C. S. Johnson

I'm all about books, music, and coffee. Pianist, composer, photographer. Not an Idealist. Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Find one media account mentioning the elimination of a "Waterfront Cultural Center" that had been in headlines for 1.5 years. OR:

Find one media account mentioning its replacement: A hulking concrete pedestrian ramp to a traffic island.

(Don't bother, you won't.)

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There will be NO boots on the ground.
Troops will all be issued Florsheim Cap Toe Oxfords.

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@MeachamDr She understands Trump needs her, so she’s creating leverage for a deal. (I know, I’m probably giving her too much credit.)

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@scoffssoftly @ecto_fun We are clearly not having the same conversation here. I’m discussing what I care about, which is Art. You are discussing what you care about, which is economics. I will continue to miss your point as long as you continue to miss mine.

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@scoffssoftly @ecto_fun You clearly don’t trust artists.

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@scoffssoftly @ecto_fun If you are a talented artist with a compelling vision, it doesn’t matter whether you use AI, or anything else. Your work will be good. Critiquing the process is a cop-out. AI will not make a crappy artist good, nor a decent artist bad.

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@ThatBatBxtch @ecto_fun Nothing should.

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@ecto_fun I’ve seen a lot of very bad AI art.
I’ve also seen a lot of very bad watercolors.
Wholesale dismissal of this tool is just a shortcut to feigned critical discernment.

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@heroesahead @bringtheblaine @Noahpinion “in a generation”
🙄

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Defying Gravity is basically just a typical Katy Perry refrain dressed up with a bit of music theater recitative.

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@Sac_Burner @_adoibarra @MarkSmi18612109 @EditionA3 @aelfred_D I certainly don’t invent moral frameworks to try to rationalize the pre-conceived answers that are most comforting to me so I can dress them up in “objectivity.” Maybe you think that sucks, but to do so would be bad-faith philosophy.

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@Sac_Burner @_adoibarra @MarkSmi18612109 @EditionA3 @aelfred_D Yes, “feels.” Talk to a young person some time. And they are fundamental in a Cartesian sense.
Your thief example assumes empathy only to the thief. Come on now, you can do better.

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@_adoibarra @MarkSmi18612109 @Sac_Burner @EditionA3 @aelfred_D So what if there is no objective reason to prohibit it? We still can. Enough people agree, we have consent of the governed.
The results of that vary wildly, of course, but so do the results of supposedly objective governing principles.

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@Sac_Burner @_adoibarra @MarkSmi18612109 @EditionA3 @aelfred_D 1. Feels. (but so what?) 2. If empathy is doesn’t have a clear answer, then the answer isn’t clear. That’s not really a hard concept. And if an objective notion of morality seems to get you to an answer sooner, that’s no evidence that it’s true.

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@_adoibarra @MarkSmi18612109 @Sac_Burner @EditionA3 @aelfred_D Subjectively immoral is more than sufficient. Only psychopaths lack empathy.

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@AVERYK79 @MarkSmi18612109 @EditionA3 @aelfred_D Who cares if it’s subjective or meaningless? Seems like a good place to start.

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@DannyDrinksWine The Rapture

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@6ixImmortal @RemingtonWild You’re just saying the same thing as the OP, but madder.

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@steamyporkbuns If it really is only 9 you’ve just illustrated how the Right Wing uses imaginary problems to energize their base.