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Techy/futurism/human stuff . for occult see @orics

[miamaimania]

Hanne Zaruma ⬣ Your selfie, disassembled into its ancestors

[pmamtraveller]

"The Motherland Calls" located in Volgograd, Russia.

[weepingwidar]

Andrew J. Park (American, 1996) - Screen Sanctuary II (2026)

[389]

Far Away Afflicted Kushagra Gupta

[389]

Corrupted

[dr-manhattan-alt]

My new and absolutely normal i swear obsession is hand routed, or otherwise free-form, circuit board layouts.

It just strikes such a beautiful intersection between artistic and tech that gives me all the right neuron activations.

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[thomasmartinnutt]

Bob Cobbing. Sensations of the Retina, 1978

[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Reunion”

[s1ck0]

Elation For The Wonder Box 6000

[mysterycat-official]

I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it

[stlamb]

edward kienholz and nancy reddin kienholz, in the infield was patty peccavi, 1981

[weepingwidar]

Helena Stiasny (Polish, 1997) - Matka (Mother) (2025)

[viennacalls]

Tilo Baumgärtel (b.German, 1972)

Channel, 2014

50 x 60 cm, oil on canvas

[charnel-grounds]

Dmitry Khramtsov (Храм), “Leak,” 2021

[thefugitivesaint]

Carlos Prunés Álvarez (1937-2017), ''Macabro'', #15, 1975

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands you’ve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. they’re probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.

[ralfmaximus]

Next Bandcamp Friday is May 1st, 2026!

Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.

That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.

This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.

Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.

Also also, there's no ads!

Also also also, there's no AI!

WHY are you giving money to Spotify??