Jess Irwin

Generative AI technologies are the perfect technology of capitalism because they consume resources to create a product that people must be forced to use until it deskills them enough they become dependent upon it. Tyranny as a service, and it's the biggest industry in the world right now.

Self-fulfillment needs A Botanical Г garden I can Psychological needs Walk around in Basic needs While I plot and scheme

yes, this would heal me

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. cnn.it/4mcSD5N

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Honestly surprised to learn that Tom Lehrer just passed but this is the song of his that feels appropriate to the moment. In the pantheon of satirists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

At a Critical Role show. Likelihood of knowing someone in this crowd? High. Likelihood of actually spotting someone I know? Basically non-existent...

MY CARD. MR. GEO. PUSHEM, EFFICIENCY EXPERT. AND STAY OUT! I HAVE NO USE FOR THE SHARP BOYS THAT GO AROUND SHOWING EMPLOYERS HOW THEY CAN KILL OFF THEIR HELP QUICKER BY SHIFTING TUO MEN'S WORK ONTO ONE!!!

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

So ecstatic to finally reveal the REAL HERO SHIT 2 cover! Behold: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS, kickstarting in June for Pride Month!!!!

“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Watercolour painter (sips) GODDAMN IT this is my brush water again

Room interior descriptions are a second-draft problem.

*would take me

Unforeseen issue: dance music in the airport cafe throwing off my estimate of how long a couple of rows of crochet works take me (/distract me)

Short version of this thread: novelty and creativity is not rare; it’s unfunded.

It was very helpful for navigating my way back through the park!

And the expected UK weather (light drizzle) has finally put in an appearance. Ah well, sun was nice while it lasted :)

- I'll just pop back to the hotel to drop some things off. I'm sure I don't need a map, I know the way!
-"Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer"
- strolls a block in the wrong direction

Nothing quite as definitive for "you're on a different continent" as "the seagulls are making the wrong noise". Hi, Glasgow!

book 3 thing that has been legitimately helping: write a huge list of

1) cool things that already exist in setting
2) cool things that could exist in setting

if you get stuck, refer to the list until you hit something that works with the scene

Applejack from My Little Pony and Spider-Man lean over the edge of a building roof looking down. Caption: do you see this shit applejack

this can be about whatever you want it to be about today

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

I'm sorry but this is approximately the funniest and stupidest thing I've ever read. Guy writes sequel to Lord of the Rings, publishes it on Amazon, then SUES AMAZON AND THE TOLKIEN ESTATE, claiming that the Rings of Power series was infringing on his copyright.

www.theguardian.com/books/2023/d...

Slowly cobbling together another social media presence after the third - fifth? - apocalyptic collapse.
Yes, I still miss the others. Particularly when I see their corpses shambling about, there-but-wrong. So... hi!