On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of snake-oil salesmen trying to divide us for political/personal gain & Billionaires hoarding wealth offshore to avoid UK tax while claiming to be patriotic. #newsnight
I've grown tired of having the same argument with people defending or excusing Gen AI, so I compiled it all into a multi-page flyer to deploy as needed. If anyone else wishes to use these, please feel free.
Purposefully made these to be easily printable, too, if anyone desires.
(YOU: "What happened to your art thing?")
"Locust city?" He swallows. "Cuno dropped that art shit coz Cuno's fucking *poor* and has shit for brains."
(EMPATHY: A truly rare moment of self pity.)
Making things is hard. In that difficulty you face the darkest parts of yourself. How long are you going to ignore those shadows? How long until those shadows ruin your life because you are too afraid to face your self doubt, fear of failure, and you just repeat the same mistakes
If you use ai you intellectually and mentally lazy. That’s all. You are lazy.
Ai makes art free. No. AI robs you of learning how to do something. In learning how to do something you develop your voice. You are asking ai to speak for you because you are too lazy to face yourself
“i’m taking therapy with chatgpt”
“i’m creating art with chatgpt”
“AI is better than any partner because it knows more and agrees with what you say”
i fear this is dante’s inferno and this is the ninth circle: treachery against the soul itself.
If someone told me a Starmer government was going to resemble a regional touring production of a Sarah Kane play, I probably would've assumed they just meant that metaphorically
'Two wrongs don't make a right.'
1r > 2w
"Yippee! That means for every good thing I do, I can do [at least!] three other evil things, and Im still **objectively** a Nice Guy!"
We have to stop assigning numerical values to our metaphors. STEM idiots hear "A picture paints a thousand words", and we all get buried in AI slop because they naturally assume the inverse is therefore true, and that a thousand words can paint a picture.
I cannot begin to describe the hellish nightmare the Palestinians in Gaza are going through tonight.
Every journalist, every person on ground, everyone with a voice, are saying they have never seen the likes of this night.
The Gaza Strip is quite literally getting annihilated.
I cannot begin to describe the hellish nightmare the Palestinians in Gaza are going through tonight.
Every journalist, every person on ground, everyone with a voice, are saying they have never seen the likes of this night.
The Gaza Strip is quite literally getting annihilated.
As an overweight middle-aged white man with pathological demand avoidance who wears T-shirts to work, why yes I do have some Feelings about the death of Steve Albini. However did you guess?!