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me messaging a casual acquaintance: hello, how are you?

me messaging a best friend w/zero lead-in:

Poorly drawn Oshawott line

I guess I’m not properly equipped to respond to this since I’m very offline… but. Even though AI “art” is getting past the ugly phase, it is still slop. Yes, one could say prompt manipulation is a skill, but regardless there isn’t any soul behind the final image. When an artist makes something, there is intention/purpose behind every. single. step. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” right? This isn’t the case anymore with AI, since the machine just spits out an approximation of the prompt, based on the data set it’s trained on. It might be fitting to liken AI “art” to junk food, since you can keep consuming without any care or purpose.

That isn’t to say AI cannot be leant to a creative vision - see King Gizzard’s Iron Lung video, or (maybe?) a dnd table using it to add some immersion. But a lot of the data fed into AI was stolen, and the general population’s acceptance of AI signals to corporations that we are okay with it replacing legitimate artist jobs with purpose behind their craft. So my anti-AI sentiment isn’t just “it looks bad” or adjacent to mercenary class interest… I think there are some truly creative ways to use AI to make actual thoughtful art, but the broad uses of AI “art” contributes to the purposeless consumption that has crept across the internet over the last decade.

OK so obviously it makes sense that artists would be anti AI. For like, mercenary class interest reasons. But it's bizarre to me that anti AI sentiment is so popular among the gen pop. I think the obvious angle is "a lot of AI art is shitty" but like. A lot of early cgi was shitty, and I don't think many people were against cgi in the 90s. Maybe they were? Idk the AI art thing is particularly stark because there was this period early on when it was not very good and then there was no ill will towards it. And then it got good and popular and is now hated by an appreciable segment of the (online) population. Very odd.

THEY’RE MAKING ANOTHER KIRBY AIR RIDE????? MY WORLD IS COMPLETE

trying to get through finals but the wifi doesn’t work and my stomach has just been convicted of attempted murder

In Legends Arceus, you had to fight for your life as Pokemon tried to kill you in a mostly untamed wilderness, mimicking the real life conditions of pre colonized Hokkaido

In Legends ZA, if you go out after dark, the French will mug you, mimicking the real life conditions of modern Paris

Ooo now I can briefly introduce something! So, the Earth isn’t expanding and infinitely large. Flatness, for the universe, means that parallel lines remain parallel, the angles of a triangle add up to 180, etc etc.

Cosmologists also came up with cosmic inflation, to explain that any curvature was smoothed out through exponential growth. For the universe to be as flat as it is now, it would have to have been even FLATTER in the past! Think about a spinning top… if there is an imperfection in the setup, it will fall over. Since we don’t observe deviations in the flatness of the universe, it follows that like the top must have been incredibly perfectly set up, the extremely early universe must have been incredibly flat!

Note that a period of inflation helps solve some other problems, but that’s beyond the scope of this post (see the “relic problem,” “horizon problem,” and “structure problem”).

the Earth is locally flat. since flatness is a local property, it follows that the Earth is flat.

Mario teaches Bowser how to be a good guy on Mario Day.

My 2025 has been like sailor moon… and not in a magical girl transformation way, in a crisis of the week way

Damn they call it the ‘everything bagel’ but she still has the house and kids

Well shit I guess I’m catching fuecoco

Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor! Not a meme!

Every time I see this… maybe it’s the way chikorita is held by the leaf, but I always think of that ONE cooking YouTube video.

You know the one.

Watch out Lumiose

Thoughts and prayers

didn't see anyone else make this yet so here you go

Season 1 me was so bad the executives decided to reboot

jim kirk mentality.

It disturbs me how similar my humor has become…

Alois: What do a selkie and a Ziploc bag have in common? They're both re-SEAL-able!

(Based in this post)

Happy Pokemon day!! If youre a johto starter you either get isekai’d or become french

OMGGG ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT GETTING BANGS IS BEING ABLE TO WEAR A HAT WITHOUT WANTING TO JUMP OFF A CLIFFF

legends z-a is authentic to the real paris, i see

If I ever find myself not finished with this project by the deadline, I’ll explain that it’s actually a statement about Penelope’s struggle: as did not she, too, unweave the shroud in defiance of her suitors?

Perhaps strict criteria and time tables are but another appendage of the same ilk the suitors are cut from, as such demands are fundamentally opposed to the brave concepts of passion and hope?

My only “glory hole” is glory glory hole-lelujah! AMEN

Can someone please explain to me the intersection my YouTube algorithm thinks there is between anti-slavery songs, anti-fascist songs, and THE END OF EVANGELION?

we tried really hard to make physics out of group theory because group theory is beautiful. unfortunately, physics is not beautiful so this didnt work

I love it when robots start saying “Destroy! Destroy!” it’s a classic robot thing to say

Its surreal getting a Mr beast ad about how he hates reading in the middle of a video essay on Fahrenheit 451