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I miss machine learning as the buzzword. It promised less

This is stupid. Can we go home now?

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

a group of south park characters standing in front of a building Alt: Cartman has a wizard's hat and staff. Butters wears a superhero costume. Cartman says "they're dorks and I'm nit playing with them"

DORKS!

The "new, extra-conservative, even-more unbothered Democrats" don't have it

Sure, he won the thing for JAMES, but have you read The Treeeeees?

Conspiracy is if she and somebody else had planned it. What she did was handily Attempted though. Just wonder if the vic had to press charges for it to stick.

Manosphere is just a circle jerk.

Lots of textbook case abusers experiencing difficult challenge of reconciling their behaviors among society's more responsible members.

Meet The Democratic Insurgents Fighting To Save Their Party Three upstart candidates have bold plans to win back working-class voters and fix the Democratic Party.

But also note: Hochul hasn’t backed off her pledge to oppose the core of Mamdani’s program — raising taxes on billionaires.

I recently talked to Delgado about all of this. Listen to the interview here 👇

Faces have all but disappeared from film

FREE SPEECH GOES WAY OF FREE LUNCH - Econolinguists agree

The years are in the negative

That is not a healthy editor

No. Bad NPR. Go to your room.

All these alphas sure can follow orders

More Etsy witches, please, Jezebel

In Slaughterhouse Five isn't there alien intelligence that sees our world end, who relate to Billy that all of humanity alive at the time knew the name of the person who pressed the DON'T PUSH button that destroyed it all?

And that all humanity considered him the dumbest sonovabitch on the planet?

May Boston Children's forever kick ass

Make sure kitchen knives are in every room. Couches come with kitchen knives. Hide kitchen knives in the diapers you buy for baby and granny. Broke your wrist? Wrapped in kitchen knives by a sentient kitchen knife. You're reading this on a kitchen knife.

Fuck this guy, really, forever with a...

How about real human intelligence, senator. Please

Just made them piss in the hallways

There's a passage in The Sot-weed Factor where the protagonist argues that signaling of virtue is more virtuous than its action for this reason!

It's hard to believe the most transactional man who ever walked the earth would completely move on from someone whose entire life was devoted to furthering his political project at the precise second that he couldn't get anything out of even his death anymore.

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Is this... singularity?

This is perhaps the best time to announce that that internet culture reporter has parted ways with Vox and is now open to freelancing, if anyone would like them to, oh, explain the increasing role memes and shitposts have played in extremist violence, for ex: www.vox.com/culture/2019...

This is also what Qualified Immunity achieves too. It creates a barrier to accountability that is protection for the people the state imbues with the power to commit violence. The state, its functionaries, and those who benefit from how it functions, are ALWAYS going to defend its status quo.

Better be there to clean up X-Ai's life-threatening mess

Man, 34, has tooth implanted in eye to restore his vision Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again.

(via @chuckwendig.bsky.social)

It does not, in fact, sound like science fiction.