The MAGA movement, you see, is an internet thing. It’s another vertical online community — a bunch of deracinated, atomized individuals, thinly connected across vast distances by the notional bonds of ideology and identity. There is nothing in it of family, community, or rootedness to a place. It’s a digital consumption good. It’s a subreddit. It is a fandom.
This Thing Will Fail, Noah Smith
JFC
Reblog via Paul Bassett Davies
Strange how things turn out.
With Trump, America elected a phoney TV hero and got a clown for a president. With Zelensky, Ukraine elected an actual TV clown and got a hero for a president.
Reblog via Eugen Rochko
I see generative AI on the web the same way I see forever chemicals in the real world. The effects may not be immediately apparent but they are poisoning mankind. Those who acquired knowledge and skills in the before era will be fine, but newer generations won't have the same reference points to tell reality from fiction. They will search for "baby peacock" on Google and have no reason to believe the actual birds look any different to what they're shown. I find that sad somehow.
All of A.I. generation has lead up to this particular brand of fuckery; they are trying to automate the humanity out of us.
Drawing is so fundamental to us as humans that we’ve found cave paintings that pre-date us even being human. Music has been so important to culture that it also pre-dates humanity. Oral traditions in storytelling predate written language, but provide fundamentally the same artistic outlet as authorship does.
People make so many things, because we want to, not because of profit.
http://klymilark.omg.lol/posts/on-ai/
[A]t some point Americans will realize the conservative/progressive battle is a misdirect. The real fulcrum, where the battle is being waged, is up/down — rich vs. not-rich. The wealthy and corporations, whom Trump and Musk listen to, will put up (largely) symbolic resistance to an emerging autocracy. They aren’t going to suffer, as the world now offers civil rights for sale: The 1% can move anywhere, buy influence, and ensure everybody in their circle has access to mifepristone.
