RIP Trevor.

D’oh! Good find, I had it wrong.

Image AI is cool as fuck and I refuse to pretend otherwise.

The dolts charging money for “commissions,” or even just bragging about something they allegedly created, will be a blip for these few short years. The tech will become another tool anyone can use so long as they have a few free gigabytes… which is already a bit like saying, so long as they have a few free megabytes.

If there’s any unavoidable AI tells, when someone sketches an image but has Photoshop finish it for them, we’ll come to spot those as readily as we spot gradient fill or the oil-paint filter. They’ll be a sign someone did some, but not all, of the hard work. Big whoop.

If there are no tells - if more training lets an overworked graphics card churn out exactly what you describe, as surely as a human artist might - that’s gonna be fantastic for expression. And it won’t prevent anyone from painting with actual brushes and canvas.

The video versions of this stupid GPU trick will allow any weirdo to turn their original script or sordid fanfiction into an actual movie you can watch with your eyeballs. The characters don’t need to look or sound like any specific real actor. It’s gonna get wild.

All those poor OCs, dead forever! No human can ever draw them again now that AI ate them!

NFTs were a straight-up scam. The wire mother of wire fraud.

The only reason crypto almost-sorta-kinda works is that nearly anything works as a medium of exchange so long as it’s fungible. Which is the F those Ts were N.

A fun exercise that nerd-sniped me last year: recreate The Matrix’s “code rain” effect.

This is where I’d humorously link that maniac who wrote a program exclusively using MOV, of any amount of quotation or clarification could convince a modern search engine that “movulator” does not, in fact, mean “modulator.”

I learned through KnowYourMeme.

The people mad at Nazis are really shrill, just like the Nazis. So they must be equally wrong. Right?

And yes we really are dealing with fascists at the moment, please be serious instead of grasping for some ‘juuust becaaause’ excuse as to why someone would make the comparison. They are comparable. That’s why. The Idiot has openly opined about being a dictator (just a little! just the tip!) after instigating a failed coup that saw every elected member of the federal government besides him cowering in a basement because an angry mob stormed the goddamn capitol. That’s not counting the other coup d’etat efforts, like extorting allies for foreign interference, secretly calling governors to just make up numbers, or indeed sending fake electors to make up the numbers himself. The GOP’s publicly-stated policy goals include criminalizing queer identities, banning birth control, and seeking revenge on anyone who’s not personally loyal to dear leader. I don’t give a shit if you might think they wouldn’t succeed in these efforts. The fact they want that, and are openly talking about trying to do it, is what makes them fascists.

Hierarchy tends to prevent violence by providing an authority to appeal to. So long as there is some process people can take, in hope of redress, they will choose that instead of just stabbing a motherfucker. This applies to interpersonal conflict with your neighbor, or mass conflict between religious groups, indeed everybody seeing a fat old baby commit high crimes on national television. Even if you feel the odds are abysmal, that can be enough to stop you from grabbing your pitchfork with intent to use it.

Belief in those systems is a finite resource.

Possibly from DOS. It’s a real-mode operating system.

Jesus fucking Christ, you people insist everything would be better for the bad guys.

Debatable.

Went to a bar, took a shot. I myssed.

tic

Hoot hoot.

Fascist who constantly talks about killing others gets shot at.

Nobody’s allowed to say a goddamn word about it.

This is who Republicans always were. It’s the same people. They just embraced this and made it their whole personality, the moment that was socially acceptable.

‘Oh no, he almost faced consequences’ is such bizarre hand-wringing at this point.

‘His followers will be violent!’ There was a failed coup.

‘He’ll espouse violent rhetoric and the news will cover it!’ Where ya been?

‘He might be a martyr!’ He already said he’d be a dictator - just the tip, honey, just to see how it feels! What the fuck else are we worried about? These motherfuckers have a big stupid Powerpoint with a publicly-known title that outlines their authoritarian wet dream slash stated policy goals.

Someone finally trying the obvious solution cannot be a catalyst if we’re already fucking catalyzed.