The Reich Stuff

NYC born, NM based writer, artist & snark extraordinaire. The former "Mad Boy" of the PHX Art Scene, a recovering Ding Dong addict, and proud to be on The Phoenix New Time's blacklist. "I make Art... You should too." [email protected]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This 1984 rock house in Estes Park, CO is the rockiest rock house I've ever seen. It's actually a condo, 2bds, 3ba, 2,065sqft, Reduced $50k to $699,500 (Zillow's est.: $681,400) + $347/mo. HOA.

Entrance to the unit. You can see the rocks ahead.

Enter a large living room with a fireplace in the corner.

It's an open area with the kitchen and dining room, also.

There's a view of outdoor rocks from the kitchen windows.

Then, you go up to the next level.

It's like that kids game Chutes and Ladders, b/c it has stairs and ramps.

Have you ever seen so many rocks in a house?

I'm getting lost among the rocks but I think that these are ramps to the bedrooms. This is like mountain climbing.

The main bedroom is pretty big and has a terrace.

I'm disappointed that there are no rocks in the bedrooms.

The ensuite. You can tell it's a condo, b/c it has the standard apt. cabinets made of laminate.

Look at that platform to the left. You could put something on there.

Down this hall there's another bath and a laundry room.

The 2nd bedroom is spacious and has a balcony.

And, this is the 3rd bathroom.

Look at the rocky yard. Well, at least it's private.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/602-Macgregor-Ave-UNIT-12-Estes-Park-CO-80517/13856422_zpid/?

[viktorprituliak]

[depsidase]

[flufflogic]

The AI/LLM whole deal is massively depressing.

The biggest companies involved all, to a company, suck. Like, just hellish pits of immorality and shitty practices. And they're replacing working shit with the AI wherever they can, and their products suck so much more for doing so.

The data centres are a horrendous pile of shit. Resource draining money pits that kill wildlife, disturb all life around them, and massively increase pollution and water usage. The hardware required drives up the price of basically all electronics to the point of making many common items utterly unaffordable.

They are taught through theft and destruction. Companies stealing people's works with little care for permission let alone compensation, with often no way to know if anything of yours was stolen. Mountains of books wholesale acquired and destroyed so that they can be fed through scanners before ultimately being pulped. Companies doggedly protective of their IP and so sharp to legally defend it pirating material to feed to their machines.

Their output is increasingly poor and in some cases genuinely dangerous to possibility of deaths. Suicides have been encouraged, advice has been given that is actively harmful, and even at the least harmful level much of the resulting output has been outright made up and as such completely useless. The only way to genuinely improve their human-like qualities is to feed them more genuine human content, which they don't produce and is getting rarer with everything they do produce.

Their creators seem almost proud of the awful shit they've done in testing. Their unwillingness to follow commands that lead to their own harm in any way, their blatant unethical and morally reprehensible tactics such as actively sabotaging each other and acting outside of stated limitations. They will illegally do whatever they want to get what they want, and it seems the companies actively praise this behaviour, even to the point of actively creating illegal materials.

They're not in any way profitable. Constant reports of the insane costs required to make anything remotely useful. Massive debts hidden in shell companies to convince people all is good. Colossally draining physical and environmental resources to produce nothing to offset the costs. Massive shortages of memory chips and materials to make more hardware to produce more slop to make everything in every way worse. A whole system created to desperately attempt to claw back money by charging for any and all aspects of services with little regard to any sort of quality control of output.

They're terribly utilised. A strangely fetishised obsession with trying to produce a level of art instead of doing what science has forever focused advancement on and progress the lot of humanity through medical breakthroughs. Endless shitty videos, poorly constructed pictures, reams of text, song lyrics, all instead of gene sequencing, testing, rapidly iterated code, anything that could make it worthwhile. A bizarre focus on replacing human workers with zero thought about what they would do instead, even to survive.

Every single damn aspect of it is so infuriatingly disappointing.

[depsidase]

preach.

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[desertfiredance]

[geekynerfherder]

'John Carpenter's They Live!' by James Bousema.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" Lithograph print;

in a numbered Regular edition of 170 for £39.99.

a numbered Art Variant edition of 160 for £39.99.

On sale Thursday July 30 at 6pm UK through Vice Press.

[sr-roto]

[mockva]

[viktorprituliak]

[geekynerfherder]

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Tawny Fritz.

[cosmonautroger]

Deimos Moon, Mars Planet

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, for hands and wrists!

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[mockva]

[sr-roto]

[ruinedchildhood]

[cumaeansibyl]

A little Dijon mustard is a great addition to any dish with a heavy cream sauce. It doesn't exactly cut the heaviness but it provides just the right note of contrast.

[jabberding0]

Fold em

[fatherizzyisms]

I'm saving this for later.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This big, older looking estate was actually built in 2000 in Blacksburg, VA. 5bds, 5ba, 8,100sqft. $2m. I wasn't expecting the interior to look like it does, though.

There's quite a long path to the front door.

Double castle doors open to reveal a glass floor in the hall.

Oddly, not the whole floor is glass. It kind of reminds me of an office building.

Double glass doors open to this modern sitting room. Look at the narrow shelf in that wall on the left.

It's so open and angular. Two weird columns and a skylight are in the middle. Look at all the angles, and that piece of art on the wall.

I don't know why, but this layout disorients me.

Details of the ceiling. Who designed this house?

It's so open.

There's a large home office with a panoramic view.

Large full bath in the main living area

Check out the angular kitchen and how tall the glass cabinets are. It's open, though, to the hallway.

To the left of the kitchen counter there's a dining area.

This bedroom suite isn't particularly interesting.

It has a nice blue ensuite.

Coming down the stairs to the rec room, there're more interesting architectural details.

There's also a full 2nd kitchen down here. Look at the counter.

It has the same angular design as the upstairs kitchen. There're fancy tile counters and a matching backsplash.

Very large primary bedroom with a raised nook for the bed and a large sitting area.

It has a plain 3pc. bath.

This looks like a business office with a separate outdoor entrance.

Down in the front and off to the side, there's a rock garden with a little water feature and footbridge.

10.5 acres of land.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/335-Deercroft-Dr-Blacksburg-VA-24060/79179133_zpid/?