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which one...

omg it looked so promising too

lolllll

Normal person: You gotta love the Vikings!

Bluesky user, a monk at Lindisfarne: Listen you fucking monster

Turning 30 is actually not bad because you actually spiritually turn 30 at age 27. By the time you hit 30, you've already been 30 for three years.

i have a lot of faith in things of real human value being ultimately irreplaceable by AI but i'm also confidence in industries and the market's inability to recognise or reward that value

the creativity is at the top-level ideation - what is this code for? - and stem bros have been coming up with braindead project ideas all on their own before AI i'm not sure now using AI is even distinguishable lmao

so much of professional programming is about looking up and implementing existing solutions from places like stackexchange, so i have zero qualms about AI fulfilling a similar space

the AI use i'm pretty categorically against is image generation... text can convey nearly pure fact and knowledge divorced of authorial intent; there's no such thing as an image without some human's soul involved in the form of style and aesthetics

my general metric for acceptable uses of AI is "is this be something that could be gleaned from extensive googling?" i.e. compilation of data and knowledge as opposed to creative generation

Yellow Fang really showed up and released a full album called The Greatest that really was the greatest and then have barely released anything since huh

i love this category on the ssense japan website which is labelled 'EVERYTHING ELSE' in english

wow what a coincidence as I've just learned this word today while reading the Japanese translation of Han Kang's Human Acts

asking such a whimsical creature as myself to file my taxes is flatly evil

the problem with portion sizes in japan is that the default amount leaves me a little too hungry but double is way too much; i always want 1.5x everything

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

i'm just admiring the amphora from my ledge, perfectly content 👁️👁️🏺

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experience desire for more than five seconds and it's like oh yeah this is absolutely the root of all suffering

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

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lovely writeup!!

glamping looks fun in its own way but it's frustrating how many search results for camping in japanese is really just glamping

not the difference you're talking about but my male climbing friends are always in disbelief when they find out i can't do a pull-up; they vastly underestimate the baseline physiological difference and are convinced i simply never tried properly or something

Prodigy posting

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

seeing the way the broader public have turned to AI feels as absurd and pathetic as watching people type "cool art ideas" into google - YOU the human have the cool art ideas!! that's what makes it cool! the machine is there to help you with the logistics of the cool art idea!!

AI is an advancement in the long history of eunuch advisors to personal assistants (a premise on which the earlier search engines sold themselves on! see AskJeeves) to research assistants to search engines - it's a tool to assist in the execution of ideation, not for the ideation itself

the more I use AI the more positively I feel about what it can do for us and the more negatively I feel about the way capitalist industries have decided it should be used

i did not know this about bengali this is fun!!