Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

when peace comes at last, children play on the old battlefields and don't think of what came before them

Every pro-AI image generation using the work of artists who didn't consent to having their work used like this argument I've seen either misunderstands how AI image generation works, or how artists learn and create, or places no value on the human life behind creative work, or assumes a utopian version of reality rather than the current, existing one where artists do need to actually sell their work to both live and continue to make it. All of it just makes me sad. It's a bleak way to view art.

there are hundreds of web sites, even more some say

“Actually, Frankincense was the name of the doctor who created it. You're thinking of Frankincense's monster.” - The 3 Wise Mansplainers

I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Hail! 🔪

One day there will reams of papers written on the devil's ratio

All I want for Christmas is 1-2 years off to do all my side projects.

It’s almost December

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🎶 It's the moooost wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeear 🎶

#Art #MastoArt #Christmas #Cartoon

the big problem with the idea of a Tesla phone is that Samsung already made a phone that would burst into flames at random, it's been done

"Instead of listening to their people's protests the Chinese Government has chosen to crack down further," Mr Sunak helpfully explains in a lovely crisp bow tie.

In other news ...

Spoke with an engineer over the holidays who maintained that Meta is blameless for abuses on their platform. He asked me, mockingly, "should they stop scaling just because they can't moderate everything?"

The answer is YES. Scale is not just a technical issue. If you cannot control your system, stop growing it.

(btw this is also a good example of how #UX comes from more than just the buttons on the screen)

#ProductManagement

Oh look. Another Lady Chatterley adaptation. Must have been Pride and Prejudice's day off.

大阪サイバーパンク。”Osaka cyberpunk“ A cold rainy night in Osaka. #cyberpunk #photomonday #Fotomontag #photography