CB Ink📚🐾🐱✍️
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Writer, Artist and Bookdragon with a varied interest in science, history, humanities, biology, technology, food and books.
My favorite thread of the day involved the idea that we're "subverting the market" by not wanting AI.
Must please the ancient gods with slop!
Must please the ancient gods with slop!
January 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
My favorite thread of the day involved the idea that we're "subverting the market" by not wanting AI.
Must please the ancient gods with slop!
Must please the ancient gods with slop!
It strikes me as sourced from gym bro meals for cutting. As mentioned elsewhere, it seems like ChatGPT was where simulations were run so it doesn't seem like a stretch to be an "abs are made in the kitchen" meal.
January 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
It strikes me as sourced from gym bro meals for cutting. As mentioned elsewhere, it seems like ChatGPT was where simulations were run so it doesn't seem like a stretch to be an "abs are made in the kitchen" meal.
These folks desperately need real outlets for their energy.
There are so many fussy hobbies where this type of behavior results weird but cool shit.
My god, we need folks to have real art education where you just learn how to channel that impulse.
There are so many fussy hobbies where this type of behavior results weird but cool shit.
My god, we need folks to have real art education where you just learn how to channel that impulse.
January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
These folks desperately need real outlets for their energy.
There are so many fussy hobbies where this type of behavior results weird but cool shit.
My god, we need folks to have real art education where you just learn how to channel that impulse.
There are so many fussy hobbies where this type of behavior results weird but cool shit.
My god, we need folks to have real art education where you just learn how to channel that impulse.
Could you reframe this with a kitten,ferret, or salamander?
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Could you reframe this with a kitten,ferret, or salamander?
What non-human animal would you nominate for an episode? If you need it narrowed down, what semi/fully domesticated non-human animal would you cover?
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What non-human animal would you nominate for an episode? If you need it narrowed down, what semi/fully domesticated non-human animal would you cover?
Its mostly been a way to exclude people from having voices.
Integrity is better than being "unbiased" because it encourages meaningful community engagement.
Integrity is better than being "unbiased" because it encourages meaningful community engagement.
December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Its mostly been a way to exclude people from having voices.
Integrity is better than being "unbiased" because it encourages meaningful community engagement.
Integrity is better than being "unbiased" because it encourages meaningful community engagement.
It not only delays the grieving. It places this false replacement above the genuine individual who made the love possible.
It reads as kind of a zombie replacement.
Horror is the main genre that offers the language to describe why this stuff is so wrong.
It reads as kind of a zombie replacement.
Horror is the main genre that offers the language to describe why this stuff is so wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It not only delays the grieving. It places this false replacement above the genuine individual who made the love possible.
It reads as kind of a zombie replacement.
Horror is the main genre that offers the language to describe why this stuff is so wrong.
It reads as kind of a zombie replacement.
Horror is the main genre that offers the language to describe why this stuff is so wrong.
It is incredibly cruel but also consistent with our culture inability to deal with grief.
Grief is often the love in your heart overfilling because the individual who that love was meant for is now gone and you're drowning in it.
This use of ai is companies offering to become a surrogate.
Grief is often the love in your heart overfilling because the individual who that love was meant for is now gone and you're drowning in it.
This use of ai is companies offering to become a surrogate.
December 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It is incredibly cruel but also consistent with our culture inability to deal with grief.
Grief is often the love in your heart overfilling because the individual who that love was meant for is now gone and you're drowning in it.
This use of ai is companies offering to become a surrogate.
Grief is often the love in your heart overfilling because the individual who that love was meant for is now gone and you're drowning in it.
This use of ai is companies offering to become a surrogate.
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Hi, I'm Eva! I'm a book cover artist for indie authors but I often do my own thing too. Stylistically indecisive but the common thread in my art is that it tends to be pretty colourful. Currently looking for cover work from May 2026 and onwards!
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Hi, I'm Eva! I'm a book cover artist for indie authors but I often do my own thing too. Stylistically indecisive but the common thread in my art is that it tends to be pretty colourful. Currently looking for cover work from May 2026 and onwards!
He was briefly interviewed for an ANTM retrospective, he's still the same guy and I'd have been happier to not hear his perspective as it added little of value.
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
He was briefly interviewed for an ANTM retrospective, he's still the same guy and I'd have been happier to not hear his perspective as it added little of value.
The way that Americans look down on those who work directly with food contributes to this majorly. We do it in the home and we do it in public.
Not everyone does this but it is a systemic wound.
Not everyone does this but it is a systemic wound.
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The way that Americans look down on those who work directly with food contributes to this majorly. We do it in the home and we do it in public.
Not everyone does this but it is a systemic wound.
Not everyone does this but it is a systemic wound.
Perez Hilton was a big part of that.
Being first and loudest on the scene gets folks like that an audience even when they're reviled.
Hard to know how we can move past that.
Being first and loudest on the scene gets folks like that an audience even when they're reviled.
Hard to know how we can move past that.
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Perez Hilton was a big part of that.
Being first and loudest on the scene gets folks like that an audience even when they're reviled.
Hard to know how we can move past that.
Being first and loudest on the scene gets folks like that an audience even when they're reviled.
Hard to know how we can move past that.
And, yes the government and the corporations are important parts of this.
But also, stop treating food workers as an underclass. It allows really bad managers to put store profit (and their personal bonus) above worker and customer safety.
But also, stop treating food workers as an underclass. It allows really bad managers to put store profit (and their personal bonus) above worker and customer safety.
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And, yes the government and the corporations are important parts of this.
But also, stop treating food workers as an underclass. It allows really bad managers to put store profit (and their personal bonus) above worker and customer safety.
But also, stop treating food workers as an underclass. It allows really bad managers to put store profit (and their personal bonus) above worker and customer safety.
Some of my coworkers did take it seriously. Others completed the onboarding training and showed up for work and handled food like they did at home.
This was a decade ago. It was iffy then.
It still relies on individuals to know and care about recalls, food temp, food safety, etc.
This was a decade ago. It was iffy then.
It still relies on individuals to know and care about recalls, food temp, food safety, etc.
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Some of my coworkers did take it seriously. Others completed the onboarding training and showed up for work and handled food like they did at home.
This was a decade ago. It was iffy then.
It still relies on individuals to know and care about recalls, food temp, food safety, etc.
This was a decade ago. It was iffy then.
It still relies on individuals to know and care about recalls, food temp, food safety, etc.
Food safety also relies on education of those who handle food. Not those who inspect it but the very poorly paid and fairly poorly trained workers.
Saying this as someone who had been in such a position. I was college educated and I took it seriously (your books played a role in that).
Saying this as someone who had been in such a position. I was college educated and I took it seriously (your books played a role in that).
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Food safety also relies on education of those who handle food. Not those who inspect it but the very poorly paid and fairly poorly trained workers.
Saying this as someone who had been in such a position. I was college educated and I took it seriously (your books played a role in that).
Saying this as someone who had been in such a position. I was college educated and I took it seriously (your books played a role in that).
Every renter should begin installing these+. When you eventually move out, it'll be like a door to Narnia for some future tenant.
+I am in no way giving advice. This is parody or fiction *disappears into secret lair within the walls like the Phantom of the Park at Potenza Apartment Homes*
+I am in no way giving advice. This is parody or fiction *disappears into secret lair within the walls like the Phantom of the Park at Potenza Apartment Homes*
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every renter should begin installing these+. When you eventually move out, it'll be like a door to Narnia for some future tenant.
+I am in no way giving advice. This is parody or fiction *disappears into secret lair within the walls like the Phantom of the Park at Potenza Apartment Homes*
+I am in no way giving advice. This is parody or fiction *disappears into secret lair within the walls like the Phantom of the Park at Potenza Apartment Homes*
Film and sports do versions of it and because it is done for viewers for seemingly large sums of money, some folks go to extreme lengths because the audience keeps tuning in.
We're also part of the social experiment of it all. Each a bystander waiting for the host to stop or egging them on.
We're also part of the social experiment of it all. Each a bystander waiting for the host to stop or egging them on.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Film and sports do versions of it and because it is done for viewers for seemingly large sums of money, some folks go to extreme lengths because the audience keeps tuning in.
We're also part of the social experiment of it all. Each a bystander waiting for the host to stop or egging them on.
We're also part of the social experiment of it all. Each a bystander waiting for the host to stop or egging them on.
Tyra Banks did stuff like this to vulnerable young women for 24 seasons and young men for a few of those.
There's a whole history of reality tv doing things like this. He's just the most recent popular incarnation of this person.
There's many other entertainment mediums that do this.
There's a whole history of reality tv doing things like this. He's just the most recent popular incarnation of this person.
There's many other entertainment mediums that do this.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Tyra Banks did stuff like this to vulnerable young women for 24 seasons and young men for a few of those.
There's a whole history of reality tv doing things like this. He's just the most recent popular incarnation of this person.
There's many other entertainment mediums that do this.
There's a whole history of reality tv doing things like this. He's just the most recent popular incarnation of this person.
There's many other entertainment mediums that do this.
But the boosters couldn't stand being made fun of for how obviously generated those images were. The whole "too many fingers" thing. And so, they still don't really get art or people who make it.
Being able to take criticism is more important than being able to take a compliment you didn't earn.
Being able to take criticism is more important than being able to take a compliment you didn't earn.
December 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
But the boosters couldn't stand being made fun of for how obviously generated those images were. The whole "too many fingers" thing. And so, they still don't really get art or people who make it.
Being able to take criticism is more important than being able to take a compliment you didn't earn.
Being able to take criticism is more important than being able to take a compliment you didn't earn.
That awkward part of making a thing and thinking that it is crap but defiantly continuing because you want to figure out how to fix it or just how to finish it.
Its a funny thing about the discussion of generative images, the coolest ones are weird and grotesque in unexpected ways...
Its a funny thing about the discussion of generative images, the coolest ones are weird and grotesque in unexpected ways...
December 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
That awkward part of making a thing and thinking that it is crap but defiantly continuing because you want to figure out how to fix it or just how to finish it.
Its a funny thing about the discussion of generative images, the coolest ones are weird and grotesque in unexpected ways...
Its a funny thing about the discussion of generative images, the coolest ones are weird and grotesque in unexpected ways...
My sense is that folks who think like this are folks who laugh at people's half formed efforts as they develop their artistic skills.
They post AI because it is composed of information from the work people completed and displayed in public spaces.
They don't know how to contend with the ugly stage
They post AI because it is composed of information from the work people completed and displayed in public spaces.
They don't know how to contend with the ugly stage
December 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My sense is that folks who think like this are folks who laugh at people's half formed efforts as they develop their artistic skills.
They post AI because it is composed of information from the work people completed and displayed in public spaces.
They don't know how to contend with the ugly stage
They post AI because it is composed of information from the work people completed and displayed in public spaces.
They don't know how to contend with the ugly stage
It isn't as though they've never stolen from artists before and they've seen that mostly no one cares about the way that these models have devoured work without consent.
I don't think it is as bad a deal for Disney as it looks. Its a bad deal for many other folks.
I don't think it is as bad a deal for Disney as it looks. Its a bad deal for many other folks.
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It isn't as though they've never stolen from artists before and they've seen that mostly no one cares about the way that these models have devoured work without consent.
I don't think it is as bad a deal for Disney as it looks. Its a bad deal for many other folks.
I don't think it is as bad a deal for Disney as it looks. Its a bad deal for many other folks.
OpenAI is far more valuable to a company like Disney than it is to any tech company. All the serial numbers are filed off and it would be the previous owners' fault that no one was compensated.
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
OpenAI is far more valuable to a company like Disney than it is to any tech company. All the serial numbers are filed off and it would be the previous owners' fault that no one was compensated.
Could they eventually turn that into a hostile takeover?
Given that the models are bloated with so many works that Disney doesn't own and wouldn't need to pay for, OpenAI would be a useful acquisition for them as the courts have mostly shrugged at all the stolen art.
Given that the models are bloated with so many works that Disney doesn't own and wouldn't need to pay for, OpenAI would be a useful acquisition for them as the courts have mostly shrugged at all the stolen art.
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Could they eventually turn that into a hostile takeover?
Given that the models are bloated with so many works that Disney doesn't own and wouldn't need to pay for, OpenAI would be a useful acquisition for them as the courts have mostly shrugged at all the stolen art.
Given that the models are bloated with so many works that Disney doesn't own and wouldn't need to pay for, OpenAI would be a useful acquisition for them as the courts have mostly shrugged at all the stolen art.