot in a big suit aesthetic of like Fortnite and kpop demon hunters etc was created to try to convince children there’s no value in human life or art,
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this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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oh wow you work 60-80 hours a week? like you spend that time doing the thing we are all forced to do to survive but more of it? do you ever feel like a stupid loser? like a donkey?
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
oh wow you work 60-80 hours a week? like you spend that time doing the thing we are all forced to do to survive but more of it? do you ever feel like a stupid loser? like a donkey?
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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With this, as with all things, we're absolutely at the mercy of the emotional needs of the very worst people in our society. They don't even benefit from it in any material sense - billionaires could have even more billions if there was UBI etc., but mega-scale sadism is the ultimate luxury good.
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
With this, as with all things, we're absolutely at the mercy of the emotional needs of the very worst people in our society. They don't even benefit from it in any material sense - billionaires could have even more billions if there was UBI etc., but mega-scale sadism is the ultimate luxury good.
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people will be like “did you know this bad guy had a gross penis?” and i’m like? cool but i think the penis is irrelevant to their badness right?
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
people will be like “did you know this bad guy had a gross penis?” and i’m like? cool but i think the penis is irrelevant to their badness right?
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You do not have to say illegal sentences but you can definitely think them.
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You do not have to say illegal sentences but you can definitely think them.
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
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do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
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Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society
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people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
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Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
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that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic
April 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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do you wanna come over and do punch up on each others suicide notes
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
do you wanna come over and do punch up on each others suicide notes
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i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis