mad_lentil

Joke so good it made me stop scrolling for the night.

… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

The term I've heard for this is social murder:

… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

Scared CEOs—finally, a guilt-free fetish.

Also it totally undermines all the charm of amateur art.

I actually think gen ai is probably going to be really well suited to emulating abstract or rough art, because we humans are great at impregnating even random visual noise with meaning.

That's not me saying it's a good thing about ai. Just one more way it can fucking fool us into thinking we're looking at something that was authored.

I mean it's much more popular now than it ever would have been otherwise. I'm going to say that even in a hundred years it's going to stand above its contemporaries.

The story is just so human.

Oh man I remember the debates around this being really illuminating. Like some people really don't see how heart can outperform technique

These are great

Not a solution, but this is a great reminder to add descriptions/alt text to your images.

I would take a doubling of the current rate if they would implement voting reform - like they promised.

Really? I always thought it was the opposite. I'm broke, and even I know you need taxes to pay for all the large projects we all benefit from.

Obviously I don't want it going to Israel, or any of the bad things which are funded in my name, but on the whole the purchasing power of our tax base is greater than anything I could do individually with my portion.

Oh wait I'm remembering the airplane story now. Yeah, I he's like all the other rich fucks.

It's terrifying how effectively that particular massacre was covered up. Makes you wonder what else we're missing.