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[depsidase]

robin williams' daughter talking about ai slop

[socialistexan]

Same exact playbook, down to the "but it was based on a lie."

[theabigailthorn]

literally the same people doing it as well

I cannot overstate how much the modern conversion therapy movement is about 50 people who all have names and addresses and who simply will. not. fuck. off.

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[here-by-chance]

im obsessed

[the-real-seebs]

oh, of course. because he died for our sins.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[depsidase]

[mortuary9]

[depsidase]

[ymutate]

Mark Adams (American, 1925-2006)

California Poppies, 1981

Etching with aquataint in colors

15 x 16.25 inches

Private collection

[jareckiworld]

Hideo Tanaka — Cut II   (oil on canvas,  2017)

[dsmsix]

[vincent-van-gtg]

[fitnessdesire]

Can’t risk it

[laderdesders1]

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

[randomassidlotidk]

As if i had any before.

[ooppo]

The beginning of the end for every digital artist

[elfdragon12]

Today, I learned that a fairly obscure 80s fantasy movie I watched in my youth is credited with helping popularize the Friesian horse breed in the US.

Good job, Ladyhawke.

In the film, the horse is called Goliath, but his actual name was Othello. He's clearly a fancy boy as he does dressage steps in the movie.

(This movie, if you're curious, is a yearning movie. She is a hawk during the day, he is a wolf during the night. Also, Matthew Broderick is there.)

[rumade]

And because it's an 80s fantasy film, it has copious amounts of SYNTH MUSIC 🎶

[tgc26]

High fantasy Szegény Dzsoni és Árnika

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.