Do you have it in you to make it epic?

Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe.

[honeygrandpa]

walked along the coast to dunnottar castle

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[kagayuzen]

The 42nd Traditional Kaga-Yuzen Crafts Exhibition Bronze Prize : Visiting dresse ‘Kaze Nami’ Akaji Akira Author’s Comment. : At this time of year, the Sea of Japan, which I can see from my house (in March), is filled with strong winds and white waves, each wave irregular and sharp. Cloudy skies and clear skies with a contrast of shallow water and deep water herald the arrival of spring. The 42nd Exhibition of Traditional Kaga-Yuzen Crafts is being held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from September 16th (Wed) to 22nd (Tue).

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[murz0klol]

The five-star outfits from the 2.8 update are simply AMAZING! 🫶🥹

[wheeloffortune-design]

at work they're showing us how to use AI tools like Copilot to help in our day to day tasks.

I have many reasons why I will not use those tools, going from lack of accuracy, lack of ethics, and a higher waste of energy.

But my main reason is this:

I will do things the hard way. I will learn how to do things the hard way.

Because AI is a subscription. And when the world is dependant on AI, they will raise the price of that subscription.

And when the company I work for decides that paying for AI is too expensive for their bottom line, they will remove it.

But I will still know how to work.

[cumaeansibyl]

It's started already. Not with individual consumers so much as corporate customers. The trouble is, every AI query costs way more to run than they've been charging, and they were banking on the costs coming down in the same way as other tech costs, like storage. But they haven't -- they've only gotten more expensive -- and these companies are running at enormous losses that they can only cover with constant VC funding.

So yeah, if things had gone the way they planned, they would have waited until people were a lot more dependent on AI than they are to jack up the prices, and their costs would be low enough that they could make a huge profit. But the financials are starting to look pretty dire. It's an open question which companies will even survive long term -- so it might not be a question of "will the AI be too expensive" but "will the AI even be available."

I'm 43. If I started using AI to do all my work, and then I had to stop using it, I would still have my previous experience to fall back on. I'd probably have to relearn some stuff, and it would be annoying, but I could do it.

If you never learned how in the first place? Well, you can still learn. But it'll take you longer and it'll be even more annoying. Possibly long enough that it could damage your career for a time, as you try to catch up on ways of working that are entirely new to you. Don't do that to yourself.

[pleoros]

Marco Poloni - Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[rosslynpaladin]

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

[prismatic-bell]

Friend, I am a millennial and I can tell you it wasn't this bad ten years ago. And further, that it was already changing when my Generation Jones mother was a child. Because she used to tell me about winters being worse, and my Lost Generation grampa would chime in and say that when he was a kid you'd layer every piece of cloth you owned on your bed--underwear, coats, blankets, clean rags, EVERYTHING--because even with the fire going it was possible to freeze to death in your sleep in winter. And he was not a dramatic man--to the best of my knowledge the only lie or even exaggeration he ever told was an extreme long-game joke he played on the whole family to discover at his funeral. (He had one thumb shorter than the other with a weirdly stubby and misshapen nail. He told me he'd lost it in an accident at the tool and die shop he worked in. Only at his funeral did we discover there were two dozen relatives with two dozen different stories about what happened to his thumb, and we have no idea which one was true--if one of them even was.)

It was a slow cook and it's gonna be a slow cool, but even if we can't completely reverse it, we can make it better.

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Lace Gown

c. 1905

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

[iamjapanese]

SUZUKI Shonen（鈴木松年 Japanese, 1848-1918）

The Monarch of the Mountain  1880-1900   via

[suzetteshea]

Category of half-things  Part I.

Lara Cobden, contemporary artist from England. 

[sxpxrmxrgxr]

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

[hadesisqueer]

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

[hadesisqueer]

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

[joyflameball]

[suonko]

by Juliette Wytsman

[suonko]

by Wilhelm Gause

[suonko]

by Joseph Wright of Derby