marinus 🇿🇦

Average ballsport enjoyer

[Fivver @barkingyears]

99% of the people who have been shouting "It's so good. Don't listen to the chuds" are intellectually incapable of understanding this point. They genuinely do not have the equipment to conceptualize a pre-therapuetic worldview.

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[aelita 𓂆 🇵🇸 @aelita1917]

late-night tv viewing watching is an altered state of consciousness, and i'm kind of sad that it has disappeared as a mass experience

[Alejandra. @AlejandraTuk]

La historia de Cristiano Ronaldo es la del Rayo McQueen si nunca se hubiese perdido en Radiador Springs. Qué importante es tener amigos.

[Alastair Brookshaw @albrookshawAFC]

I know this is obvious, but it probably does need to be said - Bellingham is flying because Tuchel didn't try to crowbar Foden and Cole into the team with him

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

I have said this before:

Movie makers raised on modern movies are shit.

Same for all media

Pokemon started because the creator liked collecting bugs and exploring as a kid, not just playing other video games.

Inbred Media.

You can't make music out of all samples forever.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[jeremy @jeremylovesyall]

no one could have foreseen that the butlerian jihad will be catholic

[marinus 🇿🇦 @marinusdejager]

Love that AI art and music has almost immediately become gauche in the eyes of young people

[Ewan @jelly_pack]

AI isn't going away but the response to this is heartening because AI visuals now have this stink of being a cheap, amateurish aesthetic faux pas, along the lines of using clipart or Comic Sans.

Boomers can't tell, but you don't advertise Lady Gaga with clipart and Comic Sans.

[Ewan @jelly_pack]

AI isn't going away but the response to this is heartening because AI visuals now have this stink of being a cheap, amateurish aesthetic faux pas, along the lines of using clipart or Comic Sans.

Boomers can't tell, but you don't advertise Lady Gaga with clipart and Comic Sans.

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

just remember: the internet makes people go insane. thats what its designed to do. there are no exceptions, only some are more resistant than others. some people its 5 minutes, some people its decades. but you are not safe and you are not the exception

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[marinus 🇿🇦 @marinusdejager]

This is insane. Digital ownership is quickly disappearing. How can you fault someone for piracy if that seems to be the only way to preserve?

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

Don't want to sound too dramatic about this but I am actually staggered by the level of contempt for the reader and antipathy towards art conveyed by this practice. Genuinely demonic

[trout mask (original) @BranPuffin]

I’m gonna call bangers where I see em

[Joequant @joequant]

This could turn out to be the biggest cluster-frick in US history. Worse than Vietnam or invading Iraq. In fact, looking over the last 250 years of American history, I can't think of a worse decision by a US President. This is worse than the Bay of Pigs. Future historians

[John @ErrorTheorist]

Here is a paper arguing that picky eating is a moral failing (absent medical or trauma based reasons) because it reflects a failure to fulfill one’s duty to cultivate one’s aesthetic capacities and participate in shared cultural food practices.

[n @ctrlarchive]

sad to see the lack of african cinema but Ousmane Sembène said it best

[rune sword @runesword1]

does anyone have any tips for completing the hero’s journey? i can’t get past refusal of the call