🟠I wanta preface this by saying I think Stranger Things sucks, I've been thinking a lot about ACTUAL kid horror movies from the '80s and what they're ABOUT in a larger context, which is the fundamental neglect at the center of the '80s American Family

I think the point of AI is to free people from the burden of concious thought. "the superintelligent computer" offers a substitute for god, an objective intelligence that absolves you of all the uncertainty of a subjectivity. Let the computer do the thinking: You're never wrong, never responsible.

You're all doing a great job dunking on the "talent is gatekeeping and AI democratizes the arts" post, all I have to add is you need a pencil and a piece of paper to be an artist, or some paint, but to be an AI Artist you need a credit card.

I'm not a believer, but the closest I get to having a statement of faith is this. Make and your name might be forgotten but maybe what you made will not, and maybe by experiencing it someone will in turn feel less alone and stranded among the cosmic dust.

A social media ban is effectively a ban on having friends who don't live nearby, which is what most under-16s use it for. For some kids, those friends are a lifeline

The bad news is that this site is almost certainly filled with feds by now. The good news is that we can give them all fetishes that will absolutely make them question their entire lives. This is the plot to pretty much every Grant Morrison comic by the way.

The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.

Listen I do not care if this is the author's barely disguised fetish, if they're good at their damn job it will be MY barely disguised fetish while the story lasts and perhaps afterwards

Now that I’m almost finished being behind on professional projects, I can finally get back to my first love: being behind on creative projects

The millennial's curse: Very online 30/40 somethings cannot write, talk, or make art without constantly trying to defy or (worse in some ways) outflank the scorn of an audience they will never know or see. If that curse has extended to how you interact with your kids, you're well and truly cooked

From @comictropes.bsky.social’s Twitter

There's been a lot of talk about ChatGPT-induced psychosis and yeah seems scary but I'm more freaked out how the human brain can be so easily rendered non-functional by a little positive reinforcement. Although I guess tons of kings, celebrities, other yes-men-surrounded people already proved this

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

I missed the chance to screenshot it but saxophonist Maria Grand had a really good response to someone asking her if she uses generative AI which was something to the effect of “the tediousness is integral to the process”

Discourse I’m always interested in: how a work of art reflects the society that produced it; how it changed your thinking; how its craft connects to its content; how it compares/contrasts with other works.

Discourse I’m never interested in: How virtuous it is to consume said art.