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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome.

I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

A perfectly authentic gumbo, it was not. But an earnest effort to make a good gumbo with roux produced a delicious meal. Next time I will be bolder with the heat so my roux takes LESS than an hour. And I'll probably enlist some help so the prep time goes much faster.

My favorite coffee is probably drive-thru hot chocolate that comes from the same machine as coffee. I love the faint flavor of coffee that's not quite overpowered by dairy and chocolate.

Kinda puts the midjourney copyright dispute in a different light

I realize this is hardly the most important thing to focus on, but for the same reason it is baffling that the regime has reverted their official correspondence to Times New Roman. Even moreso, as their dictum - er, memo - was titled "Return to Tradition." A 21-year-old tradition.

Image of a dragonborn rubber duck. There are trans flags on either side of them. Text says "DOVAH DUCK, DOVAH DUCK, TERFS GO SHUT THE FUCK UP"

Weak: "Hey, I'm getting one of the cookies, would you like me to bring you on?" "No, but thank you for the offer."
Peak: [hold up cookie] "ih?" "neh"

Gotta love when a product listing promotes a feature before you buy and when you go to double check the specs AFTER purchasing, the listing no longer includes that feature

Watching 227 with a friend, and an episode begins with Mary dancing to The Twist (I believe the Chubby Checker version). If the episode was put out today, the most similar song choice by chart performance and release date would probably be Livin' la Vida Loca.

My friend and I have been watching our way through 227 recently. I don't remember ever catching reruns as a kid, but it's a great show!

Conservatives are so bothered by Thot Daughters, but avoid conversations about Lot's Daughters

I miss when MTG was just Magic: The Gathering

There's been a lot of talk recently about the AI bubble bursting soon. There was a lot of talk a few years ago about the housing bubble bursting, too, but prices and rents are still sky high. I think the bubbles of old have turned into balloons, and that's going to ruin life for us all indefinitely.

A lot of folks were introduced to the wonders of pygmy hippos thanks to the popularity of Moo Deng. There's nothing wrong with that, and she's wonderful. But I remember the days of Worst Cats.

Do Denverites get mad if you tell them they live in the Great Plains, or is that just well-accepted there? As a Kansan who like to prod at neighboring states, I need to know. #Denver

Actually, Github is pronounced /dʒɪ'θub/

Best I can do is rational numbers. 1/2. 7/8. 174/9084.

It's been a while since I've genuinely been excited for a new book to release. And here I am, thinking about when it would be most prudent to buy a copy of @merriam-webster.com's new edition of their Collegiate Dictionary. I already have an 11th Edition. But new is fun!

I'm gonna need you to explain this one to me as unsexily as possible

Sorcerers, on the other hand must self-experiment for all their magic, so they have to work on themselves as a direct result.
Sorcerers are amateur therapists.

Wizards aren't as wise as the name suggests. They spend so much time studying the technical, they refuse to engage with the self and thus have unresolved trauma.
Wizards are emotional wrecks.

My current hot take is that a lot of players are RPing Wizards and Sorcerers wrong. Quit playing emotionally aloof sorcerers and wizards who understand people at all.

Somehow, I think I've managed to never hear "Wonderwall" all the way through. I do not intend to at this time.

Bsky, we can't lean into a future where regulating social media means blanket rules that enforce unwanted censorship. The responsibility needs to be on the creator to label, and on the consumer to filter out the unwanted based on it. Not on gradually eliminating more and more content altogether.

There's a lot of bullshit in the sims 4. I'll complain about so many things EA has done with and to that game. But I will defend the roof tool, tooth and nail. The TS4 roof tool is fucking amazing and I will die on this hill.

men's snirt skort skirt

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely