“She can’t control the weather!” or “Trump’s response would be even worse!”
Take your pick.
I tell terrible jokes.
“She can’t control the weather!” or “Trump’s response would be even worse!”
Take your pick.
And when they try to go off script literally all they have is “no u!”
I wish they could understand just how pathetic they are, bootlicking for imperialism. But a smug lack of self-awareness is a key component of liberalism.
Yeah, a part of his trip was probably spent looking at housing in his price range in Florida.
It amazes me how we will literally call out liberal behaviour before it happens, and yet they just repeat exactly what we said they would. It’s like they have 0 self-awareness and are just capable of spouting the same half dozen thought terminating cliches over and over again.
Western communists have this weird obsession with purity. You must be the Perfect Communist at all times, or else you aren’t a real communist. Org work is still “work” and we can get burnt out, or not have the energy, or have other things going on in our lives.
We all have different limits and struggles. Someone failing to understand the most basic core concept of community outreach is the one failing to be a “real life communist” not someone who needs a break. You’re not the PLA on the Long March, you can take time to deal with your own mental and physical health.
That’s what AI replaced. They don’t need to pay a contractor 0.0012 cents per page if they can get an AI to do it for free!
Was it a jab? It seemed like it could’ve been comparing them favourably to the DPRK, knowing it would rile up the Kibbutz spokesperson.
Amazon marketplace is already like 80% AI written books by volume.
And what will be the western response? Blace your pets!
Will it be: “They had to do well or else they’d be executed (The classic!)”
“They were using drugs!”
“Women’s soccer doesn’t matter anyway!”
or will they go especially vile and insinuate that these players are all trans and spread transphobic hysteria?
It’s not really a struggle session if it is just you having it. Seems more like a personal grievance that way. If someone who is far right said the sky is blue, would you assume it must be green? Facts are facts, we shouldn’t refuse to look at them because someone we despise is saying them. If you’re worried about empowering the far right, the worst thing you could do is refuse to look at reality because occasionally some far right nutter talks about it instead of their usual drivel.
A zoo that just had cute puppies that you could play with would still be worth going to, even if they didn’t have pandas. Really a missed opportunity here.
I wonder if he’s been a victim of anti-Chinese racism? I doubt the average yank would care enough to notice if the guy they’re hurling slurs at is Chinese or Japanese. And he’s probably old enough to remember the last wave of anti-Japanese racism in the 80s and 90s.
Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten “machinary” to gain leverage for workers at large.
At the risk of fedposting, if I ended up homeless and with nothing left to lose thanks to AI art, I probably would find some way to threaten the machinery that makes it happen.
You do raise a good point though. I might look into forming solidarity with other artists and maybe forming/joining some kind of union and push for education. The call for IP law to protect artists isn’t a petty bourgeois action, it’s one done because artists aren’t educated on the other tools they could be using to ensure their livelihoods.
“Undecided” in situations like this just means “temporarily embarrassed fascist.”
Interesting article, I had no idea my own opinions were functionally art-luddite in nature. I never really made that connection. I don’t think the writer of this piece fully grasps the frustration a lot of artists (myself included) have with AI art though. It isn’t simply a case of “they took our jerbs!” but a case of cheapening the entire creative field to yet another treat printer. This author seems to think that artists are being condescending when they say that there’s more value in random scribbles rather than AI art. It isn’t. It’s an improvement of a skill, there’s a sense of satisfaction that cannot be obtained by simply typing in a prompt, a real genuine sense of improvement is one of the best ways to survive in our increasingly isolated and alienated world. And for a lot of artists, myself included, being an artist under capitalism sucks sure, but making it into a profit generating endeavour is the only real way to devote a significant amount of time to something like this.
Before I was a professional artist, I would work shitty jobs same as everyone else and I had daily thoughts of just dying. It was agony wanting to do more, anything more, and not having the physical or emotional energy after work to do it. If I had to go back to that, or ended up unemployed and homeless, I don’t think I’d survive. Maybe that makes me weak or a labour aristocrat or whatever this author wants to call me, but acting like people’s very real fear for their livehoods is just petty bourgeois reaction strikes me as very callous.
I think this author mistakes desperation for some kind of exceptionalism, and treats artists as a monolith who are all in favour of IP laws, instead of actively trying to assess the complex issues artists have with this new technology. They rightfully assess that the main reaction is due to a potential loss of livelihood, but they act as if artists are all wealthy petty-bourgeoise tyrants losing their small businesses, or hollywood types just waiting for their chance to make it big. They are talking about two very different issues here: Art under capital and workers losing their livelihood and ability to survive using their skillset, but constantly conflate the two. It’s frustrating, because I agree with their overall point with regards to art under capital, but I’m so sick of this vague gesturing in the direction of “we should make a future where this problem doesn’t happen.” Like yeah, that’s why we’re here, on this website for leftists, we want to fix the problems caused by capitalism. But imagining some future where people can just draw art freely for fun and don’t need to tie any material value to it, well that doesn’t help me keep a roof over my head.
Or maybe I just completely misunderstood the article because as an artist, I’m clearly incapable of having a correct opinion about this.
I really don’t get these guys. They’re just so incompetent. Like the very least they could do is avoid anything identifiable like a license plate, you’d think they’d steal a car or something and set up a safehouse to flee to. Or if they want the full matyrdom thing, go in guns blazing with the biggest, nastiest weapon they can get their hands on, or even full on killdozer or something.
They say he is a “threat to American democracy” or whatever, but even attempted assassins don’t seem to seriously believe that, let alone the libs who will #thoughtsandprayers all over this.
These people have no understanding of the history of Haiti at all, the most they’ll tell you (if they remember anything) is that Christopher Columbus did bad things there like slavery and killing people. They usually can’t tell any details beyond this.
Even then, they’ll usually dismiss it as “important” or “a neccessary evil” but won’t extend the same courtesy to the Haitian revolutionaries.
I’m not sure I fully understand what you’re talking about. If the goal is to generate another thought terminating cliche to dismiss anyone who isn’t frothing at the mouth with hatred for China, this is probably the worst place on the internet to do it. Any liberal “leftist” instance would be far, far better for this sort of thing.
Unless you’re not accusing OP of being a fed, but just stating that making this kind of terminology up isn’t the best idea, which yeah, it really isn’t, but thought terminating cliches will continue to exist regardless of where they initially came from.
Considering this guy just copped a ban for saying capitalism is better for LGBTQ rights, I think they probably just hold it all in until they can’t anymore and the mask slips.
You’d think Langely would learn that their guys always do this shit sooner or later, though I guess anyone who is able to understand communist terminology and ideas well enough to pretend to be a communist is just going to become an actual communist, so it might be self-selecting process.
They look like the sort of thing I will eat an entire packet of when I’m full of despair, so probably.