“I mean for me the whole point of doing what I’m doing, art is a way of processing life…I don’t see the point of outsourcing any part of that.”
This guy gets it. Wouldn’t want a bot to eat my food for me either, or look at sunsets on my behalf.
He’s not “a Black man” he’s a sad sack everyman who happens to be black because Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor who brings class to an indie project. If they’d cast a white guy you’d be complaining about the lack of diversity. No one wants to play this unwinnable game any more.
ANOTHER UPSET AT THE FRENCH OPEN! 😱
With World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka's loss, there will be no former major champion left in both the men's or women's semifinal.
The last major when that happened was the 1977 French Open.
What’s so fitting about the triumph of Backrooms over Mandalorian is that Kane Parsons and Will Soodnik have turned this online legend into a parable about the ugliness of remake culture. It’s funny that the Backrooms trend predates the AI boom, because in many ways it embodies some of the uncanny horror that AI slop can stir in us. But in other ways Backrooms is about deeper trends of which slop is just one symptom. Others include therapy culture, the remake glut, and our obsession with nostalgia. Now a new generation of content creators, who never lived through the periods we all yearn for, are exposing our nostalgia as the Baudrillardian grotesquery it is. So I argue for @TheFP today: