technocrit

Kid's don't want to build palaces for entrenched insiders selling crappy, overpriced books on outdated topics? I'm shocked.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3052267/the-house-that-calculus-built

I never look at any discussions on Steam. I've never seen ANY discussions/comments on Steam. I just browse the games, look at the overall rating, watch the promo video, buy, and play.

Meanwhile in Ohio...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/us/columbus-ohio-neo-nazi-march-hnk/index.html

DC is both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

Well it's a nazi country founded by literal slave masters. What do people expect?

Art is in the act of creating it.

This is just your opinion.

Not in the final product to be bought and sold on the market.

This isn't inevitable or necessary.

Personally I enjoy generated art (mostly scifi/fantasy) and I never pay for it.

On the other hand I try to support actual artists because they're most often struggling under capitalism much more than some person using midjourney or wahtever.

AI isn’t human, so it can’t do anything other than copy or simulate.

There's no such thing as "AI".

But computers can also generate art through averaging. It can average the feelings, impact, etc. That's part of why generated art is popular. It's still people creating new works from the old. It's still "art" by any reasonable definition.

Averaging out data is ok in situations where there's no right answer and it doesn't matter at all.

Sadly "people" regularly post overt imperial propaganda on Lemmy without much pushback.

The imperial narrative is strong here.

I used Libre Wolf to challenge Mozilla too... somewhat.

The hegemonic narrative is a very narrow narrative that needs constant overbearing reinforcement.

Go ahead and short bitcoin right now. lmao.

(Seriously though wait until it peaks ffs.)