but THE NORMS, Andy. THINK OF THE NORMS

benjamin was right

woefully sauceless

it's because pokemon are all classed as either Cool or Cute, and voltorb, in trying to be a Cool pokemon, fails to manifest cuteness commensurate with its roundness

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maybe a doomer take from me, but imo this belies the fact that the motivation underpinning the drive for AI maximalism is the obsolescence of the student itself

we have finally killed logocentrism by reifying the logos

"an obsession with the written word is a tenet of white supremacy" like, yes, but in a way that AI is kinda extremely guilty of as well???

(also interesting that the life cycle of a meme often starts at "joke stolen from nonwhite communities" and then ends at "deep absurdism")

interesting to think about the "irreducibility of the sign value of the image" in memes. great example for this is how "my brother in christ, you made the sandwich" evolved over time -the specific lexicon of these jokes being built out of unorthodox framings and relationships between signs, neo-Dada

this is 100% true (youtu.be/cP7_ZDpcBsQ?...) but i also think that the semiotic value of AI as a tool for art is being strained by its shifting political context and the ever-fraught relationship btwn artists and ownership. we're so post-history that we're even recycling hauntologies lmao

Westerners will literally build a spectral simulacrum of a mental simulacrum of a dead rather than allow themselve a cathartic funerary banquet, 3 year-long mourning and a humble ancestors worship.