Thomas D. Lee

Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Dr Dee:Mortlake to Manchester' exhibition at @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which rendered Dee's dreams as mesmerising light displays. Very impressive.

I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.

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a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Thank you! ☺️

The clunky website portal I have to use to upload my PhD thesis hasn't been updated since 2007. As a friend of mine just pointed out, this makes the web page older than most of the undergraduates I'm teaching 💀

This is very eloquent and polysyllabic compared to what I normally say when somebody asks me the same question

Basically what I'm saying is don't do a PhD in the hope that it will improve your sleep schedule or time management skills. Especially if you have ADHD.

I'm submitting my PhD thesis today, so obviously I went to bed early last night. And obviously I woke up at 1AM and couldn't get back to sleep. So obviously I read a book about the Normans on my phone for seven hours and am now editing my thesis whilst hugely sleep deprived.

This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left

Well done

I think now would be a good time for them to go back to the 40s/50s/60s and do a period piece, to make it even clearer that it's a clean reboot. But I agree with your thesis. Nobody ever asks these questions about the Batman films, because the audience gets that each film is its own thing.

🤣 what can I say

I also laughed at the ending!!

I saw this last night and loved it

Oh good 😂

This has made me realise that I now CANNOT REMEMBER what I wrote in the accompanying essay for this book, so it'll be a nice surprise for us all

The cover of the book is a vintage, slightly foxy red, with white font beside a large black and white ampersand.

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.

"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

You're not an NPC you're an MVP!!!!

Lovely autumn tones

Sign me up!

Poor Bailey! This sort of thing really pisses me off. People shouldn't have dogs if they aren't going to train and handle them properly.

Update: my ankle pain is really flaring up today. I assume this is because I have angered the demon stool by scalping him. Have drawn a Chi Rho on him to try and restrain his malice.

There's a great passage in one of the Aubrey/Maturin books where Dr. Maturin wonders why all tyrants are so given to tawdriness and lack of aesthetic taste - concluding eventually that nobody with good taste could ever become a tyrant. He was thinking about Napoleon, but it's equally true for Trump.

I'll report back on whether its behaviour changes after the reupholstery

I've heard there's not much money in it 🤣

I have spilled beer on it before so I think that counts. It doesn't seem to have helped much.

The moral of the story, as far as I can tell, is to beware free furniture, and to take good care of your household demons.

I have advised my mother to sprinkle holy water over him before she attempts to work her magic. It's possible that he might just burst into flames, so it may be impossible to successfully reupholster him. But I will add to this thread with any further updates.