Erik Odeldahl

The concept of limitless capitalism has poisoned the minds of so many that it has seeped into and dominated criticism & pseudo-intellectualism. Things aren't allowed to be successful on their own; they have to be the best or they've failed.

It's okay for things to find THEIR audience and that alone

It's hard to overstate how much healthier and robust EVERY industry would be if the majority of businesses just aimed to be profitable ongoing concerns, as opposed to MAGICAL PERMANENT GROWTH MACHINES whose only purpose is to fuel irrational "shareholder value" targets.

Ooh fffff

This looks really nice!

Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something

The Armed, The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed

After their previous album’s almost (relatively) easy listening tunes, this sonic assault took some getting used to, but DAMN it’s a great piece of noise/music.

The dream...

This is incredible

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I think it’s telling that rather than funding a world that allows more people to be able to make art, the goal of the tech overlords is to plagiarize the history of the arts to get rid of human makers and technique while concentrating more wealth into the hands of a few. I don’t know how that’s good

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) pasted into the rolling hillside wallpaper from Windows 95 with the caption: “The Seventh Seal” at The Sphere (2025)

Hahaha

1988. The original is fun, but the remake is VERY, VERY GOOD.

Oh yes :) Congratulations!

Finally some horrible rain so I can stay inside and watch movies and read books without anyone asking me to come out.

Mera Achtung! Cthulhu

Bought some new roleplaying games to calm myself down.

Just imagine when this all comes crashing down

- All The Colors Of The Dark - Boys From County Hell - The Great Silence - A Serious Man

A good streak! #LastFourWatched

Yep. This contract was signed before AI was a thing.

Not Free League, they’re great people.

So apparently the (tiny enthusiast genre) publisher of my novel has started to use ai generated slop to market it. I am fucking furious.

The Leftovers & The Terror come to mind.

Having watched a few unfinished movies (for feedback/survey purposes) this is definitely a thing, and a remarkably similar experience to playing an unfinished game.

Wooooo!

OH MY GOD