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Minus the 30 minute enthusiastic conversation over that movie they don't have.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Minus the 30 minute enthusiastic conversation over that movie they don't have.
To be fair, that's kind of true to the experience of a small-town early 2000s video rental store.
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
To be fair, that's kind of true to the experience of a small-town early 2000s video rental store.
I'm not talking about deceptive AI slop of course - that is, people who actually do that and, worse, sometimes even sell things which have zero effort of their own attached. My point is more that the artistic merit discussion seems to be led in isolated echo chambers using incompatible assumptions.
July 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm not talking about deceptive AI slop of course - that is, people who actually do that and, worse, sometimes even sell things which have zero effort of their own attached. My point is more that the artistic merit discussion seems to be led in isolated echo chambers using incompatible assumptions.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I see AI mostly replacing people commissioning art, and there's a serious economic impact for artists there. But I wouldn't say using AI is lazier per se than paying a person, nor is there any claim of "I made this" attached to either.
July 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I see AI mostly replacing people commissioning art, and there's a serious economic impact for artists there. But I wouldn't say using AI is lazier per se than paying a person, nor is there any claim of "I made this" attached to either.
Though a lot of people who use AI in that way don't want to be artists. They want to create visual/code/music assets to illustrate their ideas, and since the English language uses "art" very ambiguously, it seems to me there's a huge misunderstanding going on on both sides of the debate.
July 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Though a lot of people who use AI in that way don't want to be artists. They want to create visual/code/music assets to illustrate their ideas, and since the English language uses "art" very ambiguously, it seems to me there's a huge misunderstanding going on on both sides of the debate.
Voices? I get the AI video, but Trump has literally and explicitly the Matt Stone Saddam voice.
July 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Voices? I get the AI video, but Trump has literally and explicitly the Matt Stone Saddam voice.
I love the reminder here that ethnostates as a concept are at their core antithetical to the very idea of a nation. Though I might have spent too much time reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities recently.
July 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I love the reminder here that ethnostates as a concept are at their core antithetical to the very idea of a nation. Though I might have spent too much time reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities recently.
In the words of the not-so-subtle Bobby Fischer equivalent in a much-underrated musical: "pity the child".
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In the words of the not-so-subtle Bobby Fischer equivalent in a much-underrated musical: "pity the child".
It's not that GenAI is a bad tool, it's just that people think it's C3PO when it's more like a swiss army knife. It's useful, but only if handled by human. It doesn't replace human decision making.
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's not that GenAI is a bad tool, it's just that people think it's C3PO when it's more like a swiss army knife. It's useful, but only if handled by human. It doesn't replace human decision making.
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July 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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In a roundabout way, it also serves as a pretty decent illustration of why freedom is pretty worthless without some sense of morality.
July 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In a roundabout way, it also serves as a pretty decent illustration of why freedom is pretty worthless without some sense of morality.
Meanwhile my only thought was that I have the same mug (or a very similar one), which makes me feel strangely connected.
July 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Meanwhile my only thought was that I have the same mug (or a very similar one), which makes me feel strangely connected.
I dunno. Like them, it's a democracy untempered by revolutions/constitutional resets. It's still brittle material because apart from a few amendments, there never was a chance to actually weave lessons learned into the fabric of the US polity. And procrastinating that reset may make it more painful.
July 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I dunno. Like them, it's a democracy untempered by revolutions/constitutional resets. It's still brittle material because apart from a few amendments, there never was a chance to actually weave lessons learned into the fabric of the US polity. And procrastinating that reset may make it more painful.
Yeah. You always used to have people reading different outlets - but it was always contained in a broad consensus of what was important. Now, even that has fractured into a self-curated pastiche not just of opinion, but of perceptions of reality.
July 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Yeah. You always used to have people reading different outlets - but it was always contained in a broad consensus of what was important. Now, even that has fractured into a self-curated pastiche not just of opinion, but of perceptions of reality.
I mean, there also was the issue of the petition not addressing the fact that the core problem has more to do with people seeing "voting with their wallet" as something other people should do rather than maybe not buying that shiny live service game themselves.
July 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I mean, there also was the issue of the petition not addressing the fact that the core problem has more to do with people seeing "voting with their wallet" as something other people should do rather than maybe not buying that shiny live service game themselves.
Can we also remember that Sean Connery was in his EARLY THIRTIES in Dr. No while looking at least 40. You don't cast a Bond by age, you cast him by how likely he looks to spend a fortune on a lawnmower to fill the emptiness in his life.
June 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Can we also remember that Sean Connery was in his EARLY THIRTIES in Dr. No while looking at least 40. You don't cast a Bond by age, you cast him by how likely he looks to spend a fortune on a lawnmower to fill the emptiness in his life.
It's a well-worn script. They're a vanguard party now, except they skipped the communism fig leaf - because ew, that's gay - and went straight to fascism
June 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
It's a well-worn script. They're a vanguard party now, except they skipped the communism fig leaf - because ew, that's gay - and went straight to fascism
Fun Fact: Mel Brooks will be 101 the year this is scheduled to release, and while I'm skeptical of this needing a sequel, I hope he'll be around long enough to make Spaceballs III, IV, and V if he wants.
June 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Fun Fact: Mel Brooks will be 101 the year this is scheduled to release, and while I'm skeptical of this needing a sequel, I hope he'll be around long enough to make Spaceballs III, IV, and V if he wants.
Obligatory xkcd xkcd.com/1484/
Apollo Speeches
xkcd.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Obligatory xkcd xkcd.com/1484/
Aber es geht ja nicht darum, einen Krieg zu beginnen - sondern eben darum, einen schon begonnenen einzugrenzen. Passivität ist hier kriegsförderlich und eben nicht humanistisch. Und Leben ist ja schön und gut, aber das wie (stichpunkt Menschenwürde) verdient Erwähnung.
June 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Aber es geht ja nicht darum, einen Krieg zu beginnen - sondern eben darum, einen schon begonnenen einzugrenzen. Passivität ist hier kriegsförderlich und eben nicht humanistisch. Und Leben ist ja schön und gut, aber das wie (stichpunkt Menschenwürde) verdient Erwähnung.
I'm not bothered by the fact that they are fighting, nor by the fact that one of them will lose. I'm bothered by the fact that one of them will win.
June 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm not bothered by the fact that they are fighting, nor by the fact that one of them will lose. I'm bothered by the fact that one of them will win.
Obviously the potential in GenAI is enabling people to just make the game they want themselves. Publishers using it as a cost-cutting measure to cover up the fact that game development has been a gluttonous overinflated corporate mess is not exactly the way to go.
May 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Obviously the potential in GenAI is enabling people to just make the game they want themselves. Publishers using it as a cost-cutting measure to cover up the fact that game development has been a gluttonous overinflated corporate mess is not exactly the way to go.
In terms of convincing a church leader that they'd rather kick the bucket than endure this shitshow, Truss' equivalent seems to be Vance though.
April 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In terms of convincing a church leader that they'd rather kick the bucket than endure this shitshow, Truss' equivalent seems to be Vance though.
Es gibt ja wenig, was einem am aktuellen news cycle Freude bereiten kann - aber ein Christian Lindner, der an seinen Thron getackert langsam zum Meeresboden sinkt, ist schon großes Kino.
January 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Es gibt ja wenig, was einem am aktuellen news cycle Freude bereiten kann - aber ein Christian Lindner, der an seinen Thron getackert langsam zum Meeresboden sinkt, ist schon großes Kino.