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bubble girl had a birthday party. music and joy 4 everyone <3
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you can't even make quality things as easily when you make them yourself anymore. the supplies, especially fabrics are more expensive and the quality drop is astounding. fabrics have been exponentially shittified in the last decade even, thanks to what i'd call the shein-phenomenon (fast fashion practises reaching everything material coulture related). historical fabric mills could make fabrics so fine and delicate that they are almost transparent but at the same time last you decades. i've heard that even wood isn't the same as it was, although i think wood has had a much more prolonged enshittification period than fabric.
they already MADE a perfect wuthering heights adaptation. it came out in 1978 and it’s three minutes forty five seconds long and it’s by kate bush
spoilers: omg yes. i just re-read wuthering heights and the song is a perfect "explanation" for the ending of the book. when nelly dean describes heathcliff being creepily happy and staring at an invisible being in the room, she is describing heathcliff being reunited with cathy. cathy has come home to put it right by taking heathcliff with her to the afterlife. why she waited eighteen years to do that could be because she wanted to wait and see that her daughter catherine's future would look well enough. that's why she came only after hareton and catherine had found each other. this way catherine would have someone to take care of her and that's why she waited until linton was dead 'cause she knew linton couldn't do shit for her daughter.
also i'm thinkin about how catherine first married a cousin from her dad's side and then her mum's... can't blame her for the lack of options tho
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gotta love a shitty photo from pride. my feet hurt. love cars.
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Went away for a bit. To the north.
I want to quit work and be free. I wanna go to the north whenever.
There's just no one there.
I've finally figured out an argument that convinces coding tech-bros that AI art is bad.
Got into a discussion today (actually a discussion, we were both very reasonable and calm even through I felt like committing violence) with a tech-bro-coded lady who claimed that people use AI in coding all the time so she didn't see why it mattered if people used AI in art.
Obviously I repressed the surge of violence because that would accomplish nothing. Plus, this lady is very articulate, the type who makes claims and you sit there thinking no that's wrong it must be but she said it so well you're kind of just waffling going but, no, wait-- so I knew I had to get this right if I was gonna come out of this unscathed.
The usual arguments about it being about the soul of it and creation fell flat, in fact she was adamant that anyone who believed that was in fact looking down at coding as an art form as she insisted it is. Which, sure, you can totally express yourself through coding. There's a lot more nuance as to the differences but clearly I was not going to win this one.
The other people I was with (literally 8 people anti-ai against her, but you can't change the mind of someone who doesn't want to listen and she just kept accusing us of devaluing coding as an art) took over for I kid you not 15 minutes while I tried desperately to come up with a clear and articulate way to explain the difference to her. They tried so many reasonable arguments, coding being for a function ("what, art doesn't serve a function?") coding being many discrete building blocks that you put together differently, and the AI simply provides the blocks and you put it together yourself ("isn't that what prompt building is") that it's bad for the environment ("but not if it's used for capitalism, hm?" "Yeah literally that's how capitalism works it doesn't care about the environment" she didn't like that response)
But I finally got it.
And the answer is: It's not about what you do, it's about what you claim to be.
Imagine that someone asks an AI to write a code and, by some miracle, it works perfectly without them having to tweak it---which is great because they couldn't tell you what a single solitary thing in that code means.
Now imagine this person, with their code that they don't know how it works, goes and applies to be a coder somewhere, presenting this AI code as proof that they're qualified.
Should they be hired?
She was horrified, of course. Of course they shouldn't be. They're not qualified. They can't actually code, and even if by some miracle they did have an AI successfully write a flawless code for every issue they came across that wouldn't be their code, you could hire any shmuck on the street to do that, no reason to pay someone like they're creating something.
When actual engineers use AI what they do is get some kind of base, which they then go though and check for problems and then if they find any they fix them, and add on to the base code with their own knowledge instead of just trying different prompt after prompt until they randomly come across one that works.
People who generate code like this don't usually call themselves engineers. They're people who needed a bit of code and didn't have the knowledge to generate it, and so used a resource.
And there you go. There are people who have none of the skills of artists, they don't practice, they don't create for themselves. When they feed the prompt to the AI they then don't just use the resulting image as a reference point for their own personal masterpiece, and if they don't like it they don't have the skills to change it---they simply try another prompt, and do that until they get something they like.
These people are calling themselves artists.
Not only that, these people are bringing the AI generated thing to interviews, and they are getting hired, leaving people who slave over their craft out of the job.
And that is the difference, for the tech bros who think AI art isn't a big deal.
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I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.
Stop backing up my fucking files.
Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.
Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.
I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.
Fuckers.
Also hate Microsoft accounts and logging into them.
Just feelings
I'm sleepy. Mum gave me a card and chocolate.
Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
I love these sorts of views so much.
Today's the day to boycott Eurovision!<3