There’s a pull to say “zero” coming not from certainty but from distrust, now knowing a trust-wrecking weakness in such people that would probably come out in other ways if not this. By “zero”, would I mean “didn’t want em anyway”? Yet a world where they were still artists would be better.

AI being a novel off-ramp from art that sells itself to the frustrated, I wonder how many have taken it who actually would have kept with art if it hadn’t been there, and am still processing how it feels to contemplate that. Maybe few, sure.

I'm learning to make the kinds of 2-D art that show up in movies. Nice meeting you!

in the future the rich will be a protean mass of interconnected oozes and slimes, capable of generating a mockery of the human face at will - like gas emerging from a corpse - to scold and abuse the firmbody masses. There will be scholarships to be flensed, devoured, incorporated as biomass