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Jack being seen as acceptable is a pretty recent phenomenon, for a fair portion of my parents' generation it has a suspicious whiff of the garrison about it - this is something my father comments on like clockwork whenever these lists are published: everymum.ie/pregnancy/ba...
August 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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There won’t be a forelock untugged in Drimnagh tonight
April 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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You have got to be kidding me
First line of an Irish Times headline - “South Africa is a country of contrasts”
February 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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coked-up neoreactionary morons crashed through the doors of the Twitter boardroom, imagining that the control panel that runs the Cathedral is in there. now they're ripping the copper wires out of the walls, imagining that one of them is connected to the reason people hate them "we'll be greeted as liberators as soon as we can find the shadowban off switch," david sacks cries in a nasal tenor, railing a huge line of 2-CB and phenylpiracetam off of a rack of dying servers It is happening again
February 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Some absolutely incredible discourse going on in the comments - pitched right in the register of "few understand", "have fun staying poor". This piece really nails the grift: deadsimpletech.com/blog/altman_...
It shows in his work too. After all, there's almost nothing that ChatGPT is actually useful for. It certainly can't write in any way that's valuable, beyond the bare minimum of generating vaguely acceptable written artifacts of the sort we're expected to produce in our society. It can't generate any text that l'd describe as beautiful, and it's comprehensively incapable of writing anything true. Asking it to write fiction results in leaden prose, plots that would make a self-publisher on Amazon cringe and some of the worst structure I've ever seen. The verse, if possible, is even worse. And beyond that, it's completely impossible of expressing an opinion that isn't heavily-averaged slop. As a tool for writing, it's worse than useless, and anyone with even a little experience of making their living from their ideas and their writing knows that. The fact that Altman doesn't thus tells us something very important: the guy has never meaningfully interacted with any kind of worthwhile literature in a serious way. He thinks about literature in the same kind of way that a bourgeois family thinks about a Thomas Kinkade painting: it's something to tie the room together. And when you think of art in that way, automating it is natural: vaguely pretty artistic slop is, after all, just a commodity in this worldview. And Al art generators have a lot in common with Kinkade and 1930's Soviet social realist art, right down to the style. Even down to the faintly Plasticine-like textures. And if all you can imagine art being is "something pretty to tie a room together" ", Al art and Al literature naturally makes an amount of sense. In short, Sam Altman doesn't understand art, therefore he devalues it, and so he's chosen to incinerate massive volumes of money trying to automate artists away.
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Balkanton in Bulgaria usually nailed album art as well, their disco series are particular faves
November 16, 2024 at 7:57 PM