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[dailycatsblog]

[aurosoulart]

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

[aurosoulart]

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

(I’ve also uploaded this version of the design to INPRNT, Society6, and Redbubble)

[batfamfucker]

This is sickkkkk

[dailycatsblog]

[dominaexmachina]

Do you believe an artist who uses AI deserves the same amount of praise as an artist who makes high-quality art with a mouse or a brush, assuming that earning praise is their main goal in the first place?

I don’t rank art by how much the artist suffered making it. “Who deserves more praise, the AI user or the brush user?” is just asking: whose pain should we romanticize more?

The amount of hours, hand movements or prompt‑tweaking does not magically turn a boring piece into a good one. If the work doesn’t move me, it doesn’t move me. The tool, the workflow, the number of all‑nighters – all of that is external lore, not artistic value.

On this blog I’m not running a respect economy where people get extra points because they struggled longer. Everyone gets basic human respect by default; beyond that, the only question that matters to me is: does the work actually hit, or does it leave me cold?

And let me ask you this: how do you judge food? Do you judge it by how it tastes to you, or do you eat it first and only then start adjusting your opinion based on how much the chef cried over it, how bad their working conditions were, and how many years they spent in culinary school? If the dish tastes bland to you, does the knowledge that the chef suffered for four hours in the kitchen suddenly make it delicious?

Also, that whole “assuming their main goal is earning praise” bit doesn’t make the question sharper, it just makes it messier. I have no access to the inside of somebody’s skull. I don’t know if they’re making this for likes, for rent money, for fun, for grief processing, or because their cat told them to. And I’m not going to build my reaction around a motivation I can’t verify.

If both artists were “doing it for likes”, my experience of the work is the same. If both were doing it from the depths of their soul, my experience of the work is still the same. The piece either hits me or it doesn’t. That’s it.

If I liked both works, then congrats, we have two artists who did something right. Not one “real” artist and one “lesser” one — just… two people who made good art. Wild concept, I know.

[tallwriter]

Ok, I understand now.

[daily-big-cat]

Daily Big Cat

[antunesgavriel]

Domingo

[tastylittlepixie]

its pride month! you know what that means!

[werewolf-girl-cock]

We are eating gay pixies?

[leafs-lounge]

Im on the other coast it isnt pride month here yet this is fucked up leave some of the gay pixies for me please im so hungy

[me----irl]

Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[massivebagingos]

source

[wanderthewood]

Barcelona, Spain by davide.anzimanni

[thesunxlx]

Coming out (2026)

read about this illustration shop + commission enquiries + snail mail + more

[dominaexmachina]

People talk about “AI wasting oceans of energy and water” like it’s a single, uniform thing. Meanwhile anyone who actually runs models locally can literally hear the difference.

A text model? The PC spins up, fans sigh once, and that’s it. Short burst, then silence.

A single SDXL image? Barely a blip. Light breeze from the fans.

A big batch on SDXL – now you get real sustained load: fans ramp, airflow changes, the case becomes weather. Benchmarks agree: SDXL is relatively fast and efficient per image on the same hardware.

A smaller batch on Flux1.dev already pushes the system harder; one run can take roughly four times longer than SDXL at the same resolution and steps, which you can hear as a longer period of high power draw.

Move to Flux2dev, and suddenly even a tiny batch is enough to send the CPU/GPU straight into “ok, now we actually need cooling” mode. Diffusion families like these tend to pull the GPU close to its maximum power envelope, unlike many LLMs that sit well below peak draw.

So when someone says “AI uses X gallons of water per query,” the instinctive response is: which query? Text vs. diffusion is already night and day. Diffusion vs. diffusion is another order of magnitude. The workload shape — batch size, steps, resolution — decides whether your PC just clears its throat or starts sounding like a jet engine.

The irony: people who actually touch these systems talk in terms of models, loads, thermals. People who don’t, talk in vibes and big round numbers. Then they slap a “think critically” tag on it.

Maybe the real climate win is retiring the idea that “AI” is one homogeneous entity, and admitting that different models stress hardware — and the planet — very differently.

[dominaexmachina]

Your colleague just announced they have professional pride. You now have twice the workload.

Somewhere on this website, someone is composing their resignation letter over being asked to use a text generation tool. In the tags — where Tumblr people do their actual thinking — they’re workshopping the theology: work without effort is meaningless. If you didn’t do it, it’s not yours.

Okay. Let’s sit with that for a second.

Because I’m not the manager. I’m the person in the next Figma file, in the same sprint, with the same deadline. And I’ve met this type of person before — not with AI specifically, but with every tool that ever asked them to update their workflow. The one who prints out the Confluence docs because that’s how they really read. The one who books a 90-minute sync because async communication feels disrespectful to the process. The one who, in 2026, still frames every friction point as a matter of principle rather than a cost they’re quietly billing to everyone around them.

Your professional pride is not free. Someone else is paying the subscription.

The martyrdom tell is right there in the tags: I am considering if this is something I am willing to risk being fired over. He’s already writing the story. The principled stand. The sacrifice. What the story doesn’t include is his teammates recalculating their own capacity around his chosen suffering — or the quiet meeting where someone decides his headcount could be better spent.

And the theology itself — work must cost you something to count — is genuinely fascinating, the way a fossil is fascinating. Does a surgeon lose moral credit for using a better scalpel? The framework only holds if you freeze the definition of “real work” at whatever point you personally entered the field and learned to suffer in a specific way.

Which tells me less about your values and more about when you were trained.

The effort is a cost, not a virtue. Confusing those two things isn’t craft.

It’s just suffering with a personal brand.

[joannerowling]

What is your opinion on BDSM kinks? I am unsure about my feeling in fetishes of dominance/submission, feels misogynistic. But I can’t tell.

You can't stop whatever's happening in the privacy of people's bedrooms, nor should you wish it, otherwise we'd live in Big Brother Land. But you can provide a way out for potential victims, by making the act of hurting someone during sex an aggravating circumstance to abuse and/or torture, rather than an extenuating one. Put the responsibility back on the so-called "dom". Once we have that, people who sincerely want to put themselves in danger for a thrill, will know that they can always fall back on the law to protect them, and people willing to hurt others in sexual acts will think twice about it before they go beyond spanking their partners.

[erarg]

[nyx1904]

Who cares how tired he is, he just wants to play 🙃🙃

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[roboco-san]