smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud
this is gonna make me sound very Old Man Yells At Cloud but i just hate how many things in my life assume i will always have access to a quick, reliable internet connection and almost cease to function without it. Obviously certain things Have To Have An Internet Connection, but i want to be able to listen to music if my service is bad. i want to still watch movies if Netflix is down. i want to have a working map when i can’t get a cell signal. nearly every tech product these days bears the fingerprint of the extremely internet-rich places they are developed, high rent offices in Seattle, San Francisco, etc.. I think often the idea of the internet not being available is so remote to them it doesn’t even factor in to development. i remember when the Xbox One was debuted and Microsoft was almost mockingly like “if you don’t have reliable fast internet, then don’t bother buying this”, and there was such backlash they completely went back on so much of that. But now that attitude is just the tech norm.
> netflix maybe adapting narnia
oh kinda cool I was so upset The Mouse never adapted Silver Chair
> may cut out religious theming to not offend nonreligious viewers
But...thats literally the whole point of narnia???? Itd be like cuting out the misogyny in Utena or all the character moments in Eva wherein the cast wants to kill themselves
the lion is literally a jesus allegory how are you supposed to un-religion that
How is Westminster a real place
late night sausage rolls got me actin criminally and disorderly
In the United Kingdom there is a curfew for eating sausage roles past 11:00 enforced by the King's secret police
"I wish that some morning, while my eyes are closed, the whole world would change."
– Yukio Mishima, Thirst for love
Hearing about gaming websites being suspected of using Chat GPT to write articles about, like, ‘how to do xyz thing in game’ and reading about people being accused of using Chat GPT to write soulless emails for them really gives me the feeling that if something *can* be replaced with Chat GPT, then it probably *shouldn’t* be done, like at all. Maybe *nobody* should be writing buzzfeed articles, whether it’s underpaid journalists cranking out a new low-effort article every 10 minutes at a breakneck pace or if its a robot doing the same thing. Maybe nobody should be doing this, like morally speaking.
AI isn't a threat to creative professions because it can actually make passable art that humans enjoy (it can't). It's a threat because in a capitalist system, employers would do literally anything to not have to pay humans living wages (or any wages, let's be real).
We've been in a productivity boom for the past 60 years, but the one area where production cannot become more efficient is the arts. It takes the same amount of time to write a novel or compose a symphony now as it did a hundred years ago. That's just the creative process.
AI represents a shortcut to making art that has had executives salivating since LLMs and AI art generators hit the internet. It means more content faster with the benefit of not having to provide salaries, sick days, parental leave, time off, or healthcare. It means not having to deal with unions and labour laws. It means cutting humans out of the most fundamentally human activity we do – making art.
All those headlines and clickbait articles about AI annihilating the human race are a hyperbolic distraction from the actual problem we may soon be facing where people won't have the possibility of supporting themselves making art (not that it's particularly easy to do as it stands).
If making art becomes a luxury only for the affluent, we will stop hearing the voices, stories, and perspectives of marginalized people. And our cultural tapestry will stop being so vibrant, diverse, and vital.
the recent grimace stuff online was not organic memeing and it wasn't forced memes either. it was corporate astroturfing. you cannot change my mind.
Made a reimu from plastecine as a gift to my touhou loving friend. I gotta do these arts and crafts things more, its so fun!
