Can't believe it's 2025 and the Navy is about to have PS1 graphics

I created a joke using my primitive skills of photo editing and collage. A creative human act. This video's poster could've done the same, with the ample extant record of Rob Reiner's actual work.

The significant aspect was the already-created. The user added no value, nor did the AI, they both merely leeched off of what already existed. Writing AI prompts is not a creative act.

Paddington is the British Grim Reaper. Or possibly a spectral assassin. The lore is ambiguous

I almost feel like it's insulting to call him a pundit.

Nobody, a machine sprayed a little sulphuric gas in your eyes and told you it was raining.

It is the society and the industry and our collective participation, not some mythic individual in a benign reality.

No, they don't. They have to prompt narrative terms. Neither the user nor the AI create, they merely combine to congeal a reductive pastiche of the creations of others.

This is how AI gets you. It seems close enough to something you want for your brain to pretend it really is that thing. And every time, you let the fine quality of reality turn a little more to mush. And the more normalized it becomes, the more those fine qualities will be lost throughout life.

This is fucking disgusting.

I was a tremendous writer as a child, thankfully I grew out of it

A fascinating conversation I got to overhear was between an astronomer and a librarian for the same university, who met at a dinner I was invited to. They were commiserating over the astro dept admin’s decision, without faculty input, to discard all the books in the observatory. 1/2

Corporations.

His wealth is complicated, but it exists as much as this debt does. None of his assets has an inherent need for him to retain control of them, nor do they need to be converted into cash to transfer that wealth.

It's an omen. You must buy a shrimp ring.