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I'd rather watch that film every week than see another AI generated image

It's not the main problem of AI art (that'd be the theft in its creation and the pay denied workers by its use) but every single AI generated image just looks like dogshit scrapped across the screen, just viscerally unpleasant to look at and completely demeaning to see used. Wretched aesthetic.

I found it stuck the landing, & the other point-of-view chapters IIRC made it easier to move around the stumbling unpleasantness of the oblivious man at the center, but I also read it in the summer of 2010 during lulls working the mailroom at Tulane, which was optimal. plenty of NOLA in other books

I love for you whatever it is that has made this a recurring frustration

Some of the dumbest shit committed racists believe, and they believe a lot of very dumb shit, is that immigrants who leave impoverished violent despotisms to come and live in free & prosperous democracies do so because they intend to recreate the old despotism in their new home

Insane that Markwayne Mullin (two names for just one secretary) cleared this hurdle when it would have been so easy to let him blanche out, too

Oh, they Blanched

Fun puzzle. Cross Sesame Street without getting into any conversations about letters or numbers. Can't be done. Leopold paused, gawked at the size of the bird before him. Vigorous thighs. Would make a fine feast for the Swede butcher, served alongside oats, cranberries. Feed an extended family, two

James Joyce visits Sesame Street

Sumertime, and the copper's shitty

I can tell you my love for ore will still be strong, after the boys of Sumer are gone.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu were just the boys of Sumer

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

new stickers just arrived at hq

Like, that is fundamentally the unknown factor in American politics over the next 2-3 years where I feel like I have no idea where things are going to go because "politician has iron grip on a major political party while *staggeringly* unpopular" is just not a configuration we've seen before.

Deliberate civilizational destruction is now "transformative" "value migration" of "information delivery mechanisms."

The policy take-home of our new study, in 15 words: 🏭 Fossil fuels kill children 🔋 Decarbonization will slow malaria expansion 🦟 Malaria eradication will save lives everywhere 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SENATOR: and mr beethoven, how do you respond to these accusations BEETHOVEN: DUN DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN SENATOR: excuse me BEETHOVEN: i take the fifth

huge missed opportunity